It's victory number 92 for Lewis Hamilton in Portugal, and combined with fastest lap and pole position, that made for another perfect weekend for the reigning World Champion. Nearly half a minute behind, Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen finished 2nd and 3rd to complete the podium.
Ted Kravitz dedicated a portion of his Notebook to comment on how despicable those comments were.
I did, I just don't think it's a big deal.
Oh that is bad.El Scorchio wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 03:03I don’t really want to write the actual word on here but there are two meanings for it in the given context. One of which is a derogatory name for someone with Down’s syndrome and the other is implying his eyesight is bad using a racial epithet.TAG wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 02:41I only heard the bleeped explatives, anything you can translate here?El Scorchio wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 02:00Yes exactly. The nasty name/slur he aimed at Lance was pretty awful and his totally unrepentant nature afterward makes a mockery of ‘we race as one’. I’m surprised a lot more hasn’t been made of it actually.
On Friday the hard tyres already grained significantly after 15-20 laps, especially the left front. I can't see how anyone could nurse those tyres for 48 laps. The guys starting on Mediums will do a 1 stop I think, but the guys starting on the Softs most likely will commence to a two stopper
I was amazed that the FOM radio team broadcast it as they did. I can understand the phrase used probably isn’t on their banned list but you’d think in 2020 it would have raised a red flag with someone.El Scorchio wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 02:00Yes exactly. The nasty name/slur he aimed at Lance was pretty awful and his totally unrepentant nature afterward makes a mockery of ‘we race as one’. I’m surprised a lot more hasn’t been made of it actually.nevill3 wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 01:38I thought Lewis handled the situation really well, put in a difficult position by a question he was not expecting and had no knowledge of the background facts regarding the questionable comments attributed to Vitaly (and subsequently Vitaly has said he was misquoted or poorly translated and has stated he meant no offence to anybody)Lewis stated he was surprised that The FIA had hired someone who, if the comments were true, held such strong beliefs that are not aligned to the current "we race as one" philosophy.
I personally was more upset by the language used by Max after his practice session crash with Lance
TAG wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 02:41I only heard the bleeped explatives, anything you can translate here?El Scorchio wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 02:00Yes exactly. The nasty name/slur he aimed at Lance was pretty awful and his totally unrepentant nature afterward makes a mockery of ‘we race as one’. I’m surprised a lot more hasn’t been made of it actually.
Thanks very much.ajdavison2 wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 09:41Both Mercs and Leclerc are on the mediums, the rest of the top 10 are on the softs.
As a dutchman I cheer for Max, but the words he chose were disgusting. I hope he'll apologize...siskue2005 wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 06:42Oh that is bad.El Scorchio wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 03:03I don’t really want to write the actual word on here but there are two meanings for it in the given context. One of which is a derogatory name for someone with Down’s syndrome and the other is implying his eyesight is bad using a racial epithet.
Imagine if it was said by Lewis, we would have 40 pages of discussion now
