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Do I sense a slant against Hamilton here? No sure what he said that got the feathers ruffled. He opined that challenger Verstoppen had more to prove than he did. True...What did I miss? (not the golden girl on the Monaco balcony).
... and if they were head-to-head on track, Hamilton thinks both would be careful not to take each other out. Seems reasonable to me. We'll see about that.
As for team play, each race group has depts. that manage, design, manufactures/preps the cars and manages race strategy. Hamilton provides professional setup feedback, does the driving and risks his life to win races. They all have professional duties and responsibilities to make up a WC F1 team. Each group must excel for team success. Seems to work. Seems to work better w/o suits introducing politics and made-for-press-drama in an attempt to keep everyone on their toes (including race fans) and create unnecessary pressure.
It's good to occasionally remind everyone of their expendibility but w/o fear and intimidation. However, obscene salaries, lifestyle payments and racing legacies are at stake and that sometimes brings out the worse in some people. Management should weed dead weight out of the hierarchy.
Were some of you guys around when Senna, Prost, Schumacher and many, many others were slugging it out for fame and notoriety? This is nothing.
MHO,
Sherwood
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