#saph is this about f1

[dear-ao3]

the real worst part of being someone who “used to live in nyc” and wanting to go back is seeing every famous person you follow one by one go into the city and post photos of themselves literally exactly on your commute to work walk. it sparks rage that i didn’t know i was capable of feeling.

#saph is this about f1 #why yes it is #i’m deeply upset and enraged #not a tag #from saph

[dear-ao3]

so do we think that someones shown fernando alonso the caramelldansen video or have they let him live in peace

yk. bc of the.

#f1 #fernando alonso #saph is currently sleeping so ive taken the liberties to introduce philosophical debate onto dear ao3 #is it moral to tell him about caramelldansen (and therefore nightcore) or should he live in peace #secret third option: he knows. #from katya #not a tag

[dear-ao3]

Just know that yesterday while I was in uni I was talking animatedly about formula one and someone at another table I've never spoken to was like "are you talking about f1". Foolishly, I thought maybe I had a chance of meeting another fan out in the wild- no. I was informed of the crushing reality that the only knowledge they had of it was your posting about it 🫤🫤🫤🫤

HAHA that’s fucking hilarious but also!! id like to think my posts are decently thorough :)

#i love hearing about how i breach containment #not a tag #from saph #f1

[dear-ao3]

Listen I just need the mods of this account to know. That I read the F1 explainer post over the course of several hours a week and a half ago. And now Formula 1 has taken over my life. I've seen three seasons of Drive To Survive. Half of my Instagram Explore page is Charles Leclerc thirst traps. I sat down and watched the race last weekend and it was *fun* (?!?!). Saph if I ever find you I'm in your walls.

i’m Pleased with this

#who’s your favorite team tell me #i love hearing about the people i’ve convertrd #not a tag #from saph #f1

[dear-ao3]

I thought Lando Norris was a Star Wars character.

different lando !

#that's like lando carlissian or something idk #i haven't thought about star wars in a while #not a tag #from saph #f1

[dear-ao3]

could you explain the mclaren reputation era please I missed it

ok well i don't really understand it entirely so bear with me here as i fumble through this.

essentially yesterday mclaren archived (deleted?) every single one of their instagram posts (and there were Thousands) except for this kind of twist trap esque video of lando, oscar and their car with the tagline "whatever it takes" like the imagine dragons song, or perhaps a 15 year old boy posting selfies of himself in the gym.

this of course is exactly what taylor swift did however many years ago right before she dropped her reputation album, archived every single one of her instagram posts except for these three videos of a snake slithering around and i don't remember what the words were associated with it but it was foreshadowing her reputation album. this was the album that she released directly after she got a whole lot of shit for her 1989 tour, took basically 2 years off and came back with some s tier bangers about how basically she didnt really care what the media thought of her, but she was reinventing herself (remember the "im sorry, the old taylor can't come to the phone right now, why? oh! cause she's dead!" meme" but essentially, it was her comeback after awhile away.

mclaren, as we know, has not won a championship since 2008 with sir lewis hamilton. their driver line up, lando norris and oscar piastri, is the youngest pairing of drivers on the grid (lando is 24, oscar is 22) and while the 2023 season for them started off absolutely terribly (their car fucking sucked) they were able to do some major upgrades throughout the season and turned it around by the silverstone race (just under halfway through the year). from silverstone on (13 races total) mclaren finished in the top 3 nine times (with both oscar and lando on the podium at the qatar and japan races) and were consistently in the points. oscar also won the sprint race in qatar. and lando had i think 17 overtakes at the mexico race, starting 19 and ending 5th. which is kind of incredible. in a season of absolute red bull domination (lets remember that a red bull driver won ever race except for the singapore race, which carlos won with the help of lando) they were consistently challenging them and there was one time in texas (i think?) where lando almost was able to overtake max.

so yes, red bull is definitely the favored team at the moment and is coming off of quite possibly the best season they've ever had. however. mclaren have some distinct advantages going into the 2024 season:

they do not have to worry about silly season. as we know, 14 drivers have contracts ending at the end of 2024 which means the absolute mad rush to resign and offer contracts across basically every team. redbull is basically guaranteed to not resign checo and might even swap him for daniel ricciardo halfway through the season whereas lands contract with mclaren ends in 2025 and oscars ends in 2026. mclaren can spend all of their time worrying about the car and the drivers rather than who they are signing.

oscar piastri. oscar just finished his rookie season (and previously won the f2 and f3 championships and won rookie of the year this year). in terms of rookie years he had an outstanding one. people compared him to lewis hamilton's rookie year. as a refresher, lewis hamiltons rookie year was in 2007 (also at mclaren) and he won his first championship in 2008. oscar is the first rookie since lewis hamilton to get multiple podiums and win something in his rookie year. expectations are running high here.

lando norris's expiring contract. as we know lando has one more confirmed year with mclaren. cel of mclaren zak brown has announced that they want to extend landos contract with mclaren, but, hes starting to get really really good, which means that a top team like red bull or mercedes might also try to get him as a driver. this is the year for mclaren to prove to lando that they can give him what he wants (which is to win a race. in his 5 years of formula 1 he hasn't won anything. and once he starts winning then hes going to want to win a championship. but. there is max verstappen to contend with). so their absolute balls to the wall tactic could work pretty well for them here. pre season testing doesnt start for over another month and they are already clearly locked in to the 2024 season.

lando and oscar actually get along. sure, formula 1 is an individual sport, but there is the drivers championship (for the individual driver) and the constructors championship (for the team with the most points). so they do have to work together. drivers not working together in the past has led to some ... undesirable results for teams (the great brocedes civil war of nico rosberg and lewis hamilton that ultimately resulted in nico retiring after he won his first championship, whatever the hell was going with max and daniel for part of the 2018 season, the french civil war at alpine between pierre gasley and esteban ocon) they are also both very consistent drivers. neither are incredibly crash prone and seem quite willing to work together on the track to optimize results.

yes they do also have disadvantages. lando has never won a race, they only have one pole position between them (lando in russia in 2021) and they're not a red bull. clearly they're the underdog in the situation. but they did finish fourth in the constructors championship in 2023 ("best of the rest") (and after basically getting next to no points for the first several races on account of the fact that their car was shit) behind ferrari, mercedes, and red bull. they're coming for the top 3 and honestly it could be their season to lose.

if ferrari doesnt change their strategy approach then they could be out of a shot at top 3. also ferrari have to deal with the nightmare of resigning both of their drivers (or finding new ones). merc and red bull will both be giving it their all (lewis hamilton really really wants to win his 8th world championship before he retires and max is well. max.) but if mclaren has a competitive car from the start of the season and doesnt have to play catch up for the first several races, then they could easily finish in the top 3.

also they released their livery today? which really confuses me (is that different than the car unveiling? what is going on someone mansplain it to me please)

#not a tag #from saph #thats more information than you will probably ever need to know about mclaren #mclaren #f1

[dear-ao3]

life is a highway and i am lando norris at the spa 2021 qualifying

#not a tag #from saph #as said by katya about 3 minutes ago #hes in the tranches #im making vushka #f1 #ln4

[dear-ao3]

#not a tag #from saph #f1 #saphs poll of the day part 2 #there was a lot to unpack about this race but lets just throw out the whole suitcase #ITS SUPPOSED TO SAY WERE GOING TO EXPLODE

[dear-ao3]

GUENTHER STEPPED DOWN AS PRINCIPAL NOOOO

I KNOW ITS A SAD DAY TO BE A HAAS FAN

i hope he fok smashed the door on the way out

#not a tag #from saph #you all know me so well i opened tumblr to THREE whole asks about gunther :) #my man i love him #also i’m like Decently sure based on the wording of everything that he was slightly fired #hhh #ill bring back my explanations of f1 drama again if enough of you beg me cause hoooly shit #f1

[dear-ao3]

I love the F1 posts because my sister gets super excited whenever I talk to her about it. I have no clue about anything, but I'm now the first person she talks to whenever something happens in the F1 world, cute 🫶🏻

the only reason i know about f1 is because of my sister!!! the sibling experience is real

#not a tag #from saph #f1 #the amount of things i keep up with just to talk to my sister about if funny

[dear-ao3]

so apparently there is max verstappen x y/n social media au? not surprised by fanfic but this looks vaguely real? people are actively like fabricating this? is this a completely invented girlfriend scenario like goncharov but for f1 please i need you to explain 😭😭😭

by this definition i suppose all y/n fics are just renditions of goncharov

#seriously why do you all think i know everything about f1 #i don't venture to f1 tumblr very often but i think ive vaguely seen this #have you not seen a social media au before?? #editing apps?? #idk man #not a tag #from saph #f1

[dear-ao3]

saph i would humbly like to ask about lewis and nico i am new to f1 and i only know the highlights (aka the downfall™️)

...alright FINE if you INSIST

#tbh been looking for a reason to deep dive this and this week seems like as good a time as any! #i know positively nothing about them other than Well It Happened #and that one time nico ended up under a hotel room sink fighting lewis #so this should be interesting... #not a tag #from saph #f1 #stay tuned #not sure if this will go on the Update Post or be its own post it depends on how long it ends up being

[dear-ao3]

do you usually watch F1 practice sessions?

when i have time i do but i’m not right now on account of the fact that i am on a train and the internet is bad

#probably will later tho #all the europeans are crying about how the aus gp is in the middle of the night meanwhile i am slaying here in est #the only race of the whole year that i really will need to bend over backwards for is the chinese gp which i think is at like 3am #and vegas probably i think that’s at 1am #f1 #not a tag #from saph

[dear-ao3]

G-guenther steiner?

(also it's very funny, the fact that every time that I get a new fandom dear-ao3 reveals the fact that they're also in that fandom. every day I feel validated.)

what can i say i cater to the masses

#Gunther steiner is such a poor little meow meow but also the realest fucking guy i love him #that clip of him talking about how he flew to italy lives rent free in my head #f1 #not a tag #from saph

[dear-ao3]

I remember when i first started reading f1 fanfiction, the phrase "SS-officer Michael Schumacher" almost took me out. Like what posseses you to write about your faves as nazis?

f1 fandom. i dont really interact with yall. thats saphs gig via the silly season post. but if theres one thing u need to take from me its DONT WRITE NAZI AUS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

#from katya #not a tag #im gonna stop responding to tgings related after this #but #jfc #f1

[dear-ao3]

Hi!!

Wanted to say thank you to Saph for the f1 silly season monstrosity :)

My dad's been into f1 for 5-6 years ish now & throughout that time I had learned maybe four things about it (because it's cars, why would I care) but! Your f1 posts keep showing up on my dash and i figured if someone was going to explain it in a way that made sense i'd give it a try. and that led to me & dad spending a good hour and a half, two hours reading your post and laughing and talking and we haven't really done that lately. or ever.

so ik you probably don't care abt some anon and their dad but like. thank you for giving me a way to connect with him

NO NO I CARE SO MUCH AA THATS SO NICE

tho i would like to apologize for making your dad read the sentence john green cock post. i hope that you didn’t have to explain that one to him.

but but that’s so sweet i’m so glad aaa dads are so fun and cool i hope you’re both enjoying the disaster that is that post. the next update will be out tonight :)

#not a tag #from saph #f1