“The Hamilton disrespect is unreal”– Max Verstappen beats his rival Lewis Hamilton by a mile in an F1 contest

“The Hamilton disrespect is unreal”– Max Verstappen defeats his arch-rival, Lewis Hamilton, in a fan poll conducted by F1’s website.

Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are in an intense contest for the championship, and in this fans have taken their sides, and in it certainly, Max Verstappen is having more public support, as reflected in the recent public poll by F1’s official website.

The biggest reason behind the larger clout to Verstappen is because most F1 fans want Mercedes and Hamilton’s hegemony to end. But nobody expected such a vast deficit between the two parties.

While Verstappen got the most votes for the best driver of the season after 11 races by fans, Hamilton lurked somewhere around the eighth position.

We asked you to rank the drivers on their performances in the first half of 2021 – and the results are in!

Here are your @Aramco Fan Power Rankings with 11 races of the season done!#F1

— Formula 1 (@F1) August 11, 2021

Absolute disrespect to Lewis Hamilton

While Verstappen has a huge following, a few neutral fans thought it was a massive disrespect to the seven-time world champion, who is statistically the most successful driver in F1’s history.

Also, it was remarked that the British drivers usually benefit from a bias, but it hardly ever applies to Hamilton, who is probably the greatest British sportsperson of all time.

this was clearly a popularity contest, the hamilton disrespect is unreal. and what the hell is george doing on 3rd place? british bias is unreal (but still don’t understand why it doesn’t apply to lewis)

— mila (@shilreas) August 11, 2021

8th because he is going to win his 8th title?

Meanwhile, some fans managed to find a good piece of banter out of it and said, “They put Lewis 8 coz that’s how many championships he will have by the end of the year.”

They put Lewis 8 coz thats how many championships he will have by the end of the year ✌️

— Peter Bonnigton (@nolimitmesut10) August 11, 2021

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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