This somewhat happened to me. A few months back, one Autosport forum member claimed that Raikkonen scared Schumacher into retirement, and that Michael was afraid of Kimi’s speed. I had a good laugh at that one, but my response was something along the lines of this:
Why would Michael be scared of Kimi? I’d say that it must be the other way around!
Back in 2005-06 Raikkonen was labelled by many people to be the fastest man in F1. I didn’t buy it then, and looking back at it now, I find it laughable more than anything else.
When Schumacher and Massa were teammates in 2006, Schumi dominated Felipe in every way. The only time Massa beat Schumacher on speed alone was on his favorite track in Istanbul, Turkey. For the rest of the season, Schumi was almost always quicker. Massa would only beat him on either strategy (Malaysia) or because Michael had bad luck (Hungary, Brazil)
Now, compare that to Raikkonen one year later at Ferrari. Massa quite clearly outperformed him in Bahrain, Spain, Monaco, Canada, USA, Turkey, and Italy. That’s 7 out of 17 rounds.
How come Massa was totally decimated by Schumacher in ’06, yet so close to Raikkonen only a season later? There’s no way a driver can change that much in only one year.
This has me questioning whether Kimi “the fastest driver in the world” Raikkonen is truly a match for Schumacher or not? It’s Kimi who needs to prove himself to be as quick as Michael, not the other way.
IMO if Schumacher extended his contract for another two years, and drove for Ferrari in 2007-08, he would’ve won both championships relatively easily.
I did not say a single offensive thing, I only stated my opinion and backed it up with rational thinking.
Frankly, you’d think that a normal post would receive a normal response, but that wasn’t the case. Only a few hours after posting this, when I went back to this very thread, I was attacked by an army of Raikkonen fans. I hadn’t been asking for this but merely corrected another persons fantasies. Eventually, the entire heated argument was deleted by the mods, including both my comment and the source post.
What I find funny is how criticizing Alonso, Vettel or Hamilton is considered to be perfectly normal; yet when someone judges Raikkonen it immediately becomes an immortal deed.
The fact that this thread has received more backlash in less than a day, than Mag-Geoff’s article criticizing Alonso has in over a year, shows just how true my comment is.
Dare you never say anything bad about Kimi!