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WORST FUCKING PODIUM💩

babysdrivers

ffs max why couldn't you have spun in front of blando

princemick

istg im going to kill lando in his sleep with a fucking sledge hammer im so serious

iluvoscarpiastri

i think we need to have a conversation about how well arvid’s been doing. i feel like the commentators and fans of f1 in general haven’t bern giving him the due credit. he’s managed to consistently be in the top 10, he’s had multiple points finishes and he’s clearly outperforming his car. all at the age of 18! he’s so insanely talented and i can’t wait to see how he grows as a driver.

STOP THE COUNT 164481 IS MY PERFECT PODIUM!!!

#belgian gp 2026 #f1 #formula 1 #charles leclerc #lewis hamilton #oscar piastri

5 sec time penalty wtf?????? when it was a lap 1 racing incident????? tf???

once again wishing for verstappen engine to go poof

mecachrome

oscar vs. golf ⛳️🚫

#he's so real #😌✨️#oscar piastri

elision

"So, what would fandom etiquette for journalists actually look like?

At the very least, it means asking permission before embedding fan art or linking directly to fan fiction in coverage. It means thinking twice before asking actors or artists to react to ships or explicit fan creations. It means considering whether a fan reasonably expected their work to stay within the community it was made for. Most importantly, it means treating fandom spaces like real places inhabited by real people, many of whom seek out these spaces precisely because they offer a sense of belonging they may not find elsewhere.

Fandom does not need to remain in the margins to deserve respect. But if journalists are going to cover this subject, and we should, we have to be willing to approach these spaces with the same care, ethics, and nuance we would bring to any other community. Because behind every fic or piece of fan art is someone saying, 'This mattered to me.' Did it matter to you too?"

Crystal Bell - "The Pitt" fans aren't happy with journalists. We need real etiquette when reporting on fandom" Teen Vogue, April 9, 2026

three--rings

I will say the one time one of my fanfictions was linked to in an online article, they asked my permission first. If you're going to use fanworks in your published piece (video or text) you need to be asking permission.

georgie63russell

u slog away in a williams for 3 years and when u finally get the chance to go to mercedes ur in the shadow of ur 7x wdc teammate and when he finally leaves, ur younger teammate starts winning everything, leaving u in the shadows

now tell me, are u george russell or nico rosberg

#SHSHJDJDJJDJEJHDH

charles-leclerc-official

It's crazy how the safety of the macarena style wing in it's design philosophy is being called into question when one team using it literally won the race.

Ferrari has spent months testing this wing, and did run into many issues with it during practices which is why they kept delaying bringing it. The version we have of this wing now is a result of a lot of trial and error. It's clearly possible to build this style of wing for performance and safety.

Red Bull on the other hand copied Ferrari and fell short. There were concerns that their version of this wing was better than Ferrari's at first. But it seems that any differences they tried to innovate sacrificed stability and or accuracy.

And to be fair the problems Red Bull has seen with Max's car these last two races might not even be due to the style of the rear wing at all. It could be the thing just isn't closing properly, or the timing is off, or some other factor of their aero altogether.

charles-leclerc-official

I guess the main concern from the FIAs perspective would be that if they feel that if more teams try this style of rear wing, how many will get it right in terms of safety? If everyone tries to copy Ferrari and they all fall short on the safety end of things, then I can see how that's a problem.

However, there is nothing saying teams have to try this solution and if it does seem like it's harder to get right than first thought then they should try something else. No one's saying Red Bull or any other team have to use a macarena style wing.

regina-del-cielo

If someone is interested in the strict engineering nerdery Gary Anderson wrote a piece on The Race about this

Banning the Macarena wing on safety concerns because one team had two accidents with it feels scandalous. Considering the kind of people that work on these cars, they should be able to understand if a device is beyond their factory's capabilites - nobody in the midfield even thought about that, even though it would probably help. Mercedes doesn't need it. McLaren, who woke up yesterday with their own project, saw that they weren't ready and benched it. If it's a wing problem, Red Bull should do as Ferrari did after FP1 in China - take it off the car, put the old style wing on, and take it back to the factory until they are 100% sure nothing is going to happen again

(Also let's be real, the FIA let Aston Martin drive around the track even while the vibrations were so bad Fernando couldn't feel his fingers anymore. They don't have much of a leg to stand on)

Now I'm not an expert, but the context of the accidents makes me think it's not (just) a wing problem. They both happened immediately after Red Bull brought their massive chassis upgrade - they almost rebuilt the car from scratch - and in two instances where Max was pushing like crazy (second Q3 run in Austria, 7 seconds behind P2 on softer tyres with 10 laps to go at Silverstone). And they happened only to Max, who we know likes to go extreme with the setup if the car is objectively inferior to the ones around him

I'm more inclined to think that it's more complex than just the wing. For Ferrari's sake, I hope I'm right