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[lousycapy]

hi! i'm actually so delighted that you asked about the 'catch oscar piastri if you can' line because it is one of my absolute favorites!

it's alex jacques, and he said it in 2021, when oscar was racing in f2

damn, what a slay by alex jacques, as per usual 😌��

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Catch Oscar Piastri if you can

— edit for the championship leader

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Osc… that curve 🤤

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oh god let me erase this race from my mind and jump to next week PLEASE I cannot deal with cult4… and Oscar, baby, I’m sure the dick is amazing and it’s great to let out the bum energy from time to time but I fear it’s time for you to lock in and start outplacing your bf again 🫶

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Bro… I just praised you last week tf was that 🤢

I think people aren’t really grasping why Oscar fans are disappointed in McLaren’s strategy. It’s not about the team sabotaging Oscar, secretly wanting Lando to be their number 1 driver, unfair treatment or whatever. It’s about the inconsistency.

Look at Australia, Lando is in front, Oscar 2nd, and they’re told to hold position to avoid any risk of losing their 1-2 and not maximizing points. Fair. In China, Oscar is in front, Lando 2nd, and they’re told to wait until they’ve built a gap to George before fighting, to avoid any risk of losing their 1-2 and not maximizing points. Also fair, and consistent.

Now in Japan, Lando is in 2nd and Oscar in 3rd, with seemingly faster pace. Lando hasn’t made a dent in the gap to Max, but Oscar has on Lando and a swap could help him keep enough tires to maybe have a shot at Max. And this time they’re not prioritizing maximizing the points and giving the faster driver a chance of getting a 1-3 instead of the 2-3? Now there aren’t team orders, when there is an actual potential to gain more points than in the positions they started in?

Honestly, I’m an advocate for no team orders and letting drivers fight for positions at all times. However, seeing how McLaren have set the scene in Australia and China, prioritizing maximizing the team points, it’s just extremely frustrating to not follow this mantra this time around. Was the swap likely to work? No. But did they have anything to lose trying? Also no, Lando wasn’t doing anything, Oscar had some pace, maybe a McLaren within the DRS of the RedBull would’ve been able to overtake, being different cars with different levels of performance throughout the track. At worst they swap back, and at least they’ve tried something to maximize the points.

It’s not even like the swap is some sort of novel, unheard of idea. McLaren themselves put a swap in place in Australia 2024, when Lando was behind Oscar despite being faster. To give Lando the best shot at catching the cars in front, they asked Oscar to let him by so he wouldn’t waste his tires on overtaking a slower teammate. Because instead of finishing 3-4 they had a shot at letting Lando go up to the Ferraris and maybe turn the race result into a 2-4. At the end of the day he didn’t catch the Ferraris, but that doesn’t matter because they had nothing to lose at that point and it was worth swapping to try and gain as many points as possible.

In Japan 2025, it was a win on the line. Against their main wdc rival. I cannot comprehend for the life of me how a team whose priority is maximizing the team’s points would not deem the swap worth a go. If Oscar doesn’t get Max, they swap back, and nothing has changed from their initial position. If Oscar does get Max, they put 7 more points on the board for the wcc, and Lando only loses 3 points to Max instead of 7 in the wdc (whilst also bringing Oscar back into the fight). There is literally no bad outcome, so if they’re gonna make us endure team orders this season, they may as well do it correctly and consistently.

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Which F1 fanbase is the fruitiest?

The results!!! The analysis is pretty lengthy, so all the details and the complete analysis as well as the rankings will be under the “keep reading” line for usability of tumblr 😵‍💫. However, if you don’t want to get into that and are just interested in the main result, know that the most queer fandom amounted to be Liam with 87.5%, and the least Lando with 62.9%.

First off, small mistake on my part that I wanted to address. Whilst making the polls I added aromanticism to the list of sexual orientations 😔. Idk aroace has somehow merged into a single entity in my mind so including both was like a reflex to my tired self, but obviously people can desire to have a sexual life without necessarily wanting to entertain a romantic life! For this reason the aromantic section of the polls will be included to the Prefers not to say/See results section, which means it will not be weighted for the complete analysis. If you still were curious of which fandom contains the highest and lowest rates of aromanticism (normalized dataset by excluding Prefers not to say/See results category), they are respectively Liam with 9.2% and Lewis with 1.2%.

Second off, this research is definitely not meant to be taken seriously! The sample sizes are way too small to be considered representative, and even then Tumblr (sole place where the polls were conducted) has a specific community that may (let’s be honest pretty assuredly lol) present a higher rate of queer representation than, let’s say, Twitter or Instagram. On average only a small fraction of a driver’s fans is present on Tumblr and would have seen the poll I posted, so the proportion of certain sexual orientation (I presume heterosexuality specifically considering the geopolitical environment of formula 1) will be much more significant in real life than shown here. Also, results may have been influenced lightly by people reading the tags from other voters before voting themselves, or even voting on polls for drivers they’re not a fan of instead of using the “see results” option to satisfy their curiosity. That said, the measures here are only meant to be a fun project now that I’m on break 😈.

Time for the interesting part, here come the results!

Starting with a table to compile the overall votes from each fanbase. If you want to explore the polls directly you can check the “Fruitiest f1 fanbase data” tag on Tumblr. The numbers are all x/100 with one decimal due to Tumblr’s limitations.

The main category in most of these polls ended up being the Prefers not to say/See results category, sometimes amounting to more than half of the votes for certain fanbases. As to make the data more interesting to analyze, this category and the aromantic votes (which do not constitute a sexual orientation as specified earlier) will be excluded from further analysis. The values of the relevant votes will be multiplied to come back onto a x/100 basis, to facilitate comparison between fanbases.

Which gives us this more representative graph of the proportion of each sexual orientation in each fanbase by normalizing the proportion of each sexual orientation to the total amount of votes considered for further analysis.

As you can see bisexuality occupies a huge fraction of the votes for all fandoms! Heterosexuality and asexuality are also proudly represented. Gay is surprisingly low in most cases, going as far as being null in Carlos’ fanbase.

As the main goal of this study, overall queerness of the fanbases will be measured first. Here is a ranking of the fanbases from biggest to smallest proportion of queer members out of a hundred people (so total amount of normalized votes minus heterosexuality) :

Liam’s fanbase comes out on top! Obviously the overall queerness representation appears to be wildly over inflated, considering that heterosexuality remains the most common sexual orientation in the world and that Tumblr harbours a pretty specific community. However, considering all data for all drivers’ fanbases was taken from tumblr, the comparison between each other still remains somewhat relevant. Considering the popularity of Carlando on the f1 scene, seeing both their fanbases at the bottom came as a surprise to me.

Next, I made mean averages of the proportion of each sexual orientation in the fanbases (excluding the Aromantic/Prefers not to say/See results categories from the dataset) and compared each fanbase to this average to show who deviated the most from the overall trend.

Thus, this would correspond to the average f1 driver’s fanbase if it was composed of 100 people :

Without surprise, bisexuality keeps its lead over every other sexual orientation. However, seeing heterosexuality as only half of bisexuality’s value feels shockingly low. Others is the least represented category overall, which was to be expected due to its abstract title and low representation irl of sexual orientations different than the ones already named. Gay, as said previously, is the least represented of the named categories.

And here are the deviations for each drivers’ fanbase to the mean average f1 driver’s fanbase in table and graph forms :

The deviations from the mean were also calculated in percentages, but since small variations in the “others” category so drastically affected the percentages and overall scale of the graphs (made other numbers too difficult to see) I preferred not to present the graphs for these results. However, I did make a table to regroup them :

I also performed chi-squared tests to make sure the variations in expected values of the mean average vs observed values in a driver’s fanbase numbers couldn’t be reasonably attributed to hazard and that there was, to a certain degree, a correlation between a driver’s abnormally small or large representation of the sexual orientations compared to the mean. 0.05 was used as the significance level threshold. Cases in green in the subsequent table were over the critical value for the degree of freedom (n=6) and thus permitted the rejection of the null hypothesis :

Based on this table, Lewis could be considered to have the fanbase the most likely to conform to the null hypothesis, and Lando the least likely (null hypothesis=variations due solely to hazard)! Most fanbases fall under the null hypothesis.

Here are the rankings for each specific sexual orientation’s proportion of the fanbase for each driver, from highest to lowest proportion of x/100 :

Notably, Carlando dominates the hetero category, the gays love Mercedes, the asexuals prefer the younger drivers and Liam has the biggest unknown queer community.

If you’re still reading this, well, thanks for taking the time to look at my silly numbers. Hope you have a great day, do crimes, and hydrate! Peace 😪

[lousycapy]

ok well at least in imola they were consistent with japan, so there’s that.. still not sure why australia and china were team ordered, maybe because they were unsure about the wcc being on lock? idk but I do prefer this lack of team orders and hopefully they keep it that way at all times

I think people aren’t really grasping why Oscar fans are disappointed in McLaren’s strategy. It’s not about the team sabotaging Oscar, secretly wanting Lando to be their number 1 driver, unfair treatment or whatever. It’s about the inconsistency.

Look at Australia, Lando is in front, Oscar 2nd, and they’re told to hold position to avoid any risk of losing their 1-2 and not maximizing points. Fair. In China, Oscar is in front, Lando 2nd, and they’re told to wait until they’ve built a gap to George before fighting, to avoid any risk of losing their 1-2 and not maximizing points. Also fair, and consistent.

Now in Japan, Lando is in 2nd and Oscar in 3rd, with seemingly faster pace. Lando hasn’t made a dent in the gap to Max, but Oscar has on Lando and a swap could help him keep enough tires to maybe have a shot at Max. And this time they’re not prioritizing maximizing the points and giving the faster driver a chance of getting a 1-3 instead of the 2-3? Now there aren’t team orders, when there is an actual potential to gain more points than in the positions they started in?

Honestly, I’m an advocate for no team orders and letting drivers fight for positions at all times. However, seeing how McLaren have set the scene in Australia and China, prioritizing maximizing the team points, it’s just extremely frustrating to not follow this mantra this time around. Was the swap likely to work? No. But did they have anything to lose trying? Also no, Lando wasn’t doing anything, Oscar had some pace, maybe a McLaren within the DRS of the RedBull would’ve been able to overtake, being different cars with different levels of performance throughout the track. At worst they swap back, and at least they’ve tried something to maximize the points.

It’s not even like the swap is some sort of novel, unheard of idea. McLaren themselves put a swap in place in Australia 2024, when Lando was behind Oscar despite being faster. To give Lando the best shot at catching the cars in front, they asked Oscar to let him by so he wouldn’t waste his tires on overtaking a slower teammate. Because instead of finishing 3-4 they had a shot at letting Lando go up to the Ferraris and maybe turn the race result into a 2-4. At the end of the day he didn’t catch the Ferraris, but that doesn’t matter because they had nothing to lose at that point and it was worth swapping to try and gain as many points as possible.

In Japan 2025, it was a win on the line. Against their main wdc rival. I cannot comprehend for the life of me how a team whose priority is maximizing the team’s points would not deem the swap worth a go. If Oscar doesn’t get Max, they swap back, and nothing has changed from their initial position. If Oscar does get Max, they put 7 more points on the board for the wcc, and Lando only loses 3 points to Max instead of 7 in the wdc (whilst also bringing Oscar back into the fight). There is literally no bad outcome, so if they’re gonna make us endure team orders this season, they may as well do it correctly and consistently.

[lousycapy]

hey can you tag me if you ever end up compiling the data from the polls

Sure!

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wouldn’t it make sense to add a “not a fan of this specific driver” to polls to get a more accurate analysis specifically of that drivers fans?

well I only tagged the driver concerned in the poll to try and limit the intercrossing of fans, and the first words in the question specify the driver once again to remind people who this is about. If they wanted to see the results of other drivers they could just use the “see results” option, but obviously I can’t directly stop someone from answering a poll from a driver they’re not a fan of sadly

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After all the polls concluded, what will you be doing with the results?

I was thinking means to find the average fanbase, maybe chi-squared and analyzing the biggest deviations from said average

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Really wondering why aromantic is an option on the Sexuality quiz, here XD Its not a sexuality, its a romantic alignment.

yeahhhh realized afterwards, I was a bit tired 😪

will add a note on the analysis!

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Making this poll because I saw some discourse about which driver’s fans are the fruitiest, so thought I’d go around tumblr and make an excel sheet to analyze the results 😏

Link to detailed analysis : https://www.tumblr.com/lousycapy/784427539868286976/which-f1-fanbase-is-the-fruitiest?source=share

[lousycapy]

Making this poll because I saw some discourse about which driver's fans are the fruitiest, so thought I'd go around tumbir and make an excel sheet to analyze the results 😏

Link to detailed analysis : https://www.tumblr.com/lousycapy/784427539868286976/which-f1-fanbase-is-the-fruitiest?source=share

[lousycapy]

Making this poll because I saw some discourse about which driver's fans are the fruitiest, so thought I'd go around tumbir and make an excel sheet to analyze the results 😏

Link to detailed analysis : https://www.tumblr.com/lousycapy/784427539868286976/which-f1-fanbase-is-the-fruitiest?source=share

[lousycapy]

Making this poll because I saw some discourse about which driver's fans are the fruitiest, so thought I'd go around tumbir and make an excel sheet to analyze the results 😏

Link to detailed analysis : https://www.tumblr.com/lousycapy/784427539868286976/which-f1-fanbase-is-the-fruitiest?source=share

[lousycapy]

Making this poll because I saw some discourse about which driver's fans are the fruitiest, so thought I'd go around tumbir and make an excel sheet to analyze the results 😏

Link to detailed analysis : https://www.tumblr.com/lousycapy/784427539868286976/which-f1-fanbase-is-the-fruitiest?source=share

[lousycapy]

Making this poll because I saw some discourse about which driver's fans are the fruitiest, so thought I'd go around tumbir and make an excel sheet to analyze the results 😏

Link to detailed analysis : https://www.tumblr.com/lousycapy/784427539868286976/which-f1-fanbase-is-the-fruitiest?source=share