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wanderingblindly · 25 days ago

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is it a hot take to say that the "you can't laud Schumacher and Senna while hating Max" rhetoric – while entirely understandable – ignores the massive role that martyrdom and recency-bias plays in how they're viewed?

#i know i don't usually post anything even remotely controversial but like. surely i'm not the only one thinking this right.#like. ppl hated schumi with a passion. ppl DID hate him for intentionally crashing people out in order to win #but the stewards now and the stewards then operated differently -- the sport has changed in terms of what they can get away with.#it's still actively changing!#idk like i really do -- seriously!!!! -- understand that these three figures are comparable in a lot of ways #but there's... the reality that max is a) a current driver b) not dead

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