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Mercedes Hilariously Question Max Verstappen’s 2022 Title Claim in a Fight for Their Own Championship

Published 10/09/2022, 9:05 AM EDT

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Max Verstappen has finally put his label on the 2022 world driver’s championship after an eventful Japanese GP. With the driver’s championship wrapped up, we have another one to go. The constructors’ championship also looks set to be Red Bull’s this year. However, every position in the standings matters, with Mercedes and Ferrari fighting for the second spot.

Every jump in the position in the constructors’ championship is a massive boost for a team. The teams earn tens of millions of dollars with every position they gain in the constructor’s standings. Mercedes is well aware of the benefits of finishing higher in the championship, having won it eight consecutive times already.

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Even though the Brackley-based outfit is well out of the reach of a win, they will push to get ahead of Ferrari. However, while the two teams battle it out in the constructors’ championship, Mercedes’s social media team is winning elsewhere.

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Mercedes’s Twitter team is possibly the most active compared to the rest of the grid. There has been proof of that on multiple occasions. So when Matt Gallagher, host of WTF1, asked, “Social media team championship suggestions?” via a tweet, the Mercedes twitter admin was quick to respond with a hilarious reply as usual.

Mercedes’s Twitter handle replied, “Will the teams be receiving full social media championship points?”.

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Why is that relevant or funny? Let us explain!

Mercedes’ Twitter handle wins the championship vote unanimously

Mercedes’s social media handle quickly poked fun at the confusion created by the rule regarding the championship points from the Japanese GP race. The confusing rule kept everyone guessing how many points will the drivers be awarded if the race resumed. The answer was quite simple, as per usual standings.

However, the discussion of the rule created a lot of buzz with fans even confused if Max Verstappen won the championship. Safe to say, the quick-witted reply from the Twitter admin won the vote.

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The fans are loving the tweet from the admin and the fans are reacting to the tweet with their final judgment.

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The championship was out of Mercedes’s reach this season, but the team is taking every win they can get. According to the fans, the social media championship is theirs!

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Mahim Suhalka

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Mahim Suhalka is an F1 Author at EssentiallySports. This Sports Management post-graduate is an ardent supporter of the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team and their lead driver, Lewis Hamilton. The fact that Lewis dominated one of the most expensive sports in the world for all these years, despite his humble beginnings, has been a huge inspiration for Mahim and has made him a tenured fan of the competitive sport itself.
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Ranvijay Singh