#topnotchquark!

[comradejoanmir]

Guess what I found!

Omg???????

[anitalianfrie]

They are posting you on Twitter

How the fuck did *I* breach containment 😭😭😭 at least it's one of my tamest post I guess??

[batsplat]

Wait batsplat wdym Casey messaging Vale about his daughter.......

(follow up on this) yeah! I don't really have massively more to add to this except that valentino definitely said it. I was lazy and just pulled up one of the few (poor quality) english websites that posted it but the quotes were widely reported in italian sources and are originally from here (whole interview from early 2022 is worth a read)

"often sends me messages"... often...

while we're at it, casey obviously said a bunch of stuff around the time of valentino's retirement (and in the years since), some fairly nice some rather less so. but one of the things he said was this:

now, personally I doubt this dinner is something that has happened or indeed would happen, not least because I'm not sure valentino would be particularly interested in relitigating past events with casey. "at peace with himself" is the right way to put it, and at the end of the day that's always been a rivalry that has considerably more emotional baggage for casey than it does for valentino. but, I mean, maybe he'd be curious what casey would have to say! can someone ask casey about this again? can someone ask valentino? are they still messaging each other? do they want to schedule the dinner date? can somebody let me sneak into the dinner date so I can listen into what they discuss? why are no journalists or indeed podcast hosts asking them about any of this? why do they refuse to do their jobs properly? the people need to know

[indiangp]

Pecco/Luca? (Ship ask game)

THEY'RE SO INTERESTING... makes sense and compels me slightly but again I don't know much about them. I see people's tags and fics and go 'hmm makes sense. nothing more to be said' but it's cute... They both have a certain pretty loser boy energy... In my head they're like if a chill hawk and an annoying mouse were in love w each other I don't know how to explain any further 😭

[whoregaylorenzo]

13 for the airport gif prompt :) (have a nice flight!)

Franco Morbidelli! (Franky)

(sadly the hair is now gone....) listen franky is just the chillest Italian I've ever seen.....like I've never seen an italian have stoner vibes but he does....just so chill I like it

[oscar-piastri]

Hi Cassy. Is your pfp Charles in a bunny cap? Just curious!!

Hi! It is 🥰

[moonshynecybin]

https://www.tumblr.com/moonshynecybin/744318694337970176/the-spectrum-of-vr46-riders-opinion-on-marc-is

Please break it down 🙏🏼🙏🏼

scholars in the replies to my original post @topnotchquark and @xoxogossipzoe... we were actually communicating telepathically here

like. its incredibly revealing in terms of their sense of self and what they think is important wrt vale and the interplay of their own identity… it’s about how they individually— as people who idolize, know, and owe humongous amounts of their success to valentino rossi— conceptualize themselves as separate entities from him. do they want to be their own person (luca). will they take his vendettas unto themselves (bez). is it worth it bc they owe him. is it worth it bc they want him to be proud of them. is it not worth it at all. do you think it’s normal to hate marc bc he wronged vale eight years ago. when you were a child.

the other biggest part is like. marc is fucking annoying. he pisses people off all of the time. and they’re vr46 riders, so everything that they do concerning marc will be seen as a message from vale’s camp. they are all looped in together under the vr46 brand. a united front. they are his legacy, and in many ways his proxy within the sport whether they want to be or not. so they also have to weigh if its worth it to get into that grade A 100% high quality premium BEEF. do they want that smoke from a pr standpoint (pecco does not). and do they want to make an enemy of a CRAZY MAN who is the only one to permanently get under valentino rossi’s skin. all of the academy’s members in the premiere class have individual answers to these questions and i think they’re VERY revealing in terms of their character…

[keepthedelta]

everybody read @topnotchquark's addition to my post because it's literally perfect.

f1 is a sport where the drivers so rarely have any agency in their exits. they chase the dream so hard for so long, even after they've been successful that almost none of them get to leave because they genuinely want to. for so many of them, chasing the dream of f1 glory ends up being a slow, brutal, painful, often humiliating slog in midfield or backmarker teams until they finally cannot take the losses anymore.

michael schumacher was the greatest of all time by a literally ridiculous margin when he first left f1, and he left it as a genuine competitor who fought to the end. when he came back for his second try, he got beaten by a teammate for the first time ever, and achieved a single podium in three years. he was eventually manoeuvred out by mercedes management who left him no way or time to get another seat if he wanted one, and discarded him for the next great talent, lewis hamilton.

sebastian vettel left a team that adored him and prioritised him to fulfil a childhood dream, and when ferrari decided that he wasn't worth it anymore, they prioritised his teammate and then fired him for a driver who had never even won a race. the highlight of his final years in f1 was a single podium, and winning grill the grid. i'm not sure that that particular trophy will be of great comfort to him.

fernando alonso left formula 1 after trying and failing to recapture the glory of victory so many times. even now, he is racing in a sport where he hasn't won a single race for more than a decade. now, as he faces retirement for a second time, he has to consider making it to the podium a great achievement, where once it would have been a sub-par weekend.

daniel ricciardo was once considered a genuine contender for a world championship, but he got beaten by a younger, stronger talent, made a series of career mistakes that ultimately resulted in him being fired, and has come limping back to the junior team, knowing that he will never be considered a championship contender again, and at best he can hope to be max verstappen's second driver.

even lewis hamilton is not immune to this. he is statistically the most successful driver of all time, and yet the team with which he won six titles did not want to give an indefinite extension to his contract because they lacked faith in him and the car and would rather set themselves up for the next generation of talent than spend money on an aging driver potentially past his prime.

no driver, no matter how great, is exempt from this. and nico, who grew up in this world more than almost anyone else, knew exactly what could happen, and decided that he didn't want that life. he married vivian because he loved her, and had a child with her because he wanted a family with her. and once he had his championship, he decided that what he wanted was away from the track, and to this day i don't believe he has a single regret over it. i don't know that you can say that about everyone else

[formulinos]

@topnotchquark mccanned didn’t answer you yet but i can!

Michael Schumacher is, as commonly well known, the best f1 driver that there has ever been and that there will ever be. amongst the reasons for it was the fact my guy would do quali laps during races because might as well and everything he did in hid personal/training time was with the goal of being as physically fit for racing as possible (to the point he tried to replicate his body’s responses during races while working out. because might as well.)

this is all to say that you do not win 7 wdc by sheer luck, it takes going to the next level. so as a treat, he would scheme. he would plot. he would lie. and he would bamboozle. some of it was through more direct action like whenever he tried to crash his car into his rivals’ to win a championship (worked w damon hill, it didn’t work with villeneuve bc people were homophobic - michael is part of the lgbt+ community since he is texassexual). but often he’d just focus on the little things, like working out in high intensities in front of drivers to make them feel bad about themselves or whatever nico’s claims were.

his main modus operandi however was usually running his mouth to the press according to his own personal narrative. for instance, when mclaren were doing good in the early 00s, coming off two wdcs with mika häkkinen, he needed to get someone there riled up so they would eventually fuck up. he couldn’t do that straight to häkkinen though, not only because he respected him but because mika was at the time equal to him in championships so ppl knew they were close in talent and above average overall. luckily, mclaren’s second driver was david coulthard, who was mid but thought he was capable of beating both mika and michael. well, when ppl asked ANYTHING about david to schumi he’d straight go like “the guy who thinks can wipe the floor with me and my beloved mika? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA-“ and then ignore the rest of the question. this was totally personal as david took part in the aforementioned homophobic takedown of michael in 1997 but also overall david was just mid and sometimes you have to bully someone to deflate their ego a lil bit. so david would get mad regularly and anger would lead him to be carelesd while driving and he would bottle it. BUT ALSO even ron dennis (mclaren main boss at the time) would get mad and go to the media like “sshjuuuut upppp,.,,., david totally csn win the cuampionshippp i csn’t belive you michel!!!!!!!”. mika would just smile and agree w michael bc he too knew david was mid.

but michael wouldn’t just take people down. sometimes, he would raise them up just for the imposter syndrome of it all. like in 2004, a season where evidently ferrari had as a car the F-TITBLASTER9000 and michael would easily clean the house, he would often say that BAR Honda (who in all fairness were in a great phase) were gonna catch up to them and eventually win a race later in the year. to which jenson button legit had to respond like “mate you know this is my first year taking this sport seriously and the other driver on the team is literally takuma sato. we’re not winning shit this championship and you know it”. and yes he did. BAR ended second but they never won a single race.

he even tried to run his mouth on ayrton senna after a on-track dispute saying that it wasn’t a “behaviour fit for a WC”. but he was just a rookie while senna was an expert on the game, so he went there and gave michael a tell-off in front of every single camera on the paddock, live (you can check on youtube, too lazy for links today sorry!). michael learned from it and perfected the art of media shit talking. he is missed everyday as the closest we get to michael antics is helmut marko’s wild claims and they’re not half as entertaining.

anyway this is what i remembered there are probably more examples. welcome to f1, hope you enjoy the sport! your new missions as a newbie is to become part of the tifosi and try to soak some more of the history of formula 1 overall bc it will help you detect who is talking shit around the fandom! if you like some weird stories, consider my pinned essays :)

[asraeas]

they can take my blog away from me but they could never stop me from dming about butch dovi with @topnotchquark

[comradejoanmir]

I'm about to gather my courage, take a deep breath, and check if there is any gill x kishan fic out there. And if there's any a/b/o. But if you had to assign, who'd be alpha and who'd be omega.

I know there's cricket rpf and I felt quite proud when some of the more popular works were like. The sri lankan team <3 but yeah I don't watch cricket throwing this out to those who do

(to ME gill alpha kishan omega except Gasp they're actually omega x omega he was pretending to be an alpha :o)

[anitalianfrie]

Never took you to be a lestappen girl?!

Uhm I honestly don't know if to take this as a positive or a negative thing?

[bbglewis]

thank you for tagging me @captainaudax and @sehrgefaelltmir 😚🩷

[go to pinterest, type «___ aesthetic» with your city/country, eye color, favorite color and name. put in image that comes up and tag friends!]

tagging (no pressure!!): @catboyseb, @racingliners, @sammyche, @rosberggp, @topnotchquark and @greenf1ag <3333

[topnotchquark]

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/topnotchquark/745645846228566017

Pol reminded me of akshaye khanna sm there lol also marc is the katrina kaif of motogp. Silly goofy And hot. Pls be with better men 🙏 . Rosquez could meet jesus and get register married…. Anyways practice today:

Damn Pol does have a little Akshaye Khanna to him...... Compelling, I have always had a soft spot for Akshaye Khanna.

Ur right Marc is silly goofy and hot. But I will say that in terms of life trajectory, he's probably closer to Priyanka Chopra? Beloved and talented as the wonderful new thing, and then spurned by a superstar lover while at the top of the game, which prompts a major change in how they interact with the world and their popularity. (I anyway think Vale is Italian Shahrukh).

And abt the practice, he's back from the dead and we're going to have even more fun in the coming races. Can't wait honestly.

[indiangp]

I didn't want to suffer through the pornstache alone 🙂‍↕️

We are in this suffering together 🫂

[whoregaylorenzo]

frans grand motogp follow rec list part 2 (part 1 here)

a little bit of everything (can't put them in a special category, just good vibes and a lot of different stuff!) and very beloved!

@raulfernandez @racingmuppett @eneasbastianini @topnotchquark @babygirlgp @thedevilwearsyamaha @bezzplaining @23and05 @motogpnewbie @collecting--stardust @aprilias (supporter of beloved aprilia ofc!!) @bezwhore @hxvphaestion @comradejoanmir @marquez-quartararo20 (marc and fabio duh) @petitprince16 @nyehhh-hh @vettelsbitch (also a writer!!) @formula-red @merlesrandomstuff @motocorsas @racing-twinks @suzuki-ecstar @its-always-silly-season @im-a-ghost666 @horribletasteinanything (lots of marc and alex though) @imagine-imi @bbglewis @piastrieds @speedtrapped @freewheelinfox @twowheelsfaaast