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I don't buy any of the conspiracy theories. Stuff breaks. It's happened before on other teams where one driver has lots of problems and the other doesn't.
Hamilton has shown that he's both a poor winner (throwing the second place cap in Nico's lap last year at COTA) and a poor loser (repeatedly ignoring team orders yesterday). He's a tremendously talented driver and blindingly fast, and yes, he would have won the championship easily if he hadn't had all those problems, but he lost, and he's a flaming dickhead.
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Nico has shown, time and time again, that he could not hold his father's jock strap. I am not too fond of Hamilton - I think he handled his last few years at McLaren poorly and his propensity to shunt passing drivers reminded me of the nitwits who populate public servers in the popular racing sims.
That being said, Nico makes Hamilton look like a perfect gentleman. He is a poor competitor who thinks nothing of crashing into another driver
at high speed sections, (Both the shunt with Hamilton at A-1, and the shunt with Verstappen at Hockenheim occurred at the end of the fastest sections of the tracks. Sure, they were slowing down but this is not like one driver nudging another as they enter No Name at Spa: relatively low
approach and entry speeds, compared to the high approach speeds of turn 2 at A-1 and the hairpin at Hockenheim). He whines as much, if not more, than Hamilton and has, since Merc became the 800 lb. gorilla of the sport, felt that he was entitled to the championship(s). He was pissed when they signed Hamilton as their #1 driver and has acted like it every moment since.
This may be a team sport but the drivers are fighting for themselves to win as only one is crowned champion. Make no mistake: This is not the Denver Broncos fighting for a ring that everyone will receive, (and the concurrent paycheck), if they win, this is one driver fighting against another for the crown only he will wear. The
team aspect is the Constructor's Championship and Merc had that wrapped up well before last weekend.
What better way to win a championship than having a German Driver win in a German car?
There is always a conspiracy in F1. You think Chapman let Peterson and Andretti duke it out? How about Ferrari letting Schumacher and Barrichello decide on the track who was going to win? How many championships would Barrichello have now if not for team orders? Two? Three?
Team orders and desires have always been present in F1, as have team favorites. Just ask Prost.
Yeah, there are conspiracies, and to deny that Nico was handed this season (as much as they could do) is ignoring the obvious in F1.
Hamilton had no obligation to accede to Nico's whining Sunday. He ran the race he felt he needed to do to beat Nico. Nico whined, and Mercedes patted him on the head, by insisting that Hamilton speed up. "Letting the team win the race..." was merely a poor excuse to justify the whining of Nico and the mollifying of Merc.
