#g.asks

[semicosm]

gwen yearns for the feudal era :'))

pisson

[otherparties]

i really needed your post about alex after the second half of the season to get some perspective because it really felt like the team was prioritising carlos after baku and ignoring alex. do you have any comfort that it won't be the case in 2026 that carlos becomes the #1 driver? or do you think he will?

the fact is williams, with nothing to lose in the final year of the old regs & everything to gain from finishing as high in the constructors as possible, absolutely necessarily needed to run 2 cars optimised to score the maximum points possible every weekend. they would have liked to seal that p5 well before qatar & alex finishing in the points would have helped the team immensely in securing the millions of pounds hanging in the balance. it would actively jeopardise them to prioritise either driver at the cost of the other.

i'm not the best versed in the technicalities of the sport, but the thing about alex is that he's very good at driving around innate issues in the car & great on his tyres, which serves him well in the race. carlos has a better general handle on his set-up & gets more pace out of the car when it's set up in a way he likes, which serves him well in quali. in the first half of the season, when most of the midfield was still trying to get familiar with the cars, alex was one of the fastest to find a rhythm, which led to consistent phenomenal results, which led to carrying forward great momentum. in the second half, carlos was more familiar with the car & the team & threw absolutely everything at a saturday, which meant overall higher track position which the williams could decently sustain. meanwhile, a combination of bad luck, questionable strategy, terrible team communication & other midfielders getting a better handle on their cars meant alex rarely made it into q3 & on a lot of tracks, that was his shot at points already over.

& my point here is that the way it worked out for alex & carlos in terms of having two pretty distinct and opposite halves of the season has nothing to do with the team prioritising carlos because he scored a podium & everything to do with them having different strengths and struggles crop up at different points. there is no sabotage or conspiracy here because, again, the team gains absolutely nothing by putting down a driver they have locked in for a multi-year contract & have repeatedly evidenced they trust and support fully even when he delivers a miserable weekend. jv believes in alex, alex believes in williams & the team has created an environment for him where he effusively celebrates every win for the team without, i think, feeling particularly threatened about where he stands. it is objectively, in my opinion, better for alex to have a teammate who gives good feedback, who challenges and pushes him, whose engineering instincts he trusts & respects than yet another rookie against whom alex becomes an indeterminate driver. you don't need to believe me on this, alex has said this repeatedly himself.

what gives me so, so much hope is that alex rarely, rarely finishes where he starts! he's a solid overtaker & can make tyres last longer than they should when he gets a good handle on them during practice; when he runs a clean race (which he usually does), he consistently makes up 4-6 positions. what he really, really needs to do -- and what williams needs to help him do -- is sort out qualifying & communication so these skills can shine toward the front of the field instead of, like, p12. if those things are handled, in another season where the team has a good shot at a high wcc standing (which is what 2026 is set up to be), alex can do something really special & williams has every reason to make that possible.

[ouijafrank]

I feel like I nothing about you or your taste in mcr, what’s your fav album, fav song, fave b-sides/demos/unreleased?

i’m JUST seeing this but my favorite album is a tie between bullets or three cheers, more to three though maybe :/ i literally can’t choose. my fav song is either heaven help us or i never told you what i do for a living. and my fav b-sides song is heaven help us. that song just be hittin different tho 😌

[otherparties]

okay but your allegiances are so confusing to me. sometimes i think you're a george stan, sometimes it's lando, sometimes it's alex. who's Your Guy

currently looking into opportunities to sell my soul to make an alex albon wdc happen, hmu if y'all know someone who knows someone

[otherparties]

jendoscar 2025 follow-up, queen?

3am & jenson wakes up to his phone almost vibrating off the nightstand & it's lando, of course it's lando. and jenson remembers being young, remembers winning, the surge-rush of adrenaline sharp as a swing careening towards the sky; remembers, equally, the awful drop in the middle of the night when everything is too much and nothing is enough. he picks up. lando says can you, like, come get me? and jenson says where are you? and lando says i called— i called oscar, but he didn't pick up and jenson says where are you?

all chance that oscar's in the hotel lobby, frowning at the vending machine when jenson walks in with lando clinging to him, soft and wet; all intention when jenson makes eye contact with him and holds it as the elevator doors slide closed. predictable, in the end, the knock on lando's door five minutes later, the boy on the other side, dry-eyed, sharp-edged, smelling of soap.

jenson remembers winning, sure, but he also remembers losing.

is he alright? oscar asks, like the words are being dragged out of him. jenson wants to say you could have him, you could have all of him, why do you keep throwing him away? jenson says look at you, making him wait. again.

i didn't come to— oscar begins, but jenson doesn't wait for him to finish, who cares? you came.

inside, jenson watches oscar discover in real time the colossal difficulty of turning lando away when he's like this, open and earnest and wanting. victory sharpens others, but lando is not a blade, just a boy. who wants to be touched, and kissed, and adored on the biggest night of his life. oscar holds himself like a— member of the king's guard, honestly, stony and upright and emotionless and entirely a performance. you think you know what it's like to lose, jenson wants to tell him, but how can you, when you don't even know what you already have?

jenson says, i think he deserves a good time after all that, don't you?

oscar says he's drunk and lando says please. oscar says hasn't he had enough of a good time already? and lando says please. oscar says nothing and jenson says i remember you putting that mouth of yours to much better use and oscar blushes from the skin under his eyes all the way down the swell of his cheeks.

once for every win, i think, jenson says from the settee by the window with a perfect view of the bed, of lando's spread legs, of oscar's cock hard and red and pathetic between his thighs. that's seven. think you can give me seven, champ?

no, says lando, silly and petulant and breathless already. his hands are buried in oscar's hair, tight and shaking, like he's scared of letting go. try anyway, jenson says, and smiles.

[semicosm]

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[otherparties]

Alex ended up out scoring his teammate by only 9 points, yet you’re waxing poetic like he accomplished something amazing. Your guy is going to have to work on his qualifying (which he lost the h2h to) if you want him to have a chance at podiums next year.

this is so obviously ragebait but im really dying laughing at the idea that i can do something about this. ‘your guy is going to have to work on his qualifying’ like im his engineer or tp or trainer. yeah, sure man, let me just text him. i’ve literally discussed in great length how alex needs to fix his quali issues on this blog but unfortunately! for everyone involved, i am not a member of atlassian williams f1 team with authority to chain alex to the sim

[semicosm]

HELLO GWEN <333 it is so good to see you again truly!! I hope you've been well recently and that summer treats you as you deserve!! Please take care of yourself + stay hydrated. I love you and I'm vv excited to see you around always <33333!!

SHSJSJ (also there is no need to respond to this!!)

GALE snifflesob things have taken an upturn and I hope summer treats you well too!! I hope to be around more often! but it's been so cool seeing you everywhere you genuinely brighten up dash so much !