Remember how people wrote off Fernando Alonso? The Spaniard was stuck in midfield teams for the longest time. His move to Aston Martin was considered a bad choice. We all know how Alonso’s story panned out this season. Similarly, an F1 expert recently wrote off Lewis Hamilton. Surprisingly one of Hamilton’s Engineers defended the F1 Expert. What did the engineer say?
Karun Chandhok has been in the limelight for his opinion on Lewis Hamilton. The F1 pundits suggested that the Lewis Hamilton era as a leading F1 driver is finished as he wrote Hamilton off for the championship. Chandhok further advised how Max Verstappen is operating at a very high level with everything going his way. However, some fans didn’t take it well and slandered Chandhok on Twitter.
@Coxy847 not u defending our opp!! Karun has been our biggest hater for time stand up!!!! https://t.co/43wtpBIZeN
— 🤍LISA🤍 (@checkthetea) July 7, 2023
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One of them was @premystic who posted the race classification from the 2011 German GP where Lewis Hamilton won the race and Karun Chandhok in Lotus was lapped 4 times. However, this is where things get interesting. Lewis Hamilton lead engineer @coxy847 [Jonathan Wilcox] replied to the fans’ Tweet. Most of us would think that the comment is going to be supporting Lewis Hamilton since Wilcox is his engineer.
Turns out, he was actually defending Karun Chandhok. Jonathan Wilcox replied to the 2011 German GP stats with “How many Grand Prix have you competed in?” As @premystic tried roasting the F1 expert, Hamilton’s lead engineer put him in his place by suggesting that at least Chandhok had it in himself to make it to F1.
Nonetheless, the Tweet by the Mercedes engineer was later deleted for obvious reasons. Being pro-Chandhok after what the F1 pundit said about the Briton can only be interpreted in one way. Fans took over social media to now slander Mercedes whose engineer was defending the person who wrote of Lewis Hamilton. Let’s see what the fans have to say.
Fans react to the Mercedes Engineer’s comments defending the Expert who wrote off Lewis Hamilton
Fans took to Twitter to express their anger and disappointment at the fact that Hamilton’s own team members are defending the person who wrote him off. Many predicted that Mercedes are doomed as the engineers are busy posting Tweets rather than working on the car. Others suggest that Mercedes used to be a proper team but because of the engineer’s action, they deserve to be behind Williams. Let’s see how the fans reacted on Twitter:
Lead engineer on Lewis’ car is beefing with buc on twitter over Karun Chandok’s performance at the 2011 German Grand Prix instead of solving the cars issues.
Understand when I tell you that it has absolutely never been more over than it is right this very second.
— kd🚀 (@mercsogyny) July 7, 2023
why are they on twitter and not working on the car smh
— bruh (@iamminshooketh) July 8, 2023
We are so done😭😂
— Stefanie (@fastpitstop) July 7, 2023
we deserve to be behind williams for this
— Mercedes-Benz Citaro G Facelift C2 (O530GL) (@O530GL) July 8, 2023
Why are they fighting with the fans?😭😭😭😭😭
How the mighty Mercs have fallen 😩😩
Jesus, take the wheel……..in fact take the whole car 😭😭😭 https://t.co/8te91ecjvL
— Candy (@candethom) July 7, 2023
we used to be a proper team man https://t.co/WGveXhgdNr
— bonnet of salvation (@easymoneyslut) July 7, 2023
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it was this i think but it’s alr gone. they should be spending their time in the garage not fighting with their fans on twitter dot com IMO 😭😭 https://t.co/3XRGHGHip1
— tiff (@roysegans) July 8, 2023
Some fans were disappointed at the fact that Mercedes’ engineer was fighting with a fan. The fans asked Jesus to take over the whole car as only he can save it.
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What do you think about how all this played out?