People be like "fangirls can't be objective and know nothing about f1" and then there are white grown-up men literally paid to write the craziest groundless shit for Marca
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So for this year's Chinese grand prix, news may travel faster in Chinese social media and for you guys to familiarize their nick names, here are some of Lando's and Oscar's Chinese papaya fans use a lot and you'll find them full of love 🧡🧡
Oscar Piastri(奥斯卡•皮亚斯特里)
For fans, they'd like to shorten if the name's too long. Initially (I mean before his F1 era) they call him Xiǎo Pí (not pie, read pea, no specific meaning in this context, only to make it cute). Also he looks like koala, and he loves sleeping, and he's so chill all the time, so the nick name 🐨 just speaks itself.
Another hilarious nickname is called 陈皮 Chén Pí (dried tangerine or orange peel, a Chinese medicine/cooking ingredient), which has a more complicated connotation.
Ok, so he reveals he is 1/16 Chinese, right? A vlogger in China, whose channel is about finding heritage for celebrities, made a video(in Chinese) about him. As we all know, his great great grandfather was Chinese, whose name, according to some digging of the archive, is called Chan Wong. Since it's two-character, people confused the family name with his given name, until now we are not certain whether Chan (chén) or Wong is his family name. Some people simply combine it with his current family name and call Oscar Chén Pí, and it just spreads out. For a derivation of this nickname, we combined Chen Pi and Pia together, and we got Chen Pi Ya(陈皮鸭), which is a roasted duck thing I haven’t got any chance to taste yet.
Lando Norris(兰多•诺里斯)
Although the official translation of his name is 兰多 (Lán Duō), his name sounds more like 兰豆. In English narrative, you guys have Landoscar to address this ship, some Chinese fans call this pair 豆皮 (dried bean curd). Yes, we Chinese like using food as a nickname for the celebrities we love.
McLaren(迈凯伦/ 麦麦)
Those are directly translated from phonetic pronunciation instead of actual meaning. But there's another cute name derived from the official one, it's called 麦麦幼儿园 (McKindergarten). Since they're the youngest duo on the grid and they give such a strong brother vibe, the fans love to babifiy them. There're a lot of cute drawings of those boys by Chinese fans, you may find some on tbl.
If my explanation is not accurate, feel free to correct. And hope the boys can perform well this weekend 🤗🤗
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One thing I'm loving is lewis taking every chance he gets to remind Merc and God how slow that car is lol
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ik it’s fp1 but lance p1?? manifesting a win or podium on sunday
also, fire on the trackside grass? crazy
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At the end of last season I couldn't remember any race I'd seen so this year I decided to make a note with the highlights of each weekend. Anyway
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nico rosberg really is the best f1 commentator currently because not only does he actually know what he's talking about but he's not afraid to make bitchy little comments and wax poetic about lewis hamilton like what more do you want
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this man thinks he’s the funniest man alive
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