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You're not on Mclaren's contact list, stop emailing them

(Context: Lando fans have been emailing Mclaren about him being mistreated by the team)

I'm a tifosa. I'm used to seeing the tifosi at Maranello, communicating with the team, bringing signs, usually showing support. I'm not against fans trying to bring to the attention of their favorite team something that they disagree with or that they believe could be improved. But I believe this should be done when you have something to complain about. Lando fans, what do you have to complain about?

Let's go through some of the justifications I'm seeing. "Mclaren posted a photo where Lando is being covered by Oscar and they made it their banner". This is some Ferrari fans counting mechanics during podium ceremonies not realizing different tracks have different protocols or Sainz fans complaining that he wasn't the thumbnail for the Barcelona video from last year without realizing that Ferrari had a system where one week they'd have Charles as the thumbnail, the next they'd have Carlos and Barcelona just so happened to be on a Charles week, in a different font. Have none of you considered that maybe they did not have another high quality photo taken by Oscar of the team and they didn't think Lando being accidentally covered would lead to them being chased with pitchforks?

"Lando deserves to be in first not Oscar, because Lando basically built the car and this team". Couple things here. Like I've said in another post, while drivers are in a team and with a secured seat for the following season, they'll contribute to the development of the next car. I'm not against assigning some percentage of the credit to Lando, however this conversation has started to sound like "Lando built all of Mclaren's latest cars component by component, until he got it right". The people who deserve the most credit for the cars Mclaren have been driving in the past few months are the engineers who in less than 2 years managed to turn a car that needed 7 pit stops to stay alive through a race into a championship winning car. I'd also like to note that this entire process took place with Oscar already as a member of the team.

Lando deserves to win is a nice thing to say, but that's not how sports work in reality, F1 champions aren't crowned based solely on who's the most deserving. There's no mistreatment of Lando, what's happening is this: Oscar is performing at the level necessary to win a world championship, he's been able to in most weekends drive the Mclaren like the dominant car it is. Lando hasn't. That's not on the team, that's not on the car not being fast, that's not on Max Verstappen being annoying on track, that's on Lando. If you want to see Lando win, then he needs to improve as a driver, there's no other solution, you're wasting time on wild goose chases.

If I may offer some advice, if you support a driver you should have more faith in them. We're only a quarter of the way into the season, Lando is merely 16 points behind Oscar. I do not think there's a reason to be desperate right now and start sounding like you want Lando to be handed a championship by Mclaren on a silver platter when he's not even doing the minimum to be a world champion, which is beating his teammate.

As one last note, I'd like to ask you to please stop bringing mental health into this. Some drivers are more open about their mental health, some are less, there's no right answer for how much a driver chooses to share with the world about that topic. Implying or outright saying F1 championships should be decided based on how much a driver talks about mental health is contributing negatively to any activism you support.

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Wow it’s awful! And the car is even worse.

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Mclaren: Our drivers are engaged in a high stakes battle for the championship lead

A literal child: Fuck your championship

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Normal reaction to hearing the news that Max Verstappen is a dad: Congratulations!

Kym Illman for some reason: I HOPE A JOURNALIST IMMEDIATELY ASKS HIM ABOUT THE BABY'S NATIONALITY

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Congrats to Max Verstappen for being the first celebrity in like 5 years to not name their child after a kitchen appliance or something.

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There was some mistranslations but the baby was born today

How do you guys find this stuff 😭 (For context for everyone else seeing this this was sent before Max announced it)

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I cannot believe I have to hand it to the WatchMojo wannabes

Red Bull: Hey Max is missing out on media day cause his child could be born any day now. Please respect his privacy :)

F1 media for some reason: WELCOME TO WATCHMOJO AND TODAY WE ARE COUNTING DOWN THE TOP 10 REASONS WHY VERSTAPPEN JR WAS DEFINITELY BORN TODAY

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Red Bull: Hey Max is missing out on media day cause his child could be born any day now. Please respect his privacy :)

F1 media for some reason: WELCOME TO WATCHMOJO AND TODAY WE ARE COUNTING DOWN THE TOP 10 REASONS WHY VERSTAPPEN JR WAS DEFINITELY BORN TODAY

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"Ferrari is paying Lewis too much money"

Ferrari should be paying him an extra million minimum for forcing him to drive this thing WHAT AM I LOOKING AT

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I always find it ironic how much these far right men who make Star Wars content love to talk about Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and love to present themselves as experts on the character.

Isn't Anakin the character whose portrayal you disliked so much that you bullied a child off the movie industry? Isn't Anakin the character whose portrayal you disliked so much you made Hayden Christensen not want to be seen in public for years?

These men love to present themselves as just "passionate movie lovers" and justify everything they did to Jake and Hayden with "we were just criticizing bad acting". No what you've always disliked is how Anakin is shown as someone who at some point in his life had people he cared about, people that cared about him, he's shown as someone who at some point didn't just feel hatred for everyone and everything. It's not enough that at the end of the day, Anakin still turned into Vader, no the fact they dared to show him cry, love, as not being the "alpha male" these men think of themselves as, made them decide it was their life mission to ruin the careers and lives of two actors. Personally I've also always had the suspicion that Hayden Christensen never appearing to be anything like these men in interviews he gave also set them off.

And what has changed in the past couple years or so isn't how Hayden portrays Anakin or anything, it's the fact the fandom has turned so much on the idea he was a bad Anakin, that these men no longer sense they have an audience who will tolerate them berating him. The moment they think this has changed, they'll turn the chip right back on.

All this to say none of the reactions you are seeing right now regarding one of the most recent Andor episodes (if you don't know what I'm talking about be careful looking it up as it is triggering) are about the writing in Star Wars. Star Wars does a good job portraying an oppressive regime in the form of the galactic empire. The problem is these men don't care about what Star Wars is trying to tell you, these men care about using Star Wars and all the characters as vessels for their sick world view.

EDIT: Apologies I'm very stupid when it comes to Tumblr so Idk who wrote this but to the person who reblogged this post with "They want their fascist empire to be badass not ugly" you 100% hit the nail on the head.

EDIT 2: I decided to take out the "unlike you" part because I think it's kinda taking away from my main points. It doesn't really matter what these men have/haven't felt before, they despise any portrayal of emotions they perceive as weak, regardless.

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Valentino: Pecco, where are you, why aren't you in my garage, didn't you say you were going to be with the GOAT?

Pecco: Who are you, I'm literally with Antonio Fuoco rn???

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Listen Charles does look great in Ferrari red but blue is that man's color. I'm sorry I don't make the rules it just is

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I love that Charles thinks clarifying he and Lewis were NOT on the same bed playing chess makes the situation sound less flirty. Yea good job buddy me and my teammate play chess late at night while we are laying in our beds before sleep sounds WAY better

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People online: Hiring Lewis won't solve all of Ferrari's issues

*hiring Lewis doesn't solve all of Ferrari's issues*

People online: How dare hiring Lewis not solve all of Ferrari's issues

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Sooo Jack wasn't the first one out... 😬

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Hey my fellow Lewis fans quick question: WTF

I'm not entirely sure this has made its way to Tumblr but it's pissed me off enough that I also wanted to post it on here. After the race on Sunday, Lewis complained in an interview that both he and Charles had gone with something Charles had tested in Bahrain (pre-season testing) and it went bad (in the race). I cannot emphasize enough that Lewis did not say that Charles pressured Ferrari into going with what he tested in Bahrain for the China race and he also did not say that Charles was the one who came up with it in Bahrain. So why have some of you taken his words and started spreading those narratives around? They are not even basic assumptions to make. Drivers don't design their pre-season tests, they give feedback yes, but why are you considering that the likeliest option is that Charles was the one who came up with what he tested in Bahrain and not Ferrari? What's the logic? And I've seen people go as far as saying that Charles told Ferrari to use a setup meant for the Bahrain track in China. I'm sorry do you understand how pre-season testing works? Cause I don't think you are in a position to question the F1 knowledge of a professional driver when you seem to think pre-season testing's only focus is the Bahrain race. And my biggest question in all of this is why? All the points both Charles and Lewis gained on Sunday are gone because Ferrari couldn't do something no other team, except goddamn Alpine, failed at doing and you're spending your time putting all the blame on Charles, insulting him on social media over a scenario you have made up in your head? And the irony this is happening at the same time Ferrari is rightfully calling out the way F1 handles radios for trying to twist their drivers' words is not lost on me. You are Lewis Hamilton fans, I'm sure at one point in your life you have been mad at how the media distorted a statement of his, HELL that was probably last week when the way Lewis spoke to Adami was being described as rude. Do you even realize you're doing the exact same thing you criticize the media for doing? This 3 for 1 thing you've got going on here is really impressive: you insult Charles, you twist Lewis' own words and you turned on the teammate duo you just 3 weeks ago were claiming to be the biggest fan of. And again I come back to the why, why were you so eager to immediately jump on a 1644 hate bandwagon so much so you had to make up lies to even attempt to have a point? Maybe I'll lose some of you here but I have genuinely felt for a long time there is a portion of Lewis fans who don't want him to get along with a single driver, that they like those media narratives that Lewis hates everyone on the grid. Otherwise I can't explain why you see the way Lewis and Charles are getting along and decide "Yea I wanna help F1 media push these narratives they hate each other's guts". And maybe you're right and I'm wrong and they do deeply dislike each other but if that is true I don't know why you had to put words in Lewis' mouth to prove it.

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Day 1 of me posting this and hopefully last