sebsessed

[sebsessed]

"You would never have survived the Schumacher era"

Actually I would've, because when the FIA inevitably caught Schumacher being an aggressive little bastard or just an out and out cheat, they usually slapped him with the cricket bat of all penalties. I would be chilling whilst watching him get a black flag for ignoring a stop and go penalty and then a race ban for ignoring said black flag. I'd make a huge bowl of popcorn for him being DSQed from the whole WDC championship for trying to crash out Villeneuve. I'd watch him get sent to the back of the grid in Monaco 2006 for deliberately stopping the qualifying session in 3D. Hell, I did watch everyone's favourite go to, when he nearly put Barrichello in the wall in Hungary 2010 when he defended too aggressively and moved far far too late, and subsequently got a TEN place grid penalty for the next race.

And then I'd watch all the racing inbetween where Michael was a fantastic wheel to wheel racer, safe in the knowledge that the FIA actually had some balls and would try and nip shitty behaviour in the bud.

[sebsessed]

carlos sainz’s worst nightmare. rb to spread it

[sebsessed]

Carlos whining ... crying ... screaming on the radio ... fork found in kitchen

[sebsessed]

Lando Norris & Charles Leclerc | Miami GP 2024

[sebsessed]

Lando Norris, Race Winner, Miami 24

[sebsessed]

the nzz seb article is very very sweet (as per usual), and also available without paywall; my favourite parts include seb saying that he enjoys public transport and that close to his house there's only a mailbox and a bus stop; that when his first kid was born he saw a brochure in the hospital that infants can sleep up to 20 hours a day and said to his wife "great, that's gonna go easy" and then it took three years for their daughter to sleep through the night; and that he wanted to not watch the first race of 2023, didn't watch practice but then turned the tv on before qualifying. also he commentates to his wife and loves it when he's right about strategy calls

[sebsessed]

it’s 2025. your name is lewis hamilton and you’ve just landed in Maranello. it’s late. you’re hungry. there’s red everywhere. you call your new teammate and ask if he knows any good vegan spots in the city. he hangs up, materializes in front of you like the Archangel Gabriel, and throws a plate of carbonara in your face.

via ‘EPCC | La carbonara a ca**o di cane con Charles Leclerc’ on YouTube

[sebsessed]

The Las Vegas GP pit exit. x

[sebsessed]

apologies for the person i will become

[sebsessed]

bianca bustamante getting signed by mclaren in their driver development programme is, dare i say, monumental for philippine motorsport. bianca is from a country that doesn't have an accessible racing facility. i can count one race track and two karting tracks off the top of my head. getting funding to be in motorsport here is a massive pain in the ass, it's virtually impossible for a filipino to break through international motorsport. the furthest a filipino has reached in single seater racing is gp3 with marlon stockinger in the early 2010s.

bianca is the philippines' closest hope to get to f1. she is doing the unthinkable, the impossible. bianca bustamante is breaking barriers for philippine motorsport. she is the first woman to score a win in a FIA sanctioned single seater event, first since marlon stockinger winning in monaco in 2012.

when she said in her introductory video from mclaren that she is a child of an overseas filipino worker—a working class citizen who has to leave the philippines for opportunities abroad that offer higher wages because no job in the philippines can offer you a salary that is livable—that is very powerful. it is striking and only adds weight to why this signing is very important to us. she's now in the radar of f1 teams, hopefully filipinos also take notice.

i'm so proud of bianca and i'm so looking forward to her carrying the flag for this country in southeast asia with a population of 109 million. god i hope she thrives so badly.

[sebsessed]

HOW DO YOU LOSE 26 PODIUMS!??!!

McLaren: You forget to cherish them

[sebsessed]

Now, Piastri, you need to be very careful with the next part.

[sebsessed]

i miss when seb would stand on top of the podium with big wet eyes and soggy hair and a big smile and when he would absolutely bury himself in the arms of whoever was designated to come up with him... they just don't make them like this anymore

[sebsessed]

[x]

[sebsessed]

anyways @ the people who threw a fit because 'seb didn't deserve to win the dilf brackets' CAN YOU SEE NOW?? or has the light of the lord still not reached you

[sebsessed]

LEWDODIUM WAR IS OVER

[sebsessed]

Once again, the craziest stuff is happening on track while Liam Lawson is doing his lil race and somehow he's back in the points