Unloveable

I think Max has developed a new level of respect for Charles. Now that he finds himself in a situation that Charles has been in many times, namely a crappy car, an inconsistent team that makes mistakes. I think he has even more realized how talented Charles is to have managed to still be at the top, give good results and save his team despite all that.

Anon, given the amount of time Charles has already struggled with this in Ferrari, I don't think Max's respect for him is anything new. Not to mention the fact that Max also spent several years competing in a car that wasn't exactly performing all that well prior to winning his first WDC in 2021. Max made his F1 debut in 2014, after all, and it's not like he's been dominating since that day. Our favorite Dutchman is quite familiar with the struggles of subpar machinery himself prior to this season.

If there is one driver on the grid - and one person in the world in general - who has always been acutely aware of how exceptionally talented Charles is despite the dreadful machinery, and at times team, he's working with, and who has never once doubted Charles' ability as a driver regardless of results, it's Max. Hell, our boy has been praising Charles to the high heavens since his emotional support rival made it into F1, regardless of how Charles' car and team were performing. So I will have to disagree with you here, because that respect has always been there and I don't think it's anything new for Max at all.

What I do think Max has gained with the issues Red Bull has been experiencing this season, however, is a new level of realizing just how unhinged Charles Leclerc actually is. He has watched that man drag several versions of that red tractor to positions it has had no business being, year after year after year, while also dealing with a team who has lived on nothing but historic glory for 15+ years. He has watched Charles be fueled by but nothing but athletic insanity, rage, unparalleled stubbornness and the love of the Tifosi for years while his biggest (and most favorite, don't even try to fight me on this) rival has made F1 history repeatedly.

If anything, the only new thing Max has developed for Charles this season is that weird kind of fear you only feel towards someone who absolutely terrifies you, while still being the single most attractive and appealling person you have ever met.

periods are medieval honestly. like sorry I got suicidal last night turns out I had too much blood in me. yeah no some of it fell out and I'm fine now.

Okay one last post before the race.

Hamilton's post quali interview broke me.

Maybe it's the realization that he really is leaving Mercedes for good, because Kimi was officially announced earlier that day. The seat he'd held onto for so long no longer being his.

He's won championships with them.

Lost his best friend when he was with them.

I don't know what else could possibly make a seven time world champion doubt himself like that.

And it's for that reason I genuinely hope that Ferrari does right by him next year. That the Tifosi show him lots of love and acceptance. That he and Charles get along and that their fans at least try to be civil.

That for once, Ferrari makes the two of them good cars and makes good strategy calls.

I might be a little dramatic, he is a veteran but he's still leaving his home in a way.

I might be asking for too much (It's definitely too much) , but I hope he never regrets the move to Ferrari.

the many faces of oscar piastri

Hannah Schmitz, Red Bull Racing’s Principal Strategy Engineer, as Athena, Greek Goddess of Strategic Warfare and Wisdom

For us who have lived through too many seasons of "next year," there would be a peculiar poetry in seeing him—the one who stayed, who suffered, who never wavered—be the one to end our long wait. For when that moment comes, whether it takes seventeen years or more, it will mean more because it was earned through unwavering loyalty, not just talent.

- Vincenzo Landino, The Weight of Destiny

I need Alpine to commit to the whole bit put Pierre and Esteban in special Deadpool & Wolverine racing suits.

Honestly I still dont know wtf formula 1 is, but at this point im bored as fuck and gonna ask 😭

it's an incredibly unserious sport where a bunch of multimillionaires sponsored by oil companies pant and sweat inside a metal husk to see who can finish first. u know. before all those other guys get in there. they all have another guy on radio giving them orders. they all have daddy issues and wear luxury watches and have had stunted childhoods. some of them want to fuck the cars. all of them want to fuck each other to some degree

I hope this clears it up!

still thinking of how charles cant do anything without dropping the world’s weight in whimsy and absolute cinema on the table like brother wins on pre-historic tyres and his engineer goes like you make me dream and he goes like the highs are so beautiful and of course it’s in the motorsport equivalent of a temple and its his cult ass teams home race and of fucking course he’s seen as like a crossover between holy mary mother of god and daenerys targaryen and everything just feels like you’re being seduced into a religion. also he has blowjob doe eyes and a dog he believes to be his biological child

I love the fact that the Max-Charles-Pierre photo is actually the second pic, yet Charles put it on his instagram story. Charles literally put the Lestappen divorce to the grave not bed

This!

Charles saw the Lestappen divorce rumor and went "Not on my fucking watch".