i think people’s issue with george is that he’s not aggressive enough, not “good” enough, he follows the rules and that he usually knows better than kimi, marcus dudley and his own engineers.
whenever he keeps the setup his engineers give him, he comes 4th-6th, and whenever he has his own setup, he comes p1-p2. his own engineers fuck up his car and don’t seem to take accountability. george doesn’t take accountability because nothing that goes wrong his ever his fault. and fans hate that.
fans of other drives hate that they can’t blame george. they hate that they can’t give another reason as to why they hate him.
he went a whole season without a dnf, and his first dnf since 2024 was in canada. which, as we know, was a PU failure. he led that entire race, while kimi went off track every four turns.
people hate that he is better then kimi. sure, kimi wins more, but george has better podium stats. when kimi doesn’t win, he’s either out of the points or p3. whenever george doesn’t win, he’s on the podium or in the points.
if we genuinely look at his and kimi’s last races & the public’s reaction, it’s very obvious who the fans and the team prefer.
melbourne, george won and got hate for it. kimi came p2 and everybody cheered because it was his second year and he got a podium.
china, kimi won and everybody loved him. understandable, it was his first win. good for him. george had a car failure and came p2.
japan, kimi won again and he was called the new senna. george had yet another car issue and still came p4 with a car that barely worked.
miami, kimi won once again and everybody said he was easily the best on the grid. george had a car issue AGAIN, his peddles were too far back, and he still finished 4th.
canada, kimi won again and everybody called george washed. george led the entire weekend. pole in sprint qual, p1 in sprint, pole in qualifying and p1 the majority of the race, until he had a PU failure.
monaco, kimi won again and everybody said he’d be world champion at the end of the season. george’s team didn’t tell him if he’d served his penalty, they didn’t tell him if he needed to pit, they didn’t tell him anything. he dropped from p3 to p14 because of his team.
barcelona, lewis won and everybody loved him. george came p2, because his team fucked up and his car couldn’t turn properly. he was once again called washed for coming p2. kimi dnfed.
austria. george won, and everybody called him a cheat. they said it was unfair that he won and that charles deserved it. just because he lifted during a single yellow in qualifying. kimi finished p3 after breaking track limits 7 times,
silverstone. charles won and everybody praised him. george came p2 even with a fucked up car. kimi drove over a kerb and ruined his car and ignored his engineer, who was yelling at him to come in. he could not control the car properly, people argued he shouldn’t have gotten the penalty for track limits. he would’ve never gotten the penalty if he’d come in, the car was unsafe to drive. he couldn’t control it around kerbs, so he wouldn’t have able to control around another driver.
when kimi loses, his team is blamed, bad luck is blamed, his age is an excuse, he is babied and forgiven, even when it is his own fault.
when george loses, he is blamed, his “divaness” is blamed, his emotions are blamed. he is criticised and hated no matter what he does, no matter who’s mistake it is.
george russell will always be blamed, hated ridiculed and called nicknames like “georgina” “princess george” “diva” “prissy”.
he is not an aggressive driver, he never has been, because he doesn’t need to be. he doesn’t need to be desperate and violent to win.
kimi is not prepared for the feeling of falling behind because of how toto taught him. when he loses, he yells and insults people. he gets desperate and tries incredibly hard to seem better than he is. he ignores his teams orders and drives recklessly to get one point instead of retiring and getting on with his weekend.
that is why people hate george russell.
because he is more calm and collected than their favourite drivers.
because he can win without calling his teammate or opponent a fucking idiot.
because he can drive without being aggressive.
because george can drive safely with a fucked up car.
because they don’t like his attitude.
because he is more likely to become a world champion than charles leclerc and kimi antonelli are.
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