#formula 1 quotes

[scatteredlight1]

"Well, what would you expect. I've gone out of the race. Obviously Filipe is in a quicker car, and he's driving... he was on with a bit more top speed, but you've gotta... you've gotta fight someone, you can't just ram into the side of them. You know, I know I screwed up in the same way with Alex last year, and I took full responsibility for it, and I would expect Felipe to do the same. If he doesn't, I'm going to kick a few colours of shit out of the little bastard." ~ David Coulthard, Australian GP, 2008

[lavienndr]

Lighting up the track, lighting up the sky.

[vroom--vrooming]

Ollie: Please don't be mad, but I think I accidentally killed someone *completely terrified*

Seb: I am really disappointed in you. I didn't raise you to be like this.

Lewis: We will go to the police and you will confess everything

Franco: I killed someone and...

Fernando: Say no more. Get the shovel and we will go take care of the body

Checo: Max and I will keep an eye out in case the police shows up

Yuki: I have a body bag if you want to borrow

Franco:....ok

[versatancore]

*charles just passing by*

pierre : i'm not gay but damn.

lewis : it's not gay to compliment another man bro it's okay.

max : to be honest, i'd fuck him.

george : see now? that's gay.

[ao3lestappeninchident]

Max: are you

Yuki: Fucking

Max: kidding me. You

Yuki: FUCKING.

Max: idiot

Checo:. what was that..?

Yuki: FIA banned Max from swearing, so I volunteered to help him out.

Daniel: I think you just like saying the f word.

Yuki: That doesn’t make my job any less important.

[glysraya]

Ferrari: You have been observing Oliver Bearman for 48 hours now, what have you discovered?

Charles: People grow to love him very easily

Ferrari: …example?

Charles, holding back tears: Me

[countingstars-17]

three time world champion, i don't have to change anything

[kolbalissh]

f1 groupchat core

[predestined-one16]

Charles in an announcing voice: me and Max... are dating!

Lando and whole grid: yeah, we've known for ages.

Max: wdym? We started dating yesterday.

Lando: ...

Lando: then the fuck were you doing before that😭

[dreamysletters]

F1 drivers as text messages pt.3

[forzaleclove]

*Leo jumping and running around*

Charles: sometimes I wonder what it would've been like if I had a cat

*Oscar sleeping peacefully on the couch*

Charles: ...I'm adopting this one

[lavienndr]

All you need is a little faith, trust, and a formula 1 car to drive.

[vroom--vrooming]

Lando: Is it still considered a murder if I was provoked?

Carlos: Yes

Lando: So...I asked around and it is murder

Max: You got to be fucking kidding me *looking down at the dead body* Did you ask about the provoked thing?

Lando: Still a murder

[nothing-just-an-incorrect-quote]

Lando: When I was your age-

Oscar, mocking Lando: When I was your height.

Lando:

Lando: Listen here you little shit-

[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.

[glysraya]

Yuki: Fuck this!

Everyone: *Horrified gasping*

Max: Look, I feel the same, but apparently, we can't be shouting that