#as a social scientist I have to principally reject any theory that implies ppl r fundamentally coded to act in any way 😅

[blorbocedes]

what do you think is the most defining reason brocedes fell apart? i've always been of the opinion that they could've come back from the mind games and all the hurtful shit they said to and about each other in the press (with time) but they couldn't come back from the fact that lewis hated losing/being second to nico. also i've seen some people say that, they wouldn't of fell apart as badly if they were on different teams but i disagree. i think they would've ripped each other apart no matter if they were on the same team or not. it's just the nature of brocedes y'know, to rip apart the thing you love. (god fuck now i;m thinking of that one poem that's like "have you ever killed something good for you just to be certain that you're the reason you can no longer have it?" auuugh head in hands head in hands)

hm I disagree very heavily. brocedes fell apart because they were in the same team competing for the championship. they've been in the same team before! they literally karted for 2 years together in the same team and they were best friends. even in 2013 when the merc wasn't good enough for the championship, they were buddy buddy as teammates trading a handful of wins. in 2008 when they were on different teams they did interviews about their friendship, lewis spun nico around for his and their first podium together.

if they were competing from different teams for the championship in 2016, I can see brocedes turning out more like sewis where they'd be rivals on track but cordial and even friends off it.

they're not ontologically coded to rip each other apart. the problem was mercedes, that both drivers felt the other was being more favoured while merc officially maintained there's no first driver. it's also the very unique circumstances that the hybrid era merc dominance meant they were each other's only rivals for most of the time. there was no fighting against the rest of the grid which forces you to work together, your biggest rival is your teammate, and that made things toxic. every weekend was swapping 1-2s but even the engineers and driver teams started viewing the other side of the garage as their competitors. it's also the fact that nico put up a hell of a fight, if there had been a clear gap like lewis and valtteri (even without team orders) then nico could've been forced to swallow the second driver role like mark webber.

ultimately it's a very simple story of there can only be 1 winner, and they both wanted to win.