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Most. Adorable. Pic. Ever.

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Honestly, I love everything about this article.

The fact that this article is truly factual and has no bias towards one driver is something I truly applaud in the times we're in now, considering the treatment of both drivers.

Even I, personally, wouldn't have been able to stay so unbiased, to the point that I shook my head or raised questions at certain statements; those reactions of mine come from my opinions based on personal experience rather than fact. And that is what I truly love about this article: facts. no matter how or what things are happening at mcl at the moment, there is no denying of what is in fact happening there, and I think this writer has expressed that perfectly.

Also, lovely to read, I am usually no fan of long(er) articles, but this one read so easily and every word kept me wanting to continue and read more, props to the writer!

part one of my opinion piece on mclaren’s management!

https://www.dive-bomb.com/article/opinion-the-chosen-one-how-mclaren-is-building-oscar-piastri-s-kingdom

would love it if yall could read and share your opinions on it!

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i don't even want to think about the ways in which mclaren will try to fuck lando over at Silverstone after two years in a row of Stella's stinky mantoddler's own incompetence and mistakes preventing him from being on the podium at his own home race, but at least Lando can say he's had the skill to podium at his home race multiple times when McLaren wasn't actively trying to fuck him over — God willing, that's more than Pisstree will ever be able to say. <333

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part one of my opinion piece on mclaren’s management!

https://www.dive-bomb.com/article/opinion-the-chosen-one-how-mclaren-is-building-oscar-piastri-s-kingdom

would love it if yall could read and share your opinions on it!

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Anyway can we address the elephant in the room (why Oscar gets special merch just for him having some Sunday stroll at a random ass race nobody cares about, but not only does Lando not get special merch for winning MONACO ... the best Lando can get from that team for his home GP is "I 🧡 McLaren") or will "McLaren" fans get pissy

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creds @/tofumango on twt

BRUH what is wrong with these norris fans 😭

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baby boy

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2019 carlando come home, the kids miss you

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Lando's official Monster video

Source: cocacolaepofficial on IG

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Lando with his new ln4 monster!!

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ok i HAVE to speak on some takes i've been seeing that i take serious issue with.

if you think the sport is boring without max crashing into people, watch nascar. if you think the sport is best when it's messy, it can be messy in ways that dont deliberately endanger others, like in indycar. if those are still boring to you, maybe racing isn't for you. interesting racing is when drivers make passes with inches of room, when teams make strategy gambles that pay off. it's not interesting to watch max lead races or divebomb others. open wheel racing is incredibly dangerous. dilano van 't hoff died in 2023. anthoine hubert died in 2018. jules bianchi and justin wilson died less than 10 years ago. dan wheldon 4 years before that. max's driving style directly led to his wheel being over lewis' head in the 2021 italian gp, and the halo is probably the only reason he's still here today. max isn't "haha funny cunty driving cancelled wife" its genuinely dangerous.

the thing that makes max different from other drivers like him before -like vettel, schumacher, and senna- is that he hasn't been penalized nearly as harshly as they were. he hasn't been disqualified, he didnt even get a drive-through for deliberately crashing into george, just a 10 second penalty. i don't hate max, and i don't think he's the villain some people make him out to be, but i also think he needs to grow up and regulate his emotions better on track. frankly, he doesnt make racing more interesting, he makes it more boring because everyone is hesitant to make a move against him knowing he could crash them out of the race just because they did better than him.

tldr: if you think max is what makes f1 interesting with his mess and his crashing, maybe f1 isnt for you. f1 drivers are not gladiators, they're athletes. they're real people who put their lives on the line all the time, and that needs to be understood and respected. no driver deserves to be further endangered on track by their colleagues, and no driver deserves the vitriol of fans thrown at them. learn your racing history and respect the drivers who have lost their career or died to get us the safety regulations we have now. they aren't for shits and giggles. they were written in the blood of drivers.

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watching carlos's cafelito episode finally. here's some interesting tidbits. disclaimer: my rusty ass high school spanish + the autotranslate captions. hopefully i haven't misinterpreted anything.

gets along with gaëtan because they're both workaholics who love to be on the phone in their days off

can only be comfortable in a road car when he's not driving if his father is the driver

found out about the lewis -> ferrari move from rumors before ferrari told him and then called fred about it for confirmation (Ferrari When I Get You Round Five Thousand!!!)

BIG eye roll about the whole concept of red bull god bless

pleased little chuckle when the interviewer brings up how much jv likes working with him god bless

very optimistic about williams' prospects for the 2026 car, not thrilled about the 2026 engines but is reserving judgement on the cars themselves

talking again about how his mother managed the father-son relationship, telling sr when he was too harsh, reinforcing sr's advice when jr was sick of listening to him, etc

very excited to be a double uncle (both of his sisters have kids)

has realized that you have to celebrate a good moment in motorsport when you reach it, they may not happen very often due to the number of things that have to go perfectly

listens to podcasts about team building and leadership... he had some trouble expressing what he meant in spanish (presumably bc the podcasts are in english) but he was talking about the importance of no-blame culture within a team

likes to start post-race engineering meetings by listing all the things he did wrong during a weekend before criticizing the team or the car or whatever, which helps other team members admit mistakes without fear

he's a very shy guy and really likes his privacy. the interviewer said something like "i like that you're famous, i like that everyone knows you" and he was like "it's getting worse." and then implies that he should be less famous than instagram influencers. go-to example of "a celebrity" justin bieber. wishes he could drive his nice road cars in peace. embarrassed to talk about his billion nice road cars and drive them around. drives his golf so he won't be noticed.

he and pogacar are neighbors actually. carlos's push days on the bike are pogacar's recovery days

lists swimming, cycling, and synchronized swimming as the sports that require the most dedication

re his father retiring -- "if the stopwatch says you're fast, why would you retire?"

interesting stretch where he talks about when he has to battle fernando (says fernando's always very clever) and also about navigating the teammate relationship (says it's hardest one to manage)

always goes over races with his father, the evening of or the day after

signed his first ferrari contract at 9am in his pyjamas during lockdown

respects nadal & jon rahm (golf) a lot in terms of their attitude and approach toward sport. extremely tough on the field but respectful & humble, which he thinks is the ideal

says he comes across as an affable guy in interviews because he's become calloused to them but he is still shy & pretty reserved except when he's with his 3-4 closest people. tries to maintain a distance to people he thinks might be less trustworthy ("pirates", he calls them)

loves madrid SO much (not a new fact)

loves to talk about his karting program for kids 6-8 (his "minions"), says it's important to support the grassroots of the sport, wants to make it as affordable as possible

says his best friends now are the same as his best friends when he was like three years old. he doesn't make new friends easily and he's very closed off to new people. very important to him that he's kept the same friends his whole life and doesn't get why everyone doesn't do that. (adding this to the "carlos has strong and somewhat unusual views about the concept of friendship" evidence folder)

rapid fire questions segment. cerebral or passionate?--cerebral. what are you missing in your life?--more time for golf, i'm losing my swing. best driver in f1 history?--senna. who would win in the same car? alonso, sainz, verstappen?--sainz. advice from your mom?--be respectful, behave, smile more. what f1 drivers would you go to dinner with?--lando norris & charles leclerc. any advice?--smile more. the whole world needs to smile more. will you be a world champion one day?--someday, but I hope soon.

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“mclaren shouldn’t ask the championship leader to move out of the way so his teammate can pass”

oh you mean like they did in hungary ‘24 when lando was the only other driver in contention for the championship but all he got from his own team was gaslighting and emotional manipulation

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You have one McLaren driver who was too egotistical and self-absorbed to get out of a van transporting them to and from the F1 75 Live event to sign things for a small group of 6 children like his teammate was actively doing,

and then you have the other McLaren driver who was the ONLY F1 driver to attend the movie premiere and stay later to ensure he could sign things for fans who were in the free section because they couldn't afford tickets for the red carpet section.

81s and australians have and will try to paint him as this evil villain, but that right there is why Lando will ALWAYS have more and more passionate fans than Oscar ever will.

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How bizarre is it that lando has been complaining about adapting to this car since Australia and only in canada did they bring an upgrade that barely even did anything? 10th race for reference. Its actually beneficial for mcl to not bother putting any effort into performance upgrades for lando because it would not give him a leg up from oscar. Think abt it. Lando is already 2nd despite all this struggling and Mclaren is run by cowards. They don’t want to choose 1 driver above all (see 2024) to an almost flinching intensity. But funnily whether u agree or don’t, this car is so natural in oscar’s hands its almost by deliberation. So saying mcl is impartial is a flawed idea when its not a neutral car. Again, intentionally choosing a car design that makes ur driver numb to driving it, is shooting them in the foot. If u don’t think its intentional, then where is the effort to help him? (We’re almost 50% done w the season and acc to lando, the new suspension needs an extreme level of refinement to be of good use). Anyway its so annoying to think abt that i’ll see u guys on friday 🔪.

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Isn't this the same fanbase who just last year were shouting gleefully in agreement and clapping enthusiastically every time Andrea Stella said, "We don't care about the WDC — all we care about is the WCC" in an attempt to avoid having to actually support Lando and consequently hurt Piastri's fragile little ego any more than it was already hurt?

And wasn't it this same fanbase who were shouting, after the Brazil sprint, that Lando would be the least deserving WDC in the history of the sport if he did end up winning it because his teammate sacrificed all of ONE point, that was immediately gifted to him at the very next sprint race?

I just find the hypocrisy a bit amusing, that's all.

And if you think I'm toxic now, you should see just how toxic I'm going to be if Stella's bastard bitch boy is given ANY MORE preferential treatment than he already receives before Brazil — if that was how long Lando had to wait for the SLIGHTEST bit of team support last year, that's how long Stella's little bitch and his little bitch fans are going to wait. 🤷‍♀️