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via Scuderia Ferrari

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There is a piece about a person talking to god but only with words god is giving him or words that god is using so if anyone knows what I am talking about then please send me that piece.

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Max Verstappen could stop his car on the side of the track, climb over the fence, rescue a litter of puppies from a burning building, help an old lady cross the street, come back, win the race, and still not get voted Driver of the Day 😭

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father son etc etc

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The clips of Carlos’ radio that you’ve shared really show how his brain goes in like 500 directions at once lol he is calculating rain and then playing second engineer for Charles and then checking everyone’s tyre strategies no wonder he always looks zoned out in this plane of reality because his mental plane already has so much going on it takes all his attention

Carlos is really one of those drivers that wants ALL the information - bit of a control freak (which is why, even between him and Charles, he insists on being the one driving when they carpool)

It’s always interesting comparing drivers’ radios bc it really does feel like there’s two categories: the drivers who are more ‘cerebral’ and want to know everything (until they’re battling another car and then they’re like ‘SHUT UP PLS!!’) and the drivers who just want to drive and receive the bare minimum info lol

I always take the example of how, at the end of the race, Ricky gives Carlos the names of all the points finishers, whereas Xavi would always ask Charles if he wanted the names, and Charles would say ‘no’ 😂

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We weren't the only one crying

via Instragram from thecarlossainz and carlossainzhq

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How Ferrari fucked over Carlos in his own home grand prix not to forget his last with that team is just truly heartbreaking to watch. They give their all when it comes to Leclerc but when it comes to Sainz they just lack somewhere and fuckup. Sainz has been so disappointed since Quali and now in this race, his car was just so fucking slow that he couldn't take over anyone.

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bloody mary! boo

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This is so them coded

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Carlos during rain delay of sprint qualifying | 2023 Belgian Grand Prix

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they dont want us to know this but the real cure to the agonies is to engage in shenanigans. tomfoolery even 

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So, could Williams match offers with other teams for Carlos but not invest in a spare chassis for Logan Sargent? they ARE choosing not to help him and then blame him for giving a moderate performance. This is genuinely fucked up from Williams and hopefully, they know that no matter a good driver can save them in that cardboard box of a car. I genuinely hoped to see Carlos in Red Bull and Logan given a better car to drive to show his true potential.

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no rizz just brown sparkly loving eyes and a soft smile

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RED BULL HAS SOME "announcement". THEY HAVE BEEN POSTING CHECO TOO MUCH AND POSTED DANIEL ÀND CARLOS OUT OF NOWHERE TOO AND OCON LEFT ALPINE TODAY LIKE JESUS CHRIST RED BULL WTF ARE YOU ONTO?!?

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every day i learn something new about logan sargeant and his racing career, not just about his performance in f1 but in f2 and previous series, too. and every day i end up so sad because he genuinely has so so much potential and can do so much but he keeps being give a poor hand of cards. this guy out qualified his teammate in f2 TEN TO FOUR. and who was his teammate?? liam lawson. liam joined redbull’s driver academy in february of 2019 while logan only got to join an f1 team’s driver academy in october of 2021. that team was williams. which, as we know, hasn't exactly been the best performing team in recent years. oscar piastri got to join an f1 team’s driver academy in january of 2020 (the renault sport academy, later rebranded as the alpine academy). liam and oscar both got the opportunity to do f1 tests for YEARS prior to their f1 debuts in 2023. liam had 4 and a half years of experience in f1 cars before 2023. oscar had 3 years of experience in f1 cars before 2023. even if it was just testing and practice sessions, it's still something.

what did logan get? one measly fp2 session, post-season testing, and then jumped right in to pre-season testing in 2023. he already had a seat in williams then, so with the experience from before the pre-season testing in 2023 he got to do maybe 800km of testing in an f1 car. the others — in this case i mean oscar, liam, and heck even nyck de vris — had opportunities to drive f1 cars and gain experience for YEARS before logan. if you look at nyck de vris: he got signed to the mclaren young driver programme in 2010. he joined the audi sport racing academy in 2016.  granted, he left the mclaren programme in before the 2019 season and left audi after the 2019 season, too. but he then went to mercedes as a reserve driver and tester for 2020 and afterwards. this means he got just about a DECADE AND A HALF of teams putting their time and energy into training him to join f1.

logan got a year. one. single. fucking year. that is entirely incomparable to the other rookies from 2023, who had so much more experience before hand. and yet logan was jumped into f1 and the expectations were so high for a guy who hasn't had the chance to train and learn and gain experience.

and yet when we look at the 2022 f2 season, logan sargeant, a rookie, was 1 point off from his teammate —the one and only liam lawson — scoring p4 in the championship. he outqualified his teammate 10 to 4. he was the first american to win an f2 race (that is, of course, following the rebrand from gp2 to f2, but regardless, that’s still an important thing to note and an achievement of his that should be celebrated).

logan sargeant has so much potential and if only williams would show him a little more faith unlike what they’ve been doing, if only they’d give him the same upgrades as alex, if only they wouldn’t force him to drive a car 15kg overweight from that of his teammate’s car, if only they wouldn’t force him to use outdated rear and front wings from the season prior. then perhaps he would have a chance to show what he can do. perhaps if he wasn’t stuck in a team with a crap car who have shown zero faith (which has been vehemently obvious since the circus in australia) in him and made him absolutely miserable, a shell of himself — which you can clearly see in recent interviews and photos of him — then maybe he’d be able to show how good he really is. and maybe if williams hadn’t been so adamant about taking him out of f2 so quickly and let him develop for one more year, we’d be seeing headlines that say “logan sargeant, first american f1 driver on the podium since michael andretti in 1993.” and perhaps we could even see him winning races.

no matter what someone says about his current f1 performances — though most base that solely off of where he ends up on the grid rather than looking at his actual driving and seeing how good he is as a driver considering the crap circumstances he’s in — logan sargeant is a better driver than what everyone says. he is trying so insanely hard to get a car that is miles off from the rest of the field to place as high as humanly possible. no one can say that if you put another driver in that car that logan is driving they'd be doing better than he is now. the fact is, they wouldn't be. he's been given an absolute tractor and is expected to score points when that car isn't built for getting in the points. and yet logan managed to get p10 in the miami sprint race — which should be recognized and commended. because he was in an awful car and he absolutely shined that day. that was just the start of showing what he could do. but he hasn't been given the same resources as alex, those being the upgrades, so what more can he do compared to what he's doing now?

and i am actually sitting here crying as i type this because this is a driver who is giving it his all even when the entire world is against him, even when his entire TEAM is against him, and he is persevering to the best of his abilities. and i know exactly what it’s like to sit here, wanting to reach for your dreams and show everyone how good you are, but to have only your closest friends and family on your side, rooting for you. what it’s like to look everywhere around you and see everyone calling you crap and saying you should quit and that you aren’t and never will be good enough. to look around and see your closest friends and family cheering for you, yet feeling like crap because you aren't doing as well as you would want, feeling inferior to everyone around you.

news flash: logan sargeant is and will always be good enough. he just needs the opportunity to show it, and williams is ruining that for him.

and yes, i will defend him with my life. people who try to say otherwise can try to do the same hours — the WEEKS — worth of research that i’ve done about logan and his career because he IS a good driver and HE DESERVES BETTER.

any hate comments towards logan will be deleted, because i have neither the time nor the energy to deal with that and argue with logan haters. i've said all of what i know and can remember about him and his career above, and will add what i can as time goes on and i remember something else or learn something new. if you have the time to hate on logan, you have the time to do your research and examine the fact that he has the potential to do well, but is not in a position for that because of the abhorrent circumstances he is currently in.

thank you for coming to my ted talk. edit: i'd also really recommend reading this twitter thread!! it goes into some more depth on logan and his f2 / f1 career, and even a little bit about his f3 career. it's very informative and articulates much of logan's career and why he is a better driver than many believe very well. https://x.com/herrocult/status/1795747913588761027

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If Logan has 5 million fans, I am one of them.

If Logan has 5 hundred fans, I am one of them.

If Logan has 5 fans, I am of them.

If Logan has one fan, it's probably Jenson Button.

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i've come to terms with the fact that this is probably logan's last year in formula 1, but by no means have i come to terms with how truly horrendous this year has been to him through no fault of his own. because, what do you mean that logan was running the monaco grand prix with last year's rear wing??

williams should count themselves lucky that logan is such a team player and seemingly a really nice person because if williams had put me through what they've put logan through this year, everyone would know about it.