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best part of today has to be everyone who's never listened to Nico Rosberg commentate before slowly realise in real time that he really is that unhinged, really couldn't give less of a fuck, knows an incredible amount of wheel, and has still to get over Lewis Hamilton

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Most confusing message of the year makes sense now

I LOVE THE BOOPS

#boop

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oh this explains a lot

Please go boop @georgeousrussell they're late to the party 😂

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tumblr will never count as social media to me. This shit a secret hideout and we just all happen to see each others thoughts

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what's the most cringe old tweet you've found I am curious

any selection from 16-year old max's susie wolff replyguy era

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most of the drivers' reactions to the whole Horner situation is so disappointing tbh. what do you mean someone in the paddock, an employee gets harassed by one of the top figures in the sport and your reaction is either "it has nothing to do with me", or "no comment", "i just like cars and i want to drive", "it's noise and distraction", "i'm here to race", and "it's a good thing for the media", "it doesn't affect me", "i don't really have an interest".

why is it so hard to care about something other than your racing career? you gotta have some morals, dude. not caring about women's safety in your oh so beloved sport is some fucked up behaviour. in situations like this it really shows how fucking privileged they are and it's honestly repulsive.

this is precisely why Lewis is always the one being asked about any non-sport related topic. because he's the only one who cares and gives honest and nuanced answers. genuinely terrified of what this sport will become when he retires, cause no one will speak out on anything.

and then people wonder why we say that f1 is not a safe place for women and that misogyny is still very much a thing in the sport? men don't care, including the president of the fia and f1, the other team principals and most of the drivers as well. when the faces of the sport clearly don't give a shit about women, what kind of hope is there?

they can talk about equality and progressive values and promoting women in motorsports, when this is the reality of how they actually treat the women working in the sport. imagine how that poor woman is feeling, seeing how much the drivers care about what she's going through. utterly disrespectful, with no compassion or empathy.

f1 needs to do so much better.

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so let me get this straight. these drivers work with women in the paddock, but when allegations of sexual harassment and how women are being treated in f1 comes up all of a sudden it’s “noise and distraction” and “you don’t care about those stuff”??? like your girlfriends and wives are in this same paddock but you don’t care since you’re not affected by it?? Got it 👍🏾 but then again these are men and i don’t expect anything good to come out of a man’s mouth much less a millionaire driver.

all this goes to show you that most of these drivers don’t care about the safety of women much less support women in the paddock. as long as their check clears that’s enough for them. that also makes me think that formula 1 doesn’t care about women empowerment or diversity and inclusion, they are just doing it for a show.

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i truly don't know what else to say.

this woman went through hell and is still going through it, because his ego cannot handle being told off. fuck this man.

i'm done throwing around words like allegedly and apparently and supposedly or reportedly to preserve the possibility of him being innocent.

the more we find out, the more this unravels; every single sign is pointing to the fact that he's guilty. if you ever even remotely protected or defended this man please never ever interact with me.

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If you're in Australia you'll already know this, but for our international readers, basically the whole of Australia ground to a halt today because one of our two mobile/internet networks - Optus - just completely shat its dacks for about 9 hours, taking out the country's phones, internet and banking.

The funniest part though, is that apparently when the national broadcaster tried to reach out to find out what was going on - they discovered the quite forseeable problem that everyone at Optus used Optus for their phone and internet, so there was basically no way for their company to contact anyone inside or outside the company to work out what was going on or to try and fix it.

What a country.

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This GP in Brazil is pure art!

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if you care about riders' health, support, and the future of the sport, please read this article.

tatay's situation exposes the overwhelming redundancy of bureaucracy in the sport world and how it actively denies athletes help.

the FMCV has literally refused to pay Tatay's insurance, going against the exact fucking thing these federations were created to do. so many Spanish riders have vocalized their support for Tatay and for changing the federation policy, but nothing has yet to come of it.

as sports fans we MUST acknowledge and fight for the rights of athletes to be treated as human beings and receive the care they need and deserve. please, please spread this message around.

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he's done with sf, gonna be a movie star now

📷 @/FilmUpdates

#I read this as WWE #fully thought this scrawny man was going to be snapped like a twig

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Man I know we had fun here yesterday and I know it's too stupid a take to take seriously but. I really do think there's something so fucking cruel about using Niki coming back to racing after his crash as a weapon to shame drivers into not complaining about the circumstances they have to race in, when Niki literally did not want to race in the race where he had his accident because of the weather conditions. If the people running the sport had listened to him and taken his concerns seriously he would not have had to suffer through burning alive and the intense pain and trauma. He fucking suffered, he went through pain that he had no reason to go through, and it was entirely avoidable if people had just LISTENED to his concerns. And you use that accident to silence other drivers like it was GREAT that a man was set on fire because he got to "prove" what a badass man he was. It's just. It's so fucking insidious and ridiculous.

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"F1 drivers need to be STRONG MEN! Not BABIES! Look at Lauda post crash!" Oh Lauda post crash? Niki Lauda post crash!!? Niki Lauda after his crash? The same year of his crash? When he famously stopped the car in a championship deciding race and got out because the weather conditions were once again too treacherous and he wasn't willing to put his life at risk again? And was applauded for his bravery in giving up the championship fight to preserve himself? That Niki Lauda is proof that drivers should suck it up and race in dangerous weather conditions? Really? REALLY now?

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Mad respect for the Williams crew that were reassuring Logan that there is no shame in retiring the car and looking after his own health.

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Hearing Lance talk about his race while also thinking about all of the shit he’s been facing just makes me sad. Like he’s clearly struggling with the car, had his accident at the beginning of season, then had that huge crash, then this weekend even before this race, and then feeling so sick that he was literally passing out. Hearing Logan’s engineer be so encouraging about keeping his health first shouldn’t be such a unique experience but it really is in this sport. Even the pundits being like “this sport is hard you have to push yourself to the limit” is so discouraging. Sorry to rant. It’s just so shitty to watch all of them make these sacrifices with their bodies and well-being for a sport that doesn’t give a shit about them.

yeah all of this

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Okay so we watched:

Lando be informed of his lap time deletion and walking away whilst Max was being interviewed

George giving an interview believing he was p3 not knowing about the lap time deletion and only being informed at the end by Oscar

Max off to the side with Mark Webber (Oscar’s manager) who’s explaining what happened with Lando.

Oscar’s lap time being deleted mid interview

Naomi having to inform him at the end of his interview of his lap time deletion and being dropped 3 grid places.

Oscar still ending up in the post qualifying picture because it was way to late to go find Lewis

F1 is a completely serious multibillion dollar sport with a long and esteemed history.