Hi bb. I understand that seeing Seb leave your favourite team and win with another hurts, but I think you're being way too harsh on him. I didn't think you'd be of that opinion too. You know how much criticism he always got over every little thing he did, but now you're doing the same thing. Don't you like Seb anymore? Why do you think he's a different person now that he's a Ferrari driver? I'm sure he didn't mean it that way. He talks before he thinks when he's happy. He was just happy, is all.
I don’t think it wasanything worth calling ‘a drama.’ I didn’t tag the post with anything and Ididn’t tweet anything at anyone or even comment on any of the happy celebrationposts. It’s your party and I’m not trying to rain on it. I’m not even trying tocome to it, it’s not my place.
I didn’t say a single thingabout his happiness or his right to be happy. I think that’s a really low blowto use that sort of cheap straw man argument. Tell people I said he didn’tdeserve to be happy and just let them fill my inbox with hate right? Because it’seasier than actually arguing the point itself, that he clearly did mean exactlythat.
Even if you want to tellyourself that I’m just being a horrible bitch trying to stir up drama orwhatever then ask yourself why so many other people – professional non-crazy fangirl reporters at that – interpreted what he said in exactly the same way.
It bothered him so muchthat people said Daniel had trounced him - as it should have, he’s acompetitive little shit and it’s one of my favorite things about him because itmakes him so human, but being human isn’t all sunshine and puppies and he canbe an asshole when he wants to be and yesterday he stood on the top step andfelt like all his troubles from last year had been retroactively deleted and hecouldn’t help but drive in the final niggling nail that had been bothering himand bothering him. My win is better than all of Daniel’s, ergo Daniel was neverbetter than me.
He doesn’t get a free passbecause he was riding on a high. Not in my book.
Just like Christian shouldn’t have hammered Renault just because he was feeling low.
I don’t just defend thepeople I like no matter what. Sometimes people say or do things that don’t sitwell with me and then I owe it to my love for them to say so. Otherwise what’sthe value of my opinion when I defend them?
In the past when I defendedSeb it was only when I genuinely thought he was in the right. He was right tohave passed Mark in Malaysia because Mark had tried to cost him thechampionship two races before. The moral math made sense to me there. On theother hand he lives in a tax haven when he grew up (and still represents) acountry that gave him schooling and healthcare and a support system thatallowed his parents to invest in his career without fearing that they wouldstarve to death if something went wrong in their lives – yet he doesn’t thinkit’s right to give back as others gave to him. So the moral math doesn’t makesense to me on that, and not only will I not defend him on it, I think hedeserved to be called out on it more than the gentle ribbing he maybe sometimesgets from the press.
The truth is that I haven’tsaid much of anything about him in a long time. The positivity police took over shortly after the move became public and the message then as now is smileor shut up.
And I understand the depthof his love for Ferrari now. Really I do. I didn’t say he couldn’t or shouldn’tsay that this win was more meaningful than any of his others, as he did. Justlike Kimi said that a championship with Ferrari is worth five with any otherteam. I may feel hurt by that but they should say whatever they want. Itdoesn’t really matter if I agree or not because I know now that he’s a truebeliever and that’s more powerful than anything.
And I’ll freely admit thatI was wrong. Ferrari turned out to be exactly the panacea Seb wanted it to be.The fairytale came true for him. I just wish he hadn’t felt the need to lower Daniel because he thought it would make him look taller.
