#lestappen triple header 2024

[valyrfia]

if i’d read in a fic that charles doesn’t want max to do badly and lose the wdc even if it means charles himself wins the wdc i’d click off because it’s ooc and yet hear we are….in real life….with charles having said exactly that on international tv…

[thearchercore]

max be like

cons: the entire race was shit. strategy was shit. overtaking was shit. the car was shit.

pros: made charlie laugh 😄😄😄

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Charles "I stand by my cancelled wife" Leclerc

[dittaturamonegasca]

anyway max looking so happy in the cool down room after charles' victory is def one of us

[monacodive]

"so you're saying you'd do ANYTHING for a charles win in monaco?"

[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 :) )

[chachavroomvroom]

Meme/thoughts/recaps masterlist

Looking for quality shitposting? Here’s three years of locally-sourced tomfoolery, classified by GP.

Mostly this is for my own archiving purposes!

Austin ‘22 🇺🇸:

Race recap

Interlagos ‘22 🇧🇷:

Max did not let Checo through

Race recap

…

Winter break ‘22-‘23

Another Lewis selfie hits the tl

Ferrari meme starter pack

Ferrari meme booster pack

DTS insanity

Charles’ questionable fashion choices

Alfa Romeo is Ferrari light

…

Saudi Arabia ‘23 🇸🇦:

Fernando’s p3 journey

Lestappen midfield date

Australia ‘23 🇦🇺:

Quali slay

Goddamn it

Race recap

Azerbaijan ‘23 🇦🇿:

Meme recap

Spain ‘23 🇪🇸:

Triple header from hell is over

Canadian ‘23 🇨🇦:

Live slug reaction

Lance points

Albon and his DRS train

Race recap

Austria ‘23 🇦🇹:

State of the Austrian GP

Charles winked at Max

Tifosi experience live

Monaco ‘23 🇲🇨 :

Charles releasing MON23

Dutch ‘23 🇳🇱:

Hopium

Singapore ‘23 🇸🇬:

George reporting for the slay duty

Japanese ‘23 🇯🇵:

Yearning for Seb hours

Qatar ‘23 🇶🇦:

George at the scene of the crime

Slayful chal post

No clear angle of charles congratulating max

Austin ‘23 🇺🇸:

Austin/Pain

Rip 1644

Mexico ‘23 🇲🇽:

Charles rawdogging the race

Brazil ‘23 🇧🇷 :

Penalties for everyone

Charles’ steering is gone

AAAAAAAAA

Vegas ‘23 🇺🇸:

Minor slay for the horse team

Free practice will not resume

Abu Dhabi ‘23 🇦🇪:

Quali demon Charles

…

Winter break ‘23-‘24

Overtake of the year win

Girlies of f1twt are fighting

Farewell Guenther

Farewell Guenther 2.0

Charles sledding adventures

Fred Vasseur devious moves (that day Lewis moved to Ferrari

Rookie nando strikes back

Charles’ gift of prophecy

DTS darth chal

Car launch

Slayful fireproofs

…

Australia ‘24 🇦🇺:

Nobody’s happy

Lecfosi/piastrination in the trenches

Charles so-so quali and bad luck

Japanese ‘24 🇯🇵:

Chacha’s fever dream

Yuki’s points

Charles’ raggedy mediums

China ‘24 🇨🇳:

We finally have the Chinese GP back

DRS train!

Lap 17 sprint

Miami ‘24 🇺🇸:

Max saw his life flashing

Lando drowning on the podium

Rest in pieces nowins

Monaco ‘24 🇲🇨:

Race recap

Canadian ‘24 🇨🇦:

Montreal’s fugly AI trophies

Copium

Spain ‘24 🇪🇸:

Charles demon hours

Hungarian ‘24 🇭🇺:

Race week post that triple header

Scenes at the Hungarian gp

Ferrari for once not in the drama

Spa ‘24 🇧🇪:

Charles steel chair pole

Azerbaijan ‘24 🇦🇿:

Baku pole

Singapore ‘24 🇸🇬:

Bye bye Lando’s grand chelem

Austin ‘24 🇺🇸:

Charles’ turn one triple overtake

Mexico ‘24 🇲🇽 :

Lift and coast hell

Brazil ‘24 🇧🇷 :

War flashbacks from interlagos

…

Yearly heritage moments recaps:

2022 [X]

2023 [X]

2024 [tbc]

Random 🎲:

Lecfosi club meeting [X],

Charles blue suit slay [X],

Lance Stroll lululemon olympics [X],

Ugly HP livery [X],

Cage fight in wind tunnel [X],

Charlos live slug reaction [X],

Charles cursed fade haircut [X],

State of the Scuderia ‘23 [X],

Explaining intra-team gossip [X],

Charles Leclerc F1 holiday palette [X],

Not a thought in drivers’ heads [X],

Old Charles to Aston/to Red Bull rumours [X],

Charles is a strange man [X],

Red Bull Charles [X],

Evil Max Verstappen [X],

[levana-stark]

Ria's Masterlist:

Football (La Scaloneta)

The "So you tried to lift up Leo & succeeded" - GC series (in progress)

Summary:

Every player who lifted up Leo Messi during a goal celebration is added to a group chat. A chat where they all simp about Leo, and debate which lift was the best. Kun, the ever present best friend, even created an elaborate spreadsheet to figure that out.

How the idea was born

Part 1: The Day Sergio Ramos joined the Chat

Part 2: "Dad-Mode activated" or The Day a newbie joined the Chat (now Canon Divergence)

Part 2.5: Bonus: How newbies at the Scaloneta find out about the Chat

Part 3: As he falls in love with the object in the world that his heart most desired

Part 4: How to become one of Leo's boys

Part 5: The Day the World found out about the Chat

Part 6: Miami Summer Vibes

(Leo Messi/Everyone and I mean almost literally everyone; almost exclusively fluff)

Derrite mi Corazón Derretido (finished; maybe Part II in the future)

Summary:

Leo Messi had always been an awkward person, but he had learned that being good at something would help you make friends. Even if they only cared about his football skills.

But what happens, when he gets injured during an important tournament and loses everything he had worked so hard for?

(Rodrigo de Paul/Leo Messi; Angst with happy ending)

Lionel - Andrés - Goat (finished)

Summary:

Lionel Messi is the host of their little system.

Andrés is their protector.

Goat is just cute, and good at football.

And in the end they just want to be happy.

(mostly fluff; hints of Antonela/Leo; loads of creative freedom on Systems)

Leo Messi Birthday Week 2023 series (finished)

Day 1: Omegaverse AU (Scaloneta/Leo Messi, fluff, the team worships Leo)

Day 2: Mafia AU (Leo gets kidnapped by Kylian, but there is a plot twist, BAMF!Leo)

Day 3: AU where Leo didn't get his hormone treatment (PSG are assholes, tiny!Leo, protective Scaloneta)

Day 4: Adidas Ad (Freaky Friday, Scaloneta/Leo, Fluff)

Day 5: Kidnapped AU (warning: violence, Leo gets hurt, BAMF!Leo, protective team)

Day 6: Soulmate AU (Leo is special, Everyone/Leo, fluff)

Day 7: Time Travel AU (Pep/Leo, A/B/O, courting, second chances)

Formula 1

It's like this (it could be better) (finished)

Summary:

Charles struggles at Ferrari, Max is breaking records.

Both of them have their own problems.

Somehow they find each other, while Charles learns what it means to stand up for himself and Max learns to love.

(and maybe they break a few curses while doing so)

(54.6k; Fluff and Angst; Lestappen; 2024 Season like we all need it; Charles is done with Ferrari and does something about it)

I rose up from the dead (I do it all the time) (finished)

Summary:

He touched down in England two days after Brazil, hidden by the cold and foggy weather of a November night. There were no people at the airport, bar the security guard who ushered him from the VIP exit and the man holding a sign with his name, standing next to a nondescript car.

-------

After a desasterous triple header Charles makes a decision. He would enter his Reputation Era, right now.

(3.9k; RB!Charles; Reputation Era arc, slight Ferrari bashing)

[themultifanshipper]

This is my Series' Masterlist

full fic masterlist here

One of the Boys (the Paddock Bunny series)

Pt 1: Hungary - Fastest Laps (Max Logan George, ft Charles & Lando) Pt 2: Zandvoort - Lando's treat (Lando ft Charles & Max) Pt 3: Monza - Invasive questions (Lando & Oscar) Pt 4: Baku - Out in Q1 (Lando) Pt 5: Singapore - Thank you Daniel (Max & Daniel) Pt 6: COTA, Mexico, Brazil - Triple Header (Pierresteban & Max ft Carlos Lando & Charles) Pt 7: Las Vegas - Sin City (George & Lewis ft Max) Pt 8: Qatar - What the hell is a Lestapstri (Max Charles & Oscar) Pt 9: And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end (Whole grid) Pt 10: Epilogue (2025 rookies)

The Monaco Trilogy (lestappen x reader)

Pt 1 - Car sex (Max x reader) Pt 2 - What happened in Monaco? (Charles x reader ft. Max) Pt 3 - (Coming soon)

The Newlyweds (Carlos x reader)

Pt 1 - The Day After ~ 1.3k Pt 2 - The Day Before ~ 1.8k Pt 3 - The Day (coming soon)

The way to a man's heart (Landoscar x reader)

Pt 1 - The Bet (Lando's first win) Pt 2 - What happens in Budapest... (Oscar's first win)

[valyrfia]

charles saying “my-max” and giggling when talking about max racing on the limit in a press conference damn they’re recreating the great lestappening of the 2023 triple header aren’t they

[valyrfia]

we need to start bullying charles the way max fans do when he is being homotron 3000 cos wtf do you mean!!! what about the 2.7%!!!!!! charles i know what you are 🫵🫵🫵🫵

All of us are out here like “2.7% THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS OURS IL PREDESTINATO REGNA FORZA FERRARI SEMPRE” meanwhile our goat is out here making eyes at Max Verstappen and going “oh I don’t want Max to do badlyyy 🥺” like WHERE IS YOUR FIRE WHERE IS YOUR RAGE! HE’S LITERALLY JUST A GUY! HIT HIM WITH YOUR CAR!

[valyrfia]

i’m a new formula one this year what is lestappengate?

Lestappen Gate is a conspiracy theory that happened during the 2023 triple header (COTA, Mexico, Brazil) mainly peddled by myself, @tsarinablogs and @thearchercore which concerned the fact that Max and Charles became publicly very close during that time period when Charles’ contract negotiations were still in the air and Red Bull were known to be pursuing him. Basically, it’s a Charles to RBR theory, but with extra steps. If you go through the #Lestappen Gate 2023 on my blog or just the general tag on tumblr you’ll see the full delusion. So Lestappen Gate 2024 is the resurrection of Lestappen Gate (ironically, also when we’re in the middle of a triple header).

[thearchercore]

I know triple headers are unbelievably hard on the teams and their personnel... but I can't help but think that if triple headers always give us this kind of deranged Lestappen content, I only want triple headers. Nothing else. We are treated so well.

dont forget the trauma of the european 2024 triple header, not all triple headers are fun!!