Max: Who broke my trophy? I'm not mad. I just wanna know.
Oscar: I did. I broke it.
Max: No. No, you didn't. Charles?
Charles: Don't look at me. Look at Lewis!
Lewis: What?! I didn't break it.
Charles: Huh. That's weird. How'd you even know it was broken?
Lewis: Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken!
Charles: Suspicious.
Lewis: No, it's not!
Daniel: If it matters, probably not... Checo was the last one near it.
Checo: Liar! I don't even touch it!
Daniel: Oh really? Then what were you doing on the podium earlier?
Checo: I finished p3! Everyone knows that!
Oscar: All right, let's not fight. I broke it, let me pay for it, Max.
Max: No. Who broke it?
Alex: Max, George has been awfully quiet...
George: Really?!
Alex: Yeah, really!
Lando: I broke it. It fell and shattered when I did my champagne spike. I predict ten minutes from now, they'll be at each other's throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick.
Lando: Good. It was getting a little chummy around here
Honestly after being to the Hungarian GP I can safely say that most of Versatans army aren’t even his fans… they’re just racist Lewis haters. They don’t even care about their golden boy, or the race itself. Lot of them didn’t even wait for the podium, they just left right away.
They create songs to hate on lewis, they were saying hateful things when he was on the screen, a few of them even teased me in a freaking McDonald’s afterwards about Lewis’ P4, bc they saw me wearing Merc merch.
Not even talking about the shirts, the amount of people I’ve saw with tshirts ridiculing either Lewis, Toto or AD21 is nuts.
Last thought: I’m actually so glad for TeamLH, we are with Lewis through thick and thin, standing behind him, no matter what, Orange “army” on the other hand… I’m convinced that the moment that man stops having a rocket ship for a car a starts losing, they will run like rats from a sinking ship.
✧ CHARLES LECLERC → DRIVERS REACTION AFTER THE RACE | 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix
Interviewer: “Are you going to be pushing the guys back in Maranello, to try and put you back in the fight given the performance shown by McLaren?” Charles: “Yes for sure, even though…”
A Hungarian point of view of that infamous F1 throphy incident (no, I refuse to make THAT joke, this is supposed to be a serious post, yeah?):
So, home grand prix, right? Exciting shit, even when you’re not too immersed in this sport. A hot summer weekend, what better to do than turning on the tv and checking out the race (and being super jealous of all the YouTubers that got invited into the Paddock Club – it doesn’t matter if you don’t know shit about F1, it’s “for the clicks” as Max Verstappen would say). And this is how I was witness to the winner’s throphy get destroyed by the papaya team’s one and only Lando Norris. It should be fun and games and friendly banters and memories to keep forever – too bad there’s also a hand-crafted throphy that took approximately six months(!!) to make, and it also costs about 40K in euros. But this isn’t the main point here. People sharing my viewpoint are making it seem like this is what it’s all about, and I love you all for speaking out, but let me offer a bit of correction here.
If it was a generic, mass produced throphy, I’d laugh along with everyone involved. I mean, it is such a lovely sight – seeing two drivers having friendly banters and showing so much respect towards each other and making an otherwise lacking race memorable.
BUT. And here’s the most important part: this throphy was made by Hungary’s biggest porcelain manufactory. It’s design, the whole process of making it – it’s all part of our cultural heritage. Throphies are usually just objects, right? It isn’t important what they are made of but what they represent. But with this special throphy? It isn’t just something that represents a win – it also represents a country and its culture. The first three won’t just take home points and an object to represent it, they also take home with them a piece of Hungary. A piece of a foreign culture. An art piece, not just another generic throphy to add to their collection. And this is the part people ignore because let’s be honest. We are talking about a sport that moves millions on a single day, paying 40K for a porcelain vase isn’t going to slap them in the face. This isn’t about the money, nor about compensating the people (the artists!) working on these beauties. And don’t come at me with the argument that that throphy is now worth more broken because it isn’t about how much it is worth either.
Breaking that throphy — hell, it’s not even the “oops I broke it” part that is making me see red, it’s the JOKES the respective teams and the audience keep posting — means you’re ignorant and lowkey (lowkey??) disrespectful towards a culture.
Who to blame here? I don’t want to point fingers because I have no idea if anyone on the podium was aware how proud we are that aside from getting to house a race here, we also give a piece of our culture to the winners to take home with them. BUT I’m proposing everyone involved should be educated on this matter.