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Horner might live in a few heads in this thread but it looks like he's bought up a few hundred acres of land and built some apartment complexes in yours.Are the media biased or just calling it as it is? You could argue that those coming out in support of Horner are the biased ones. The man is an odious little cretin and is the most unlikable team boss I can recall in a long time. I am not fundamentally against Red Bull, I am fundamentally against Horner, and I’m British. There’s no bias there. Just one person seeing another person as extremely unlikable. I don’t dislike Horner because of the nationality of his drivers, I dislike Horner because of Horner. Likewise, I don’t dislike Verstappen because he’s Dutch, I dislike him because of his generally classless and ungracious behaviour, and the fact that for a long time he was a danger to those around him on the track. In my book it’s one thing to be a sore loser, but it takes a special kind of snake to be a sore winner; which is exactly what we’ve seen from Verstappen.
The fact these two won the championship last year with some laughably corrupt race stewarding, all while Horner screamed on the radio, and then to top it all off we found out they cheated on the cost cap too, just goes further to position these guys as pantomime villains. Because of their actions, not their nationality or some inherent bias. That 2021 Verstappen win, will always have an asterisk next to it, and many, myself included, will see it as completely illegitimate.
I don’t think anyone is against the creation of a siege mentality, for the sake of leadership in sports, as we’ve seen many revered managers do the same thing in football. But it’s a fine line between that and purposely stoking division that I think Horner crossed a long time ago.
Horner is a horrible little man, and I think while the sport is richer for the competition Red Bull provide, it is all the poorer for the participation of this particular individual. No matter where you are from.
Anyway, I never said the press dislike the foreign dominance in F1 because they're foreign. They end up cultivating an irrational dislike for them because they are all mad stans for the British drivers of the time and get consumed by their own bitterness when they get beaten.
You prove that pretty nicely with your Max hatred. He's a far better character than Russell, on and off the track. Arguably less of a twat than Lando as well, given how he's acted this year.
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