This is something I've noticed in the F1 community over a few years since I've been mature enough to understand stuff.

Drivers like Lewis and Seb are still hated because they had the best cars under their belt and won when every great driver in F1 history had the best machinery too.

Schumi, Senna, Prost, Lauda, Clark, Fangio etc all had best cars yet they're regarded as class apart whereas the former are hated unnecessarily.

Secondly I've noticed people change the narratives of their F1 title campaigns so they could make their favourite drivers look better.

The famous ones are Lewis vs Massa 08 and Vettel vs Alonso 12.

Everyone says how Massa deserved 08 and how Lewis got lucky in the last race when in reality that's not what happened at all. Lewis had his fair share of bad luck that year as well, he too was a brilliant driver and completely deserved it. Massa made quite a few mistakes too.

Vettel vs Alonso 12 has to be the most exaggerated one I've ever seen. I mean the F2012 was by no means a shit car they way people make it out to be. A shitbox doesn't do 15 podiums in a season. Yes the car had very poor qualifying pace but it's race pace and reliability was solid. Reliability - something which RBs lacked that year and Mclarens practically didn't have.

Every person mentions Spa 2012 lost him the title but nobody mentions Alonso's crucial error at Japan 2012. Nobody mentions how Seb lost 12 points at Malaysia, 25 at Valencia (a win), 8 points at Monza and he had to do 2 unnecessary recovery drives (through no fault of his own) at Abu Dhabi and Brazil which hampered his title campaign even further.

The RB in the first half wasn't exactly the best car either, Alonso had double the podiums than Seb did in the first half if I remember.

After the upgrades the F2012 got at Belgium it's pace was much better and Alonso had such a huge advantage over Vettel due to Malaysia and Valencia (40 point lead)

The argument given by the fans is that the car was poor because Massa was 100 points behind Alonso, well so was Webber, even Webber was 100 points behind Seb.

If Alonso deserved 2012 by that same logic Kimi deserved 05 because Kimi arguably lost due to shit reliability yet this point isn't taken into consideration.

Lewis and Vettel are to this date battered for Sochi 2018 and Malaysia 2013 yet no one even mentions Singapore 2008 or Germany 2010.

Schumi and Senna are looked upon as the best of all time (which they obviously are they are great) yet no one mentions how both of them were such dirty drivers whereas Lewis and Vettel have been both such clean drivers throughout their career. (I know this year was a bit dirty but as a whole)

Schumacher and Senna are praised for their records and called literal Gods like 100% podium finish and most consecutive wins at a single GP respectively.

Yet when Vettel gets 9 consecutive race wins, 15 poles in a season or Lewis becomes the first and only man in F1 history to cross 100 wins and poles, these feats are labelled as it's the car.

They say that 'XYZ' driver is better but if that driver were in the Mercedes he would be battered for winning and Lewis would be called underrated

If Alonso won as much as Lewis, 07 and 10 would be used as reference points as to why Hamilton and Vettel are better than him.

Not to mention Alonso made a lot of mistakes in 2010 just like Vettel in 2018 but no one even mentions that.

But because he didn't win as much as Lewis, people completely change the narratives and what actually happened those years to make their underdog and victimised stories of their favourite drivers.

My question is how is the F1 community so hypocrite and why do they completely change the narratives of F1 title campaigns to their benefits?

Why do we praise the last generation of drivers setting records in the best cars and hate the new generation when they do the same?

Why is that when Senna and Schumi literally drive dirty it's called the championship mindset and driving on the edge but when Lewis and Max had a few collisions this years they're called aggressive and stupid?

How do so many people of the community don't realise they're being such hypocrites?

Why is the community not happy that we are getting to witness legends?

This post might be a bit biased towards Vettel and Lewis as I grew up watching these 2 absolutely dominate and I genuinely admire both of them but I hope you got my point.

I understand dislike towards them, even I started to dislike Hamilton a couple of times during this season but at the end I still do admire him and the disliking was momentary. But I genuinely do not understand the need to hate and call them all kinds of slurs and other stuff.

Thanks for reading this.