#driver mental

[vapelomundo]

Pablo Marçal Ensina [[ Vitimismo ]] Driver Mental Mindset

[aq2003]

imagine you need to get away from the house and your responsibilities for a hot second and there's this bus driver/tour guide you meet and he invites you on a one-time big sightseeing trip (what the bus driver is telling himself. don't worry about that). and at first you think it's like a date and he's into you but this dries up maybe half a day in when the sightseeing goes wrong and he starts angsting about his dead girlfriend. anyway the trip gets extended and he's still the worst most disappointing tour guide in the world so you do the emotional equivalent of poking at him with a stick and asking what the hell is wrong with him. bus driver relents and reveals that his whole family is dead and he's been trying to avoid thinking about it by being a bus driver. you listen to him as he talks about how nice his town was before it exploded and you suddenly realize that the bus driver is furiously grieving/homesick/depressed and you're like the only thing stopping him from driving off a cliff and into the sea. especially bc the next day you run into the mafia and the bus driver starts screaming at them to kill him. then he hugs an electric fence. and then he tells you to take the bus keys and leave him and screams at the mafia to kill him again. and like this is so obviously horrific but what can you do besides stay with him on more sightseeing trips and hope you're doing enough to keep him alive. bc one of the responsibilities you ducked from was your job of saving people and this stupid fucking bus driver is a person in need of saving so bad. even if he starts shutting down when he manages to catch that you're directly onto how unstable he is. anyway, on an unrelated note, ten and martha from hit tv show doctor who,

[silentreigns]

James Vowels portrayed himself as being a compassionate TP but he is as cutthroat as the rest of them. Idk why I was fooled into thinking that Williams will genuinely try and nurture talent. I understand that Logan hasn't really challenged Alex. And maybe this is just me being biased towards feelings over facts, but I really do feel for Logan. I'd hate to show a lot of progress and improve in tricky conditions just for reports to come out he was trying to replace me mid-season. Way to build up someone's self-esteem as a driver 🤥

[pucksandpower]

I know Formula 1 is a business but have they considered that I’m attached to drivers and when bad things happen to my favorites I want to cry?

[lunarprophetuwu]

Mental health this, mental health that. Ya’ll seem fine saying that Checo has Cartel connections and wishing him dead (No, he does not have cartel connections). Ya’ll are absolutely okay with calling Alex a ladyboy (No, he’s not and gender shouldn't matter to ya’ll. Besides if you’re going to say this type of shit say it at Sukhumvit 11 and I’ll be waiting to see your face on national news). You guys keep bringing up Max’s childhood and how he got abuse by his father for laughs (Disgusting). Being very racist to Zhou and all of China and people with Chinese heritage in general (No, we don’t eat dogs and cats). All the shit that was said about Lance (He got money and you don’t. Cry harder). Daniel McLaren saga that were taken as a joke for some group of people (Eating disorders shouldn’t be taken lightly.) Racist shit said to Lewis (People are people no matter the skin color).

This is just some examples that I personally encountered. If you really respect drivers mental health then you shouldn’t use it (mental health) when it is only convenient for you to push your agendas. It’s not “Mental health matters but, except, or, when it comes to”. It’s “Mental health matters period,”

Thank you for reading.

[race-week]

Are we ever going to get to a point in this sport where a driver can discuss mental health issues and not be ridiculed for it, or called weak?

Every time a driver has spoken out about their mental health issues, yes there has been some support but the majority of responses seem to be people taking the piss, it happened to JEV, Bottas, Rosberg, Ricciardo, among others.

If someone mentions an issue, they aren’t doing it to garner sympathy, they aren’t weak for bringing it up, and keeping this mentality is just going to prevent people, men and boys particularly, from speaking up about their issues

[scaryl3gs]

What do you mean Logan was "very unhappy" during these past few months???

[papayafiles]

every other formula 1 driver trying to act all tough and cool like "i don't get nervous i have a killer instinct winner's mentality cold and ruthless" and then you have the 2019 rookies going well actually 🤓 lol. anyone who says they don't get anxious is lying. we're all humans who are affected by emotions and past races and general life stuff. we all have our own ways of dealing with it all. actually, mental health! and this is why i love them most.

[f1-disaster-bi]

Everyone wants to talk about mental health until someone actually does, and then they use it to attack the person.

It's disgusting that in this day and age, Lando can't be open about his mental health and coping with the pressures of F1 without people attacking him.

If you support mental health for everyone and men speaking out about mental health but attack Lando for being open about his issues, then you can, rightfully, go to hell and stay there.

[brain-works]

after seeing the way some of you discuss mental health in relation to Lando, I’ve lost a lot of respect for some fans and drivers. having mental health struggles does not make you weak, and you are not superior for having less visible battles.

[xo-myloves]

Guys… I’m fucking jealous because what…. WHATS UP WITH THESE LUCKY PRETTY CHICKS GETTING WITH AXL BECAYSE PLEASE GIVE ME A CHANCE I SWEAR ILL DO WHATEVER ABHSJSJXJDJDJCJDJJDJDND

(totally not crashing out)

[vapelomundo]

Pablo Marçal Ensina [[ Dinheiro ]]

[aq2003]

really love how throughout a lot of smith and jones martha is really skeptical and apprehensive towards ten (+ one of my favorite exchanges between them - "what, people call you 'the doctor'?" "yeah?" "well, i'm not. far as i'm concerned, you've got to earn that title."), not taking everything he says at face value, even doubting the fact he's an alien until over halfway through the episode.. And like. i really truly think the thing that wins her over isn't him kissing her or any of the other insane mixed messages he manages to send, it's this scene here, where he /earns that title/ in her eyes:

(+ david's bit in the commentary, where he says: "[the doctor] has actually sacrificed himself, and - i would say, that that final act of selflessness is what finally, eventually, welds martha to him. [...] and she now returns it. she returns that act of selflessness.")

this is what their relationship is built on. it isn't about martha being the second-best replacement to rose or a rebound or whatever. bc it isn't really about rose. it's about doctor-in-training martha meeting someone (quite literally, "the doctor") whose ideals she aspires to, and doing her best to be the same person to him as he is to everyone else. it's about ten in return admiring her intelligence and inquisitiveness and how she cares for human life, recovering his compassion, letting himself lean on her for support - and then remembering at the most inopportune moments that he's supposed to not need anyone and be on his own forever. And around in their little nightmare loop they go where they save each other over and over until one of them breaks

i've seen ppl look at martha and go "why she does she admire/why is she so in love with ten if he acts like that to her?" or something along those lines and like. it's not just the fact she's in love with him (in fact i'd argue she actively tries to push it aside post-gridlock). it's the fact that she knows he's the kind of person to put everyone else's lives/well-being over his own. she trusts him to save her when she's in trouble even though it's been like two days at most that they've known one another bc she recognizes that same "deep all-encompassing drive to help others" in him. and she also recognizes, much much earlier than him, that he needs someone to save him, especially when he's unwilling to save himself. and yeah for a bit she thinks he returns her feelings and is just playing hard-to-get, but she realizes pretty early on that this probably isn't the case, and i think that realization fully solidifies here:

(this is when she's listening to ten talk abt gallifrey). And idk it might just be me but i think this expression isn't just her empathizing with his loss. it's also guilt, for wanting something from him that he's clearly unable to give when he's wracked with so much grief. (and you see it in the next episode, where tallulah asks if they're together and martha says for certain that they're not, and that he doesn't know about her feelings for him. she keeps everything to herself bc she now knows that when he shut her flirting down at the end of 3x01 it was the genuine reaction of someone who a) isn't interested and b) is scared of getting close with someone else again)

freema described their dynamic as "she's keener than him" and i think about this all the time. martha doesn't really take what ten throws at her. what she does instead is constantly poke holes in his already-failing front of "i will show someone the wonders of the universe so i can ignore what is wrong with me". what she does is stand up and fight him when he tries to go off on his own. what she does is put aside her well-being in favor of helping someone - just like what she saw him do for the people in the hospital when they first met. tldr, that's the doctor and his doctor and rip martha you would've loved who's gonna save u now by rina sawayama

[carcarpodium]

are you fucking kidding me? this is a bit hypocritical isn’t it?

this isn’t against her even tho i don’t like her at all (not for being a max fan, she’s tweeted shady things about carlos before and she’s a lestappie) and of course this isn’t against max, this is against those toxic max fans and the ppl from the redline team (i think it’s called ???) lando had to leave social media and had to stop streaming bc of all the hate he gets but it’s ok bc it’s lando and he’s annoying etc etc and then the redline team (?) can make a meme about it in a mental health care race and it should be funny?? honestly, fuck off.

and i really hope max fans and any driver fans don’t lose those streams/social media interactions like we did with lando bc i know how it hurts but yeah, fuck off

[keepthedelta]

the worst part of this james vowles nonsense is that people are now left thinking that toto wolff is a competent leader with good interpersonal skills and not a raging austrian asshole carried by niki lauda, and a handful of genuinely great drivers and engineers, many of whom he has psychologically harmed through his bullshit "management" to the extent that multiple employees have developed serious medical conditions

[things-methinks]

Lando Norris does not have a champion's mentality and it's going to deteriorate his passion for this sport in the long term, maybe even make him lose chances of achievement. At a gap of 62 points he has already crumbled under pressure and is surrounded by doom and gloom in his head.

Max said that both championships aren't a possibility at this point in time, and Norris dismissed Max's concerns and essentially said that "even if I win every race, he's [Max] is still in a better position". While that is certainly true, Max hasn't won a GP since Barcelona, McLaren has had a rocketship longer than that, it is entirely on the team to not snatch a golden opportunity.

Charles Leclerc, who got lapped in 3 out of 4 races, was still optimistic about winning both the WDC and WCC. Even before he won at Monza. His difference to Max is 86 points, but you still see that he's ready to fight for the title even if it might be a little unrealistic. The 2024 season has really shown why you need the fastest driver, even if you don't have the fastest car. Oscar has shown more resilience and hunger than his senior, who has 4+ years more experience in F1. Simply on logistics, McLaren and Lando could take the wins this year, but it will never be an earned victory, as simple as that.