Random Housewives Taglines That I Think Fit Certain Drivers.

Being a sports fan in the off-season is really just a constant cycle of “it’s so relaxing not having to worry about how my favorite team is performing” and “if I have to go another day without watching them, I’m going to jump out the window.”

small rant because this has been bothering me

seeing people complain about the drivers - in this case, max and lando - complaining about having to attend the F1-75 event / making jokes about not going, by using arguments such as, “they get paid millions of dollars to do this, they should shut up and do their job,” “it’s an insult to the fans who are paying to see them,” and, “they shouldn’t complain about the show, since without it they wouldn’t have their job” is SO incredibly annoying.

can’t believe I’m out here defending millionaires, but:

They don’t get paid millions of dollars to go to PR events. They get paid millions of dollars to race in the fastest motorsport on earth. They get paid millions of dollars to compete in a sport that is one of the most dangerous recreational activities humans participate in, risking their lives for competition and entertainment. If they have to do PR on the side, fine, but don’t act like Max gets fifty million because he’s an influencer. He gets paid to race, and he gets paid a lot because he’s good at it.

Just because they don’t want to go to a corporate event - which is a fairly normal thing that we can all surely relate to: complaining when your workplace puts on unnecessary events you have to go to - doesn’t mean they don’t care about fans. Come on now. They see fans at the track every race weekend. They do plenty of extracurricular activities already on top of their already busy weekends. They acknowledge and meet with fans constantly and yet ONE event is made fun of and you’re going to take it that personally?

The show doesn’t pay for the sport, sponsors do. Sponsors pay by having their brand advertised and plastered everywhere. This has occurred throughout the history of the sport. A one off event is not tipping the scales. Them complaining about one specific event doesn’t mean they don’t understand that they need sponsors and that sometimes to promote those sponsors they need to do PR. They know how it works, much better than you do!

I swear, some of these people just hate that these guys speak their minds, and yet when they say anything remotely PR sanitised they’ll complain about that and call them, ‘PR robots.’ I’d much rather hear drivers saying they don’t want to attend than watch them say they do want to while knowing that they’re lying through their teeth.

these fans are also defending the “show” when this is a sport. That is why we’re all here, right? Why are you out here arguing with the athletes who just want to participate in the sport which is what we all signed up for to watch and enjoy? It’s completely fair to criticise F1 media for these types of things when it’s very clear they have been more interested in getting cash in their pockets than they are in the sport itself.

I saw someone make a really good point on TikTok about everyone going on about how Oscar now has the same wins as Lando. She said “they’ve had a race winning car for the same amount of time.” Everyone seems to forget that the McLaren wasn’t considered a race winning car prior to this year. And before anyone says about Monza or Sochi 21, winning one race doesn’t mean you have a race winning car. It means you got lucky and were in the right place at the right time. Nobody would say that the Alpha Tauri or Alpine were race winning cars when Pierre and Esteban won.

Why can’t we celebrate both drivers wins without dragging the other down?

crazy how fanfic authors drop the most beautiful and gorgeous pieces of work ever, leaving you speechless and sobbing at three in the morning as you quietly contemplate the masterpiece you just read

and they don’t get paid for it they just do it because they’re having fun and they want to share their joy with you

like I would literally die for all of you fanfic authors out there reblog to swear your allegiance to fanfic authors

The marshalls imitating Lawrence the lizard is so funny and dear to me

source

One of the best things of the weekend

feel like not enough ppl r aware of 19 yr old renault oscar randomly getting juiced with insane charisma

Max about Lando: "We are friends, now- we are not best friends, it's not like I call him day-to-day, both of us have our own best friends, like that's how you grow up, right? but we are friends! I have a lot of respect for him." " The media sometimes asks some questions with a bit of a.. silly question, and then you give a bit of an answer because you're a bit pressured, you're in this championship fight, i find it a bit unfair how for example Lando gave a comment, and a lot of fans fall out over it like: 'he's not respectful' or the other way around aswell, from my side." "We respect eachother a lot, ofcourse at times we are under a lot of pressure, we had our moments together, clashes and stuff like that, but at the end of the day we can always look eachother in the eye and appreciate what we are doing, we have a lot of respect on and off track." "He's a great guy honestly, he's a great driver also, and I am sure also his time will come, that he will win titles."

i think people understimate how online the drivers, and max are. and he is protective about his friends/loved ones and to see people send hate to a friend of his On His Behalf is probably super fucking weird. because if he knows where he stands with lando, then what are you defending him from?? but will this lead to a moment of self reflection from said fans... of course not

I feel like the George and Max beef is so funny because I don't think either of them are that wrong. George being overly picky about unsafe moves on course is totally normal. Max regularly publicly expresses his displeasure when other drivers do something that puts him at a disadvantage or a loss. George never takes any slander on his name. Max refuses to let somebody else have the last word. Lando thinks everything is funny. Fernando talks just to talk. Max and George are both bitchy and dramatic. Is there an actual issue here? Definitely. Is George a little two faced and Max somebody who thinks rules don't always apply to him? By circumstance, probably. Is it kind of tasteless to air your dirty laundry out like that with somebody? For sure. But does it really call for cancelling one driver or another? Not at all no, they really just both like being right.

When they say red hot, they mean them 🙂‍↕️✨

I know the usual response is asking Charles if he can fight but ngl I’m just fighting for my life rn