#illegal mclaren

[landomeowrris]

"that mclaren is illegal." no it isn't. lando just has the skills. if ur driver has a skill issue just say that 🤷‍♀️

[bettyjames16]

GET THEIR ASS

https://x.com/brakeboosted/status/1835310512738910387

I'm sure there is something wrong with this car

So interesting. This, with the rear wing rotating under the force of the air essentially acts as a mini DRS by reducing drag compared to the Ferrari, for example where the rear wing is fixed and creates drag. It's very interesting because there IS precedent for this. FIA banned the Red Bull rear wing for essentially the same reasons back in 2021....if the FIA don't act, it seems they're ignoring their own precedent.

[thearchercore]

"we don't have a mini drs as an upgrade" oh he has no respect for that illegal mclaren he's so funny

[tetheredbysin]

just saw someone defend their favorite f1 driver with "well, the rules are the same for everyone".

my sweet summer child, no. it's the exact opposite. f1 is notorious for the rules not being the same for everyone.

[feraltwinkseb]

June 23, 2024 - Montmelo, Spain Source: MANAURE QUINTERO/AFP via Getty Images

[arieslost]

someone had to say it 🤷

[livetogether--diealone]

i can't belive i waited this long for rb to get the car wrong, for people to see max wasn't that good of a driver and he could not have beaten the lewis hamilton without a better car and cheating, for people to say he's too aggressive, for rb to be this close to the bottom feeder cars only to exchange that with lando norris in a rocketship and it's also a fucking mclaren

[slythereen]

mclaren: cheats

also mclaren: calling us out on cheating is psychological warfare and not cool 🙄

[hereforf1]

You mean to tell me the man who had a problem with his front wing is the man who wins by like a 20s margin??? The same man who was brushing walls??? Yeah, no. ILLEGAL CAR! 🗣🗣🗣🗣

[vroomvroomvroommf]

So we have 7 races and 3 sprints to go

Mclaren is p1 in WCC

Lando and Oscar both have 2 wins each

Lando is p2 @ 254 points and 59 points behind p1

Oscar is p4 @ 222 points (he only scored 97 in the full 2023 season)

Car is seemingly (I refuse to jinx) competitive at every track

Lando is tied with Max for most podium finishes (10)

If you had tried to tell me this is where we’d be in Bahrain this year i’d have never believed you. I criticize Mclaren a lot (and rightfully so) but the progress that has been made this year, let alone from Bahrain 2023 is astounding. While I fully believe that with better strategy and decision making Mclaren could’ve had p1 in the WCC much earlier and Lando (or Oscar tbh) wouldn’t just be having a shot at winning the WDC I have to give some credit where it is due. I cannot wait for 2025 🧡

[valyrfia]

who will win: illegal cars built by the most competent engineering teams in the world, or charles leclerc driving a red tractor

[thearchercore]

mclaren hiding their allegedly illegal rear wing in the garage. their front wing was deemed legal so ferrari made their own borderline illegal mclaren copy to catch up in singapore. fia has announced they are still investigating the mclaren cars...

oh the girls are fighting

[landotism]

lando norris. Part time f1 driver and full time cat 😼

[firstwefinish]

f1 twitter can in fact be a cesspool but seeing max say the only redeemable aspect of social media is that we have these clips from baku and can clearly see the mclaren rear wing moving under high speed and now multiple teams r raising further complaints bc it’s obviously illegal…. love that for us

[l1li4n]

i want everyone to know, i still haven't moved on.

(i was listening to this while looking at these btw. so y'all know where my mind was going)

[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 :) )