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idk if this is actually real, but i thought it was 😭

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insane!!

2008:

lewis hamilton wins the australian grand prix on 16 march

lewis hamilton wins the monaco grand prix on 25 may

lewis hamilton dnfs in canada

lewis hamilton qualifies outside of the top 2 at the british grand prix, an australian qualifies second, lewis wins the race on 6 july

2025:

lando norris wins the australian grand prix on 16 march

lando norris wins the monaco grand prix on 25 may

lando norris dnfs in canada

lando norris qualifies outside of the top 2 at the british gp, an australian qualifies second, the race is on 6 july

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i miss carlando podiums so much

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i like ur thinking.. 😏

lando says that as a rule he doesn’t take selfies unless he’s got a trophy but on multiple MULTIPLE occasions he’s taken selfies with oscar, this implies that oscar is his trophy (wife). in this essay i will-

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his suit ate downnnnn

LANDO NORRIS 'F1 The Movie' Premiere

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father and son 😁

OSCAR PIASTRI and CHARLES LECLERC | On the podium post race, Monaco GP 2025 by Clive Rose.

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Another one for my fellow random stats nerds

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carlos finally is his dream animal, a meerkat 😊🫶🏽

More F1 Drivers as animals! because I have a lot of fun making these

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cant believe he said THAT

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The fastest lap in Monaco history.

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The bestie has spoken.

“No he hasn’t (lost the wdc). He’s in a better place and I fully believe he can do it, no doubt about it. Zero doubt from my end. I believe he can win it 100 fucking percent.”

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he’s got jokes

“congrats to max. especially being a dad now, i was hoping it was going to slow him down a little bit but it clearly didn't”

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it sounds so odd but i kinda like it…

going crazy over the way lando is saying “soccer” in an american accent

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"bring cunty f1 back!!!" they wail, but can't even tolerate lando standing... up... for... himself... alright💀

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sniper, sniper, sniper. wifey, wifey, wifey.

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i've seen a lot of people talk about lando fans needing to touch grass because we're mad about that picture, but you don't understand why we're mad. honestly, i have no reason to this, but i do need to get this off my chest.

a lot of lando fans (myself included) tried to ignore the way mclaren has been treating lando off track, as well as on track. we're not going to touch the subject of on track here. we're only talking about off track here. their instagram page has more oscar/oscar's car or joint pictures than that of just lando. they do post lando, but it's always in the second or the third slide. it's not the front of it, so it looks like they're posting oscar more.

now, the issue with that picture is that its fine that they clicked the picture. mistakes happen, oscar saw that he was covering lando, and he moved over for another picture where lando was visible as well. so, we, as fans, know that there are two versions of that picture that exists. what bothers us is that they not only posted it on their instagram with a heartfelt team related caption, but also made it their twitter header.

now, the instagram thing could have gone multiple different ways than the one mclaren chose to do it. they could have added a funny caption instead, or they couldn't done a little drawing of lando, just something cute, something funny, something that feels included. instead, they chose a picture where lando is completely covered. like, when i first saw the picture, i didn't even notice that lando was behind oscar. so, they chose that picture, they chose that caption, and on top of that, they chose to only tag one driver out of the two drivers they have.

and then, to go on and make that picture their twitter header? knowing full well that there is a version of that same moment where lando is, in fact, visible? that speaks volumes.

it took them over 2k comments on instagram before they changed their header picture on twitter, and before they tried to do damage control by posting lando more.

i'm not saying that the team should stop posting oscar or something. do not twist my words. i'm saying that there should be a balance of how much they post each driver, and if they're posting a team picture, it should include the entire team.

seeing that picture, as a lando fan, it is really disheartening. to us, it feels like the team have forgotten him, or put him on the back burner. to us, it feels like they have a bias and they're not being subtle about it. it kills us because we have seen lando hold his team higher than himself, work for the team instead of himself, count every win as the team's, and every loss as his own. we have seen lando do that for years, but mclaren seem to have completely left him in the trenches.

for every "mentally weak" comment regarding lando that comes up in the press, there are other drivers and other teams that are saying it's not true and are defending lando. his own team never say a word. for every mistake or bad quali/race position, lando blames himself and mclaren let him take the brunt of it from the media and the fans, and then a week later, come out with a small article somewhere about how it was actually the team's fault, not lando's.

people underestimate the power of social media sometimes. you think it's not a big deal that lando's being posted, just in the second or the third slide? sponsors only look at the face. the face on their instagram page is not lando. the way they're promoting both drivers differently is clear, and it's clear because that what we're seeing, what's being shown to us. mclaren are trying to be subtle about it, but their subtlety left the conversation a long time ago.

the narratives that they push about lando being weak, having reached his highest potential already, buckling under pressure, all of it could be debunked if the team spoke out about it and supported their driver. they're not, so these narratives are being shoved down people's throats. the hate comments on their own instagram posts are vile, and it doesn't take that long to put out a statement that those need to stop, that the fans don't know what's going on behind the scenes, and that the fans have no right to judge a driver on things they can't do. it's not that difficult, but it really seems like mclaren would rather burn to the ground than support their driver.

i don't expect everyone to understand this. i know there's going to be people who come at me and say that i'm being a conspiracy theorist or i'm overthinking this or whatever. but, if you haven't seen a person, or have been a person, who has given your all to someone or something, and get close to nothing in return, this is the type of behaviour that cannot be ignored.