#anthoine hubert

[anemptyflask]

Sometimes I think about how Max crashed in Spa 2019 the day after Anthoine Hubert died there and then I think about Charles racing engineer trying to calmly tell him that Max had gone into the wall but he was okay and out of the car and not to worry and Charles responding "good. I mean good he is okay". I think about it a lot actually

[abcwordsurge]

plus a bonus rafalisha

[ravenscamander]

(I cannot believe that I am actually back to posting these kinds of things but here we FUCKING are I guess. Roll the fricking tape)

I will preface this as always with the comment that I will not tolerate ANY hate or slander or whatever other stupidly cruel thing the internet can come up with on this post. Against ANYONE. That includes ALL drivers and ALL FANS and also MYSELF. I will block you and if it's feasible also report you. If you so desperately want to be mean GO DO IT SOMEWHERE ELSE. You have been warned. I will not tolerate. Any. Fucking. Shit.

If you're on board with that or can at least shut up if you're not, this post is about F1 drivers crashing and how we as fans handle that. I will also be swearing a lot probably so look out for that

Now, those who know me are probably aware that I mostly support Ferrari here. That has a bunch of reasons that I won't get into because they're not relevant and also I don't fucking need a reason to like a goddamn sports team. IT'S SPORTS

Anyway so yeah I like Ferrari and I like Charles Leclerc and as such I am of course pretty devastated currently, more so than usual because let's be real there's a constant baseline of depression anyway. This is however not about him specifically.

(Although I do want to mention that some of y'all need to calm down and maybe listen to him?? If he says it was his fault then you gotta believe him like that's our guy who else are you gonna believe if not him? I know it's sad, but don't be weird about it please. It makes all of us look bad.)

What this is about is the fact that I have seen only ONE person in this whole fandom apart from myself say ANYTHING about the fact that it was a pretty bad crash??

Now I will admit that 1. I did not watch actual TV coverage because I have zero means to access it currently and 2. I've not been online a lot after seeing quali results because of course I knew the internet would turn into a cesspool over this (and I was right). So maybe a lot of people are actually talking about this and I just missed it, but even if so, my point still stands.

We need to talk more about the fact that every crash in Formula 1 is a FUCKING CAR CRASH. Do you know how many people die of that shit every year??? A LOT. MANY MANY PEOPLE DIE OF THIS.

And the fact that we somehow forget this with F1 crashes is of course a stellar testament to all engineers who have ever worked on driver safety in this sport and all motorsports but still. For a lot of the history of this sport drivers being devastatingly injured or LITERALLY DYING was horrifyingly normal. Have you ever looked at the Wikipedia list of F1 drivers who died while doing F1? IT'S TOO LONG. IT'S TERRIFYINGLY LONG. Especially for a sport with a relatively very small number of athletes. I'm sure someone has done math on what the surviving-driver to dead-driver ratio is but I cannot provide that service because math's not really my thing. Regardless, for the longest time a crash in F1 meant death or heavy injury. Even crashes that we perceive as pretty minor nowadays.

Which brings me to my point. Charles' crash today wasn't really minor. Yes, it was also not extremely huge but if I understood correctly it was big enough that they sent out the medical car and they don't fucking do that just for shits and giggles. Now he evidently seems to be completely unharmed, which again THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER DONE DRIVER SAFETY. That's great news!! But this doesn't mean we can just ignore it!

Like genuinely how. How have I only seen one singular person go "hey btw thank goodness he's alright". Because that always, ALWAYS, needs to be the first thing we think about with these things! This is not funny. This is not a FUCKING joke. These people are putting their literal LIVES on the line for your fucking entertainment how fucking DARE you laugh at this. How dare you be cruel and mean and so goddamn ANNOYING about it. Yes they get paid a shit ton of too much money for this job. It's still a human life. It's still a HUMAN.

When you see a driver go off into a wall like that and the first thing you think of is how funny of a meme you can make on the internet about it, or how great you can ragebait his fans about it, or god forbid your first thought is "good I hope he can't race next weekend" (which I have seen and let me tell you I nearly physically threw up because it made me so mad). Then let me remind you:

PEOPLE. HAVE. DIED. DOING. THIS.

FREQUENTLY

The last fatal crash we had was in 2014, if we only count "actual" F1 races (because we will better not fucking forget the supporting series either. Anthoine Hubert I never saw you race but I will not forget you). It's been 12 years. I get it. I get that that's a long time and that most of us probably weren't in the sport yet back then. I wasn't!! I was literally a child. But also, 12 years is not actually that long. It really isn't. A child born on the day of that crash is still a child today. No matter how safe these cars are nowadays the risk is NEVER zero. The last fatal crash before the one in 2014 that eventually took Jules Bianchi's life was literally Ayrton Senna. There were over 20 years between those two accidents. And listen. I hope. I hope I hope so much that Jules Bianchi was the last one. Forever. But we don't know. We never know. Maybe this time we wait thirty years or fifty until someone dies again. WE CAN'T KNOW.

These drivers do this because they want to. They love it enough to accept the risk that they might die in their car. But that does not mean we can ignore the risk. It does not mean that laughter is EVER the correct first response. Laugh if you must (and you can probably tell that I also don't like that much already), but laugh with the knowledge that the person you make fun of could have died just then. Remind yourself of that. This is true for ALL drivers, ESPECIALLY the ones you don't like. It doesn't matter if it's Charles Leclerc. Or Lance Stroll. Or Logan Sergeant. Or Latifi or even fucking Mazepin and I hate that guy. Arguably, it matters even more with the drivers that crash more often.

Because every time they do, they too know "I could have died just then". And yet they still put on the helmet again. Look at Grosjean!! He might not be in F1 anymore but he's still racing. Even after what happened to him. If nothing else at least appreciate that level of conviction and/or insanity (what really is the difference anyway).

Remember them. Remember their names. Remember Bianchi and Senna and Ratzenberger and Villeneuve and de Angelis and Cevert and Rindt and von Trips and Collins and all the others. And remember that the person you so flippantly make fun of could have been the next name on that list.

That's all. I'm still so so mad but it did help to write all of this down. Again, if you're just here to ignore everything I just said and still want to be mean at me, don't fucking bother. Go bother someone else with your cruelty. Preferably your own fucking conscience or empathy.

[brasiliangp]

Racing for Anthoine 2024 🕊️

© Dean Mouhtaropoulos

[gattyswriting]

Drivers. The more I know them, the less I understand them.

For example, Nirei. He’s a really lovely guy, and even though his English is pretty bad (he’s the only driver I can remember having to interview in a press conference via a translator) he radiates positivity, and it draws everyone to him. The other ART drivers, former and present, are all clearly obsessed with him: they all talk about him in interviews, I don’t think there is a photoshoot yet that hasn’t ended up with them all picking him up and carrying him around, and his win drew Leclerc and Albon back to the pitlane to celebrate with their former teammate.

It doesn’t make him any easier to interview though. You talk to him, you think you’ve got some nice quotes and walk away smiling, and then you transcribe it and it turns out he actually said almost nothing. He’s slightly magical, but at least he uses his powers for good purposes, rather than going to the dark side.

Apart from those interviews, of course. (x)

[f1archives]

24/07/25 (F1)

[umlewis]

"Racing on for them ❤️ Thinking of our dear friends and beloved racers Anthoine Hubert and Dilano van ‘t Hoff, as we return to Spa-Francorchamps" - july 24, 2025 📷 @.f1 / instagram

[estiehowells]

tw // grief & loss

You know I’m incredibly tired of?

I’m tired of people leaving Esteban out of the conversation whenever Anthoine Hubert gets brought up.

Let me preface this by saying, I do not by any means think that Pierre’s grief is invalid. People can grieve however they see fit, and I think the flowers Pierre lays at Spa every year are so very sweet.

But, Esteban grieved quietly. He didn’t make a show of it and he doesn’t talk about it all the time. So people ignore his grief.

They ignore that he grew up with Anthoine. Anthoine, Esteban and Pierre were a little trio when they were karting.

Esteban was being interviewed by Martin Brundle the moment that crash happened. He watched one of his closest childhood friends die, and then had his live reaction filmed and put on Netflix for fucking Drive To Survive.

So please forgive me if I get a little frustrated when Esteban’s grief gets left out of the conversation.

Grief doesn’t look the same for everyone.

Esteban lost Anthoine too.

And you choosing to ignore him doesn’t erase that.

Young Esteban and Anthoine (featuring Pierre and Charles).

Esteban and his mother Sabrina at Anthoine’s funeral.