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The reference for the George Russell meme is related to Osama Bin Laden, and I think we should stop calling him that. I don't think this is funny until you had learned about it. Basically you're saying George is a terrorist and someone who bombs? Not cool guys, please guys George maybe arrogant and puts the blames on other drivers but let's not call him that, George isn't someone who'd do something like that, and calling him "Osama Bin Russell" changing his name to a terrorist name isn't funny and it's literally bullying, as a Mercedes fan this saddens me a lot. He has made his own name and status.. let's not.. please?

I know that it's pretty much useless to try and stop all the toxicity going on the social medias pages, it's been going on for years and it's been only getting worse, but is there a reason why so many Chinese fans are against Kimi/the team due to sabotage accusations?

Watching Kimi today, All I can say is:

Mercedes picks the correct drivers. Always.

1. Michael: 7 time WDC perfect to help launch new car
2. Rosberg: Rapid driver who had the most intense of seasons with 2 G.O.A.T.s before winning in 2016
3. Hamilton
4. Bottas: Perfect second driver for a G.O.A.T. , took almost a third of all the poles in Mercedes during his partnership with Hamilton,
5. George: Might sound like an outlier right now, but he was picked by Mercedes and put in that Williams. Drove his heart out for those 3 years, including the Shakir stint. Joined full time in 2022, and did well against Lewis even if it was not Lewis's best generation of cars. Has multiple wins, but seems like he's had a bad run this year, with only 2 podiums (1 win) but found his groove in Canada till the car gave up.
6. Kimi: Such magnificence. 4 wins 1 podium. Toto had his eyes on him since a while, and made him skip F3, and jump into F1 after just 1 F2 season. People thought he was being overoptimistic. But Kimi is proving them wrong. And today, he was just brilliant. Did not expect him to pull off such a tight one in quali.

Well done Mercedes, and Grande Kimi.

EDIT: CONGRATS ON THE WIN, KIMI!

The bar being set for Antonelli right now is quietly unreasonable. He's a rookie replacing arguably the greatest of all time at a team that's still in the middle of a technical reset. The fact that he's outpacing Russell in any metric at this stage is actually significant if you look at it honestly.

Hamilton took a full season to look comfortable at McLaren after his first title. He made mistakes. He had weekends where the car fell away from him. That's normal.

Rookies are supposed to struggle. The actual signal isn't whether Antonelli is winning, it's whether he's learning. His sector data in Monaco tells a better story than his grid positions. Reddit doesn't do time well, but development arcs take time.

To be clear in advance

"The theory of Toto's sabotage" is total bullshit.
And true. It's 100% his fault that got his first penalty.

However wow, what a shit double stack it was and very much PERFECTLY executed time penalty as well.

What we call sabotage involves with someone's intention. Unlike that, this is just either stupid or foolishness issue.

He could have got his podium at his best, if not 4th, if worse still maybe points?

Gonna end with no points for him. Yep great job team