#FIRST SEB THEN LEWIS

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”- Oscar Wilde.

[versatancore]

lewis : you know that you can't keep adopting every driver on the grid, right?

sebastian : SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH BEFORE I ADOPT YOU TOO.

lewis : I AM OLDER THAN YOU??

sebastian : i meant it when i said it. *puts the papers in front of him* now, sign here.

[livetogether--diealone]

missing whatever was happening with them on any podium, or any situation tbh

[rb9]

so i’ve done the math. charlie outscores max by 11 points every race and outscores lando by 3 points every race, charles will be champion.

so we get lec p1 + fastest lap, ham p2 bc he deserves it, and ver p3 bc i would sell my soul for lec ham ver podiums (and as long as charles has fastest lap it’s still an 11 point difference) FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON WE CAN GET CHARLES LECLERC WDC 2024 🏁🏎️💨🏆🥇

[skitskatdacat63]

Mark promoting the Sebmarkson agenda 😏

[blorbocedes]

I don't think people realise just how impressive lewis hamilton's rookie season was....... like yes he got more testing than rookies do now, and lucked into a winning car, but he got POLE and WON his sixth ever race and PODIUMED his very FIRST race, and equalled TWO WORLD CHAMPION fernando alonso in the same car. to the point fucking crashgate happened next year.

Kimi won the championship with 110 points.

Lewis and Fernando scored 109.

THEE rookie debut of all time, and then he won the championship the next year. yes he had the right car, but we're also never going to see a rookie like that again.

[ghostwnby]

Looks like we have yet another addition to the Hamilton-Vettel grid family 😭💕

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THE BEGINNING

[alexjcrowley]

Hey I just want to know something: am I the stupidest person on the planet or the f1 fandom is built differently?

Everytime I go on a social media to look up f1 content I see cute/horny (let's be honest) edits and everybody calling the drivers pookie or making memes. And that's alright, I guess.

I most definitely know that a bunch of (mostly white) men in a very competitive male-dominated sport rooted more than many others in capitalism are probably going to have scandals around them. I am not that dumb. I also know that because probably none of them is scandal-free and people who get crushes/hyperfixation on them just learn to live with them, but I didn't think they just...ignored them? Swept them under the rug? Let me explain.

When I so much as stumble on a TikTok with a song by The 1975 or McCafferty- or hell even Lovejoy recently- I see comments flooding with "bUt DoN't YoU kNoW tHeY'rE pRoBlEmAtIC?". Same happened with content about cinema or books. And on Tumblr happens less but still happens. As soon as you mention something that has ties with sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. people will soon point it out to you. Maybe because they're some of those people with the obsession of only consuming "morally pure" content, maybe they genuinely want to inform you, maybe they fucking hate that song/book/movie and want to give YOU a reason to dislike it.

But can someone tell me if I'm fucking dumb and I managed to stumble in the wrong part of instagram/tumblr/TikTok or NOBODY fucking talks about the shit some drivers have done? Because I am stumbling on a LOT of shit done by drivers I really liked lately even though I have been interested in F1 for a while now. Not too long, but enough that I think I would have heard some stuff.

Like, if I spent like 6 months on the hashtag of Guy Who Drives, why am I now finding out that they said something really discriminatory? I am just confused, I simply thought it would have popped out sooner, but apparently it was buried under 500+ posts about their abs? Like what?

I get that anyway it's not like you can cancel a driver, no matter what shit they say they'll probably still going to be racing the next weekend, but why people don't talk about it? Was my socials' fault for showing me horny posts everytime I simply looked up the name of a guy or do people don't talk about this stuff in the f1 community because "what are you gonna do anyway"?

I am leaning towards the second option because there are a few things that happened while I was already watching f1 (not in order: Lando's comments about, Trump, Hornergate, most drivers saying Hornergate was just noise) and at first people were talking about it but then they just...stopped? Like, I don't know, personally the words of disenterest many drivers expressed about Hornergate made me change my opinion about them at least a little and people seemed so outraged at first but now...it's like it never happened. Everybody back thirsting on main for Ricciardo, Norris, etc.

Genuine question, is the general response of the f1 community to these behaviours "forgive and forget in time of the next gp"? Am I missing something? I don't think they should be crucified but why I have not seen more people talking about this stuff? The "serious sport bunch" seems to be uninterested in "gossip" or whatever happens outsid the tracks, the good old fashioned fandom is writing fanfiction/making edits/funny posts, who keeps tracks of this stuff?

I have never been interested in a sport before. In the artistic world (cinema, literature, etc.) some scandals can get you out of a job and a long lasting hatred from the community. In motorsports, because the success of a driver does not depend from his fans' engagement but can be "objectively proved" by results and victories, do people just...make peace with the fact that some athletes are pieces of shit?

I want to specify it one more time, I am NOT saying LET'S CANCEL ALL THE DRIVERS AND BOO THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING QRONG AT SOME POINT, I am asking:

how do you deal when an athlete you cheer for does something really fucked up, and you know other athletes in the same field are no saints?

[i44rise]

he was soooo locked in. he knew it was his race to win. love seeing lewis like this again. let's get the remaining races, LH ♡

[feraltwinkseb]

April 16, 2011 - Shanghai, China

Source: Clive Mason/Getty Images AsiaPac

[nixanemark]

Found an insane stat (to me), Oscar Piastri is 5th of all time drivers scoring the highest points average per race. In his SECOND season.

[jensonsbuttons]

gonna watch turkey 2020 to feel something

[livetogether--diealone]

"Big smile Charles, for Seb"

[milflewis]

hello so i’ve been thinking about slagclaren and their inability to communicate but still that innate feeling of trust and companionship and comfort in each others presence. or something

[alo-officialgf]

lewis hamilton, king of my heart 🥹