#Austria GP 2019

[subaru-copilot]

i miss them

[blueballsracing]

Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen | 2019 Austria Grand Prix 🎥: F1 TV (June 30th, 2019)

[fallofmoony]

oh my god spot the difference

[lestappenforever]

hi again!

did lestappen really unfollow each other after the Austrian gp 2019? why?

ps: im new here

Hi anon, and welcome to the unhinged world of Lestappen lore! We're so happy to have you. ❤️

Now have a seat and get cozy, because it's story time.

Charles made it into F1 in 2018 and after spending his maiden season at Alfa Romeo Sauber, his life-long dream finally came true as he was snatched up by Scuderia Ferrari to replace the man, the myth, the legend that is Kimi Räikkönen. Needless to say, 2019 was a big year for Charles. His first season in the team he had always dreamed of driving for. He was ready. He was hungry.

Now, enter Max Emilian Verstappen, who at this point had already been in F1 since 2015, when he was signed at the ripe age of 17. Already a seasoned F1 driver, which is impressive as fuck at that age. At this point, Max and Charles were following each other on social media. After all, they'd known each other for most of their lives, had grown up together in karting, and were now competing at the top level.

Today, we know Austria as the Lestappen holy ground following that podium in 2022. (Borderline pornographic podium celebration? Don't mind if I do.) But, it had potential to become the Lestappen holy ground even back in 2019, because Max and Charles were on fire. Talking, laughing, joking, mirroring each other in the pre-race press conference, and generally acting like teenagers with a crush. (As you do with your emotional support rival.) Things were good. Great, even.

And then Sunday rolled around, and the race happened. Charles and Max were doing what they do best and what they love the most, namely fighting each other on track, likely having the time of their fucking lives. But then this overtake happened, there's a little bit of contact and Charles briefly ends up off the track, and Max goes on to win the race, with Charles finishing P2. (Anyone else hearing "He's just unfair. I'm leading, he wants to pass, he push me, I push him back" and "Nothing, just an inchident"? in their heads watching that overtake? Just me? Okay.)

Charles was pissed, absolutely convinced that Max had done something wrong, that it wasn't a clean move, and the move was investigated, as all similar moves are. FIA, however, ends up deeming it a clean move and Max doesn't get a penalty, meaning his win stands. And, well, this is where Charles Leclerc shows the world what it means to truly be ✨dramatic.✨ (We love a dramatic king in this house, ngl. Nothing is more entertaining to me than grown-ass men acting like children.)

A look that could kill? Check. Dramatically fixing your cap? Check. Looking away dramatically while plotting someone else's demise? Check. Looking like finishing P2 is not a huge accomplishment in your first season in Scuderia Ferrari? Check. Squeezing past as the winner getting drenched in champagne because you're not about to stand there and watch him celebrate? Check. Whatever the fuck this face is? Check.

Now, here's where it gets really fucking hilarious: Charles and Max fly home from Austria on the same flight. On this flight, where Max is probably sitting in Charles' direct line of sight, Charles goes to Max's Instagram and unfollows him. Probably glaring at Max the entire fucking time. Because he's a fully grown adult man capable of making reasonable, mature decisions when things don't go his way. Clearly. And Max, upon noticing this (or his team noticing it), remembers that he is also a fully grown adult man capable of making reasonable, mature decisions, and responds by unfollowing Charles back. Obviously.

It has been four years and our boys have clearly moved past the events of Austria 2019, but the Great Unfollowing has remained. Has it become an inside joke between them, which is why they're still not following each other after all these years? Probably, if Charles threatening to unfollow Matt from P1 with Matt & Tommy during a Ferrari challenge (and fucking following through on the threat, too) is anything to go by. Does it still make me cackle every time I think about it? Abso-fucking-lutely.

[maxpadelchampion]

the way I’m slowly processing the race and realizing that max was so patient trying to pass Charles and absolutely lost it when trying to pass lewis… like……..

[annexynexus]

Austria you are so dear to me

2019

2022

2023

[mscratch]

[cupidskissx]

They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

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[basementeye-s]

y'know what would be hilarious. charles finally refollows max but then lando unfollows him.

[everybodyisaferrarifan]

one of the best ferrari driver duos ever (and part time models)

[aragongp]

Recently started watching motopg (I've become a huge marc fan). I wanted to watch some of the old races, and sooo... which races do u think are the most iconic/ which ones are entertaining to watch (no pressure, u don't have to answer this ask<3)

HIII welcome to motogp 🥳🥳🥳 okay so i’m terrible remembering old races so if you want something older than 2013 (i rewatch 2013-2019 races A LOT during marc’s injured days so they’re like branded in my brain) i would invite other mutuals to reblog this with their recs. OKAY SO LETS GO

1. assen 2018 aka everyone’s favorite race. THIS is the race everyone and their mothers will name drop when people from other motorsports start coming for motogp okay… i’ve converted 3 people into this sport from that race alone 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

2. any phillip island races are instant classics sooo you can pick any of them no matter the year (shout out to 2015 and 2017 personally)

okay now moving forward to marc centric races bc i am a marc fan first and foremost sooo:

sachsenring 2016 brno 2017 and san marino 2017 for introduction to mixed condition specialist marc marquez <3

silverstone 2013 mugello 2016 austria 2018 bc i love good old marquenzo duels <3

if u want to see recent good ol marc comeback races assen 2021 and cota 2022... p20 to p7 and p24 to p6.... in THAT honda.... everyone pls bow down.....

aragon 2021 is also fun i love a good honda marc duel with ducati.... sachsenring 2017 or '18 (?) duel with folger is also fun.....

i think some motegi ('17? '16?) and aragon '18? were fun too.... okay my brain blanks out i forget all races now pls i need my mutuals to intervene sorry KJSKSJHSJKS i have memory of a goldfish….

[blueballsracing]

"can this bitch please shut the fuck up"

[vroomvroomsposts]

Austria never disappoints the lestappen nation! The holy ground!!!

[lestappenforever]

https://twitter.com/ferra_ria/status/1793211944691786040?t=izZB9JHjvzg2AYo8n7KuZA&s=19

uhm kinda a new fan here 😅 do you perhaps know about the fiasco in 2019 ??

Oh, you're in for a treat, anon.

The Great Lestappen Unfollowing of Austria 2019.

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Why are they dressed up???? Do they not get deja vu?????

[thearchercore]

Waiit, the inchident was charles' fault?

oh, dear. let's introduce you to charles' deep history of gaslighting max. it's rich.

the inchident video.

while the video made it seem like max was the insane one, he was not. charles was the one who caused it and pushed max into the puddle AFTER the chequered flag, which got them both disqualified. (max pushed him first earlier, but charles managed to wait till the end to push him when they didn't have to race)

then he managed to say it was "just an inchident" and refused to comment on it further while max was MAD since charles pushed him into the puddle first lol.

when charles got asked about it in an interview years later, he ignored the question about when he pushed him (if it was after the flag went up) and changed the topic lol. he's really trying to push the narrative it wasn't just him being bitter and acting out on track.

he also said during an F1 interview that “Max calmed down… quite a bit” when like?? brother you were the one who pushed him into a puddle!

a race later, they both got lectured to not act out like this again and charles refused to look at max and kept his helmet on during the entire conversation:

(from @il-predestinato)

another fun interview from their past is charles giving one of his first interviews in italian

charles said: "all of them [other drivers] have more experience than me, except for verstappen" like?? charles KNEW max had more experience but still consciously singled him out and SPECIFICALLY claimed that max was the least experienced one when everyone knew it wasn't true lmao

another instance is when max took the lead in austria in 2019 and stole charles' first possible GP win. charles thought the move max did was illegal and was mad to the point he LEFT THE PODIUM EARLY

then he "congratulated" max in the following ig post:

and right after unfollowed max while they were ON THE SAME PLANE.

charles then proceeded to repeat the "illegal" move max did on him in the following race since he had the precedent that it was legal now since max did not get punished.

so to quote @tsarinablogs "The best gaslighting Charles has ever done was to convince the people that Max was and is the insane one, not him"