#(and the only British one)

[innocentiusxiv]

apparently not everyone is aware of james fitzjames inshallah so.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

A lot of you underestimate how prevalent British bias is not only in F1 but across sports generally, and even in other industries.

Max saying he has the wrong passport in the paddock is an accurate statement. Do you think he, Seb, or Michael would've been half as vilified by the British media if they had a British passport instead? Would Fernando? Do you think Yuki would get half as much shit about his radio "conduct" if he was British? Because it's the British commentators who consistently have issues with it, and say shit like it's "unbecoming" for a driver to speak that way, ignoring that 1 it's not his first language and 2 IT WAS ENGLISH PEOPLE HE LEARNT THAT LANGUAGE FROM. Sometimes people misspeak, but Yuki has always taken accountability and apologised if he has and if he caused harm. Martin Brundle did not get nearly as much backlash from the media when he misspoke and called an Asian driver a slur while commentating. He also never apologised for it.

Alex, one of the four Brits on the grid but who drives under the Thai flag, has said that the commentators only call him British born when he does well. He was completely excluded from the Silverstone publicity about the home crowd heroes, whereas George, Lewis & Lando were heralded, not only on race weekend, but for weeks leading up to it.

Alex's statement also reminded me of this Richard Harris quote, "When I'm in trouble, I'm an Irishman. When I turn in a good performance, I'm an Englishman." Genuinely, if I took a shot every time a British organisation/person claimed a talented Irish person was actually a Brit, I'd have died from alcohol poisoning years ago.

Hell, I see George wearing the poppy pin this weekend in the lead up to remembrance Sunday. Do you know the amount of shit James McClean gets every year because he refuses to wear one? And he has very valid reasons for choosing not to wear it, yet he's torn to shreds every year by not only random people on the Internet or on the streets but by commentators and the media too.

Because of how this sport became mainstream and because no one challenged Bernie Eccleston's monopoly on broadcasting rights back in the day (people were given the opportunity to buy a share of the broadcasting rights; the idiots said no), this sport has prioritised the British voice/perspective for decades. I know the other broadcasts are just as biased for their home team/drivers, but the British one is the biggest one, as it's the main broadcast for better and more often for the worst. It's the broadcast with the most reach and influence. Their bias has to be challenged eventually if this sport ever hopes to properly expand and grow. The British bias is so difficult to miss once you start noticing it.

[fingerless-glovez]

Cater being the only one in the Heartslabyul cast who isn't from the Queendom of Roses is something I think about way too much.

[pucksandpower]

Back on my Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Sebastian Vettel agenda.

[kaiserkeller]

KLAUS VOORMANN photographed by HARRY GOODWIN, c. 1967.

Photos courtesy of the BBC photo archive.

[finalfreakz]

my bitch bad as hell in dimly lit, shaky focus, iphone camera pictures AND professionally taken, good quality, red carpet pictures

[anyroads]

British people: these avocados must go they're past their prime please won't someone eat them

The avocados:

[f1-stuff]

British GP '24 // P7 in Quali

"I thought we were on for a positive result, but then, as the track started to dry up, we started losing competitiveness... I still think we didn't maximize the Q3 result, given the outlap issues we had with Fernando and Oscar, who were all three battling to get to the flag... But, yeah, I don't think we were on for a good result anyway."

[boarloved-art]

british/gameshow au but its the wens and their token wei..!!! ft wwx's HMV Cashier era pre-chase

bonus lil sketch under cut!

[seraphsfire]

im obsessed with neil newbon the Just Some Guy / Fey Creature energy he has, he dresses like a genderfluid cybergoth pajama model, has the body language of a tiny cat in the form of a 6'2 very large man, the bubbly energy of a middle school girl, the athletic skill of a stuntman, will say the smartest and sweetest and most heartbreaking shit and then 10 minutes later while he's gaming he'll accidentally take off a companion characters undies and flash everybody, wildshape his character into a cat, meow intermittently for 15 minutes and ur not quite sure if he realizes he's still doing it? Then he'll spin the strangest little story flirting with himself of two characters he made up and talking in the voices the whole time, remind you his half wood-elf is VERY stupid and very pansexual, and then leave? The minute i saw his first stream i was like FUCK i guess i'm keeping this guy huh. 10/10

[touchlikethesun]

the death of real people is never funny, but i do think it would be an objectively hilarious end to the british monarchy if every prominent member of the royal family just dropped dead or disappeared over the course of a few years, and they just decide it's too expensive to keep having coronations/funerals so they finally call it quits

[thankstothe]

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but the irony of Nico calling Max unprofessional is sending me so bad like sir there's an entire garage full of people, who were literally in the trenches trying to survive the Brocedes fallout while just doing their jobs, who might have a few things to say about your (& Lewis') level of professionalism at that time 😭✋️

[glitteringstardust]

♡ terry's chocolate orange - video by turdtwig

[lewishamiltonstuff]

So relevant for today's race.

[capitalisticveins]

hot take… i think porter LOVES treasure so desperately

The first person to love him in decades, i’d love Treasure too😭