#but what u need to understand is ☝️ oscar jack is allergic to the narrative. that shit has nothing to do with him

[chelemlem]

How do we feel about mclaren making landoscar swap positions at oscar's home race

ngl as soon as i saw the gap closing + how much faster lando was i figured it was kinda inevitable ?? mcl was never going to let them fight so it was either swapping the cars or asking lando to hold position like ferrari which made noooo sense considering the tyre delta and how early on it was in the race when anything could happen. would've been a different situation with 8-10 laps to go, for eg

obviously oscar would've been somewhat annoyed (he wants to win! winning is the Most Important!) but as always i think he's pretty clear-eyed about these things and while a homerace podium would've been brilliant, i feel he understands qualifying lower means sometimes losing out on prime strat and they were better off bagging as many pts as possible as a team. the stakes simply aren't high enough at this point in time to justify any real on-track beefing.

rather than the team orders i think he'd have been more pissed about that self-inflicted lockup that put him on the grass and cost 4 seconds lmao. wouldn't have changed the end result but it was still an avoidable driver error and he could've potentially still gone for fastest lap w/o it

so yeah [zuko atla voice] that's_rough_buddy but this just means when he finally gets a home podium on merit it'll be that much sweeter :')