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sideblog for both rancid & usual f1 posting. GR¹ believer. AA²³ DP²⁸ PW⁹ NG³

[feketeribizli]

i was gonna draw him throwing up tons and tons of blood for spa but this one will do too i guess

[aussie-grit-lover]

Insp.

[otherparties]

‘just drive’ / george & toto / austria’24 to austria’26

[antspaul]

maybe the difference between oscarmark and georgetoto is that oscarmark know what love is

[antspaul]

georgetoto + benefit

"You must always ask yourself, George, how does this benefit me?" Toto had told him once, back in the early days when he'd delivered words of wisdom with the regularity of George's mum's daily motivational quote calendar.

George, for his part, tried to heed the advice. Whenever contract negotiations came around; when a teammate asked for a favour; the red-hot moments when all George wanted to do was throw his helmet to the floor and knock on Toto's door to demand why on earth he was still stuck at the back of the grid if Toto truly believed he was capable of more: how does this benefit me?

The question returns to George, years after he was first told to ask it, sitting at Toto's feet in the office, lips wet with drool and his boss's pre-come and struggling to breathe through his nose, as ten steps outside the unlocked door, Lewis talks to a mechanic about the car—the car George was promised, the car that won't take them anywhere anytime soon. How does this benefit me? — George closes his eyes, takes Toto in deeper, and doesn't ask himself questions he doesn't want answered.

[cuntcedes]

the full quote is just as crazy btw like they explicitly asked "did the flirting with max affect george's negotiations? what did you do to regain his trust?" and he flat out said that was a mistake which destabilized the entire team. and also heavily alluded to how george's seat was never the one at risk. like ok hdkdjdkf. two months ago toto was calling george a little asshole openly to the press for the contract negotiations but now he's like a cheating husband groveling for forgiveness george russell please teach me your ways

[obliviousinfinity]

claim it now folks great things are happening after the summer break (if george has one more reliability issue im sending a bomb to torger wolff)

[magnetic-rose]

there is genuinely some really weird shit going on between the antonellis and mercedes. like, kimi's billionaire dad being so involved in the garage he gets a say when kimi gets to change his engine? toto saying kimi can get a special engine for monza while simultaneously saying he has no idea if they can fix george's engine? toto saying in an interview literally not that long ago that he was glad lewis chose to leave mercedes so he wouldn't have to make a choice and then kimi saying this week that toto had chosen him for mercedes months before lewis announced his leave. toto's son karting with marco antonelli's company.

IT'S JUST FUCKING SUSPICIOUS IDK!!!!

[falenalunare]

So this is weird as fuck to me. This is a quote from the article about Kimi knowing he was going to merc before the Lewis announcement:

“This was even before Lewis was announced to [be joining] Ferrari. He said, ‘Look, Lewis is going to Ferrari, and we are thinking of putting you in the car for next year.’

“My eyes were wide open. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’

“I hadn’t even started F2. I still had so much to prove, to prove that I could earn that spot.

“[He asked] if the opportunity comes, will you be ready, and I said, ‘Well, I’ve got to be ready!'”

Not only did Toto offer him the seat before Lewis’ announcement, Toto offered him the seat before he’d even seen Kimi compete in F2.

[crispycathottub]

The thing is, Red Bull is currently regretting the hell out of building everything around Max and letting his camp get so involved with decisions. Because they're sitting around powerless while Max deliberates what to do and they can't get an answer from him until October. So many of their sponsors could pull out, so many (more) of their talent could leave, and they won't know until October.

And that's Max. He has historically had no desire to move anywhere else, and now only wants to because the combination of new shit regulations and Red Bull having internal power struggles and hemorraging talent was too much.

Antonelli is almost certain to leave for Ferrari. Generously, I'd say within the next 10 years. Realistically, I can't see it being more than 7. He's a genuinely stupid choice to build a team around.

I can only see two semi-realistic (somewhat) long term plans:

1. Torger uses the prestige of the level of involvement he's allowing in Mercedes to keep the Antonelli's around for the full 10 years, while also using their involvement in the junior formulas to fast-track Jack to replace Antonelli at the end of those 10 years.

2. Torger *AND* the Antonelli's leave within the next 5 years or so, leaving a heavy gap in management due to both their heavy involvement. They already have a much weakened junior program, which would also potentially leave them without an obvious 1st driver, the combination plunging them into the midfield. Torger gets to be a "legend" the entire mercedes team relied on.

Alternatively, Torger is being played like a fiddle by Jos Verstappen 2.0 because Marco Antonelli knows how to cater to his massive ego, is assuming Kimi will stay at least a decade also because of said massive ego, and is going to have a very rude awakening in a few years.

In any case, it's rich old white men playing rich old white men games, with zero regard to logic or anyone else's dreams/loyalty/livelihood. May it backfire on them all.

[questhegoldfishcat]

Who really cares?

[holyydeann]

Fuck them kids.

[andthatsp1]

big news for formula 1 rpf 🙏🏻

[georgegraphys]

Red Bull going from the hag who fumbled George to the guy who successfully recruited George

In the end, all things circle back to George Russell

[riverlarking]

“skip” i’ll kill you

[shovlison]

Mercedes have shit the bed so much with George, they brought Simon Cole, CHIEF Engineer Trackside in Hungary.

[georgegraphys]

Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer for Mercedes Benz Group AG liked this post btw

-> his notable works as CDO includes A-class, S-class, GLE-class, CLK-class, GLC-class, EQ, VLE, SLR McLaren, AMG ONE, and more

tagging @grbambi63 @dellovestorant

[georgegraphys]

George Russell and Ralph Lauren needs to fucking happen — imagine a photoshoot like on the right

[hazel-hau-paradox]

Did a little research on the possible cycle lane where that famous galex collarbone incident happened.

Could it be Woburn Forest-Longslade Lane?

In an interview of FIA Auto+Medical megazine (#15), Alex mentioned that he went cycling with George and Aleix in Woburn Forest near his home in Milton Keynes. In My Big Break podcast, Alex further decribed his incident: he went down a horse path and tripped over a tree root obstacle for horse jumping.

According to CyclingUK and ibikeride, Longslade located in Aspley Woods and is known as Woburn. It is a challenging route for bikers with exposed-root sections and odd rollable drop-off, along with briddle ways permitted to both horse rides and cycling.

Well matched with Alex's words!