#i love how he loves carlos

[sunny-sainz]

lando talking about carlos’s move to williams 😭😭😭

“i don’t know what the plans are. honestly the easy one is just to say redbull. he should have gone there. in my eyes obviously i know carlos more than that i know checo. carlos deserves a lot he’s just one of the best drivers in F1, he’s proving that countless times. i am a good friend of him, you know. i am happy for him that he’s in F1, i am happy that he got a drive and that he can try bring williams back up and him partering alex i think it would be good for F1. so that’s a good thing, but i am sure a lot of people would have loved to say that he should have gone to redbull but that’s not my decision to make.”

[alexturntable]

Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc do the BEST ever SkyPad ❤️

[f1-stuff]

Did carlos also used the friend word? Do you know when?

Hi, so I actually compiled some links mostly for myself, but also for you and anyone else interested. See below the cut!

Times Charles has referred to Carlos as a "friend":

'He has obviously become a friend.'

‘We were already good friends before we joined Ferrari.'

'We have a very special relationship. I mean, we are obviously friends outside the track as well. We are sharing good moments. We spend so much time - I mean, I see Carlos more than my own family...'

'He's a super nice guy, he's super easy to get on with and, uh- straight away we understood that we had a lot of interest outside racing in common. And now I can call him a friend, outside of racing.' (newest instance, at the end of their teammate era...)

Times Carlos has referred to Charles as a "friend":

'My teammate and I are friends off the track, we get along very well and we have a very good relationship. And we make a very good team. I think that if there is something that worked and works in Ferrari, it is the two drivers...' (translated from Spanish)

'We've been teammates for four years. There's been barely any situation where we've had a contact, or we had a misunderstanding. And even if we've had them, we've always moved on and we've always remained friends and had a really good relationship." (at the end of their teammate era...)

This is just what I could track down, but if anyone knows of others let me know!

Carlos has spoken about how he and charles get along very well, but that it's hard for him (and other drivers) to truly be friends with their teammates bc they're always so competitive with each other, and there's so much pressure to beat one another. ("Friend is a strong word that I don’t like using for anything or anyone.") And combine that with what we know about how, as a kid, he was surprised by other kids he thought were his friends running him off track and out of the race, we can see how much weight he applies to the 'friend' label.

To Carlos, I think a 'friend' is someone that a part of his brain would hesitate to race too hard against, and he can't let that happen with his teammate, who he wants and needs to beat more than anyone. He can afford to maybe leave Lando or Alonso a little more space on track bc he values his relationship with them as friends, and they're not currently his teammates. But he can't let himself have that relationship with Charles, or, for that matter, Alex next season.

Will he be able to say that he and Charles are friends more readily next year when they aren't teammates any longer? I think so. That was certainly the case with Lando. But I also think his relationship with Lando was a bit different - Lando was almost like a little brother to him. With Charles, he's more firmly a peer, and I think that hyper-competitiveness between them may always linger, right up until they aren't racing eo anymore, maybe especially bc their partnership was cut short before either could win a championship as teammates.

Time will tell, but it's clear that they already view their time together very fondly. They've spoken plainly about 'hating each other' inside the helmet when they've battled and disagreed, but that they always make up after two minutes. It's beautiful that they can always come back to the respect they have for one another. It's a unique relationship, and I look forward to seeing how it evolves in the years to come. ❤️

[guardian-angle22]

re-watching tarlos in 5.07 and dying at how Carlos is so amused at the owen vs. enzo dick measuring contest... when TK shoots him a little glare, he just kind of vaguely winks and smirks back at him.

then later when Owen asks him for his opinion, you can see he's still kind of amused by it all... but he takes one look at TK's face, reads his expression/body language and realizes, 'okay maybe now is not the time to make the joke that I'd like to make.'

[devilsainz]

He's so endearing 💖

[eirianerisdar]

As a Chinese person from Hong Kong I'm going to officially say this absolutely blows my mind. Here's why.

In the video, Charles and Carlos were plainly copying calligraphy stroke-by-stroke from a large image in front of them. What makes Carlos' attempt so impressive is that he's effectively gotten nearly all the proportions, starting and ending brush pressures and tail-offs, and the structure right. It's not perfect. But it's damn well near perfect.

Compare it to Charles': Charles didn't do a bad job at all, and has successfully copied many of the requisite features, but he has seen each stroke as a line, as many people who write Chinese characters with ballpoint pens do nowadays - point A to point B, with natural loss of shape and flow in between. It's not necessarily a problem. Charles is writing the characters. But interestingly, Carlos isn't writing at all.

On rewinding the video you see why Carlos' was shaped so perfectly. He doesn't know Chinese. He doesn't know anything about stroke order, or speed. But he knows detail.

If you look at his hands as he writes he separated each stroke into a shape. Then he did his level best to recreate each shape as carefully as he could by pressing the brush until he could see it formed the right thickness of the line.

He didn't write, like Charles did. He painted.

If this is how good Carlos is at copying a language he does not know I wonder how amazing he would be at painting if he actually spent time to learn.

[channelslam]

carlos cheesing about how jaime asked for the exact same haircut as him when he went to victorbarber5 😭😭😭

[carcarpodium]

"We chose you once and we would do it 55 million times more"

this is so beautiful, grada 55 you'll always have my heart ♡

[fairylando]

oh my versainz...

[sunny-sainz]

Lando letting his intrusive thoughts win there

[alexturntable]

He's so excited ❤️- Spanish GP drivers' parade - 23 June 2024

[wafflesrisa]

The wholesomeness rating of an F1 driver teammate pairing has an inverse correlation to Nico Rosberg’s ability to traumasplain it. In this essay I will -

[guardian-angle22]

911: Lone Star | TK & Jonah

[jerswayman]

i think we all know it's you who never wants to leave brando

[cada4us]

animal lover carlos

[pia55tri]

wide awake for carcar teammates au... oscar finds that he doesn't actually mind carlos as a teammate. maybe in a different world, where they'd be in different colours, they would be strangers. but in this one, they're...good. it's hard to dislike someone who takes their job very seriously, and also always goes out of his way to bully a smile onto oscar's face. it's hard to dislike someone who was dnf'd because of a bad collision but still comes over to celebrate his teammate's podium with a sincere congratulations and a warm hug. if only he didn't like to hold oscar around the waist so often... or tug gently on his hair... or call him my love like it should mean something...