Originally Posted By: [RT
ProjUltraZ]I lost a bit of respect for Lewis yesterday. did you see til the end when they had coverage in the cool down room? Lewis did not congratulate Nico, he prob knew Nico was [censored]. then on the podium Coulthard made them shake twice, and all the nice things said were [censored].
Starting on lap 49 when the team began asking Lewis to speed up, I had a flashback of Senna in 91. last race at Suzuka. Senna leading, Berger 2nd. Senna had the world title and radioed the team to tell Berger to go thru for the win. Gerhard was so happy even tho it was a gift and it really cemented the team together, and their relationship most of all.
Ok, Lewis did not win the championship so that part is not the same...and I am not 100% sure he was wrong to say there was a conspiracy to make his car fail when it did this year. In fact, I'm 65+% sure he is right. That must burn
The bottom line is this: What if Lewis had decided the championship was lost with Nico 2nd, and with wonderboy Max closing, then Seb taking over on fresher tires, what if Lewis had said, let's create a gap and i'll let you pass at Turn ____. Then Lewis would take 2nd and slow down a little to be a protector to Nico...allowing his to cruise home. I tell you, people would talk about it for 100 years, like they will still be talking about Sterling Moss giving Fangio his car to win the championship.
The relentless will to win is admired, but selfless acts are what people still talk about decades later, even generations later. Those 1,500 on the team would have been even happier, and Lewis' stock would go up tremendously in their eyes, the Merc board, all of Germany, and hundreds of millions of F1 fans (and non-F1 fans) the world over. I know he experienced tremendous adversity growing up in karting, ive seen the interviews where he said parents would tell him he did not belong in karting for his race... but he could have elevated himself so high yesterday
I've been losing respect for him for a while now. All of this is really going to his head. And in a negative way. I agree with you. If he had let Rosberg go through, then ran blocker for him, it would have spoken volumes of his sportsmanship. And it would have been something Nico would have never forgotten. Instead he chose to risk Rosberg's championship by acting like a selfish little brat. It reminded me of Schumacher parking his car in the way of traffic at Monaco. Or when Alonso blocked Hamilton in the pit during their McLaren days, so he didn't have a shot at knocking him off the pole. F1 doesn't need those kind of silly, childish antics.
