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Hamilton has such a compelling story, dad working two jobs to pay for go karting, appearing on blue peter racing a radio controlled car.
You and I have differing definitions of compelling ;)
Yeah he did some dumb stuff in early days of racing but nothing worse than Max for instance.
Losing the championship by going off into a gravel trap in the pitlane? Crashing into Kimi who was waiting at a red light at the end of the pitlane?
Schumacher’s shitty sportsmanship/ homicidal driving seams to have been erased from history since his accident.
I think there's plenty of evidence to the contrary in the past few pages alone.
I don’t think its unreasonable to acknowledged that a good proportion of the I don’t like Hamilton thing comes down to racism.
I think that's definitely present (Spain 2007 comes to mind), for me, it's the level of media bias in his favour that made it hard to like him. You'll see it every race weekend in qualifying where if he's a few tenths up on Bottas the commentators (well David Croft for the most part these days) will be gushing about it. When the roles are reversed there's barely anything said. I mean, sure, it's not quite on this level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P-3lqN8SJ0
But it does get tiring. I think there's also an element of the whole singing career (Jacques Villeneuve also gets a bit of stick on that front) and his involvement in the fashion world which is quite different from what people generally see from racing drivers (personally I couldn't care less on this front).
I've found he's definitely matured a fair bit and would probably get a lot more respect from people if he stuck to talking about racing as he does have a habit of sticking his foot in his mouth otherwise.
That ended up a bit of a word soup there, apologies for that.
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I’d be interested to know what you consider compelling If you can’t appreciate that back story, and you can’t ignore his ethnic back ground in all that too, especially given his recent comments about the racism that he and his father experience during that period. To come through all that and be a 6 time world champion (and counting)
I’m not sure what your trying to prove by list off a bunch of mistakes that Lewis made in his early f1 days, that he’s human perhaps.
My point was that he hasn’t deliberately driven his car into another drivers car or tried to have a fight with them in the pit lane when things haven’t gone his way.
Look at the way Lewis handled the crash with Albon last season, admitted he was wrong and apologised. If that had been Schumacher he’d been off down the pit lane for a fight.
We could go through a list of Vettels recent mistakes but we’d be going for months. crashing out of the German race from the lead after couple of drops of rain is one of my personal favourites.
Is it really a surprising that the British media focus on a British driver who is in all likelihood going to break all records in the sport and become the most successful driver in the history of the sport ?
In any case you can’t hold Hamilton responsible for how sky talk about him, he doesn’t have any control over that. Perhaps you need an Italian sky sports subscription, I bet there totally impartial.
Yes people also hate that he has interests outside of motor racing. The year that he spent the week before the US race launching His collection with TH everybody was desperate for it all to go wrong at the race to push the he’s lost his focus narrative, but no he turned up and won.
HousecatHST
Hamilton has such a compelling story, dad working two jobs to pay for go karting, appearing on blue peter racing a radio controlled car. Then you compare that to the sliver spoon racers like rosberg....
Yeah he did some dumb stuff in early days of racing but nothing worse than Max for instance. I don’t think he’s deliberately driving his car into anybody like Schumacher or Vettel. Schumacher’s shitty sportsmanship/ homicidal driving seams to have been erased from history since his accident.
I don’t think its unreasonable to acknowledged that a good proportion of the I don’t like Hamilton thing comes down to racism. Not that I’m accusing anybody on here of that.