The 2019 Season - Your Verdict

[Nitrodaze]

Bro, if you actually did listen to the podcast. You have to understand that you're disputing with someone who knows the industry of F1 intimately. He has a greater range of experience than what ever guys like Hamilton and Schumacher do.

This as opposed to you, whose interest is comparatively superficial. You can write as much as you like, you don't have the clout he does. If you express a point of view of F1 operations that is the opposite of Hakkinen's, you have to understand that yours is the inaccurate, or incorrect, view.

It's best that you accept his point of view as fact. Understand what he's saying, and recognise that he has no bitterness. Mika is a kind spirit, bro. He just wants to give the fans actual insights into what is going on.

You cannot suggest that RB make a car to suit Verstappen, and that MB don't do the same for Hamilton. The evidence is compelling. Some teams have been doing this for decades. Would you like to know why Bottas was burning up his tyres when Hamilton wasn't? Hakkinen indirectly tells you why.

If you want to sound as silly as TBK, go ahead. But you owe to yourself to not to.

Don't get me wrong, l have a lot of respect for Mika Hakkinenn. He is a two times F1 driver world champion after all. He is one of three men to have beaten the great Michael Schumacher and one of two to beat him twice to F1 world championship titles. That is one of the highest accalade that any driver can claim in F1.

That said, he has his opinion. I bet a million bucks that if you randomly pick anyone from the Mercedes team or Ferrari Team or even the Redbull team, they would most likely have a different view on some of the things that he has said.

Unfortunately, opinion is subjective. Like noses, everyone has one.

Hence it is disappointing that you would surrender yours and blindly take whatever view that is thrusted at you.

The truth about Bottas is, he has been in the Mercedes for three seasons now and has not yet reached the level of performance of Rosberg. Considering his first two seasons were flops, 2019 was a massive improvement. But even so, he was well short of the Rosberg threshold.