#landogate

[blorbocedes]

what's your take on the latest landogate

I didn't even know there was one until I saw people shading it on the dash rofl

my take is the same as when lewis said last qatar when he retired after lap 1 and other drivers talked about heat exhaustion and literally fainting in the car in heatstroke temps and Lewis was like "I don't want the sport to become Too Soft we are #extreme athletes I don't want them to make it easier, bring back the Real Men of the 80s". like brother you were not in their car, you don't know the conditions they faced. It's classic sports macho chauvinism. these people are not rational actors when it comes to their mortality, max raced with a concussion in 2021, carlos wanted to race immediately after his appendix surgery, half the grid didn't want the halo, a literal life saving innovation, because they thought it was ugly. wrt norris I'm not particularly surprised, I thought it was a bitchy thing to say lol

ppl r mad at lando and that's fair, they're completely in their right to not like him/find him spoiled etc. ppl always want a non PR trained driver until they actually are 💀 ppl r assholes sometimes. sometimes you say something unkind when talking to a friend (and shout-out to fewtrell for calling him out), only they happened to be live and so it gets a million eyeballs on it and he should've checked himself. and now he'll get a spanking on socials about it, and the landogate outrage cycle continues

[formulapisces]

babe wake up new landogate just dropped

[mclwcc]

doing research for the landogate doc and reminiscing about how i took that goddamn sympathy article and literally annotated it like its a dickinson, to prove that lando DID say those quotes. im so insane i even surprise myself

[icame-isaw-iwentbackhome]

Do u guys remember that time on fblr when every few weeks you would come onto this site and there would be a new landogate?!!?

cos wtf was that about?

[p1tstop]

i personally think he deserves a landogate for not liking chocolate croissants

he didn’t eat the chocolatine? guillotine.

[kirasworldofwords]

If anyone has a link to the newest Landogate, lmk pls 👀

[ln4wins]

just a boy and his sparkling water

[mcmuppet]

sorry ppl are mad at lando because he *checks notes* made a joke about how lewis has never spent races fighting for p18 p19 p20 ? okokokokokokokokokokokok

[blorbocedes]

there's a new landogate bc lando referred to checo as seb vettel after he spun off in a red bull in canada a la seb 2011. like multimillionaire who showers twice a month to save the planet but has no problem riding on jets fans are going absolutely rabid it's hilarious

Wrong! everybody knows seb swam to japan

[formulapisces]

Goddammit what did he do this time 😭

nothing 😭 some people are just mad he broke maxs trophy + complained about lapped cars

[mclwcc]

i remember when people were like “would u feel the same way if another driver said that abt lando??” like if it's true, yes. i wasn't blaming oscar when lando fucked it in quali this year, i was like my guy, can u get your shit together. u are better than this wtf are u doing. which is largely the frustration lando felt with daniel in many of his interviews. maybe not that exact one but overall he seemed to believe daniel was better than his performance indicated.

i mean yeah. bar maybe (as u mentioned) qatar lando fans cant really relate fully to the daniel situation but as a checo stan i know what its like to support a flop driver. and i'm not about to throw a fit over ppl saying he's not getting everything out of the car. because it's true and he's not

but i think fundamentally what people keep forgetting about those quotes is they were published in MAY. in MAY 2021 we were BARELY four races in, and within the article lando was acknowledging the fact that it would probably take some time for daniel to get used to the car. yes the sympathy thing resurfaced in august 2022 and then, with the added context of daniel's repeatedly spoken-about mental struggles and the dwindling of his hope of more f1 success after mcl sacked him, maybe i can see people thinking its a bit unnecessarily cruel. but again. lando had said it. at the beginning of 2021. its so normal to want your teammate to help you in your strategies and wheel to wheels by being there right behind you (like lando himself was able to do for daniel come monza)

idk the worst ive seen other drivers comment abt lando was george yapping away about how lando must not be serious enough abt f1 because sometimes he does fun things in his free time and like. renee descartes who give a shit

[mistressemmedi]

I'm not liking this whole trend of silly season taking place before the racing has even begun. What am I supposed to do for the rest of the year?

[brakingpoint]

Im new to F1, what problematic things has Lando Norris done?

getting pole at the 2024 spanish grand prix

[formulaonedirection]

Anyway remember the first time he wore a thobe and then went on the sand dunes with a girl who posted a tiktok of herself in a hotel room with a mclaren shirt hanging on the door with I NEED A BIG BOY as the background music. What a year 🍻

[kirasworldofwords]

Marilou is a horrible person as well. There’s a thread of her on Twitter/X of her being a Zionist as well as being in contact with Zionists.

There’s also been reports of her being a mean girl (at the Canadian GP, during the BOSS event, she was spotted with her friend mocking and making fun of fans at the event acting very judgemental) along with her allegedly making fun of someone’s weight.

Lance himself, it’s tricky, although I do feel bad for him, he also has dated an IOF(?) solider in Dian Schwartz.

Honestly so so glad she's away from him now. Perhaps he'll see the light soon...? I'm being carefully hopeful here. Because knowing what I know, the drama about Kelly and Max, something with Carlos, many things with Lando... I'm starting to get trust issues for real, lmao.

Still kinda hopeful of course, it'd be a shame otherwise.

[graveltrip]

i don't think it's the end of the world that lando broke the trophy, but i wish certain motorsport accounts, fans and especially lando, himself handled the situation with a bit more sensitivity, because even if you think the hungarian gp trophy is an ugly, kitsch urne, it's still a pretty expensive art piece from a culturally significant hungarian brand, made with months of hard work, it deserves a bit more respect than a random cup you accidentally broke while you were gaming.