it’s the way marc and valentino are so similar to each other, and it’s so universally acknowledged, but they are also fundamentally different in the sense that valentino’s greatest obsession is legacy, while marc’s greatest obsession is winning. both would do everything and anything for it. and that is ultimately what ended up being their destruction.
this fucking dog getting carried around in Charles Leclerc’s arms all around Monaco sleeping whenever he wants getting taken into retail stores with no dog policies and probably eating some great doggie ice cream and driving ferrari’s on the weekends i’m so pissed when is it my turn?
just wanted to clarify one thing, these were two different races!
the race after which j*s abandoned max at the gas station was sarno. that was the first round of the championship, and max made a mistake during the race resulting from his fight with charles. charles won the race
the inchident race was the one following sarno, val d’argenton. max and charles were both disqualified from the race
Do y'all remember this? this iconic photo and interaction. So
that's Max right there.
And people from Twitter have brought things to my attention like the fact that Max and Charles knew eachother since they were FIVE. fucking five years old. that's like 20 years together
Am i late to the party? omg this changes soooooo many things. i thought they knew each other from back when they were 12 or 13. but it was 5. omg they've known eachother forever. they've been together forever.
also the "inchident" race where charles won? that was the race that made that man leave Max at the gas station. no wonder max was mad for years 😭
and i just wanted to add here, charles indirectly more or less confirmed max’s claim that they’ve known each other since they were around five years old
Charles’ single seaters debut was in early 2014, which means his “nine years of karting” that were “always with max” would have begun in in early 2004, when they were both around 6 years old. either max or charles might be off a year a here, but they definitely agree on the fact that they’ve known each other since they were little kids, not teenagers like we had thought for a while
“I have known Charles since we are five years old” is insane because….their first karting competition on record they were maybe 10? But I don’t doubt Max either because he recognised Charles’ old Spider-Man helmet. I think this is what truly makes me a little insane about Lestappen, we know about maybe 5% of their history and interactions at BEST. There is so much deep and untapped lore that is only really known to the two of them and maybe the group who came through karting with them.
As for Max following a Charles fan account after Val d’Argenton, well, nothing shocks me anymore. Makes me think about the F1 2022 Secret Santa a little differently though, specifically the “to my biggest fan” joke. I wonder whether there’s more lore and context and history to that joke than meets the eye…..