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[dylanobrienisbatman]

I'm watching Pulse on Netflix and oh my god i need to kill this man get him AWAY from her !!!!

[cassandra-reborn-anew]

every time Max shows up on drive to survive the dramatic music turns up to a 10 like he’s the final boss

[laura1633]

Imagine being a motorsport journalist and saying “There is nothing at all in motorsport fandom that makes me more uncomfortable than the frankly huge amount of fanfiction imagining relationships between racers”

Yeah because fanfiction is the real problem in motorsport that should make people uncomfortable, not any of the misogyny or racism or homophobia or abuse that goes on.

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car

[lealu]

the fact that max verstappen will probably retire at the end of the year hurts so much because it's the SPORT that has gotten worse, not him. he is still the best, was potentially getting better even. the new regulations have destroyed not only his passion for f1 but also mine as a fan.

[wingeddreamerangel]

Norris said yesterday that he didn't actually want to overtake Hamilton in the race but his car just decided that was when it was going to deploy the battery so he had no choice but to overtake and by the time he actually wanted to overtake he didn't have the battery he needed.

The drivers can't race the way they want to which is maximizing time in the corners or late breaking moves or overtaking in the corners because they have to harvest battery in the corners so basically they can't actually drive their cars.

Now they're saying they can't even choose when to harvest the battery and when to deploy the battery. So the cars are basically driving themselves or in other words being driven by systems and the FIA and the FOM wants us to believe this is somehow improving the quality of racing? Bullshit

If you still don't understand why everyone is so pissed about the regs, let me give you a couple of examples:

1. Max's crash in Australia qualifying when his car decided to kill him by aggressively harvesting energy before the first corner.

2. Same thing but with Oscar before race start that took him out of the race.

3. Race starts where multiple drivers have been unable to start properly because their battery wasn't fully harvested or their turbo wasn't completely spooled putting not only them but everyone behind them in danger of a serious crash.

4. Ollie Bearman's crash in the Japanese gp where he's trying to overtake Colapinto by deploying his battery but Colapinto is harvesting energy so the difference in speed is so massive that Bearman had to crash just so he didn't crash into Colapinto and take him out too.

I'm sure there are more incidents that I'm missing, maybe they happened before the race even started and I didn't see them like Oscar's incident or maybe I don't remember them but guys, this is race three. How many more of these 'incidents' do we have to see before they do something about it?

I remember talking about this in pre-season testing as well, how so many experienced drivers were against these regulations because they were so anti racing and even Charles has talked about how these regulations take away all of his ability to perform in one lap and qualifying.

I said back then that I don't see Max being around after his contract ends in 2028. We're now 3 races in and honestly I think he'll retire after this year if things stay the way they are. I would be happy if he retires to be completely honest because this feels like we're watching Formula 1 actually burn itself into the ground and none of the people who can stop it care about what's happening.

[verstappenverse]

[maxtism]

i actually think its incredibly inspiring that max is refusing to talk to that interviewer and im so serious. i think more drivers should refuse to answer stupid bad faith questions and are allowed to refuse the interviewers from attending afterwards. i think its bullshit that these drivers THESE PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES are forced to deal w insidious people like these as part of their job, while their real job is driving a car. again, hope more drivers follow suit i’m not just saying this as a verstappie but as someone w a background in communications/argumentations/rhetorics and as a sports fan🙂‍↕️

[verstappenverse]

It’s worth pointing out that Hamilton has also previously refused to speak to Giles Richard’s so there’s clearly a wider issue here with this particular journalist and to be careful with your moral high ground

[verstappenverse]

The reaction to this Max Verstappen journalist situation is honestly so over the top.

Athletes manage their press lineup all the time the only difference here is that he did it publicly.

It’s his own press conference if he doesn’t want a certain journalist asking questions, that’s his choice. People say “journalists can ask anything,” but act like drivers aren’t allowed to answer how they want or choose to not answer at all.

Being in that room is a privilege, not a right. If you’re asking loaded questions and then laughing/smirking about it don’t be surprised if you get shut down.

And the idea that the media should boycott Max… as if that wouldn’t be his dream come true 😭

[maxterclass]

re: overtaking discourse

for me, the new regs take the excitement out of overtaking because you know the move's not gonna stick unless the car is much faster to begin with. the driver won't be able to defend the gained position because, as much as he might have the skills, he won't have the power to do so. it cuts down the racecraft element significantly and produces this low stakes back-and-forth effect which is flashy and entertaining on the surface i suppose, if you don't dwell on the reasons behind it.

a Lot of people got offended when max said that those who enjoy this don't really understand racing, but it's the harsh truth. conversely, i think the artificial overtake boost is actually perfect for grabbing the attention of casual viewers who don't really know or care about the intricacies of the sport, but it's exactly what fom seems to be after. they like the entertainment factor, they're having fun watching the pass-repass-pass-repass spectacle for lap after lap, and at the end of the day who am i to tell you that you shouldn't, especially if it's your team/driver that's involved in the battle. but combine that with drivers being punished for taking risks and driving to the limit, inadvertently being rewarded for errors because battery is king and relying on software to determine their best laps, and you will find that real hard racing this is not.

my final two cents: i understand the desire to level the playing field to make the racing closer and more exciting, i really do. i understand introducing new rules and gimmicks to help with that. but the aim of f1 racing should not be to artificially close down the skill gap between the drivers and make the car performance take over. if anything, we should strive for the opposite.

[mxverst]

[shoot-the-gap-deactivated202604]

Hoping and praying red bull gets their shit together quickly enough that we'll get the beautiful moment when max wins a race and theyre doing the immediate post-race interviews and you get the cheeky question "so do you like the regulations NOW 😉 eh Max" and we all get to watch as Max smiles the post-win smile, takes a deep breath, and rocket launches into a full tilt haterism rant so beautiful that if we're lucky he'll get fined for disrespecting the sport or something

[moon-brain-90]

I'm mentally beginning to clock out of this race(honestly maybe this season😅) but it's really disappointing how much these regs ruin everything that made this sport interesting. So much about overtaking is just who has the most battery. There's an illegal engine, we are back to what made 2025 boring. 1 car dominance. I don't even bother with quali anymore, bcs any last minute savior laps are gone. Am I a complainer maybe, but I just wish it was an actual good reg set. Driver car just dying every race thus far. Nothing good abt it to me

[dannielricciardo]

the fact that max gained 14 places and my main question is "why not a podium??" is the type of greed they speak about in the bible

[faggotfungus]

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

[accidental-memory]

Overnight it will become illegal for trans people in Kansas to drive their cars. They can be arrested and, if convicted, face upwards of 6 months in prison with a $1000 fine. While in prison, as this is Kansas, they will be jailed according to their gender at birth. If they try to flee the state without surrendering their license, they cannot get a new one in a different state until they surrender their old one because the licenses are part of a national registry. And this is part of the bathroom bounty bill, which allows people to sue anyone they think is in the wrong bathroom.

[socialistexan]

This coming out just days after it was revealed in the Jeffrey Epstein email dump that powerful people manipulated American and British news, political figures and forums to push transphobia to distract from people looking at their child abuse ring.

This includes chief anti-Corbyn-ite in Labour Peter Mandelson, directly feeding anti-trans stories to UK and US newspapers, actively bullshiting "biological studies" that trans people are idk ontologically evil (we have proof of Epstein pitching this exact thing), and creating /pol/ and then feeding anti-trans conspiracy theories for years until it all boiled over.

And over and over we found out each plank of this argument was rotten from the start but people are choosing to keep the bigotry.