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MIAMI GP 2025 | lando and oscar congratulating kimi on his first-ever sprint pole 🥳

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Oscar Piastri for Vogue.

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i've noticed that lando's problems have a pattern the last 3 years, when he solves one problem he starts with a new one, when he solves the new one, the old one returns 😭 in 2023 he suffered in qualy, he greatly improved it last year, but he started having problems at the starts. now he seems to have solved the problem at the starts, but he suffers again in qualy… sometimes i wonder if this isn't just a severe case of self sabotage? i feel like this question should come with a disclaimer, i haven't mentioned this to anyone openly because i don't want to come off as a lando hater and i don't want to give lando haters the opportunity to attack him, but it's something i've been thinking about the last few weeks, and since u are very objective and have done analysis, i wanted to know your opinion, if u think it's just a coincidence or if u have noticed it.

hey anon! i think that's a perfectly valid question that is also really hard to answer because if we were able to perfectly pinpoint these things then the teams would probably hire us LOL... the plight of f1 armchair psychologists.

imo similarly to oscar's sample size being too small to claim that he's sorted out all of his issues from 2024, the same can be argued with lando's woes but in reverse... i mean he got pole in australia and successfully converted it despite his struggles and then japan was decent as well, but he's been quite transparent since the start of the season about not being totally comfortable in the car and having to fight it a lot more which is why it's been hard to reliably put together a maximized quali lap.

i don't knaur...... maybe there's something to be said about a trade-off between car characteristics through the years that unfairly highlight strengths and weaknesses in a way that our human brains naturally want to read patterns where there are none? his starts last year were weird because there was the glitch in hungary and he usually struggled more in the second phase than from pure reaction time, but i don't think it's fair to claim this as a meaningful technical issue across the board when he did have actual problems he needed to finetune with his start strategies from the front/pole after years of mostly aiming for really clean and conservative starts in the midfield. but it's kind of one of those Multiple Things Can Be True At Once situations where we aren't privy to the full details as fans.

anyway honestly i really don't have a verdict here but i'm not rushing to make any sweeping assumptions on lando's adaptability / performance in the car Yet because it really is still early days and he's very transparent in how there's something that just isn't clicking... but now that you've mentioned this i'm curious to see how his starts will go if/when he does get back up to speed with quali!!!

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Hello hello so i would like to ask about oscar’s broken rib last year, are there any hints as to whether lando knew? It was revealed during/after summer break that he drove several races with the injury as i recall and i couldn’t help but wonder if there was any indication in the video footage of that period?? Thanks!!

hmmmm my memory may be failing me but not that i know of anon!! i assume necessary team personnel/andrea/zak were informed after the scan so they could monitor the injury in case it became severe but honestly for being a broken rib it didn't seem like it was that major of a concern, especially since it was a progressive injury from a bad seat fit and oscar didn't find out about it himself until the day after silverstone when the pressure had culminated and it became really painful. it might have come up in private conversation between oscar and lando but i don't think they ever acknowledged it outright 🤔 i could be wrong though!

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Hey, hey! So I actually found your blog through f1 but loved when I found out you were a hockey fan as well. Tis the season for the stanley cup playoffs etc (happy but also the most painful spring). Hope the Stars clinch their series tonight!! (Can’t remember if you have a hockey blog or not, sorry if so!)

eeee hi anon i'm always happy to talk hockey!!! what team do you root for? :') my stars blog is 39oa which was actually my og sportsblr page until i branched off and separated my f1 content LOL

playoff hockey makes me deeply nauseated in a way f1 can rarely replicate... (jon bois snort cocaine out of a helicopter tweet dot jpeg) i love my stupid green team but they love to cause me maximum psychic damage at every possible opportunity i'm blowing up s*m st**l with my mind as always. but it is what it is 😭😭😭😭

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Ollie & Kimi | ESPN Interview at Bahrain GP 2025 (x)

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miagp25 | oscar’s outfit bingo 👕🤣

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tmi but i am once again moving (final stretch) this weekend and the stress is getting to me because i have to fly for the very first time with my cats T__T and i will once again be forced to watch the race in an inopportune location but mostly i'm worried about my cats and giving them their meds and making sure they adjust properly etc. etc. and packing all of their stuff!!! hopefully settling in doesn't take too long........

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Just realized the photos from yesterday and the video from today were probably filmed the day Oscar posted that jellyfish ig story (can’t remember when exactly that was but it was a few weeks ago) man is giving us new old content 😂

LOL he didn't have time to film his running thirst traps during the double header!! tbh i always assume that he/mclaren film all of their content in bulk and then set a release schedule over the next few months to drip feed us like k-pop idols making 15 different tiktok challenges in the same outfit 😭

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Android Presents: Lights Out with Lando & Oscar

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lando being like oh look my heart rate's going up and it's at 66bpm... sometimes i forget some people are professional athletes and also don't have cardiovascular issues

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hi!! your ask was the first time I’ve heard about oscar’s coach emma murray, do you mind sharing any more info you have on that?

hi anon!!! of course, the interview i linked has a good amount of information but i can summarize it below because i know not everyone likes listening to audio interviews:

emma murray is an australian sports psychologist/mindfulness coach who has been working with oscar for 6 years, she actually also works with indycar driver scott mclaughlin and the richmond afl team as well!!

the funny story in this podcast is that they're like "so how did you meet oscar" and she's like "well his mum was the president of the local netball club and my daughter played there and she asked me if i could talk to her son who was in freca (she says f3 but she just doesn't know what freca is LOL. it was freca) and needed someone to talk to about his crashes and starts while he was overseas and i was like UGHHH do i really want to deal with a teenager... but i wanted my daughter to get into a good netball team so i agreed." basically oscar piastri is once again a beneficiary of nepotism. she does mention though that it only took one conversation with oscar for her to know that he was the real deal 🧡

a large part of her work is to give drivers strategies to really stay in the moment and not focus on the bigger picture, even though it's easy to let your mind wonder while you're driving. like don't let yourself get bogged down by who could crash into you, how your race could be derailed at any moment, what your engineer might tell you etc. but instead focus on minute details like feeling the car as you approach your brake markers. basically just give them ways of really grounding themselves in the pure details of driving!

there's also a blog interview from my op primer that isn't up anymore but i linked an archived version that mentions how she was very useful to oscar during his freca season because it was basically his first time being in a real championship situation, and this auto action post from 2022 where she talks about him especially in the context of the alpine saga. a lot of it is just saying how mature/good he is at immediately executing actionable feedback and finetuning his approach to his driving!!! hehe hope this helps

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hi !! starting to get into Actually watching fps & on boards—feel free to ignore this but u seem to Know about it so. do you have like. tips 😭 or maybe something resembling a glossary to Not overwhelm fans dipping their toes… thank you!!

aw hi anon!! is there something you're confused about specifically? imo fps aren't something you need to know all that much to watch, since they're really just testing time for the team and an opportunity to get up to grips with the track + try out different set-ups... i'd recommend just paying attention to the commentary because they usually explain what's going on pretty well anyway :')

also frankly i don't really watch onboards myself because i'm like WELL it's the tv director's job to find the fun bits and play them for me... LOL. 98% of it is all deeply boring anyway... i'm sorry i feel like this answer is deeply unhelpful!!! but really just keep watching with commentary and it should make sense... hopefully T__T

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ive been seeing people talk about how mclaren’s decision to back lando affected oscar’s form last year — saw he got a mental coach as well, not sure if that’s connected — what do you think?

i'm sorry anon i simply do not subscribe to this theory at all T__T the people who lobby this sort of ideology are usually twitter fanwar conspiracy theorists as far as i understand and very rarely is anything they say actually ever rooted in reality... like people will claim mclaren took way too long to prioritize lando in the championship but they'll also say that lando was their #1 from the get-go and that's why oscar's results suffered for it?! (head in hands) WHICH IS IT!!!

this is just my personal opinion but i think the only thing that ever affected oscar's "form" was oscar himself and his natural growth and progression as a driver. i would argue that he simply wasn't where he needed to be, no conspiracies about it, against lando last year, and that he needed to work on his quali results to be in a position to be ""favored"" (naturally prioritized during pit stops because of on-track position) during races. but he wasn't there and that's life! nothing more to it.

also when you say mental coach, do you mean his mindset coach emma murray? because she's been working with him for a long time now — there's an interview she did where she mentioned that she met oscar through his mum who asked her to talk to oscar during f3 because he needed to work on his starts and had had some crashes and could use someone to talk to while he was overseas — so it's not related to any recent events at mclaren. she's always been there to help him ~focus~ on what matters from the entirety of his junior career through the alpine saga so i really don't think mclaren's amazing results and championship-winning car would have pushed him over the edge any more than anything that happened beforehand LOL.

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will the ao3 stats include other oscar ships? wonder if theres a spike for choscar after yhe adoptiongate

i only scraped the landoscar tag (approx 3400 fics), but i can include both 1) analysis of side ships tagged within the existing dataset and 2) some rudimentary comparisons to other tags in general!!! :')

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