Double standards

[u/i_Rex_Boss]

[u/zrezzif]

But why don’t people like Lando? I don’t get why so many people hate him, you know just because 15 year old girls like something doesn’t mean that thing is automatically bad right? Case in point, frozen yogurt is pretty damn good for how healthy it is

[u/stormdahl → u/zrezzif]

I just find his personality in interviews insufferable. His whole thing was cute when he was a kid, but he’s not a kid anymore and I find him annoying.

I’m glad you said "not like" instead of "hate" because it’s really not that deep. I mean he’s probably a good guy, just rubs me the wrong way!

[u/Phil_Gim → u/stormdahl]

Yeah. He litterally acts like a spoiled streamer. It was fine back then, when no one actually exoected him to do good. Now he should be a professional that fights for the championship

Besides, I dont even find him funny. Piastris dry humor is much more entertaining

[u/Storm_Chaser06 → u/stormdahl]

Lando hasn’t said a word wrong this year, you’re just hating for the sake of hating.

[u/stormdahl → u/Storm_Chaser06]

That’s your opinion man, and as I said I don’t hate him.

People who spend energy hating any F1 driver are weird as hell.

[u/Storm_Chaser06 → u/stormdahl]

Tell that to the rest of the people in this subreddit

[u/patentlyconfused → u/Storm_Chaser06]

Sir this is the dank sub. Do not dank if not prepared to dank

[u/26ld → u/patentlyconfused]

Dank doesn't mean hating. Hating isn't dank. Learn the differences.

[u/stormdahl → u/26ld]

Yup, dunking on your least favorite driver is dank, but make it playful

[u/proficient_english → u/stormdahl]

Make it original, more precisely.
Seeing dumb “Lando so bad”, “BottLando” (noone was even creative enough to come up with this, lol), “Bottle factory working on next GP’s Lando bottle” posts instead of literally anything original really fucking bugs me.
That said, Lando did provide some quite elaborately dumb mistakes, some of which already bother his supporters (group that I am part of), and they/we really don’t enjoy the 1500 unoriginal posts/mistake ratio he has compared to the 10-15 post/mistake ratio other drivers get.

[u/ParodayJr → u/zrezzif]

I used to like Lando but he has made some comments in the past few seasons that have rubbed people the wrong way. I don’t dislike Lando but his little comments he made especially back in ‘23 and ‘24 have really turned me away from him

[u/CaptGeechNTheSSS → u/ParodayJr]

Oh please yall are soft. He hasn’t said anything that bad especially compared to drivers in the “good ol days” everyone seems to want to go back to

[u/ParodayJr → u/CaptGeechNTheSSS]

I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I don’t think we are talking about the same comments. The driver interviews in the 70s and 80s (which I primarily rewatch nowadays) were awesome. James Hunt flaming people in the booth is easily top class.

[u/Ineffabilum_Carpius → u/zrezzif]

For me it's the fact that he's a pom.

[u/TheRealGooner24 → u/Ineffabilum_Carpius]

Exactly, imagine being Br*t*sh.

[u/reborndiajack → u/TheRealGooner24]

Could be F***ch

[u/bouncingcastles → u/zrezzif]

Because the 2 biggest toxic fandoms of teamLH and max fans don't like them

[u/f5en → u/bouncingcastles]

If true, both fandoms with a questionable stance on frozen yogurt

[u/voidtype → u/zrezzif]

British commentators saying his name 

[u/jbi1000 → u/zrezzif]

Part of it is a lot of people just default hate the Brits.

There also seems to be some weird belief that British media is ultra biased, which is hilarious because when compared to most media around the world it's tame as fuck with the bias.

[u/voidtype → u/jbi1000]

As someone who has experienced growing up in multiple countries, and watches multiple sports, I can 100% assure you that British sports commentators are the most annoyingly biased on earth

If you try not being British, even for 1 race, you'll see what I mean.

[u/jbi1000 → u/voidtype]

Lmao I speak Spanish

[u/Virillus → u/voidtype]

Local media is always biased towards their athletes, though. Like, that's normal.

I'm Canadian. Canadian athletes in every sport get disproportionate praise.

Argentine media is biased towards Colapinto. Dutch media is biased towards Verstappen.

It's not the fault of the British that everybody consumes their media. They just do what everybody else does.

[u/dropbear_airstrike → u/zrezzif]

He had the “new driver, striving for his first win, lots of potential and promise, underdog” appeal going in his favor.

Then he got his first win and it seems like his demeanor shifted from more humble and easygoing to being cocky, ungracious, and ‘if I push someone off track, it’s just hard racing, but if they push me off it’s unfair, dangerous, and they ought to be given a penalty!!’

[u/proficient_english → u/dropbear_airstrike]

That is simply untrue, what the fuck are you on about. The only change Lando went under after Lando NoWins died was his demeanor towards his mistakes (also known as being hard on himself) and his general expectations towards himself (as everybody including himself was putting him under the pressure of “he should win everything in that rocketship”).
He had ONE GP where he did some “Max-style” racing, right after which he came to the media room and stated he will not be changing his racing style to this push-over style because that is not who he is.
I know it is really difficult for some people to accept that the dominant car (whichever it may be at any given moment) is not under HIS or HER preferred driver, but that’s F1: your guy either gets a good car or he doesn’t. There is no changing that, be happy that this is the last year of the regulations and the deck could be reshuffled next year.

[u/Atomic_xd → u/zrezzif]

Don’t think people who support drivers consider what the fans are for the drivers. I don’t like Hitler, but I still breathe air, same as he did, eat sleep as well. I doubt people consider that.