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NOT THE PUPPY BABY BUMP 🥹😭

Posing in the mirror like he’s in his third trimester

#leo leclerc i will die for you #oh to be a puppy cradled in a hoodie pocket 🥹 #i long to be this loved and unbothered #and to be able to nap so much #charles leclerc #cl16 #formula 1 #f1 #leo leclerc

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Babies 🥹

Max and Charles knowing each other since they were literal tater tots (5 according to Max) is blowing up on twitter again, so friendly reminder that these two both had a spiderman phase growing up as well ❤️💙

#did u think they were joking when they said they knew each other basically their whole lives #ngl kudos to max for surviving gremlin toddler charles cuz we all know that boi bites #look at his lil face going 😼 #maybe thats why max remembers the helmet #its the trauma 🤣 #lestappen #f1 #formula 1 #charles leclerc #cl16 #max verstappen #1633 #ferrari #mv33 #also #i know Charles did it before but #BRING BACK SPIDEY HELMETS AGAIN PLS I LOVE IT SM

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游龙戏凤 and Lestappen

The phrase is basically talking about an emperor seeking his lover in reference to their delicate dancing around each other on track.

I think one aspect of this commentary people don’t get is that dragons are primarily more masculine in Chinese culture and phoenixes are usually more feminine.

So in this context here with two guys, the commentators are basically discussing who between the two of them will be willing to “bottom” and be the phoenix.

IM DYING 🤣🤣

#take into context also that chinese phrases tend to be more heteronormative because of the culture the language is structured #but essentially in the context with two guys this is the subtext #man i need to watch races in chinese more IVE BEEN MISSING OUT #f1 #formula 1 #charles leclerc #cl16 #lestappen #max verstappen #1633 #ferrari #mv33 #mv1

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HP im in your fucking walls wtf is this shit 💀💀

#ITS SO FUGLY I WANNA KMS #WHY THE BLUE WHY THE CIRCLE BUTTON ON THE BELLY AGAIN #Ferrari baby dont do this it’s not like you come back 😭😭😭 #charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #cl16 #carlos sainz #ferrari #scuderia ferrari #its like the mission winnow bullshit all over again #BUT WORSE #CUZ THE COLOUR

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✨CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER ✨

F1 Mechanics Edition ❤️💙🧡

#Ferrari serving cuntiness #Redbull being chaotic and completely unserious #Mclaren’s just here to have a good time #forget the drivers the mechanics are truly the soul of the teams 😌✨ #charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #cl16 #ferrari #redbull #rbr #mclaren

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Charles’ go-to pose now 🤌🏻✨

Chussy facing the world for maximum cuntiness 😌

#he’s slaying your honor #charles really said baby blue is my fav and ferrari was like yes king we shall revive it for you #charles leclerc #formula 1 #f1 #cl16 #lestappen #ferrari #lec

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That sweat drop was a paid actor 🥵

Resurfacing this Max gif cuz wtf

#i am not proud of the sound i made when this popped up on my pinterest feed #sir what the hell #man’s chest is a mile wide #pls sir hv mercy 😭 #max verstappen #mv33 #mv #f1 #formula 1 #lestappen #< ​just adding this in case anyone wants to delulu with me #cuz IMAGINE

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I have a friend who knows nothing about F1 but they call Redbull the du-du team because by osmosis (me yapping) they know Max as:

Du-du-du-du MAX VERSTAPPEN

And Checo as:

Du-du-du-du STEVE

Im DYINGGGGGGG

#someone save checo from this slander 🤣😭 #f1 #formula 1 #max verstappen #1633 #charles leclerc #cl16 #lestappen #mv33 #sergio perez #rbr #rbr f1 #im not even sorry my yapping led to this 🤣

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Opens the bird app:

Leclerc and sainz fans again:

Closes the app:

#me every race week now #it’s fucking exhausting #2025 can’t come sooner #charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #cl16 #ferrari #carlos sainz #i hv thoughts on the sprint but im not even surprised anymore

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Ok hear me out:

Ice cream shop AU where LEC is part of exclusive Ferrari catering BUT Charles is also on a discreet honeypot mission to tempt a 3 time world champion to sign with Ferrari.

#charles would TOTALLY do it #cuz if it’s not him winning for ferrari then he sure as hell would bring them the wins through any alternate means necessary 😌✨ #redbull having to use a child leash on max so he stops wandering accidentally into ferrari hospitality #ALSO charles back in Ferrari team kit in this universe ✨ #charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #cl16 #lestappen #max verstappen #1633 #ferrari #mv33

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I love how everyone collectively decided this was ice cream shop owner Charles’ personality when it came to Max visiting his shop 🤣

#charlie only follow the ferrari #*nyooms off* #poor max #lestappen #charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #cl16 #max verstappen #1633 #ferrari #mv33 #he totally would too 100% #petty king

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My proposed flavors for Charles’ new ice cream shop 😌✨

I did take some creative liberties on the presentation obviously but I think the inspirations are all pretty clear

#i would totally order inchident and go #just an inchident pls 😏 #guess however you wish what each flavour tastes like #im totally in favor of this super random sidequest charles is on #am i procrastinating? maybe #but it’s like this 😌 #charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #cl16 #lestappen #ferrari

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The Sainz Effect on Media: What the Hell is Going On?

Last weekend, Carlos Sainz Jr. won the 2024 Australian GP, and subsequently, almost every single F1 media outlet has seemingly lost their minds. From the aramco power rankings giving him a perfect score (despite Max not getting one for a grand slam last weekend), to motorsport.com acting like a fan account, everyone is tripping over themselves to sing his praises.

F1 is a complex sport, it requires several different aspects to even get a car moving, even more to make it competitive, and even more to enable a championship fight. From driver line-up, to aero, from international politics, to tyre deg. There's no other sport like it. To truly be an expert in Formula 1, you have to have knowledge of how a track works, an understanding of combustion engines and aerodynamics, a grasp of interpersonal and sports psychologies, and a sense of international relations. This is why, even more so than any other sport, good journalism is vital to the sport's ecosystem. No one person can be expected to be an expert in all these areas, you need a team of people who are willing to pool their knowledge and resources before coming up with conclusions to disseminate to their audience.

But media also likes narrative, and media likes an underdog, that is undeniable. And you can create an excellent underdog narrative with Carlos. From losing his seat despite his teammate keeping his, to him having to get his appendix out in Jeddah, the circumstances are there to set up an underdog narrative. But the crux of the issue is this: anyone with any sort of F1 wheel knowledge understands why Charles was kept over Carlos (a better driver even in a car built away from his driving style, who is revered almost as a messiah figure amongst the traditional fans of the team), why Sir Lewis Hamilton is a much more desirable asset to a top team than Carlos (7x world champion, who brings in a massive draw for talent that will far outlast his stint with Ferrari). So what do you do with these characters who don't match the narrative that you want to push?

Simple. You discredit them.

Make no mistake, this is what we're seeing across every major F1 news outlet in the past week. A plain journalistic choice to choose narrative over integrity. There's all sorts of rumours whizzing around as to why that could be: from possible covert payouts from Sainz Sr, to possible misogyny towards Leclerc fans to pundits simply not being bothered to do their research. But the why of it, although important, doesn't matter nearly as much as the fact that however you look at it, these journalists are failing the sport they claim to love. What's even worse, is that it takes a simple glance at numbers to tell us that these media outlets are digging themselves a hole, and are going to have to backtrack or try and excuse their belief in this narrative in the coming months.

Let's take a common line that Sky Sports like to use as an example, "Carlos Sainz is driving for himself. How incredible would it be if Carlos could compete for the championship this year." Max Verstappen will likely win the championship this year, there are no ifs and buts about it. Red Bull are still developmentally leaps ahead of their rivals, and even if Ferrari were to catch them, Max is still at the wheel. And if Ferrari were to catch them, why would Ferrari prioritise Carlos over Charles? The only driver who has been proven to be able to beat Max in his current form at Red Bull on pure pace is Charles Leclerc, which he achieved in Las Vegas last year, and would've gone on to take the win at that same race if not for the safety car. The most likely championship fight this year is Max Verstappen vs. Charles Leclerc, and that's hinging on Ferrari matching Red Bull development. This outcome is blindingly obvious to anyone who knows how this sport works, and yet the current media angle seems to not be to explain how the sport works to the general public, but rather to double down on narratives that are certainly going to be proven incorrect in a manner of months, if not weeks.

Let's look at another common angle the media seem to like to take, "You have to ask, did Ferrari make a mistake swapping out Carlos Sainz for Lewis Hamilton?". Now, if you've been even near a TV showing F1 in the past ten years, it's pretty obvious this answer is of course not. Lewis Hamilton is likely the greatest driver of all time, his name in a lot of cases outshines the sport itself. No other driver on this grid even comes close to his level of acclaim. This reason alone is enough for Ferrari to sign him. Ferrari has not won a championship in close to two decades, the best and brightest engineers want to be working where they know the results are going to come from, and right now, as a stellar engineer, Red Bull or Mercedes or even McLaren would be a choice over Ferrari, which has the added hurdle of moving to Maranello (considering nearly all the other teams are located in the Midlands in the United Kingdom). Acclaim aside, Lewis Hamilton is still a very impressive driver. P3 in the championship last year to a Red Bull 1-2 is not something to be taken lightly, considering his teammate finished in P8 in the same car with only one more retirement. It does make pure racing sense to sign him over Carlos, who finished in P7, especially since Ferrari have an up and coming talent in Ollie Bearman, and what they need is someone with experience to fill that gap until Ollie can make it to Ferrari, and will likely happily step aside when that time comes at some point in the next five years.

However, has there been a single major F1 news outlet calmly and rationally explaining this thought process for those who may enjoy the sport but are not experts? No. Instead, what we get is Sainz sensationalism, and bias so explicit it tips right over into unprofessional. From The Race saying that a Sainz/Leclerc civil war is Leclerc fan hysteria, despite their own outlet running an article just months ago about tensions in Ferrari, to motorsport.com creating a CV for Carlos, and then proceeding to harass fans who ask why they are so keen to ignore facts. Every single F1 outlet seems to have lost their minds.

The sad thing is this will only backfire massively on Carlos himself. Charles will outperform Carlos, every metric from the past year indicates so. Ferrari may be in the running for the WCC by the midpoint of the season, but Carlos's win will fade into distant memory long before we reach Spa, and the average enjoyer will look back on all this crazy media hype and go "hm, well he didn't live up to expectations did he? He was massively overrated." And this too, will be the fault of F1 media.

In conclusion, F1 media sensationalism has failed Charles, Lewis, and Max, it will fail Carlos in the coming months, but most of all, it has failed the fans of the sport, by choosing to focus on far-fetched narratives, rather than deliver proper journalism and build equally compelling narratives out of the data on the table. It highlights a lack of skill and awareness, which threatens the entire ecosystem of the sport that we all know and love.

#beatifully said #f1 journalism and commentary is a dumpster fire and a half

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Underrated lestappen moment i got reminded of while scrolling tiktok 🤣

Distance does not matter when it comes to Max’s delegated time to yap to Charles. He will make it work. 😌✨

#the camera literally kept panning for a whole business day 😭 #nothing will ever get in the way of his yapping #an adaptable unstoppable machine both on and off track i see 😌 #max verstappen #charles leclerc #lestappen #f1 #formula 1 #cl16 #1633 #ferrari #mv33

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Omg I think they deleted their account. Lol coward.

This person on f1twt really be making fun of Charles losing his dad and Jules and go like “oof lecfosi found me 🙄” like lecfosi are the ones being unreasonable.

#like what was the point of this? #did they really think ppl would take it lying down? #even for a bait tweet this is seriously embarrassing

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This person on f1twt really be making fun of Charles losing his dad and Jules and go like “oof lecfosi found me 🙄” like lecfosi are the ones being unreasonable.

#bffr rn #i think the only thing that i am happy to see is that barely anybody liked this and they’re getting cooked in the qrts #charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #cl16 #there is literally no circumstance where this should be acceptable #much less a fucking silly tweet like this #just joking abt their rivalry and how they can still be little shits to each other even now?? #max verstappen #lestappen #i should really just stay off twt its bad for my mental health 💀

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Always knew i could count on you Fred 🫶🏻

May your head of hair get more bountiful with each passing season 😌✨

#having a supportive TP is so damn refreshing #bless fred and his shiny bald head 🥹 #fr tho what does sky sports hv against charles #like whats with all the leading questions #i don’t even need you to praise him #just report accurately please #f1 #formula 1 #charles leclerc #cl16 #ferrari #fred vasseur #if no one got me i know fred got me 😌