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I'm a fucking failure as an writer I don't know how to write a fucking summary which won't give away much but hoke people anyway. I wanna cry I'm so frustrated right now.

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Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc at the 2013 CIK-FIA World KZ Championship

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But hhe's looking at you 💙❤️

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“charles leclerc and max verstappen traditionally race each other very fairly” alex jaques you little lestappie you

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This is iconic 😂👌👌

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Max talking about special livery “I always like the white livery because I think the car looks like really clean actually with the white livery and then the red, I really like the red colour on it”

we know which red you’re talking about

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found a very interesting anaylisis of the current charles leaving rumors on twt! it's in italian so i'll translate it!

This Italian journalist says that those who wrote the articles claiming Charles' inner circle has doubts over Ferrari's performance for the future are reliable pens, those who reported in Italy the scoop of Lewis coming to Ferrari last year, so he says it's curious. It might be something substantial, but at the same time it's curious how these rumors appear now, in the wake of the new Ferrari upgrades, when ferrari is taking small steps forward. The Ferrari crisis has been going on for more than three months so it's nothing new.

The analysis goes over three figures in Ferrari: Vasseur, Hamilton and Charles.

Vasseur: There is an interesting detail in the articles concerning Fred's contract, which apparently would be up for renewal at the end of 2025. The journalist says there is a big difference between not getting renewed and getting kicked out. But at the same time, the SF-25 isn't the first car with a TD chosen by Vasseur himself. Fred does have enormous responsibilities for the SF-25 incredible failure, and denying this would be moronic. But yet another TP change would not solve anything. BUT! There could be Antonello Coletta as a replacement, the ferrari Endurance TP. He has a heavy palmares, a strong personality and ideas, and he'd deserve to guide Ferrari in F1, even without any experience in F1, not for a fault of his own. But according to this journalist he could work as an Andrea Stella, and so a figure in the politics of F1 Zak brown style would be needed.

Hamilton: He goes over him quickly, saying that apart from that poorly placed insta like, it is evident something isn't working in what was pictured as the marriage of the century. He crashed into the Leclerc wall surely, but also doesn't he have affinity with the team? Did he expect to be treated as the saviour? He performs not consistenlty on track, never comparable to Charles, and to the outside he doesn't give any confidence. Creating a tailor-made team on him to make him perform better wouldn't make much sense as an investment bc he's at the end of his career also.

Charles: The journalist wrote, after Imola, that if he were Leclerc, he'd start looking around, bc the SF-25 failure is something epochal, seen the INTERNAL expectations the car had. But still, nothing new. Charles' contract DOESN'T EXPIRE IN 2029, what expires in 2029 is a renewal option that can be activated starting from 2026. So when the contract talks in 2023 happened, Leclerc and Todt Jr covered for themselved for 2026. If the Mercedes PU will really be dominant, in 2027 Max won't be the only one looking for those engines, and Charles would be dumb not to look for a way out if Ferrari takes on yet another loosing era. Charles isn't doing charity after all. A different thing would happen if Mercedes tried to rip away Charles from ferrari for 2026, replacing George. But in between contractual sanctions and the salary of Charles, that would be a big surprise. And Charles' love for Ferrari would be translated into another chance in 2026. It is all up to Maranello to keep him and give him what he deserves, bc he's the best asset Ferrari has, as the track showed us.

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So if Charles is the Cinderella Red Bull has been searching for, then Ferrari is the evil stepmother — keeping him down for years, forcing him into cars that don’t suit him, hyping up their other “daughters” while trying to bury his talent under strategy disasters and broken promises.

Meanwhile, Red Bull has been out here auditioning every stepsister on the grid to fit that second seat. None of them fit. Because Charles is the only one who can survive in the seat next to their naughty little prince. He’s their Cinderella, the one who can dance with their prince without crashing.

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Max follows Charles' fansite on Twitter. He gets a shoutout in return.

The "Inchident" occurs a couple weeks later.

year / 2012, karting

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Charles's football warm-up is like watching ballet:

German Grand Prix Qualifying Day | 21 July 2018

📸 Manuel Goria

Bonus:

📸 Jerry Andre

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Everyone's talking about Charles to Mercedes, but all I can think about is Charles to Red Bull. That team still hasn’t found a Cinderella to fit their weird, Max-shaped hole — and I wholeheartedly believe Charles is the only one who can. Imagine Red Bull building a team around Charles. Charles in his villain arc.

We’ve witnessed Red Bull’s golden boy fall at Ferrari… now can we witness Ferrari’s golden boy rise at Red Bull?

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oscar said choscar rights! In that triple header dump <3

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"maybe he likes being a leclerc."

yeah but he wants to be a leclerc via marriage not adoption 😢 atp even i don't know how to make oscar's attraction towards charles even more obvious

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Excuse me how did I not know

why the hell no one told me we have a MotoGP version of lestappen?? I feel betrayed

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I think a lot of new F1 fans think that we love lestappen because they've known each other since they were kids and they like to yap together.

They don't realize that the whole point of why we think it's cute now is because of the absolute track crimes they have both committed to each other and the fact that we know they would do it again if it meant fighting for a win. And the only reason they can fight each other cleanly is because they both know what will happen if they don't.

We don't want to see Charles and Max fighting for a championship because it'd be cute and fun, we want to see them fighting for a championship because we want to see them be track terrors to each other.

The whole point of Lestappen is the war crimes. They commit against each other, they commit against others, Max quite rightly has a track terror reputation but Max has been screeching since childhood that Charles is just as bad and Charles bats his wide green eyes and goes "who? me?". We want a Lestappen championship because the absolute all-out track warfare would be sensational to witness. They're leaving the bare minimum space, they're driving off the track, they're taking that corner whether the other wants them to or not. They both went to the school of "leave me space or I'll crash us both out". We all joke that Max races Charles differently than everyone else, and no it's not out of respect, or memories, or god forbid friendship. It's out of pure sheer survival instinct because he knows Charles will call his bluff. They're going through that corner side by side together, or not at all. And THAT'S the whole point of Lestappen.

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who gaf about the race i am currently drowning in my own tears over this