my name is aki omegaslavic, i'm 22, slavic as you could guess and pretty new to f1 (started watching from interlagos 2025), she/her
i mostly lurk here, i'm more of a twitter person honestly, but when i'm in the right mood, i make content
i'm dedicated lecfosi, yet my relationship with ferrari is very complicated. when charles has good races i'm turning into an italian man, and when ferrari have their classic masterclasses i curse them endlessly
i absolutely love sebastian vettel, nico rosberg and fernando alonso. max verstappen is my elite employee
i'm multishipper and i'm very open to different ships and dynamics. my roman empires are sebchal, lestappen, brocedes, sebcedes in all variations, georgetoto, germancedes. i also really enjoy sebmark, oscmark, charlewis, geochal. these are just my favorites, i read almost anything if the concept of the fic is interesting enough
the only ships i say NO to: lestapiastri, maxcar, piarles, vernelli, chollie, lectonelli, seb/lance. my blog is not a safe place for top charles truthers (you're all wrong) and kimi antonelli fans (he's my mortal enemy rn)
DNI: standart criteria, post ai slop, charles haters, x reader accs
sometimes i think about nico rosberg stripping all the paint from his race helmet to reduce as much weight as possible.
nico rosberg intently studying his racing gloves and socks and cutting off every unnecessary bit and piece to make his race starts flawless.
nico rosberg hiring a harvard sleep psychologist to ensure he doesn't waste time being jet lagged because of constantly shifting timezones.
nico rosberg going for runs at any time required even if it was 3am or 4am to ensure his body clock adjusted to the timezone of the country he would be flying to several days in advance before the race.
nico rosberg sleeping in a different bed from his wife and not talking to his family for months because he would devote every waking second to his training.
nico rosberg giving up cycling, an immensely important form of cardio, so he could lose leg mass to save him 0.03 seconds of time and winning one of the most critical races of his career by those 0.03 seconds.
nico rosberg locking himself inside a hotel room to force himself to push harder after he lost the championship to his teammate three times in a row.
how he was once just a young boy who wanted to make it in f1. how he was supposed to be the chosen one because his father was a world champion so he was inevitably expected to make it to and succeed in f1. how he ended up being teammates with one of the best drivers who has ever raced in the sport. how they grew up constantly competing with each other, as teammates, but also as best friends.
how growing up, all the people around them and their karting bosses would always say lewis was the faster driver.
what that would have done to a little boy.
sometimes i think about nico rosberg being unable to eat anything but kelloggs frosties, his favourite cereal that he shared with his childhood best friend and rival a week leading up to his last race in f1, and the last battle they would ever have together.
nico rosberg immediately retiring once he finally won.
nico rosberg's first championship also being his final one.
how even after their worst fallouts nico told the interviewers lewis would always be his best friend. how when the interviewers told nico that lewis had said they weren't friends he refused to believe lewis had said that. how nico's heart dropped when lewis called valterri his favourite teammate. but what about me?
what it takes to get an f1 world championship, but also what the f1 world championship takes away from you.
there's just something so precious about the way Lewis looks at Charles š„¹š«¶š»
Charles Leclerc of Scuderia Ferrari celebrates after winning during the F1 Grand Prix of Italy at Autodromo di Monza on September 08, 2019 in Monza, Italy. (Credits to Getty Images)
After a year of lurking in the F1 fandom, I feel compelled to speak my truth: Nico Rosbergās LinkedIn page is the richest text that nobody is talking about.Ā
As the foremost Nico LinkedIn critical scholar* of our times, Iām begging someone, ANYONE, to get on my level with this.Ā
*[amount of time I've spent scrolling his posts redacted, but trust me, whatever you're thinking, it's more]
If youāre not in his target demo of loser, sorry I mean millennial-to-genX grindset startup bro with a hard-on for networking with venture capitalists, then youāre probably not in Nicoās LinkedIn circle and you might not know that he is ACTIVE. He is posting 2-3 times a week, he is responding to comments, this is his primary social media output, and the content isnāt crossposted anywhere else.
For years, his beat has been dreadfully boring stuff like ~optimising your performance for success in business~, and you should know that thematically he's currently mid-villian's journey, pivoting his content from ~here's how Europe can be a leader in sustainable transport~ to ~here's how we can use GenAI for literally fucking everything.~
His comment section is dozens of fintech reply guys engaging earnestly with his productivity tips and totally missing the POINT. The point being:Ā
breadcrumbs about his relationship with his dad (keke rosberg) and also his relationship with his dad (toto wolff), which are both totally normal you guys thanks for askingĀ
a surprising number of performative meditation photos, very important in order to prove why neuroscientists have given him such a good grade in brain activity
the sanitised-to-fit-the-current-brand, darkness-still-lurking-within brocedes of it all, which is usually something like: "during my @ Formula1 days, lewis brought out the most evil, self-loathing version of me on account of how perfect he was, which made me miserable, but thankfully also led me to a deep wealth of venture capitalist wisdom 10-15 years later!!!"
cheery framing of the most fucked-up psychological damage wrought upon man by professional sports and reinforced by the sexy, evil father figures in charge
I also need you to know that Nico is unintentionally HILARIOUS. He isnāt setting out to be funny. Heās earnestly trying to be insightful/inspiring. For him it IS that deep, itās the most serious thing in the world whether your mindset is primed to extract max performance from your douchey job. But oh my god does he wind up being funny.
Like, ok, how about illustrating a list of really obvious advice about bettersleep4betterresults with this selfie... conveying through eyebrow acting how unsatisfying his previous REM cycle was due to not following his own advice :(
Or a 40th birthday roundup of bland life lessons like 'great teamwork beats talent alone!' that obviously must be illustrated via slurping a vat of celery juice against decorative wallpaper (he likes this photo btw as it shows up in more than one post):
Or my personal favourite: his interpretation of the cliche advice that your business plan should be concise enough to fit on a napkin. Ah yes, I should have a napkin around here somewhere. Not a poor person's paper cocktail napkin, but how about this giant piece of nice fabric, which might actually be a pillowcase or perhaps a tablecloth? Surely it's fine to sharpie all over this and then throw it out? And definitely this exercise is about writing teeny tiny on an A4-sized surface so you can fit in as much as possible? Anyway, let's finish with a <3!
I also love when he experiments with style, like this brief foray into notes-app insights (didn't perform well, never tried again):
The wording of his posts is a dialect of its own, which has invaded my brain. He describes 1-3 things as āsuperā in every post, and itās unclear whether he is aware of other adjectives. He overuses exclamation marks and emojis. Most posts contain a simple message illustrated via an extremely tenuous link to an F1 anecdote, and he is tagging the official @ Formula1 LinkedIn page at even the slightest opportunity. Someone once gave him the tip to ask a question to drive engagement, and heās made that tip his religion.Ā
Once you start narrating your own life as a Nico LinkedIn post, itās super hard to stop! Itās super fun, like winning a @Formula1 Grand Prix, which Nico did on 23 memorable occasions. š Whatās a vocal tic youāve adopted from a girldad entrepreneur in his 40s? š¤ Let me know in the comments!Ā
Despite all this, Nico has kinda won me over? He is cringe and he is free and heās so himself. Thereās some really sweet tidbits in there when you go digging!!!Ā
He posts surprisingly often about both gender equality and karaoke - usually at separate times, but on one memorable occasion, together!
He comes across as really, genuinely loving of his family, invested in quality time with them, and supportive of their interests and successes. Like this - getting his wife to repeat the confidence-building phrases from her own childen's book when she's anxious! I find this very sweet!
And while he expresses it as though his every thought has been fed through a machine that increases corporatespeak and cheuginess by 175%, I have come to believe that he has genuinely self-actualised after retiring from the F1 torture machine, at least to the extent that he is trying to spend his one, wild, and precious life in a way that's authentic and meaningful to him.
I'll leave you with the one post so baffling it haunts me. The text is pretty innocuous and filled with his usual stuff: I love my family! Family time is more important than work! And luckily, family time will make you even better at work!
But ohhhhh my god the picture.
what on EARTH am I looking at here????? This monstrous creature has to be AI. Am I to believe that Nico and his young child have constructed a snow rabbit as tall as a pine tree???? with cartoon features not resembling any household objects one might use for a snowman face, questionable texture and colour gradients, and perfectly shaped (those paws!!) to an unlikely degree. This couldn't possibly be real snow???? And did he think we just wouldn't notice???? I have reverse image searched to compare it to real snow bunnies made by real human people and like... nico.... who are you trying to fool here...
The comments are equally insane work, like SIMPLE CRAFTS??? Are there LinkedIn bots? Surely these are not serious people.
And who I can only imagine to be the few fellow truthers... have been ominously ignored.
So like... has he made the entire story up? Has he 'built' the snowman on ChatGPT with his daughter, entirely undermining his put-down-your-phone thesis? Did he make a snowman but he was so ashamed by it that he felt the need to spruce it up in post? It's just such a bizarre thing to lie about... like... nobody was saying Nico, Nico, we simply must see the quality of the easter bunny snow sculpture you made with your children, without it we couldn't possibly take your word that enjoying simple moments with your family is a critical element of health, happiness, and productivity!
I'm not stupid, so I know there is a chance that every single post is written by GenAI and I have been duped into character analysis that is actually based on drivel written by a water guzzling soulless machine trained on self-help books. (Although I'll say that his style has remained pretty consistent for years, since before this would have been likely.)
He might also have never had the password to his own accounts, and this is the work of a social media girlie who texts him stuff like 'hey boss, when you get a sec could you pose with some green juice for me, and then maybe a second one looking really upset in bed?'
Or........ and maybe I am deluded by the unlikely degree of charming and fun I find him, but I do genuinely think there is just enough weird human decision-making here to indicate that this is the case..... is Nico typing out the earnest inner workings of his heart between networking happy hour and trackside commentary gigs and gruelling sessions with his philosopher-slash-psychotherapist-slash-mindset coach?
Regardless, like Nico I believe in the lifechanging power of gratitude, so uhhhhh. Thanks for posting the funniest content on the whole website, you corny, corny man!!
an underrated kink is corruption. i want to make you worse. i love to coax it all out of you and make you admit how hot you really think it is. donāt worry, no oneās going to find out. no oneās going to judge you. itās okay, you donāt have to fight it anymore. just let it get to you. you need this.
limiting this to ONLY teammate crashes when they were actually teammates, mostly because i'd be too tempted to include the fuji 2007 crash but am afraid of forgetting some other excellent pre- or post-teammates crash if i open that can of worms lol
turkey 2010 Obviously... the thing about seb and mark is that even that early in their time as teammates, seb was an incredibly sore loser and he watched mark win two races in a row, stared down the possibility of a hat trick, and he got SO desperate. at least lewis in 2016 endured 4 nico wins in a row (or 7! if you wanna count the final races of 2015) before pushing too far. i'm obsessed with the fact that things between them were already pulled so tight this early in their relationship, and also that red bull so sloppily tried to mend it.
spain 2016. as with sebmark and brocedes in my teammate rivalries ranking, i feel like this is probably the objective #1 but just slots in lower on my ranking because of the way that i am about seb and mark. but it's undeniably so good... the final implosion of brocedes. the fact that toto still isn't over it!
brazil 2019. i think this one is so tasty because of how catastrophic it was despite the minimal tap that seb actually gave charles. like sometimes the most nothingburger bump really is the final nail in the coffin of your time in a top f1 team
cota sprint 2025. saying this on my blog where my beloved followers know that i earnestly love both lando and oscar... the fact that, the same weekend that oscar gloated about lando having to face consequences for the tap in singapore, he proceeded to do a ridiculous switchback on lap 1 of a sprint to try to overtake and instead ended both of their races... it's funny. it's simply very funny. it also seemed like a necessary moment for them to reconsider the nuances of their rules of engagement, so i'm genuinely glad it happened.
baku 2018. sort of feels like daniel's version of brazil 2019 haha. there's something so delicious about the build-up to this one, you really feel for so long that daniel and max are on the brink of crashing until finally it happens.
