#the lewis rumour

[vro0m]

Official announcement

[maxz-b]

wild that people do cocaine sometimes but I guess if I was rich and owned a yacht I too would be that way this is part 7/???

[rickybaby]

with all the recent news surrounding checo's performance clause with rbr, it got me wondering about Daniel's deal with McLaren. Did he also receive a similar contract clause from that team? like Ik that he was dropped without his prior knowledge but was he given options beforehand??

Daniel in fact had no such performance clause in his McLaren contract. He had an option to extend for 2023 that only he could trigger, which meant McLaren couldn't unilaterally decide to not extend him for 2023.

This was why Zak Brown went on his media tour criticising him and playing musical chair with his seat until he signed Piastri behind Daniel's back. They wanted Daniel to trigger that exit clause on his own so they wouldn't have to pay him out. In the end, Daniel left $18mil richer

[leclerking]

Rumours we've heard not even 24 hrs after the Mexican GP ‼️

Charles moving to Red Bull

Sainz leaving Ferrari

Sainz bby dady confirmation

Alonso retirement

Aston Martin getting sold

Checo leaving Red Bull or retiring

Riccardo moving to Red Bull

Checo moving to Aston Martin

[petit-papillion]

Do you regret not having Ferrari on your CV at some point?

"Emotionally, I guess, to a point, yes. But just as, for instance, working with Fernando or Lewis would have been fabulous, but it never happened. It's just circumstance, sometimes that's the way it is."

Adrian Newey | September 2023

Source: Beyond the Grid

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Nico Rosberg right now:

[foul-milk]

i just heard some tea about the Horner vs. Lewis drama on the hungarian broadcast!! one of our journalists is at the gp and he was in the tps' press conference and he wanted to ask Horner about the lewis drama, but before the conference started an organiser went up to every single journalist in the room and told them not to ask Horner about Lewis. the journalist argued that there is literally nothing else to ask of redbull bcs they've won everything months ago and that Horner is good with words and he can explain what happened easily, but the organiser said that if he dares ask him that they won't even bring Horner in💀 and that apparently Horner only agreed to talk about this with sky sports on an exclusive interview

[amgroscoe]

make it ‘upgrades’ instead of ‘delta’ (x)

[yesterdayiwrote]

Now can’t stop thinking at George’s excited little face thinking that Lewis was inviting him out to party…

[wisteriagoesvroom]

i just know somewhere out there christian horner is kicking it back on some country estate and going “yes…. YES!” in a diabolical manner

[vro0m]

Jesus fucking christ guys

[ill-procastinato]

GUYS.

WHAT THE FUCK????

[w2soneshots]

Random q but do you think harry and sasha are still together? feel like they're always on holidays in diff places

Love this question! This:

Was one of the last times they were spotted together and that was 2022. Sasha has also talked about being single many times and if she was with him I don’t think she’d even mention her relationship status, so no unfortunately I don’t think they’re still together🥺. Related to the holidays I think most of them are just "the boys" sorta things and the others girlfriend don’t look like even there🫶🏼❤️

[topnotchquark]

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

This article by Kate Wagner on her INEOS sponsored trip to the Austin GP at COTA last year was commissioned by Road and Track magazine and then taken down. Presumably because Kate has was pretty staunch in her opinions about what was essentially a paid trip.

It is exactly the kind of thing I have wanted to read about the felt experience of the money business of F1. It doesn't get into technicalities and does not produce any spreadsheets for reference. It's just, her experience of the presence of wealth in the sport.

She starts off by talking about how she has been covering cycling and NASCAR for a while now and both of those, in comparison, are scrappier sports with smaller sponsors and cheaper tickets.

What I also especially loved was how fascinated she was with the cars themselves, and how they seem like a true marvel of human engineering. She almost described the cars like these alien beasts that came into this dimension out of nowhere and were being constantly monitored and dueled with to furnish wins and glory (and shareholder value for sponsors).

I think I always had an understanding of the weird myth making surrounding F1 and the kind of media attention it attracts, but someone like Kate (who I have loved reading for a while now) putting it into perspective really made it click for me. This sport thrives off of the kind of cocoon it has built around it and understands exactly the certain exclusiveness it needs to maintain to keep the story alive.

Anyway, give it a read, especially because Road and Track is trying to bury it to not piss off sponsors.

[sokoal]

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm ill and would need to sort out connecting flights and accommodation etc, so this was never a possibility, but the things I would do to get to Monaco and celebrate Charles' home gp win there tonight-