People who use ai actually do deserve to be bullied relentlessly btw and you shouldn't baby anyone who tries to defend their use of it in fandom spaces. They believe they deserve recognition and praise for stringing a few words together in the plagiarism pollution machine, but all they deserve is to be spat on.
If someone doesn't have the skill and refuses to learn the skill to execute an idea they are not entitled to use ai to make all their uncreative little thoughts a reality. They should recieve nothing but hostility for thinking it's ok to trample on other people who put a lifetime of effort into learning the skills the ai scraped without consent to create it's worthless output.
Hey, so I have a quick update on what's happening with this page currently.
So, none of you will really have an understanding, but I am currently sitting exams at the minute. It's hectic, it's tiring, and do struggle to balance my life out with everything going on. I can only hopefully wish to continue to report on the races as the season goes on, even though I have missed Miami and Suzuka - two amazing races for Oscar Piastri and Kimi Antonelli.
I will get back round to writing more in the summer, but they might dry out again as I might be getting a bigger workload for next year, but we will see in June. I will give an update as of then. For now, I've still got an exam to go, but I will try and maybe write something about the races for the rest of the year, or the comeback of Oscar Piastri in 2026 (not confirmed ideas, just bouncing stuff around there <3).
If any of you want any articles - and are willing to wait a bit - on anything F1 related, or want a deep dive on a topic, send it in to my inbox. I would be willing to have anything.
Thank you everyone for all of your support with these articles, I hope you all enjoy whatever is to come for you today and from this blog in future.
Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.
That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.
"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.
This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.
Where's the fucking. The form. The fucking form. Hang on, lemme find it.
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If you read one thing today, let it be this article written by Valtteri.
He talks about his career but also, candidly discusses his eating disorder. Some people might not know about it since I feel he doesn't get the same amount of attention as other drivers, but he's touched on it in the past - and has been shot down by people like DC, trying to minimise it - but I think this is the first time I'm seeing him be so open in such a way. The photo accompanying that section is sobering. In a sport where unsavoury things are glossed over, it's extremely brave for him to talk about it so frankly.
He also talks about mental health, touches on obsession, his rivalry with Lewis, and depression. He ends with where he's at today, which we all can see is a much happier and healthier Valtteri, and I'm so glad that he is.
please read this - it was so refreshing to read. I can wholeheartedly agree with op on this one cause this article makes Valterri an even greater driver to me.
YOU! just reblogged smthing from my mainog and YOU are an F1 fan and YOU have a CARMEN SANDIEGOOOO pfp. this isnt really going anywhere except that WE should be friends because I clocked carmen like a dead wife and you! are also an f1 fan and you also reblogged a stab joke and I am fond of stab jokes
OMG I'm SAT! I genuinely have the existential though that the carmen sandiego fandom is DEAD! It's a total comfort show and is getting me through my folios and assignments currently. F1 is also currently ruining and making my life because I'm a merc fan, but an OP81 fan at the same time.
I also feel like now is the time to admit that this is my second blog, and I've been following you on my main for months now - you're content kept me alive during exam season.
We need to get gabbing. On both carmen and f1. My dms or whatever tumblr wants to call their message bit is open.
Chinese Grand Prix Race Report - 15/03/2026 - 1.7k
Note - This is later than I would've intended cause I didn't watch this live. Plus it's mother's day in the UK, so happy mother's day to any mum's out there reading this.
It’s official – China was chaos.
From sprint quali, to the finish line on Sunday, you couldn’t’ve had a more chaotic weekend than the thirteenth to the fifteenth of March, 2026.
To begin with, in the sprint we had three DNF’s; Nico Hulkenburg, Arvid Lindblad and Valterri Bottas separately. Lindblad and Bottas both went back to the pits mid-race, finishing in their garages, never bringing out a safety car. Hulkenburg though, spun, bringing out a safety car for many people to pit in the sprint race. Now generally, people do not pit in the middle of a sprint race, but considering the closeness of the speed at which both the Mercedes and Ferrari’s were running, a pit stop was a fair play from both teams.
The sprint then also had madness when it came to the running order throughout. A certain Mr Lando Norris, who started third, went backwards. Through pitting and Ferrari managing to bottle a double stack though, he ended up only one place back in the end in fourth, the only main highlight from his weekend. A similar thing happened with his teammate, the twenty-four-year-old from Melbourne only moving back 1 place overall in the sprint.
For the Mercedes and Ferrari’s though, the sprint let them flourish even more, widening the gap to the rest of the field. After a rocky start for Russell, where Lewis took the lead for a bit, very quickly, the older of the 2 silver arrows drivers took his spot back as King of the track. Overall, George Russell led the most of the nineteen sprint race laps, only getting a bit of a thrill at the start when he was fighting Lewis Hamilton for the top spot in the race.
This race is one that Hamilton has won before, the sprint being won by the brit last year, currently his only win in red. Russell on the other hand, has never won a sprint race until yesterday. Yes, spoiler alert, George Russell won the sprint, but only by about two tenths of a second, Hamilton coming in in a close second, nearly missing out on the podium though because of Ferrari bottling their pit strategy. By having the cars double stack in this sprint race, they Ferrari mechanics actually put the cars through more slowly, allowing the papaya car of Lando Norris to slip through. Luckily, of course, Hamilton did manage to climb his way back up the field to the podium position in this sprint.
To tell you the rest of the point positions, Charles Leclerc came in third, Lando Norris in fourth, Kimi Antonelli in fifth, Oscar Piastri in sixth, Liam Lawson in seventh and finally Ollie Bearman in eighth.
To finally get onto the race, we need to start with qualifying, where, to just tell you the headlines, Andrea Kimi Antonelli made history, being the youngest polesitter ever in Formula One. The young man from Bolonga, yes, can no longer be the youngest race winner, that title still being grasped onto by the Dutch driving machine of Max Verstappen, but he took the title of youngest polesitter. He took this title with quite a margin might I add, over two tenths faster than his teammate, George Russell. He also managed to bounce back from a penalty in the sprint, a 10 second one to be exact. Antonelli did end up serving this when he stopped for his pit stop, the Mercedes team successfully double stacking, unlike the prancing horses 2 garages down.
So, now we reach Sunday’s race, lights going out at a time in which I couldn’t be bothered to get up for. When I did get round to watching the race though, at a much more sensible hour, chaos had already been unleashed into the paddock. Before the race even started, we already had four people not racing; both McLaren’s, Alex Albon and Gabriele Bortoleto.
This is now the second weekend in a row where Piastri hasn’t even started the race, the man from Melbourne being wheeled off of the grid just before the formation lap started for the race. Last week, at Piastri’s home race, he ended up in the wall even before he got to the grid, never starting the race. A disappointing two weeks for his side of the garage. His teammate on the other hand, never even made it out the garage, the papaya team hopefully going to get him started up and off for a pit lane start for the race. Norris then ended up out of the car like his Aussie friend, both cars suffering from a technical issue
Those issues weren’t just solely affecting the McLaren team though – Williams and Audi already were experiencing issues before the race started with their own cars. Alex Albon, who’d suffered technical issues anyway throughout the weekend, was starting in the pit lane. Because of technical issues unknown to me though, he ended up out of the car and back in the garage, signalling to everyone in the stands that he wouldn’t be starting in the grand prix. Bortoleto was in a similar condition to Albon, except he was actually meant to be starting on the grid, never getting out of his side of the garage.
When the race did actually start, even more chaos ensued as Lewis Hamilton miraculously went around the outside of the two Mercedes, overtaking both cars and leading the first lap of the race. Through the fact that Brixworth has created a rocket ship for the German outfitter though, both of the silver arrows drivers managed to take their positions back from Hamilton.
With things looking steady though, the race had to descend into madness, with Hadjar spinning, Bearman having to drive around him, and then Lance Stroll causing a safety car. With this safety car, a large percentage of the rest of the field decides to pit for new tyres, to try and get them through the rest of the race. Last year, the Shanghai International Circuit’s tarmac wore down tyres impeccably fact, with the track doing a similar thing this year. Since the hard tyres weren’t wearing down as fast though, the people with the Pirelli compound deciding to not come in to pit.
With this strategy decision being made for many of the teams, drivers such as Esteban Ocon and Franco Colapinto were left out, the latter of the two drivers ending up in second as Kimi Antonelli managed to hold his position in first, even with a pit stop.
Speaking of the young Italian, once he managed to get past Hamilton, he had been left unbothered for the rest of the race, never really having to fight another driver until he started to lap a few cars in the last ten to fifteen laps.
Onto the topic of Max Verstappen, while Antonelli and Russell were getting annoyed at the Cadillac’s, the Dutchman started to suffer from technical issues. I rewatched the clip when Verstappen did lose power, and it seemed as if he changed gear/braked but couldn’t get it back up again. Of course, this then brought forth the fact that these new technical regulations are really messing with the sport. Three out of the seven drivers that never finished today all have world championships, with Fernando Alonso going back to the garage a few laps before Max. It’s a ridiculous statement to make, but shows just how bad the regulations actually are for this year.
As the chequered flag drew near, Kimi Antonelli did nearly not finish himself, oversteer taking hold and nearly sending him off and into the gravel. He managed to retake control though, and pushing past his mistakes, he drove the last few laps to see the best thing a leading driver could see – the chequered flag. His teammate, Russell followed a few seconds later and then Hamilton a few seconds after that, taking his first podium for the prancing horses. Mercedes, taking yet another 1-2 allowed them to max out on points for the grand prix, even with the penalty's mishap from yesterday.
The rest of the top ten are as follows; Charles Leclerc in fourth, Ollie Bearman in fifth, Pierre Gasly in sixth, Liam Lawson in seventh, Isack Hadjar in eighth, Carlos Sainz in ninth, and finally Franco Colapinto in tenth. This is Lawson, Hadjar, Sainz and Colapinto’s first points of the year, with Hadjar also crossing the finish line for the first time this year in China. It is also Franco Colapinto’s first points in the Alpine car, with him scoring no points at all last year.
These points earned by each of the drivers, of course contribute to both the driver’s and constructor’s championships. Your top ten in the driver’s championship are:
George Russell – 51 points
Kimi Antonelli – 47 points
Charles Leclerc – 34 points
Lewis Hamilton – 33 points
Ollie Bearman – 17 points
Lando Norris – 15 points
Pierre Gasly – 9 points
Max Verstappen – 8 points
Liam Lawson – 8 points
Arvid Lindblad – 4 points
Of course, now with the constructors, Mercedes and Ferrari obviously are topping the standings, Ferrari sitting thirty-one points behind the German outfitter on 67 points (please don’t make the joke, make 87 instead). Mercedes, if you do the maths, have earned 98 points so far this season. The rest of the championship is in the following order:
McLaren – 18 points
Haas – 17 points
Red Bull – 12 points
Racing Bulls – 12 points
Alpine – 10 points
Audi – 2 points
Williams – 2 points
Cadillac – A very respectable 0 points (Both Checo and Bottas finished and they’re new, it’s respectable)
Aston Martin – 0 points (something not very respectable)
We must now recognise that even as we go into a non-race week before the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka, that both the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian grand prix have been cancelled. It is horrific to think about the acts of war that are being committed currently in the middle east – no one should have been put in this position. It is corrupt leaders that have led us to this point where there will be no Formula One in the month of April. Over that period, I will try to put out some ‘beginner’s guide to F1’ posts to guide any new fans that happen to find me (thanks for reading btw) and fill the time there.
For now, let’s just ship the trophies to Brackley and hope not too much drama goes on in the F1 world this week.
any reblogs would be amazing at this point and it helps push my writing forward in this space, thanks!
Note: Trying to build a folio for Uni coursework, so please read at your own will. Trying to make this a bit of a series to get really quite good at journalistic reports.
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has been and gone; lights out in Australia.
To say it was an eventful race is definitively an understatement, as the chaos the ensued before the lights even went out was insane as both Oscar Piastri and Nico Hulkenburg never even started.
In the case of the twenty-four-year-old Piastri, there was an apparent torque spike as the Australian made his way to the grid. Clearly, if you’ve seen the damage of his car, it’s obvious that he would’ve never started the race. Breaking the hearts of many, people watched on as the young man from Melbourne raised his hands to his helmet, getting out of the car before taking the wander back to the pit lane.
This is now the second time that incontrollable forces have wrecked Piastri’s race, with just last year, when he was set to take the podium, the young man spun onto the grass. Nearly never finishing, the crowd cheered Piastri on as he made his way from the back of the pack to P9. He even managed to get an amazing overtake on Lewis Hamilton, earning him the overtake of the month award for March. Sadly though, it does seem like the Australian Grand Prix to Piastri, is now once cursed like the Monaco Grand Prix was for Leclerc.
For Hulkenburg, he just couldn’t start the car, the German side of the Audi garage unable to even get to the grid like Piastri. Clearly again a technical issue as the thirty-eight-year-old sat in his car as the rest of the German constructor tried and failed to start his car. This year’s finishing position for Hulkenburg is a large downfall, the German placing P6 last year.
The rest of our DNF’s followed shortly, Hadjar stopping due to mechanical issues, similarly with Bottas a few laps later. Both Aston Martin drivers, as predicted by many, struggled throughout the race, eventually succumbing to the technical issues, ending up out of the race. The team eventually, separately sent their drivers out again, but failed as they wanted to protect the majority of the technical parts for the cars.
Overall, the rest of the pack finished with a few minor scrapes at most, some probable penalties needing to be deliberated at the stewards. The front of the pack is in stark contrast to the rest of the field though, the top six coming away clear and clean, no harsh racing ever done. Yes, the Mercedes of George Russell and Ferrari of Charles Leclerc fought for a while, the two drivers overtaking each other consistently for about ten to fifteen out of the fifty-eight laps.
These 2 drivers clearly were set for the podium from the beginning, Leclerc getting the jump on Russell only because of a dead battery for both Mercedes drivers when the lights went dark. The newly married Leclerc on the other hand, looked to have a fully charged one, belting ahead of the 2 Mercedes, the second of the Ferrari’s coming sharply in behind.
It did look for quite a while like the prancing horses would take the win, but through a shot strategy from not taking a VSC pit, they lost time to the rocket ships of a Mercedes. Remember how I said that Hadjar had to stop because of smoke coming out of his car? Yeah, well that caused the safety car that caused a win to yet again slip away from Ferrari’s hands.
While everybody else pit, the Ferrari’s stayed out, not even splitting their strategy. This turned out to be something very reminiscent of the fumble in which McLaren made back in Qatar last year.
So, everybody pits, Ferrari stays out for longer, eventually pitting, and even more people DNF. This ended up taking the grand total to six non-finishers by the end of the race. Antonelli also manages to hold his own against Lewis Hamilton, someone over twice the young Italian’s age, working his way up to second. During all of this, Lando Norris, the now lone McLaren has gone back, and then fought his way up to fifth, and Max Verstappen from twentieth, has managed to claw his way back up into the points again.
This is now the third time in the last 3 years in which Verstappen has made a gigantic climb up the field. Two of those incidents featuring at the Brazilian Grand Prix, where he, back-to-back, climbed up the field to the podium.
This though, was also an amazing drive from Norris as he, with no help or support from a teammate, held off Verstappen. No carefully orchestrated strategy, just raw race craft. Norris isn’t my favourite driver, his Aussie teammate is, but it’s undeniable that the racing that we all witnessed – whether it be at one in the afternoon, or four in the morning – was immaculate. If he doesn’t take the championship again this year, Norris has certainly cemented himself in the history books by evidence of his race craft from today.
Verstappen is a force to be reckoned with, and while the old dogs (Ferrari and Mercedes) were fighting again, Norris was giving a masterclass in defence as he held the number three driver back, all the way till the end.
When the chequered flag was waved though, Norris’ defence of Verstappen went forgotten though, as the top 3 ended up as George Russell taking P1, the nineteen-year-old Andrea Kimi Antonelli taking P2, and Charles Leclerc finishing the podium in P3. Hamilton just slipped off the podium in P4, with Norris tying off the top 5. The top ten is then finished off with the following five; Verstappen, Bearman, Lindblad, Bortoleto and Gasly, all boys ascertaining points at Albert Park.
We also have the topic of the constructor’s championship to cover, since the top ten of the driver’s championship is whatever the top 10 of the race was.
Mercedes, taking the one-two in the race are sitting proudly in first place currently on forty-three points as Ferrari sits fifteen points behind the German outfit. McLaren then follows behind on the ten points scored by Norris and Red Bull then with the eight from Verstappen. The rest of the teams follow like this:
Haas – 6 points
Racing Bulls – 4 points
Audi – 2 points
Alpine – 1 point
Williams – 0 points
Cadillac – 0 points
Aston Martin – 0 points
So now, as we head into the week of the Chinese Grand Prix, there will be 2 questions plaguing people this year: Do we just ship the trophies to Brackley for Mercedes and George Russell to take the glory? Or will it finally be Ferrari’s year and Charles Leclerc will get his first?
We certainly don’t know now, but we have 23 more races to find out.
any reblogs would be amazing at this point and it helps push my writing forward in this space, thanks!
