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[pondfalls]

emotional fault lines

lestappen | wag max, f1 driver charles | E | chaptered (tot. 80k)

“No relationship is perfect, especially when you have to meet in the middle. But I’m very happy.” “I gather your Max is not from your world, then?” the reporter gently presses for details. “Uhm.” Charles looks down at his hands and smiles. His Max. “I’ll just say that… I know how to drive, he knows Aristotle.” Or: Charles is a F1 driver, Max is doing his PhD at Cambridge. It really shouldn’t work. But, somehow, it does.

already fully written, 4 chapters in total, updates every friday!

[anemptyflask]

not to be that person, but which f1 driver has their insta comments looking positive? hadjar refusing to make nice with kimi while he was still in the car got him more hate than what kimi got for qatar. and you had toto wolff publicly flaming hadjar- another teams junior driver- for not immediately being gracious towards kimi after an incident and no one said a word.

liam lawson gets so much shit for stuff that isn't his fault- starting with getting daniels seat and then checos. no one had anything to say about that? it was his first year too. checos fanbase still harasses him when it isn't even his fault.his insta comments never look nice. hamiltons fanbase harassed gabi for being in a video with nelson piquet. every single driver has had hate directed towards them for stupid reasons. but merc and the fia only stepped up for one of them.

This is what I'm saying!! The coddling of Kimi is insane. Being in the public eye means being in the public eye. You're going to get criticized. But Kimi can't handle it. He cares too much what people think about him and spends too much time reading comments on social. I get it. He's a kid. He should get some allowances. But to say that he's had it worse than any other junior driver is a bold faced lie.

I'm not even an isack fan but he reacted fine? Like I don't blame him for not immediately accepting Kimi's apology. But you didn't see the fia coming to his aid.

And I will always scream about how Mercedes and Toto treated rookie and young Max. He received no grace and no help while being torn apart online and in the media pen. People were absolutely cruel to an 17-20 year old and he got double the hate Kimi has ever gotten.

So while I do have a soft spot for Kimi I'm so frustrated with the babyfication of him. He's not a toddler. He is a grown adult. You can hold him just as responsible as you would hold any other driver.

[norribobs]

JUST A BABY 🥹🥹

[currenthyperfixationsideblog]

"Kimi and Max had similar experience levels coming in to F1"

"Kimi skipped F3 just like Max"

Kimi pre-F1:

4 years of single seater experience (F4 2021-2022, Formula Regional in F3 cars 2023, F4 2024)

115 single seater races + 2 GT3 races (wikipedia)

~9000 KM of empty track private testing in the previous year's F1 car (planetf1)

Max pre-F1:

1 year of single seater experience (Florida Winter Series and F3 in 2014)

47 single seater races (wikipedia)

Max didn't equal the number of single seater races Kimi had participated in pre-F1 until mid 2018: 47 (F3) + 19 (2015) + 21 (2016) + 20 (2017) + the first 8 races of 2018. (formula1)

At the beginning of 2026, Kimi was at 139 single seater races. Race 139 for Max is mid 2019, specifically Hockenheim: 47 (F3) + 19 (2015) + 21 (2016) + 20 (2017) + 21 (2018) + the first 11 races of 2019. (formula1)

And if you don't think 2019 Max could do what Kimi is doing in 2026 in a rocket ship with an underperforming/unlucky teammate AND nearly every other top team driver being plagued with mechanical failures, please be fucking for real.

[efonefrog]

okay but what if gp carrying cat max around like this though

[countingstars-17]

kimi's video after kim kardashian stole his towel after the race in monaco 😭

[verstappenalty]

📸 vladimir rys

[verstappenalty]

crazy how if the fia just did what max said in the first they would save so much time and money in meetings and negotiations

[perpetua-locomotion]

thank you maFIA thank you FORMULA MAX THANK YOU

[verstappenalty]

📸 vladimir rys

[grogumaximus]

[verstappenalty]

📸 vladimir rys

[apropensityforcharm]

mintzlaff, mateschitz, yoovidhya and max all meeting in austria today. which could mean nothing.

[laura1633]

I always laugh at rumours about driver's contracts. And I always think most of it is gossip and people read too much into things. And then I always remember rolling my eyes at the Lewis to Ferrari rumours and then being proven completely wrong less than an hour later.

[sedicciardo]

like father like son 💤

[vegasgrandprix]

"dont you miss being so into formula 1" well i woke up to charles leclerc webweaves featuring bible verses referencing the betrayal of christ on my dash this morning and got to fall back asleep so idk man

[alsantsblog]

all of this detective work and tracking of every mode of transportation under the sun just for him to giggle and shrug and say "i always love to visit austria it is very beautiful" on thursday