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28th October 2023, 16:30 #15
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That view would hold up if there were any real competition for the championship. No team was remotely close. There were pretenders like Aston Martin and recently Mclaren. But they did not have championship-winning credentials on track.
They chose not to have Perez challenge Verstappen for the championship. That is the obvious way it has panned out.
If a team cannot handle having both their drivers race each other hard for the championship, they should run one car in the championship l think. We have been deprived of seeing what sort of campaign Perez may have been able to produce given equal machinery. And how well Verstappen would have been able to deal with the challenge in a machinery designed for both drivers to have an equal chance of winning the championship.
Aggravation is part and parcel of competition and confrontation. Redball and Verstappen clearly wanted an easy campaign but also want the same respect as the champions who had to work hard to win it in the face of stiff competition.
That is what we the fans come to F1 to see; a hard-fought championship and a triumph born out of it. If the outcome is the same as not having all the other cars on the track, then why is that respectable?
It unfortunately weakens the respectability of all of Verstappen's championship titles.Last edited by Nitrodaze; 28th October 2023 at 16:34.
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