Oscar-Winning Comedian Berates F1 Paddock for Villainizing Lewis Hamilton & Mercedes
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Formula One F1 – Pre-Season Testing – Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain – February 25, 2022 Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton during testing REUTERS/Albert Gea
Season 4 of Netflix’s show Drive to Survive has officially dropped. There was a lot of excitement among fans for the new season’s exit, as it covers one of the greatest seasons in F1 history. Among those fans is also comedian Travon Free. having watched the series, Free had some thoughts that he took to Twitter. He noticed that many teams depicted on the show were against Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton throughout the season.
The sport truly doesn't deserve Lewis and Mercedes and all of the value they bring to a sport. The genuinely don't. They have no idea how much the sport will miss him when he's gone.
— Travon Free (@Travon) March 11, 2022
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Free mentioned that the sport does not appreciate the talent of Hamilton and will miss it when he stops racing.
” The sport truly doesn’t deserve Lewis and Mercedes and all the value they bring to a sport. They genuinely don’t. They have no idea how much the sport will miss him when he’s gone,” said Free.
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Hamilton believes he was wronged at the end of the season in the manner he lost the championship. He mentioned that in the 2022 season, F1 fans will see his best performance behind the wheel yet.
It’s definitely tough out there: Lewis Hamilton
As reported by Formula1.com, the Mercedes driver was struggling on day 2 of the official pre-season tests in Bahrain. The 7-time world champion could only manage to set the fifth-fastest time of the day and could not get ahold of his car.
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“It’s definitely tough out there. It’s windy, and the wind changed around quite a bit today. But yes, generally it’s been tough. Yes, it’s tough at the moment,” said Lewis.
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Formula One F1 – Pre-Season Testing – Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain – March 10, 2022, Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton during testing REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
“I mean, you can see on the onboard, tankslappers left, right and centre, and then bouncing and bumping. [The car is] not quite happy at the moment, but we’re trying to tame it,” Hamilton added.
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Hamilton has one more session left in the car to close out his testing. He would look to get a better hang of his car and go into the first race very well prepared. The W-13 certainly has the speed. And If the 7-time world champion can tame it, then we might see the full potential of the car on the March 18-20 weekend.
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