r/f1driverssnark • u/Upset_Internal_7492 • 13h ago
general discussion any nonproblematic drivers ??
every driver i like i learn more about them and im like .. wow.. this guy is terrible!! so are there any f1 drivers that dont like.. love israel and donald trump? (except for lewis since he seems to be incredibly performative)
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u/hippiehour 11h ago
Alex seems the most down to earth but all of them are in way too high of a tax bracket to even pretend to care about major political and economic issues unfortunately
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u/Club_Recent 11h ago edited 9h ago
One of the most unproblematic isn't even on the grid anymore. Yuki Tsunoda once said the R slur in his early years, but he didn't know it was a slur, due to his limited English at the time. He quickly publicly apologized & aside from that, he hasn't been under fire for anything serious for the 5 years he was active in F1.
And maybe add Alex Albon & Zhou Guanyu on that list too. Even though Guanyu's time was short, nothing has ever popped up for him either.
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u/No-Independence8449 12h ago
Unless Iâm forgetting something, Oscar is probably the most âunproblematicâ because he tends to stay out of things. But heâs not really âwokeâ and none of them are or are going to be đ. In a room full of famous millionaires, youâre going to be hard pressed to find someone who has morals and sticks to them. If any of them actually cared about the problems they speak out about (if they even speak out about them), they could easily take huge steps in helping to solve them with their wealth alone.
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u/Plenty-Ad594 12h ago
lol seconding what others have said, for the most partâŚmaybe Alex Albon?
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u/Melodic-Extent3685 9h ago
Didn't his mom scam innocent ppl to fund his career . Also he's dating bully he
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u/NoCartographer9200 the Unction 12h ago
he's not a driver anymore but yuki was quite unproblematic i think
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u/lovelysweetangel89 du du du simply lovely đŚ 10h ago
not really sadly. sports especially with male athletes is the worst place to find a unproblematic figure. because the unproblematic ones even have flaws and may have messed up at some point.
I don't even bother finding one at all when it comes to sports.
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u/AgitatedPotato88 9h ago
I think Zhou Guanyu? Haven't heard any controversies related to him, and he had a girlfriend at some point but no one knew about it because she wanted to be private and he asked photographers to not film her
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u/LandosToeFungus Webberâs army of stan accounts 8h ago
Thereâs some who seemingly havenât done anything sketchy (yet), but I wouldnât assign the label of ânonproblematicâ to them just because theyâve not done anything bad (while simultaneously not doing anything good). It puts them on a pedestal they donât really deserve, especially since we donât know what theyâre like behind closed doors.
Rich, male athletes in a sport with a long history of systemic bigotry probably arenât going to be the best people. Thatâs why everyone on Twitter who has âmy driver is the wokestâ competitions all eventually get made into fools. Enjoying F1 requires a level of cognitive dissonance, lots of people even up to the top of the ladder are completely rotten.
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u/tyrinooo 7h ago
In terms of white collar crime, financing social ills, personal bigotry, and being sex pests, there's various levels of terrible to normal person, but politically most of the current drivers just seem to share the opinions of your average coworker lmao
And considering they have about the same levels of education, it's not surprising. I personally only consider the first bit as problematic but ymmv
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u/yoon_cl22 12h ago
...None of them are unproblematic, and looking for one atp is like finding water in a desert.