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@Don Rhymus i decided to stan felipe massa a while ago but forgot to ask you if that was worth doing. just FYI
Right now? Not really. Felipe is this amazing story of a right around above average driver who on occassion FAR exceeded his actual ability and couldn't be touched by even the gawds and other times spun four times in a single race by himself purely on driver error. His performance was so miserable in his rookie season his team Sauber actually threw him in the bushes after it and he was out of F1 in 2003, only to bring him back in 2004 after Nick Heidfeld bolted and they needed someone. As aiiight in 2004, aiiiight in 2005. Aight, but completely uninspiring. So it was a huge fukking shock when Ferrari sign him for 2006. The story goes with Marlboro and Ferrari's relationship, and Marlboro's big business in Brazil. Felipe was purely a commercial choice as the only available Brazilian option to replace the outgoing Rubens.
But, people expected an absolute bloodbath. Felipe hadn't really done anything to inspire any fanfare. He spends 2006 getting schooled like everyone assumed he would by Schumi and generally being a punching bag. Then outta nowhere in Turkey, at the end of the season as Schumi and Alonso are in a tightening title battle.....he straight up goes out, beats Schumi for pole, and sons the whole field for a close win over Alonso and Schumi. Then in Brazil becomes the first Brazilian to win the home GP since Senna in '93. Then in 2007 he goes out and for the first half of the year is beating Kimi Raikkonen and challenging for the title until his talent runs out and he finishes fourth. Then in '08 he wins 6 races and has the world title won for like three seconds until Lewis fights his way into fifth on the last corner
Then in '08 a spring from another car cracks his helmet and almost kills him, and he never quite has been the same.
Oh, except for the German Grand Prix in 2010 when he was winning the race and beating Alonso on merit but got told to move by Ferrari.
Speaking of
@Liu Kang . How dare you talk about obedient teammates as some sort of way to put down Vettel. Webber was notoriously
disobediant. He never lied down or moved over for Vettel, which was the entire point of contention.
If Webber was a punching bag, then what the hell do you call Massa (moved out of the way so Alonso could win in at Hockenheim), Fisichella (who existed entirely as Alonso's water carrier), and Nelsinho (
RENAULT FIXED A fukkING RACE TELLING HIM WHEN AND WHERE TO CRASH SO ALONSO COULD WIN FFS
) and I don't for a SECOND buy that Alonso didn't know what was planned. He should have gotten a lifetime ban from the sport along with Briatore.
Fernando Alonso fukking snitched on McLaren (TESTIFIED AGAINST THEM IN COURT
) and tried to sabotage his own team because they wouldn't put Lewis on a leash.
Casuals who watch the sport think that Vettel just wins because he has the best car, best team. Because they just recite whatever garbage their nationalistic mainstream coverage of the sport feeds them
might be the greatest gif i've ever seen
