From what I see the "belittling" and other such things pretty much stopped a few days ago, when you have competitive people in competitive situations, there is going to be that type of thing...the good part tho is most if not all kept it from becoming a problem, everyone had their say, let others have their say....and now its over, on to the next race, you have to accept that everyone wants their favorite driver or type of car to win....when its close, and shows the possibility of controversy, the type of people involved in racing, naturally challenge the things they see as wrong, once everyone sees both sides, its easier to accept what was right or wrong......from what I read tho it would be hard to say that "most" of the sour grapes were from the U.S.....yes we had our share, but so did plenty other countries........Im not so sure that a lot of what you saw as stabs at american products, wasnt just friends that happen to use different products ying yanging at each other good naturedly........