#When last year I was perplexed by George fans getting pressed by Lewis

[yesterdayiwrote]

It's borderline disturbing how unhinged some attitudes are towards George, I really don't understand it. For someone they claim to hare they seem to keep close taps on him.

I don't know what was going on with the strategy, but once again messed up their drivers.

I will level with you, I genuinely don't see the same level of visceral hatred from George fans towards Lewis as I see from Lewis fans towards George. Maybe I just follow the right people, or have the misfortune of getting the wrong Lewis fans filtered into my feeds via various algorithms. I've definitely seen more threats/fantasies of death/injury/personal harm from one side than the other so I do baulk slightly when I see people cast it as a 'both sides' kind of issue. I think the reason I see it slightly more off kilter is because there's a vast cross section of people who irrationally hate Lewis, whereas 90% of the George hate seems to be entirely framed about how his actions did or didn't affect Lewis... if that makes sense?

I think I find it more odd from the Lewis fans because I kinda get being frustrated with the guy you're fighting to beat, and last year, I totally got why Lewis fans were pressed with George, but... I don't understand why you'd get SO overwhelmingly pre-occupied with someone who's 5 places behind you in the WDC and who has a hefty points deficit by this point. Lewis finished ahead today, he finished ahead last week, so what are you getting angry about? The fact that the result wasn't achieved in the exact process you deemed it should be? People racing each other is surprisingly part of racing, including your own teammate at times. If it went to a scripted perfect plan then it wouldn't be a sport anymore.

Like sure, have a grumble that x,y,z was annoying. A bit of shit talk is, of course, a part of sport, but so is moving the fuck on and picking your battles and the real deep toxicity that keeps coming out of what is essentially small change is just tiring. Not every racing inconvenience is an Abu Dhabi level conspiracy to oppress your driver. It's Hanlon's Razor in a nutshell. "Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity".

Everyone in Merc is pissed at the car, and yet somehow each drivers fans seems to think the blame lies with the other driver. Why get pissed with George or Lewis when you can just get pissed with the true villain... Toto?