#correct driver

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I love you Safety Wizard.

(Inspired by @keroascrazy)

[scuderiaspringsteen]

circular narratives, passing the gauntlet, and boy kings // inspired by @mnyd 's tags on @drivestraight 's post

[leclercskiesahead]

Alex accidentally crashing an interview to use JV’s private toilet and them revealing Carlos also uses that toilet

[f0point5]

I know the Netherlands is technically not only Max but it would have been hilarious if they just took out Jos’s one podium and put “Max Verstappen”

[ladyhoneydarlinglove]

there is obviously nothing wrong with people making sanji out to be a pretty boy, but ngl, every time i see it in art or in fic there is a not insignificant part of me that wants to dig my heels in and insist that no, actually, i don’t think he should be a pretty boy at all! in fact, i kind of think he should be a little bit uggo!

[pancakes4nina]

Toto just mentioned that Kimi's floor had +30 holes since early in the race?? And he didn't complain. Respect him for that.🖤

[skitskatdacat63]

I cannot stop thinking about these Niki pictures

[charles-leclerc-official]

Ferrari need to get with modern times and realize that we all can guess what Plan B and C are. They need to stop being so overly secretive over the radio and actually EXPLAIN to Charles why they're asking him to box. By doing this they're keeping their own driver in the dark and stressing him out for no reason. Charles has NO info so he's making a blind guess that he can do a one stop. Instead of making him feel like he's being ignored, they should just explain to him what's going on and then he can make an informed decision?? Like if they just said, 'oh we won't make 55 laps on the hard, the hard won't last that long' McLaren isn't gonna go "Wow! Ferrari's plan C was a one stop! We can react to that info now!", they already fucking KNEW.

Yeah, it's less the plan # thing and more just their unwillingness to add to it. Can say "we are sticking to plan A because hards are looking better" etc. I agree, but I think the main issue is like you said a lack of willingness to give any info, less to do with the ABC of it all. That is mostly done to aid in memorizing plans for the drivers, you gotta call it something.

They could have told Charles "no tyres for plan B" which would have been the info he needed to understand he couldn't do a one stop. And it's not hard to do this, I don't see why they can't.

Now, for this I actually think that the communication is really breaking down for Charles, because I think he's actually right about the tyres being able to last. However the team behind the pitwall are more concerned about the plank wear than the tyres. This is speculation. Which of course if they tell him the tyres wont last that contradicts what he feels and makes him even more frustrated. But the team do not want to admit the plankwear issue on the car, so we blame tyres *

Charles knows the feeling in his tyres, I think he's been doing this long enough to know. What he's not used to is having to worry about the damn plank wear. Which the team need to be clearer about. They could even come up with a code word for it idk.

*speculation on my part based on very little do not take this as fact but I do think it's a version of events that makes sense.

[fcb-mv33]

Max in that Mclaren would have passed Lando on the first try but I guess we can’t all be generational :)

[rbr4c1ng]

Hii! I was wondering if you could maybe explain the bus bros fallout or p2p gate or pretty much all of the McLaughlin-Newgarden lore to me since I'm only getting in to IndyCar now and I want to be caught up before the 500. I understand this is a big ask but I've seen that youve posted about it and I just NEED to know. Any links to other pieces of lore would also be much apreciated. Completely understand if you don't want to write anything though so thank you so much I advance!! <3

YES ABSOLUTELY I WILL EXPLAIN! this is my special interest dw i could write an 18 page essay about their lore.

SO basically scott came into indycar from supercars in 2020-2021 ish and him a josef started getting along like super well, which is honestly a bit odd bc josef is known to not really let people get so close to him, so scotty is a bit of an outlier in that respect.

eventually! they make bus bros!!! wooooo everyone loves it etc etc they have fun making it…. until they don’t! leading up to their breakup there were QUITE a few clues that they knew it was gonna end in flames like scott talked about it on off track (see audio excerpt below) and on hot seats with hinch if i remember correctly?

there’s also a fair share of articles that mention it. they basically knew it was inevitable but i don’t think anyone thought it was gonna happen so quickly??

so then the winter break leading into the 2024 szn happened! this is about when i started getting really into bus bros and was honestly pretty present for some of this shit (i was at the daytona 24 and st pete so i’ve got some first hand evidence but we will get to that later)… anyways so the rumors start going around that bus bros is over around?? st pete time i think??? a little bit earlier. which is odd given that they seemed okay with each other at the daytona 24, even though i thought it was strange that they weren’t both on tower motorsports anymore cause josef switched to penske porsche but GENERALLY it seemed okay (although based on this pic idk their relationship seems a little charged atp but it’s all speculation really)

then after the rumors come out i think it was jenna fryer’s article that did it in? (idk it has a paywall on it for me right now and i don’t care enough to find it here but there’s definitely excerpts floating around) now i do recommend to take anything jenna fryer says with a grain of salt bc she is essentially a gossip columnist for all intents and purposes. but the article basically said that josef and scotty were done and scott wouldn’t answer any questions about it and was only saying that they’re fine or to ask josef about it (tea from todays 100 days to indy episode actually…). they promptly took down the bus bros merch site and have been relatively quiet since then. at st pete they talked on the podium and didn’t seem too bad but i’ve seen other clips where they won’t even sit next to each other or speak to each other so take that as you will. podiums are pretty much just publicity, cameras everywhere, you’d probably want to seem at least cordial with your teammate.

(pic 1 is mine, pic 2 is a pic of my tv from todays episode LMFAO)

so heres where most of the speculative stuff comes in. Josef dissolved his media company, unfollowed everyone, and cancelled bus bros leading into the 2024 season because he wanted to “get rid of distractions”, and really we could leave it at that, but i find it hard to believe that that’s the only thing that happened.

Josef is the dictionary definition of Penske Perfect, you won’t get any closer to it than him. he’s fucking OBSESSED with this idea of being perfect. perfect season, perfect body, perfect car, perfect team. obviously this isn’t feasible, but scotty seemed to have broken through that block in his little Penske Perfect brain and got him to LIGHTEN UP A BIT. and then the 2023 season happened. sure, josef won the indy 500 but it was one of his worst season finishes in a while and, to make matters worse, scott BEAT him. little scotty mac, supercars champion transplant from 2021 beat josef newgarden at his own fucking game after breaking down his walls and making him soft. i can see how that scared josef honestly. so he ended it. Scott doesn’t see things on a plane of winning/losing imo, everything is just experience for him. hell, he didn’t even know if he would end up in indycar and he sure as hell didn’t think he’d win races so soon AND beat his teammate. to josef, it’s JUST winning/losing. if he’s losing, he needs to be better. and he lost sight of that for the 2023 season. that’s why he had to come back and put an end to the shenanigans bc he knows scott makes him soft.

but that’s just my speculation!!!!! literally could just be nothing. maybe it is to josef, but i know for a FACT it isn’t to scott.

OH and with the p2pgate stuff! basically they had a component in their car that. was not supposed to be there! that prevented race control from turning off their push to pass like normal. (marshall pruitt has a rlly good article explaining it all here) and they were caught in long beach when race control forgot to turn on the push to pass during the sunday warm up and HMMMMM why do the penske cars still have it???? when has this happened before??? oh ok st pete! now they’re disqualified. josef used 9 seconds of p2p when it was not enabled and scotty only used 1.9 and will used none. so i’m led to believe that it was a josef-centered choice IF it was intentional to use the p2p when it was supposed to be inactive.

now josef really laid down the water works for that press conference at barber to the point that i was having a VERY hard time watching it. i felt bad for the guy. he seemed really fucking upset and i almost believe that it WASNT on purpose but. it’s just too good to be true right?

honestly i think this all could tie back to the downfall of bus bros in that scott maybe didn’t want to do the p2p thing but josef was willing to? and maybe that caused some sort of divide between them bc then again for josef it’s about Winning No Matter What, and yes scott wants to win but cheating isn’t the way for him. idk.

for more of their lore when they WERE friends, watch bus bros (duh), admit one, 100 days to indy, scott learns america: nashville, hot seats with hinch, and listen to scott’s episode on off track with hinch and rossi! also there are some very brief interactions between them on some older penske games videos before bus bros was even a thing but it’s not much. there are more but i can’t think of them rn…

sorry for rambling, if you have any more qs feel free to ask!!! i’m always available for brain picking :)

[leclercskiesahead]

scuderiaferrari Asking Charles and Carlos to create their perfect festive day using ONLY the F1 grid 🎅

[everythingne]

alpine should explode

[owletstarlet]

(Just booked my flight home in April, a permanent move back to the US— I’ve been here for 8 years so it’s going to be surreal and sad, but for family/health/career reasons I know it’s the right thing to do. I’m too busy tearing my hair out trying to sort out the actual process of an international move to freak out about the fact that I’ve not been able to start looking for work or health insurance yet. Really ridiculously grateful I can stay with my parents while I work things out, but. *gestures vaguely around at the State Of Everything In America*

[a-clarice-dream]

So…. I guess RBR didn’t learn from the first two attempts at dumping an under-experienced rookie into the second car next to max….

[4lbon]

"sorry, I'm gonna say something kinda racist, but--" you actually don't have to. No one is forcing you. You can actually just keep whatever you're gonna say to yourself

[oplishin]

seth's immaculate dumb loser face