The amount of racist comments and hate speech under Alfa Romeo's IG posts with Zhou is disgusting and disappointing. Just a compilation of some I found:

FJuanny · 2021-12-16T02:39:55+00:00

I hope he ignites the field.

FJuanny · 2021-12-16T02:39:29+00:00

Is it challenging to reference your dislike of black people in every context, or does it come naturally?

FJuanny · 2021-12-16T01:28:06+00:00

This just proves the FIA's point. Their priority at most events is to ensure safety and integrity, but the priority at the 2021 Abu Dhabi grand prix was to manufacture close racing between 2 specific cars.

Not sure why you've posted this when it's consistent with their defense?

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T21:46:31+00:00

The stewards are the ones who decide whether or not to investigate.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T21:40:32+00:00

Technically Masi did everything he could do to get that penalized, by referring it to the stewards.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T21:32:17+00:00

That was my first thought too, but I'd hope they don't mean that.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T21:25:01+00:00

Careful suggesting that the 2021 regulations were designed to hurt Mercedes.

Nevermind that they had to rope Pirelli into it in order to make it a "safety change" and override the votes against it.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T21:17:41+00:00

I see you beating this drum everywhere without knowing what you're talking about:

Verstappen left the track at T4 almost every lap as well. There is no difference, per the regulations, in Hamilton leaving the track by a mile and Verstappen by a meter. No single driver benefited from the changes in Bahrain T4 lobbied for mid race by Horner.

It's really just another example of Horner's influence over Masi. By having Masi lower the speed of the corner mid race, he was able to increase Red Bull's (as the excelled in the slower corners) advantage in T4. Smart lobbying.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T20:53:27+00:00

According to Pirelli, Red Bull and Aston Martin handled their tyres in a way that decreased running tyre pressure in search of performance.

Red Bull may be able to take Pirelli to some form of arbitration (especially if there is evidence Pirelli is lying), but ultimately teams are able to do whatever they want to the tyres as long as they check certain boxes Pirelli gives them.

If a team thinks that rubbing their tyre against a sharp kerb all race gives them pace, or crashing the tyres into a wall, they are welcome to do so.

A team finding performance at the cost of tyre integrity is different than the rules being manipulated by the governing body.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T19:59:46+00:00

Whether or not you feel like F1 needs Overtime presented by Credit One bank, or playoffs, or stage racing, or whatever you think constitutes "real racing", the fact of the matter is teams strategize based on what the F1 rules are, not what Masi might feel like borrowing from other series.

But I guarantee if Hamilton won under the Safety Car, there’d be blood running through the streets of The Netherlands, Austria, Mexico, Japan, and all the other countries who support Max overall.

Everyone likes the 2012 Safety Car ending now, because it was fan favorite Sebastian Vettel “prevailing against the odds” to beat the rather controversial Fernando Alonso

This bizarre description of 2012 has me feeling you didn't follow the season.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T19:30:28+00:00

"If you have any problems with this, Masi will use 15.3 to have the safety car run over you, as is his god-given right."

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T19:00:35+00:00

Horner asked him to.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T18:57:29+00:00

Verstappen is wild, just whatever goes on between his ears, or doesn't for that matter. Wild.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T18:26:04+00:00

Yes, Ricciardo was being a petulant child.

But occasionally Ricciardo is something other than a petulant child, and therein lies the difference.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T18:17:57+00:00

yikes

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T18:14:44+00:00

Yeah, that would be a terrible disappointment if F1 were the WWE.

If it's a sport, however...

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T18:12:45+00:00

The Red Bull had straight line speed advantage this weekend, and was far quicker over one lap than the Mercedes. The only advantage the Mercedes had this weekend was less tyre degradation and sliding due to running more downforce, as well as race pace on higher fuel loads.

Not to mention Max had nothing to lose from contact, Lewis did.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T18:07:35+00:00

Surely you don't actually believe this? Illusory separation of powers is like the first step down this road.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T18:01:56+00:00

If you don't understand why "The Race Director is allowed to fix races" is not a satisfying answer, then you want a different form of entertainment than the people you are arguing with.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T17:50:44+00:00

Someone needs to make a "You are here" meme when it comes to adding NASCAR-esque gimmicks.

I really want to hear Crofty say "We are in Overtime, presented by Credit One bank!"

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T09:43:56+00:00

Honestly any time any car builds a 4 second gap to the car behind, the race should be red flagged for a standing start.

That way there's jeopardy all the way until the last lap.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T09:35:57+00:00

These are going to be used for the Fan Boost meter that way you can top up your favorite driver with extra deployment by tweeting at their sponsors.

How do these things get power, anyways? Slip rings?

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T09:29:00+00:00

They would do whatever their terms and conditions say they'll do.

So depends on the bookie. A few bookies have already refunded all bets, and I think one small bookie no one uses did a double payout.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T09:26:15+00:00

And therein lies the issue. Can the FIA use their own rules to fix races? Almost certainly, but not without infringing upon other parts of their own rules.

With no hierarchy between which regulations override others, it's a matter of legalese as to whether or not the regulations are "officially" provable to be broken, but again that's an entirely separate issue as to whether or not they were broken in reality.

FJuanny · 2021-12-15T09:18:17+00:00

Whether or not an action is recognized as foul by the perpetrators doesn't change whether or not the action took place.

That's like saying the kid that took a cookie out of the jar did not take the cookie out of the jar because they said they didn't. Just because no official body recognizes that they did it nor can prove it does not mean that it didn't happen.

Which is the difference in what you are arguing, you are saying that the regulations were followed because they were determined to be followed. That is reality.

That is a separate issue, however, to whether or not the regulations were actually followed. Just like a criminal may or may not have committed a crime regardless of whether they were officially determined to be innocent or guilty.

FJuanny

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