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Incredible last-lap drama in the last race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi.  Mercedes pay for not giving up track position to bolt on fresh rubber.  We have a new F1 world champion, though one expects that Mercedes, who are already disputing race director Michael Masi’s somewhat wavering interpretation of the rules, will go to law if they don’t get their way.

Here it is.  Enjoy:

Doesn’t count in my book

— TJ (@TJftbl) December 12, 2021

After Lewis Hamilton’s race activism and Seb Vettel’s homo-activism we get a mob-handed jab-activist video from the “driver community” of F1.  It is very difficult to imagine the swashbuckling greats of FI’s past like Nigel Mansell, Graham Hill, or James Hunt obediently following the corporate script.  Are men today really so much smaller in their personal stature and sense of right and wrong?  Is that what the vast wealth they can accrue today does to them?

Interestingly, the only driver who has absented himself from jab-duty is Kimi Räikkönen, who probably does belong to the individualist model of yesteryear, and who, anyway, is leaving the circus after tomorrow’s final race of the season.

It’s happening again.  Yesterday’s British GP at Silverstone had an interesting opening lap in which the diversity-boy, having been humbled for several GPs by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, duly sent his nemesis spinning into the tyre barrier at Copse Corner at around 190 mph.

Not all the fans were charmed to see the perp suffer no significant penalty for his wrecklessness.  Because the race had to be stopped to recover Verstappen’s badly damaged car and repair the tyre wall, the BLM-boy got a free change of nose for his Mercedes in the pits.  The race marshals then awarded him only a ten second hold in the pit at his forthcoming tyre change.  Ten seconds means nothing given that the Merc is so much faster than every other car in the race except the surviving Red Bull of Perez, who was out of contention.  To absolutely no one’s surprise, the kneeling-boy duly won, and celebrated as if he is someone who might not possess large reserves of self-awareness.  All in all, it did not go down incredibly well with some folks who are sick to death of the antics of this person.

The DM picks up the story in suitably indignant mode:

Mercedes demands Facebook take action against racist users after Lewis Hamilton was abused with monkey and gorilla emojis following his controversial British Grand Prix win against Max Verstappen

Facebook is today under even more pressure to ‘eliminate’ racist abuse on Instagram after Lewis Hamilton was bombarded with monkey emojis and called a gorilla after winning the British Grand Prix in controversial fashion yesterday.

Mercedes has hinted that police should investigate some of the vile slurs aimed at their star driver and called on social media companies to do more to stop racist posts before they go online - and close the accounts of the culprits. 

Seven-time world champion Hamilton, 36, was involved in a crash that saw championship leader and rival Max Verstappen plough his Red Bull into a wall and out of the race at Silverstone.

Hamilton, who is a vocal supporter of the BLM movement is leading a campaign for more racing drivers from black and ethnic minority groups, was hit by a 10 second penalty but went on to win the race and close the gap in the title race to just eight points. 

Following the race, Sir Lewis received a slew of racist abuse including monkey and gorilla emojis on Instagram - the platform of choice for racists who abused Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford after their penalty misses in the Euro 2020 final this month.

Today Mercedes, Hamilton’s team, released a joint statement with Formula One and the sport’s governing body, the FIA, condemning the abuse, and piled more pressure on social media giants to take steps to filter comments, ban racists and help police punish them if necessary.

Well, first let us state here and now, for the benefit of kneelers everywhere, that it is very, very, very, very wrong, indeed terribly, terribly wrong, in fact, so wrong that it’s as wrong as wrong can ever be, to claim some equivalence between a monkey and an African.  The claim is based on a total misreading of physiognomy and intelligence, and even when obviously retailed by Africans themselves as a self-effacing joke, for example thus:

... it can never be acceptable in liberal company.  Members of every race do some extremely stupid things.  The equality-boy, for example, is said to have two rooms of his ultra-luxury Monaco home filled with his shoe collection.  No sign of narcissism there then.  No, no, all perfectly normal for anybody with two hundred million quid in the bank.

One imagines that it will be even tougher for the media to turn the mad knight of Copse Corner into a Person of Suffering than it was with the multi-millionaire black penalty-failures of the Euros final.  That won’t stop them trying, though.

The big news from yesterday’s FA Cup Final between Leicester and Chelsea?  OK, it was the first crowd - just 20,000 strong - to be admitted to watch a match since the third lockdown started.  It was also the first time in their long history (they were founded in 1884) that Leicester City have lifted the trophy, after a 1-0 victory.  But the interesting political news from Wembley is that the fans booed the hallowed pre-match BLM moment.  Just like old times.  Sadly, there was no light airplane towing a banner overhead to remind the European-descended millionaires debasing themselves on the pitch that White Lives Matter too.

Apparently, the BBC’s pee-cee engineers leapt into action to turn the amps down on the broadcast feed so viewers did not have to hear working-class white men’s disdain for the BLM insult, enabling the rest of the corporate media to downplay the event.  “Social media” ... that’s Handwringers’ Central to you and me, since they’re all that’s left on TwittBook ... reacted according to corporate requirements.  But someone forgot to moderate the Daily Mail thread.  Click the first link above and have a read if you want to know what non-handwringers think.

I have not been able to interest myself in the Super-League debacle, largely because I would have preferred the game of African kick-ball which English professional football has become to die out, to be honest.  But here, anyway, is a pretty good, historically-grounded and factually accurate analysis by NativistConcern of the attempt to take the Big Six truly global, and destroy the rest of African kick-ball in the process.

It’s just a pity that the video-maker is another one lost to the poetic lie of heroism and the life of glory - and more a pity because, actually, he has a real feel for the life and culture of the old working-class.

It was back in late May that little Lewis Hamilton, supported by the global corporations whose sport Formula 1 motor racing is, began virtue-shaming his fellow drivers into taking the knee.  The industry stampeded itself into a virtue-programme mis-named “We Race As One”, which is, of course, the complete opposite of the truth; and the whole shabang disappeared up its own intellectually pathetic fundament.  Enter sturdy Vitaly Petrov, the ex-FI driver and the first Russian to race in the formula.  At the Sochi GP in September he let it be known that, among other things:

“For me, a Black Lives Matter t-shirt is superfluous, as is calling on everyone to kneel,” Petrov said. “That is a personal matter for every adult.”

“I don’t understand the kneeling because, according to our traditions, a man kneels only in two cases – in a place of worship before God and when you propose to your future wife.”

“You can speak out on your social networks, you can give interviews, you can create some kind of social movement, you can contact the government. But for Formula 1 itself to call on everyone… I think half of the fans didn’t understand.”

Petrov then attacked Hamilton’s Breonna Taylor T-shirt, which he wore at Mugello.  Apparently, that was a political statement, and drivers were promptly banned from such stunts at subsequent races.  Petrov 1 Hamilton 0.

Somehow, Petrov then got himself chosen to serve as a steward for the Portuguese GP running on Sunday.  So, of course, Hamilton, the oppressed Monaco resident and half-billionaire, rushed to let his intolerance of different opinions be known.  He said:

“I would say it’s a surprise to see they would be hiring someone that has those beliefs, and is so vocal about things that we’re trying to fight against,” said Hamilton.

“So you should take it up with them really, there’s nothing I can particularly do about it.

“But we should definitely be including people here who are with the times, who are understanding of the times that we are living in, and sensitive to the matters that are surrounding us.

“I don’t really understand what their goal is or why particularly he’s here. It’s not like they don’t have any other good options.”

Today Hamilton has been joined by a bunch of rainbow letter people, who no one has ever heard of, but who are obviously considered important by the very woke motor racing media, who report that:

“Racing Pride wishes to express its concern at the appointment of Vitaly Petrov as an FIA Driver Steward for this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix in light of his recent, widely reported public comments relating to the #WeRaceAsOne initiative, which were both racist and homophobic in nature.”

On can only assume that the industry doesn’t give a damn about its fan base who, by definition, are not a bunch of weedy, pencil-neck sociology students or blokes in dresses who expect to use the ladies loo.  They’re petrol heads.  They’re not equality fanatics.  F1 is not about equality.  When Hamilton began whining about BLM the consensus of opinion among fans was “Stick to the racing, mate”.  Sadly, the FI media responded with lock-step wokery.  Not much dissent was visible.  On the Autosport readers forum one forum member well-known to the author of this post did manage to opine as follows:

I am an avid reader of Autosport.  I do not participate in the forum, after a brief flurry of doing so some years ago.  But today, with Luke Smith’s opinion piece titled “Why Lewis Hamilton’s “stick to racing” critics are missing the point” Autosport ventured into racial politics, and that I cannot allow to pass without the following mild protest.

Luke’s presumption is that F1 and, in particular, the media personnel covering F1, must have fewer white people.  By extension, white people everywhere, and most especially white men, may not exercise hegemony in any sphere of the life we have, by the genius and adventure of our forebears, created ex nihilo.  Apparently, our moral obligation is to get out of the way for the sake of “diversity” - something imposed upon us, as upon all Europeans, by the violence of the state and the deceit of politicians   It is an imposition to which we are, as much as is possible in Western society, denied dissent.  Apparently, speaking freely and dissenting on the matter ... arguing for the interests of our own people in our own home ... is so immoral for white people, it can only be met with a ritual public dehumanisation.  In our schools and universities the lock-step lesson our children have to learn is that because they are white they have “privilege”.  They are lesser beings than the oppressed innocents of the immigrant populations.  Yet the diversity-mongers like Luke meekly and mechanically presume that justice and fairness is a one-way, anti-white street.  It really isn’t.

In America half a century of vastly expensive efforts to lift African-Americans out of their lowly estate have not produced the perfect human equality which the liberal mind requires.  Puzzlingly, Chinese-Americans and Indian-Americans require no such aid.  The great bugbear “white racism” does not seem to hold them back at all.  It is an inconvenient fact which few black commentators besides Michelle Malkin or the brave social theorist Thomas Sowell will discuss.  It is something that Lewis could profitably think about.  Perhaps he might then attend not to his fellow racers, seeking to enlist them in the equality delusion, but to Africa’s children everywhere, urging them to examine themselves for the causes of their discontents.

But, please Autosport, don’t report it.  Stick to the racing.

The comment lasted 15 minutes.  The forum member was banned.  The F1 wokery don’t just fail to understand the soul of motor racing.  They have no souls.  They also have a sporting spectacle which has become painfully boring to watch and is haemorrhaging fans.  You would think they have better things to worry about than Hamilton’s tedious whining.  But at least we have to thank the little coloured boy for bringing a bit of excitement to this race weekend.  Never mind the even greater tedium on track.  Will Petrov remain in situ in Portugal until the race on Sunday afternoon?

Craig Biggio, ordinary guy, finished his career with 668 doubles, among the legends of MLB.

Sometimes to give my mind a rest and diversion from stress, I will take a look at baseball statistics. There’s a contiguity and historical contexting about it that can serve that purpose for me. Craig Biggio, a second baseman for the Houston Astros, was intriguing to me because he was such an ordinary guy from around my parts in New Jersey, who finished his career in 2007 with some statistics ranking among the all time, absolute legends of Major League Baseball. I noticed how Biggio might finish 5th all time in doubles if he could pass George Brett in his final season; and what made that interesting was the four guys in front of him on that list. For anyone who knows baseball: Speaker, Rose, Musial and Cobb - there he is, Biggio in that all time elite company - legends of baseball! - and nobody else. Even the five behind him on the top ten list (when he retired) were legendary (in baseball terms, of course) Baseball Hall of Famers: Brett, Lajoie, Yastrzemski and all-time home run leader, Hank Aaron (until bumped as homerun leader by BarryRoids Bonds)

All time Doubles Leaders

1. Tristram Speaker 792

2. Pete Rose 746
Although Rose finished the game with more hits than anyone, he was denied the Hall of Fame because he was caught gambling (The White Black Sox Scandal and Shoeless Joe Jackson was a gambling issue too. I still think steroids are an even worse transgression).

3. Stan Musial 725

4. Ty Cobb 723

5. Craig Biggio 668

Craig Biggio, normal guy, managed to avoid the mark of the beast.

6. Albert Pujols 666

“Bat Albert” ..or is it Roidal Albert, just hit number 666, which prompted this post…

7. George Brett 665

Had hemorrhoids but… “his troubles are all behind him.”

8. Nap Lajoie 657

9. Carl Yastrzemski 646

10. Honus Wagner 640

13. Hank Aaron 624

Now, there was a “horrifying” possibility that even if Biggio managed to squeak past Brett, he might finish his career with 666 doubles, invoking the willies in regard to his final slot.

Of all things, I happened upon a similar baseball Biggio statistic fetishist, but this guy was rooting for Biggio to finish his career the all time number one for having been hit by a pitch (a dubious distinction, but not bad, its as good as walk and you reach first base sure as a single). Biggio finished his career second in being hit by pitch - or as “The Target” who gets “plunked” as this guy called it, naming his blog “Plunk Biggio.”

I promise I’m trying to go somewhere cultural with this.

The guy also noticed the same thing as me that Biggio might get stuck at 666 doubles.

And he wrote this, which is to me, a dynamite characterization of Appalachia snake handling hillbilly talk:

Plunk Biggio Blog Spot, 31 Aug 2007:

At 8/31/2007 02:26:00 AM, Anonymous cletus j. “bubba” huckabee jr. said…
Now if you ask me, and plenty folk do now and again, the log jam in the ascending plunk count might could be on account of the pending evil milestone our man “Target” is fixin’ to achieve. Contrary to what folk down at the Sanctified Temperance and Perpetual Glosolalia Church of Greater Chesterfield County believe, I ain’t necessarily a religious man. Now, granted, I show up on a regular basis and sit in the Huckabee family pew. But that is on account of me carrying on a tradition that goes back seven generations. A Huckabee male is always present when them church doors open, and as the head Huckabee of Chesterfield County, I feel a moral duty to keep the tradition going. In all my many hours of being perched on that uncomfortable pew, I learned to use my head to concentrate on more enjoyable topics than brimstone, hellfire, pending doom, and moral judgment. Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t again the church… I just like to allow my mind to drift during sermons. Well, the other day my mind drifted to the fact that Target is fixin’ to achieve his 666th double. At the Sanctified Temperance and Perpetual Glosolalia Church of Greater Chesterfield County the number 666 is seen is incredibly and indelibly evil. In fact the minions of Hades can be conjured up through the utilization of that particular number. At least, that’s what Brother Cyril done said. If’in that happens to be the case, then I am wondering if the unexpected diminution of the plunks might be the work of the evil one himself. Right today Target is sitting on 665 doubles and shares the record with George “hemorrhoids and pine tar” Brett which I find kind of creepy in and of itself. In fact, I reckon Brett might be one of the minions. Anywho, if’in Target can reach and pass 666 doubles, then maybe that will release the minions of Hades to go on back down to the depths of earth (or at least over to the American League) and leave Target alone. I know you might commence to think I’m reaching for straws, but with so few games remaining in his career, and so few plunks required to top that no-count, snivln’ weasel Hughie Jennings (who very well might be in league with the devil too) I’m desperate to figure out what went wrong and what we can do to right it.

   
       
George Brett, an all time great hitter and third basemen, wasn’t possessed by demons as he approached 666 doubles; no, he freaked out when an umpire called him out and took back a game winning home run on a freak technicality (pine tar too high on his bat).

George Brett was also known to have suffered from hemorrhoids during World Series play. He quipped, “my troubles are all behind me” ... these two incidents are mentioned in the blog post. To note, Brett was from Appalachia, West Virginia parts himself.

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