#simply carlos

[terranovathemust]

I was so close...

[dreamysletters]

F1 drivers as text messages pt.3

[guardian-angle22]

Appreciation Post for Carlos' Sleepwear in 5.08

[losvroomvroom]

putting this here for posterity

[fairylando]

OH GEORGE RUSSELL IS ON FIRE AND IM LIVING FOR THIS????

and im crying for carlos' face here😭😭

[more-mara]

Carcar sketch based on this image that I’m not confident enough to complete lmao.

[shitapril]

if carlos can dive straight into testing for williams a day after driving his last race for ferrari and look that good doing it, surely I can whip out a little piece of it from scratch ?

[heck]

lmao IMAGINE being the kind of person who thinks Carlos is more valuable to a team than a SEVEN TIME WORLD CHAMPION

[unstatedmartini]

you guys do realize that canonically tk has never blamed his parents even tangentially for his addiction, right? you get that's entirely a fandom thing, right? there is no reason for tk to have blamed his parents in the conversation with the social worker because he doesn't blame his parents

tk definitely did experience significant sadness and loss in his childhood, and he has confronted both parents over the pain they caused him both when he was a child and when they've hurt him as an adult, but canonically he has never said or implied that he places any responsibility whatsoever on them for his illness. so please consider that it's also a form of ableism to insist that you can totally tell the obvious simple cause of someone's complex chronic illness and that they must be lying if they don't agree with you

[f1-stuff]

Austrian GP '24 // P3 Finish

“Obviously, [the podium] comes [as] a bonus...because, if not, I think we would have been probably P5 on the road, which is where we were expecting to finish, as Oscar sooner or later was always going to pass us in the McLaren... But we put a solid race together, and we're on the podium, so...happy."

[554ever]

I thought this was a wedding or something 🥹💙❤️

[indy-500]

I open Pinterest, I see a vintage item with fun design, and I think ooh what if I f1-ed it

[dreamysletters]

F1 drivers as text messages pt.4

< pt.3

[guardian-angle22]

This or That: Tarlos Edition -> Loft or townhouse?

[whathappeninglestappen]

I have a question. When the drivers do the fan stages before a race, F1 usually has two teams go at the same time (for example, I’ve seen Alpine and Ferrari go together before). Why don’t Ferrari and Red Bull ever go together?

Can you imagine Charles and Max on the stage together. Laughing when asked silly questions or blushing when they look at each other.

Lestappen interacting during a fan stage would be simply lovely. 😊

[inchidentally]

this is such a sweet quote and Lando's said exactly the same as well <3<3

but askfgsalfg why is this proving what I've kinda been suspecting and Zak doesn't rly fit in with landoscar and has largely not had as much to do w the driver partnership as he used to

we already knew from Andrea that Lando and Oscar do their own little separate debriefs and they were so excited about getting their own door separating them from everyone where it used to be in a shared hallway (including Zak)

but the golf, the dinners and the marketing stuff is all referring to Carlos' and Daniel's eras. Oscar couldn't even be bribed to play golf, is literally famous for not wanting to do marketing/contrived PR content and not being good at it, and the only "dinner" situation after Hungary was Lando and Oscar eating fast food with other drivers and then playing board games with Alex on the flight home ?? we also know that these debrief dinners don't happen otherwise bc Oscar usually goes home to sleep or out with Lily and Lando goes out being a very single guy or gaming w Max and BanKai etc. that post race debrief finishes and those two peace OUT. and tbh the amount that they've chosen to fly together to and from things now Oscar lives in Monaco, they've taken even more of that debriefing into their own hands!

like I just get the vibe that Zak doesn't rly have the boys club anymore and Andrea being Dad to his two kids is how things are rly being managed. even down to him sometimes wanting to be the bad guy that the two kids bond over hating sometimes even tho they love Dad really. that's just not a dynamic I see Zak fitting into. (and ngl probably some of the Daniel era in particular those tensions needed to be managed between him and Zak but aaaaaanyway)

I say this as someone who fully expects Lando and Oscar to have normal teammate fights at some point where there's the strong words to the media and angry radios etc etc - the fact that they decided so early on in their relationship to do a teammate version of 'private but not secret' couple thing of keeping fans and media out of their business, both good and bad, means they're absolutely discussing and strategizing about this (bc especially after alpinegate and taking Daniel's seat, it would've been very handy and easy for them to go a bromance angle!). which as a charlos veteran and also someone who knew the Max and Lando fight would blow over faster than anyone thought it would, I'm never going to be fazed by a fight between Lando and Oscar - but I'm also just not sold on it ever getting as out of control as so many people want/expect it to. and I feel that way partly at least bc I think there's been sort of a gen z gender neutralling happened to McLaren bc of this partnership (not as much of the usual of masculine/boys being boys energy*)

but also bc there's only one big personality/celebrity instead of two. off the track, Lando and Oscar perfectly compliment each other's personalities including how their friendship is a quiet thing rather than a big media-beloved bromance so they don't have the burden of managing fan expectations and reactions about it. you can kind of parallel it with the Lando and Max fight last season bc those two are genuinely involved in each other's lives as friends and spend the most time with each other than any other driver, including Lando being a regular fixture in Max's little family - but Max doesn't do PR at all so a lot of people still don't know how close they are. so the assumption was that their fight was this massive thing and the end of their relationship but a lot of us were like pfffff this'll blow over and Penelope's uncle will be back before she could even notice.

in the same way, Lando and Oscar doing all their bonding time out of the public eye and being the only two people who truly know how they feel about each other at any time means they are the only authority anyone should listen to! when they say 'fight over' they mean fight over! when they giggle and laugh waiting for a plane together after Monza or smile in relief at each other immediately after getting out of the cars in Hungary, then that's the truth! they're choosing not to let fans and the media in on this so that fans or the media can't feel they know better and contradict them!

and that's where I think Zak is more on the outside of things too. when even Andrea is like yea these boys are talking about things before speaking to their own teams then it feels like that's a real shift away from the explosive teammate dynamics everyone keeps referring to.

*which I'm not saying is inherently bad or toxic! esp since the dynamic of it with Lando and Carlos and Daniel was of scrungly little brother and adoring loud big brother <3