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Harry appreciation post! And also all the crew because they need to be valued (and paid) more in F1 .

If u didn’t know, Harry’s been with the team since Force India, so he’s known Lance ever since RP days. He was a mechanic on Nico’s, then Checo’s side of the garage. This year he got promoted to Lance’s No.1 mechanic. They get along well 💚

Source.

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you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them

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I miss f1 during breaks but I NEED this season to be over already.

Like, look at my guy, he looks so done already. FIRST DAY and some idiot moron of a "reporter" asked him about "pushing Henry around" and if he even enjoyed being in f1.

You don't like him WE GET IT. So LEAVE HIM ALONE. I can't think of an f1 figure who has been subjected to so much hatred for just breathing.

I was excited for cota and him showing up in a cowboy hat again like last year. But last year AM actually cared about him, did things to protect him, released content w Seb to humanise him.

This year they can't even bring themselves to delete the disgusting comments harassing him, won't close their comments sections when he's being wished harm.

Every post is full of ill wishes towards him and what do they do? Make team content with Felipe, the guy used as an excuse by these morons to abuse Lance further.

I wish he was an asshole entitled rude "imma get you fired" nepo baby so he'd actually push back, but the worst he's done is have a breakdown on camera and be introverted.

God I hate f1 so much at times.

At least I hope this weekend treats him nice 😮‍💨

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Come onnnn it's media day already give us Lanceee 😭

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De Ja Vu?

I’m going to put this out there in the universe. It’s a Lance Stroll post and I apologise now for the amount of other people I am going to have to name to make my point.

Everyone seems to think that Lance’s problems this season, start and end with Lance. Easy assumption to make when his season reads, missed pre season testing to have surgery, to throwing his steering wheel out his car, via an huge impact with the wall in Singapore.

But what if there is something going on, that we can’t see? And what is the sentence that brought me to this idea?

“Lando Norris can’t win a race in a car built for him”

Bet you didn’t see that line coming?

Let me explain. For a Lando fan this is one of those eye rolling statements you hear twice a week, more if his teammate has done well. The assumption is McLaren have been building a car to suit him for the last 5 years.

NOT TRUE. When Lando joined the team the McLaren was very much built to suit one Fernando Alonso. The weird characteristics of the car that you hear everyone talk about were enshrined into the McLaren concept for old eyebrows himself.

Now keep in mind that during this time at the team major aspects of the car and team were overseen by a Martin Whitmarsh.

Lando has driven through the quirky nature of the car for the last 5 years. Lando who spent 2 years with Fernando at the team, running his sim setups and was his teammate in Daytona whilst he was still a teenager.

Strange though that Stoffel struggled with it after being impressive in junior categories, to leave McLaren and be Formula E Champion.

Carlos could drive the car and he is the only one who really confuses me how he fits in this argument. Maybe it’s a Spanish thing 🤷‍♀️

Then along came Daniel and it was bad. Daniel could see all the strange quirks of the car, but the more they seemed to take them off, the worse the car got. Daniel could never gel with them.

So here McLaren are with a car that needs changing from the DNA up but have gone from nearly bankrupt to wealthy, but now operating under a token system and then a cost cap. You can’t just start the car from scratch, you have to rework the car bit by bit.

Oscar has faired better with the car but again, who has he just spent a year with, running sims of his setup? Yeap, Fernando.

Lando and Oscar still tell you there are weaknesses in the car and it still doesn’t really suit them, but they are paid to drive what they are given.

So then we look to Silverstone and the arrival of Martin Whitmarsh and Fernando Alonso to the team. Suddenly Lance is struggling to extract performance from the car. Something it has to be said he has never really struggled with before for any team. He podiumed with Williams, he put a Force India on pole. Almost overnight Lance seems to have a car he can’t drive. A car Fernando did most of the testing of in Bahrain.

Is it possible history is repeating itself and Aston are building a car to suit Mr Alonso at the expense of the team’s other driver? The only ones who ever got genuine performance out of the McLaren of the last 8 years have somehow been connected to Fernando.

Maybe Lance is just driving a car that bares no resemblance to the car that has been developed over the last 4 years.

Personally I would love to see Seb test it and see how he handles it now. He drove the old Aston and is at Fernando’s level, surely that will give the team a reading on Lance.

In the meantime I refuse to ridicule Lance and his results. As a McLaren fan I can’t help but feel I’ve seen this story before.

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Lance: *poke*

Fernando: This little boy is the one thing I love in this world I might have to set myself on fire.

{this is indeed one of my fave AM boys pictures ever}

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the abuse lance receives is sickening and disgusting but when he does well its crickets.

mental health is not important if you hate that person, huh?

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Maybe this is just me but it is very weird to me that there seemingly now is a delayed reaction to Lance's qualifying antics.

It seems especially weirdly timed that they do this after what he said at the press conferences post race.

Just, the timing right now does not feel right to me when we clearly have already had a similar incident that was punished (Esteban/Max). And especially throwing a steering wheel has happened many times before in F1 but never raised any eyebrows before especially after a driver has had a bad day.

It just seems weird that post race when the team + the driver (and possibly also Henry) have all said that it was cleared internally, this is brought up again.

Not saying he should not deserve a punishment if he truly did push Henry but could this not have been handled when it happened?

And doing an investigation now with a regulation that basically doesn't even forbid this, after Lance took a dig at the FIA is just weird.

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"Old F1 drivers were braver and sturdier" if you'd tried to make Niki Lauda do half of the unsafe things you've made the drivers do in the last three years he would have latched onto your dick like a German Shepherd and bitten down with the force of a nuclear bomb going off.

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This THIS is the strategy Aston Martin needs.

Now here me out. Felipe has recently regrown his hair out, Nando's hair is a good length despite cutting it in Singapore, and Jess has had her hair long for a while.

If Stoffel grew his hair out for the first time and Lance regained his lovely Racing Point era hair, we would have a time with 5 good looking people with longhair (depending on how good Stoff looks with long hair).

By having five drivers with glorious hair Aston Martin will become unstoppable.

Trust me this will totally work.

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Happy Lance, happy life 🩷

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nepo baby this, nepo baby that, can YOUR nepo baby finish a race in the asscrack of hell even after fainting at the high speed corners? i don’t think so.

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Ok I take that back my man was dying and in peril. Cancel Qatar GP when.

A good day for Lance nation I repeat a GOOD day for Lance nation THIS IS NOT A DRILL

BACK TO THE MIDDLE OF THE GRID, and almost got Stroints if not for fukin penalties 😭

Also he seems more vocal and in better communication with the team, nice strategy, some good overtakes AND THAT DEFENSE against Gasly AND THE CHECO PEREZ??? All while having a severe heatstroke?

ALSO the hair??? (Alexa play Unholy by Sam Smith)

Good ending for a stressful weekend, can't wait to see him (and Danny) back in cowboy hats for cota 🥰🥰🥰

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A good day for Lance nation I repeat a GOOD day for Lance nation THIS IS NOT A DRILL

BACK TO THE MIDDLE OF THE GRID, and almost got Stroints if not for fukin penalties 😭

Also he seems more vocal and in better communication with the team, nice strategy, some good overtakes AND THAT DEFENSE against Gasly AND THE CHECO PEREZ??? All while having a severe heatstroke?

ALSO the hair??? (Alexa play Unholy by Sam Smith)

Good ending for a stressful weekend, can't wait to see him (and Danny) back in cowboy hats for cota 🥰🥰🥰

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Fuck around and find out I MEAN it ☺️

leave my boy alone 😭

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He's just a little guy 😭

The way he said "no". Pls someone get him a pancake and a hug he's TRYING 😭

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lance stroll

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