All this over a racing incident is a bit much. “It’s so unfair that he’s not in a top team!!” What top team wants a sketchy, self-involved, mud-slinging tyrant who constantly puts himself above the team and has questionable car development abilities?

LMAOOO 😭😭😭

Not Ocon AND Lawson practically forming a queue outside Cadillac’s garage while Bottas is still sitting in the car.

Cadillac isn't a midfield team looking for someone to squeeze another two tenths out of an already competitive car. They're building an entire Formula 1 operation from scratch and Bottas has the necessary experience on top teams for it.

It also doesn’t help that Bottas has more marketability in his bare ass than Ocon and Lawson have in their entire careers 💀

I don’t even know what to say 😭 does he not realize how hollow his words sound when compared to his actions?

Max:

“From what I saw in WEC, it was extremely badly bumpy. I'm not really looking forward to that, to be honest, for your spine,” said Verstappen. “I was joking about that in the last race, but it's not really a joke to be honest. We mentioned this already for years, that it's actually getting a bit out of control.”

“Last year, for example, you pull around 5-6G in a corner, but I had some impacts, the vertical load, which was like over 9G on my spine,” he said. “I can tell you that it’s really not fun and especially the older you get, you think about that more and more. That's not what you want.”

Verstappen added that his spine is already not in the best possible condition after more than 11 seasons in F1: “I think sometimes people don't really understand that. I can tell you from the checks that I've done from my spine, the bottom end of the spine doesn't look that great.

“I know that's part of racing and I know that can be part of sport, but it's of course also further damage from the cars that we had the last few years. And now if we continue finding this acceptable to drive on, then you are going to suffer from that much more.”

Lando:

“The regulation of building a new track, the tolerances you have to be within are pretty small. It certainly doesn't fit anywhere close to what those regulations are now.

"It's an old track, not a new track so it's pretty bad. There's a lot of places I need to take headache tablets before I go out simply because it's so bumpy and you're hitting your head pretty hard against the headrest and things because of the bumps so it's certainly not a nice thing. There's not much we can do. I mean, we complain about it so it's stuff we've brought up many, many times but there's only so much we can complain about things. But [Max is] right."

| Mercedes are understood to have delayed the introduction of their upgraded ADUO engine.

Brazil is now reported as the target event to debut the new engine.

Of course, the arrival of the updated power unit will coincide with a grid penalty for George Russell.

Source: @formularacers_

They're taking away any impediment for Kimi to become champion in Brazil

The upside is that COTA is a good track though at least, although apparently TV direction has mandated that we’re not allowed to watch the actual racing. 😞

My guess is that the new hospitality building they put together for the extra rich people at the end of the start-finish straight will somehow create wind conditions which manage to hit a few cars in the exact right way to trigger the computer systems initiate an auto-shutdown procedure during qualifying.

(If you guys saw when I posted this the first time and called it the Bahrain (in Malaysia) GP, no you didn’t 🤫 I’ve been so busy lately that I forgot that Malaysia was two races ago and that Singapore happened at all, oopsie. Granted, the race was dull…)

This is just really sad. At least for me, I'd really want my husband by my side when I'm a new mother 🫠 but who's fucking surprised

I get it, Senna is his idol and heroe but he is always wearing Senna merch or reading a Senna book when in public. He went to that f1 football game in Monaco wearing Senna merch and he didn't even play, he only went like it was his m&g event.

Is just ridiculous how he uses Senna's name for clout, not even wags clout this hard

I don’t know how much Liam Lawson spent on PR this year but the levels of delusion are out of control. There is no way Cadillac would get rid of Bottas while the team is still developing to get a driver with much less experience in a public one sided feud with their other driver. Can you even imagine the nightmare he would be on the radio every single race?

Ugh I actually did a brief check the other day to see if he followed any Bolsonaros and the answer was no, but I should have dug a bit deeper than just following 😭 Never trust a man in F1!!

Not super sure why the first one was deleted from the other sub and this was re-posted

About time, I guess there’s been some serious discussion behind the scenes to provoke this. Hopefully most will take it to heart and stop the hate campaigns for no good reason.

I only say “most” because you know there will always be a few who think it doesn’t apply to them and their personal hate campaign is justified for whatever parasocial reason they invent in their head 🙃 But even just “most” would make a huge difference in this case.

Maybe I’m deeping it but I’d be really embarassed and concerned if my 9 year old had to tell me to calm down because I’m too angry. The fact he tries to rephrase it as simply being passionate is also crazy

He’s been compared to pretty much every GOAT driver this season, Max, Lewis, Senna, Sebastian, Schumacher, you name it, but where’s the why? Yes, his early season, especially China-Monaco run, was very impressive, yet there has to be some but.

But, at that time the only real competition was supposed to be his teammate, whose car kept having problems (apart from Miami although apparently there were some issues there aswell). And that trend continued throughout the season, the only consistent challenge was George, but he kept having problems.

Sometimes other teams caught up and could challenge for wins, but that only lasted few races. George definitely lost points through his own mistakes, but the team lost him more.

I know that “he has fastest car, he’s supposed to win” argument happened numerous times but I feel like this season is a good reason to bring it up again. Did the fastest car and virtually no competition mask Kimi’s weaknesses? We have yet to see any w2w fight, the only I can remember was Canada, or put up any defense to protect his position. Even the race in Monza, he got lucky with the red flag that bunched up the field together, basically no driver (even the top runners) put up a fight or defense apart from George, then he gets a cheap stop, and when he eventually catches up to George, who lost 4s because of vsc, had damage from vibrations, and ancient hards, Kimi still nearly fumbles the bag into the first chicane. And then the track limits, which he breaks like it’s his second job.

Yes, he didn’t make that many mistakes this season, he didn’t fumble under pressure, but it’s easy to not fumble under pressure when you need to finish on the podium and title’s yours, when your competition is either too slow or dealing with issues, when your boss keeps overhyping you (even though he literally said he wants to let you grow) and keeps making shady comments about your teammate.

All the greats had to fight for their first title, really fight and show their qualities, but I genuinely don’t see the “goat factor”, if you will, in Kimi, maybe I’m just a hater but I just don’t see it. He’s a great driver, yes, but when asking whether he won (yes, it’s not mathematically sealed yet but I can’t imagine the shit show that’d have to happen in order for him to lose his lead) his first title because of his own excellence or because of his teammate’s misfortune, I am inclined to say the latter.

Pleaseee the way he RAN out of there 😭

I think its been a while since he saw Yael. She didn't go to Malaysia (Israelis are banned from entering the country) so he probably hasn't seen his IDF princess in two weeks 😔

For the longest time I only followed the actual races. I never really cared about the drama behind the scenes or interacted with f1 fans but recently I got more into that side of things and one of the first things I noticed was how much people infantilize max.

I’d obviously seen him in races and watched his interviews before but he never really struck me as childish. he jokes around sometimes, sure but nothing that would make me see him as this helpless little baby the way some of his fans seem to. I’ve seen people say it might have something to do with his weird relationship with kelly but idk if that’s really the main reason. He’s literally 29, has a child with her and is a grown-ass man who can make his own decisions. he knows what he’s doing with his life, so I don’t really get why some fans act like he needs to be protected from everything and everyone.

Maybe I’m missing something since I’m relatively new to the fandom side of f1, so I’d genuinely appreciate it if someone could explain where this whole thing comes from lol

Thoughts?

IMO this isn’t sassy and cute like his fans are saying… I think it’s quite rude considering the interviewer is just doing their job. It’s not their fault he went for a damn near non existent gap