#fuck red bull though

[slutforpringles]

And I think he [Daniel] believed, and I think this was reiterated in conversations I understand he had with Red Bull chiefs, that if he finished on the podium in Singapore, if he won the Singapore Grand Prix, that seat's still his. They surely couldn't have got rid of him if he had been on the podium. And if he won the race, I think I was told by someone he asked them [Red Bull], what if I win Singapore, then someone joked you'd be in the Red Bull car replacing Sergio.

Jonathan Noble speaking on the James Allen on F1 podcast

Jonathan Noble's recounting of the events surrounding Red Bull unceremoniously and unexpectedly dropping Daniel in Singapore has been some of the most obvious Red Bull sponsored journalism on the topic. BUT if there is even a grain of truth to this, then it just reiterates how absolutely ridiculous and out of line with reality Red Bull's expectations of Daniel were for him to show he 'deserved' the RBR seat while driving a shitbox AT/VCarb. Getting either a podium or a win in this year's VCarb is so out of this world ridiculous it is laughable - in the same way that Helmet Marko remarking that only Daniel's results in Mexico (P4, P7) and the Miami sprint (P4) (the team's highest of each season, respectively) were the only 'acceptable' results that demonstrated performance warranting a promotion. HE'S DRIVING A M*THERFUCKING VCARB YOU CORPSE.

[p6to]

What the fuck is going on?

I was in the process of typing out several essays worth of thoughts in the tags of @tsarinablogs's lestappen 2024 manifesto, because what else is new. Since I am uncannily similar to Max in all aspects of his public persona (except his driving abilities and his apparent need to come out as bisexual in every third interview), including the 'tism allegations and the certified "parent has a very weird sense of seeing their child as their own person" experience, in this essay I will be yapping about Screwderia Ferrari, shady business and of course: Charles Leclerc.

Charles has given his life and a large part of his career in f1 to Ferrari, leading to six wins, including his own home race Monaco and Ferrari's home race Monza, but also ten gazillion strategy fuck ups and now a (likely) second failed championship battle.

How much is too much for a person to handle?

Ferrari has not won a championship since Kimi Räikkönen in 2007. That much was known when Charles went through the ranks in the Ferrari Driver Academy, so he knew they were not suddenly going to dominate the way Red Bull did the last few years and Mercedes before them. He still had faith in them, made promises about his achievements to his dying father when he must have known that they might be impossible to ever reach.

His devotion and his talent have made him into an (almost) religious figure to the tifosi. Charles Leclerc is Ferrari, and Ferrari is Charles Leclerc.

Or is it?

Time and time again, we have witnessed Charles getting fucked over in favour of his teammate (see "it looks like they're going to sacrifice Leclerc" - George, or the entirety of the SF-23, maybe even today). While a team principal and a good number of other employees were fired in 2022 because things were going horrible and Charles insisted on it, and things were looking better when competent personnel and even Lewis Hamilton were signed by Fred Vasseur, it seems like the actual problem is still there.

Based on what we saw with the Barcelona upgrades and Carlos' interviews, we may have to expect the car to be developed to suit Carlos' understeer-y preference once again, which is wild considering that he is a driver who is leaving at the end of the year, has been outperformed by Charles pretty consistently over the time they were teammates, and has shown very clearly (alone this season!) that he is (in the words of a friend) not driving for Ferrari but for Carlos.

How can it be that Charles has mechanical and technical problems every second race weekend, while his teammate does not, and not only does nobody from the team leadership say anything about it but they also let Carlos downplay Charles' very severe brake issues in Bahrain?

Silverstone has marked the third race this season where Charles did not score points due to either inherent issues of the car (tire warm up in qualifying), mechanical issues (engine), damage (front wing in Austria) AND very questionable strategy calls. Three races of the twelve that have passed is 25%, a figure that is much too high for any top team, let alone Ferrari who were very close to catching up to Red Bull in the WCC just four races ago.

Of course, problems in car development and maybe even a higher lack of reliability in mechanical parts can happen to any team. However, we will now come to the area where I see the biggest problem.

This entire triple header, Fred Vasseur has been giving unacceptable statements about BOTH of his drivers. In Barcelona, he downplayed the issue between Charles and Carlos at the start, positioning himself directly against the driver he should be supporting since he was objectively (data-supported) correct. In Austria, Sky Sports had to make him watch the moment Charles sustained the damage to his front wing, because he could not be bothered to watch it during the actual race.

And now in Silverstone, he blamed both Carlos and Charles for not performing miracles with this shitshow of a tractor during qualifying, let his drivers be fed different information regarding the incoming rain leading to one of them making the wrong tire choice, ruining his race, and then had the audacity to lie about that and Charles position during this incident, making it look like he was still behind Lance when he had actually already overtaken him and was now behind Carlos after starting four places behind him, EVEN THOUGH there were radio transcripts and of course the fucking broadcast that showed the truth.

Us Chirlies have to preface our posts about conspiracy theories with statements about tinfoil hats and "for legal reasons this is a joke", but I will not do this here.

I fully believe that there is shady business going on at Ferrari, including but not limited to potential blackmailing, software sabotage and bribery. I will not pin these onto specific people/groups, because there are too many options. I also think that there is shady business going on at every team, but not to this extent.

The way things are going, with Charles already being on an actually not so subtle PR warpath, I expect some form of news in the next three weeks, including either announcements about people being fired or a Charles-to-Red Bull announcement, although Charles to Mercedes would not surprise me either.

Merc fans joined in on criticising Fred yesterday, and hardcore Max fans are saying Charles should leave Ferrari and join Max at Red Bull. This issue has breached containment, as it should.

Either things are changing at Ferrari or Charles will be exchanging Ferrari for a different team. There is no other solution.

(You have made it to the bottom of this yap-fest. Congratulations! I wish you a very nice day/week/month/year/life without Ferrari-like fuck ups and thank you for reading my stuff :) )

[cassndra93]

Well....

That race was definitely something

Don't like what the something was though

[vroom-vrooms]

I honest to god don’t know what to say

[maxfurshtappanleclair]

I know this should be no surprise but still, what the fuck

[nerdyfangirlingbooks]

I've had a stupid merlin au idea stuck in my head for days now and I know I'll never get around to writing it the way I want it written but I kinda wanna try anyway even though I am 100% of the target audience

[fiveredlights]

woke up with my eye twitching and i now know why red bull count your fucking minutes

[painandalsosuffering]

digital footprint goes crazy

[dykeofmisfortune]

i need more red bull. red bull save me

[blamemma]

nahhhh not the team who have a mind mental health charity partnership and a driver who actively and openly talks about mental health support doing political PR with a man who severely underfunded mental health services in the uk and has consistently played a hand in tory upheaval across the poorest parts of the country....all for the right price though mclaren?

[slutforpringles]

Every single detail that emerges about this entire situation only continues to make Red Bull look worse and worse 😌😤. But I do really love that last line calling out Horner's complete bullshit story about him backing Daniel throughout the season 💅🏻

via: ‘Told me a year ago’: Red Bull promise proof Ricciardo never stood a chance

[apr1lias]

I absolutely hate Red Bull but I have to say it is genuine insanity that anyone in the company is allowing the Horner case to go on like this and is willing to allow potentially it’s biggest asset and redeeming quality (really don’t wanna describe Max like that but in the sense of this argument he basically is) to leave because of it. I’m sorry how is anyone willing to let a 3 time champion go because they wanna protect someone who has committed sexual misconduct and has severely abused his power.

Red Bull is literally imploding and while I’m partially glad that they’re getting what’s been coming because of the god awful people they have within that team (namely Horner and Marko) it is so upsetting that it takes a woman basically being forced out of her job for anything to happen, and even then it’s hard to say that the actions of those against CH are even because they want to support the woman and not for certain people’s own gains within the team. Just a truly awful situation all around and I hate every single person who has allowed this to happen.

[wingsmadeforflying]

Reg gets caffeine heart rate spikes from coffee. They make him feel like he's going to explode, so he hates it. He's a tea girlie.

However he'll drink 20 Monsters in a day. Sirius is appalled. Reg says it tastes better and actually keeps him awake.

[hensunrik]

There's no way we are witnessing this right now

[bitchkay]

Walking arround an art festival downtown in the middle of the night both drunk and high as shit was lowkey fun

Wouldn't recommend tho

[ricknonsence]

okay i woke up and drank a celsius. it's also another free day so i wanna go through tumblr and then hopefully draw,,,,,,