Toto on Max’s 10 in a row: Our situation was different because we had two guys fighting against each other within the team. I don’t know whether he cares about the record. It’s not something that would be important for me, any of those numbers. It’s for Wikipedia. Nobody reads that anyway

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First Hamilton who is discrediting Max by saying he never had a decent teammate, and now this from Toto.

They aren’t handling the losing-part of the sport very well over at Merc…

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Mostly yes. At McLaren it was borderline winning, certainly not dominant though. And his first year at Merc (before the new regs came into force) was also not a winning car.

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Until 2009. When he started lying to stewards, vocally complaining about how bad the car was, and posting confidential telemetry data to twitter.

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He always managed to win, but the last few McLarens he drove weren’t really up to scratch

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The way he says it really shows how much it actually does bother him.

Echoing what I saw on the other site, it’s got to be hard to get beat at the end of your dominant regulation cycle, by a questionable call, then to come out the next year with what you believe to be a race car that would crush the competition and having it be absolute shit must feel terrible. Merc is having a bad few years and it’s got to be demoralizing for the team, some of which probably had only experienced the dominant period.

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Two things Toto’s Mercedes team can’t do:

  1. Build a winning areo car
  2. Act gracefully when recognizing the dominance of their rival

Toto and Lewis are Titans who are making themselves look small with these sour grapes comments

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Eh, there’s something to criticize about the absolute piles of smugness coming from) bredbull /max. These comments get hyped up, while any humble stuff is never mentioned. It’s a competitive sport, people will inevitably say shit, none of it will ever completely define anyone.

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“questionable” …? That’s putting it very mildly.

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This. Personally who cares how many races a guy wins in a row? Especially when he has the best car by far. All the honour goes to the car actually, not so much the driver.

But congratulate him anyway and move on. It’s basic sportsmanship.

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The ocean wants it’s salt back. Can’t we just appreciate his achievements and move on.

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Lol he genuinely made that Wikipedia stab in multiple TV interviews

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