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vro0m · 2 years

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vro0m’s rewatch - 85/299

2011 Singapore GP

It's round 14. Seb can already win the WDC. And he's on pole. He has a 112 points lead on Alonso and needs 125 to win the title.

Quali report. Kobayashi fucked up in the chicane, jumped on the bump and hit the wall. He's 17th. Lewis was seen racing Massa on the track. Massa says he wasn't thinking straight doing that. Lewis is 4th, his team wasn't able to refuel him in time for a final attempt. Sutil and Di Resta didn't even go out in Q3 to save tyres. Schumacher also didn't go out for a final attempt to save tyres. The Mercedes are 7th and 8th. Massa is 6th. Alonso is 5th. Jenson is 3rd. RedBull front row.

Oh I thought this was gonna be all about Seb but we get a Lewis segment. Jake talks about all his team making sure he gets a perfect weekend and Lewis says he appreciates the attention to details. Jake says "you're just behind RedBull in the pit stops standings, did you know that?"

Lewis says "uh... In terms of what?" – "In terms of speed". Apparently they're a tenth behind but in terms of consistency Lewis believes they are further behind, It's something they're trying to improve on. Lewis says he's been personally talking to the guys about it and they're probably annoyed at him. He smiles.

Jake says Jenson told him they sit for a short time in the cars before getting out after driving here in Singapore, otherwise they get dizzy. Lewis says it depends because when he won he jumped out but then when he got up the stairs to the podium he had to pause at the top because he was out of breath.

He explains how they have meetings and he watches his laps and other people's laps to see what he did right or wrong. Jake says despite all his efforts and all his desire Seb is still dominating and does it put it into perspective how impressive he is? Lewis says it's not like golf or tennis where the individual has all the control. There's almost 700 people building his car and sometimes their way works and sometimes another team's way works. This time the RB way works and they've been working hard to catch up all year.

He shows how he has sweets in his very tiny room and they are indispensable to him lol. He explains how important to him it is to have his own space, not being taken photos of, being bombarded by engineers, doing media interviews and appearances. He can do what he wants, say what he wants, feel what he wants there in that room. Jake says finally Seb might win the title this weekend, what does he think it's like for him?

Lewis smiles "I think Sebastian, I can only assume he's massively relaxed. If you're winning– if you can possibly win the world championship 6 races before the end of the season then uh... Then you're not really stressed at all. When you're at the last race and everything depends on how you finish, how you perform that day, one little mistake and it could be out the window, that's what I call pressure. But he's pretty relaxed : if he doesn't do it this weekend, he'll do it next weekend. "

He himself still intends to win as many races as he can for the end of the season and perform well because that's what makes him happy. Everything they've learned this season will go into next year's car and hopefully it'll be a real killer.

On the grid, Lewis explains to Martin Brundle that he has a special helmet. It says RIP M. H & C. B, two people he knew who passed away recently. Martin Hines and Christian Bakkerud. Btw Seb is sporting a very gay rainbow sparkling helmet.

Okay formation lap.

And they're racing!

Ohhh right away the two Mclarens are attacking, unfortunately Lewis has to lift off and he loses places while Jenson gets P2 in the first corner. Then come Alonso and Webber, Massa, Rosberg and Lewis is now P7... Nico might have to give places back because he went through the run-off area to get where he is and Lewis is already under pressure from Schumacher. No wait he's already behind him actually... There are yellow flags but we don't know why. Mercedes tell Rosberg there's no issue with how they made it through that first corner and to focus on the race. It's Ricciardo who's limping to the pits with a broken front wing.

Now Lewis is starting to work on overtaking Schumacher and we hope it's not another Monza... Yes he did it, thanks to KERS and the DRS. Next target is Rosberg, then. Phew it’s tense, he's following so closely and yep it's done already. God that must make you so nervous seeing a car so close in your mirrors.

Massa, Webber and Alonso are battling for third while Lewis is trying to close the gap to them. Webber radioed DRS not working very well. We don't know if it's a him issue or generally speaking it doesn't work well here, in this context.

Only 10 laps in, Rosberg pits already. Webber overtook Alonso! Now Alonso pits anyway. That complicates things for Lewis who needs to clear Massa... Glock DNFs but who cares. Lewis can only hope Ferrari will pit Massa immediately. RedBull doesn't seem to be preparing for Webber. Yep McLaren in the pit, as is Massa. Who gets out first? Aww it's the Ferrari ahead. But Lewis is on supersofts so maybe he’ll have an advantage on track. NO THEY MADE CONTACT! Lewis lost his front wing! Massa has a puncture? They'll have to pit again. Dumbasses. Well it's Lewis' mistake really.

And Lewis doesn't pit immediately! The team is choosing a strategy. They're gonna put him on hards immediately with the front wing change to keep him out as long as possible. That's daring. He lost so much time in that extra lap and he might get a penalty. This is catastrophic. He's P16 now. Yeah he gets a drive-through on top of it. Martin Brundle says it's justified but also that you wonder why Schumacher got away with the same thing in Monza with no penalty.

A third of the race in Lewis overtakes Kobayashi for 15th while at the front it's still Seb followed by Jenson, and Alonso and Webber fighting for third place. Three laps later Lewis is P14. Let's see how much he can climb back. Now he overtook Massa on track for 12th, no issues this time. Alonso pits right after Massa did. Lewis already overtook Barrichello for P10. Three way fight for 7th between the two Mercedes and Perez. And it's a crash!! Schumacher is in the barriers. It looked like a heavy impact. He's out of the car already. The safety car is out. Webber pits.

Let’s see the replay. Rosberg and Perez touched and that sent Perez wide. Perez rejoins in front of Schumacher. Schumacher follows very closely and his tyre bites on Perez's rear which sends him flying.

Seb and Jenson also pit. Lewis is still in 10th.

Ready for the restart... Seb is already 5 seconds ahead how is that even possible, it's not even been a lap! Webber overtakes Alonso for 3rd place. Lewis is up to 8th. Now it's been a full lap after the restart and Seb is NINE FULL SECONDS AHEAD. This makes no sense. This car is ridiculous.

Now DRS is allowed again and that's it, Lewis up in 7th. Next target is Rosberg again. Done already. P6. Next up Di Resta. Done. P5. Alonso to come. It's gonna take a little longer to catch him.

Lewis might have to pit again. 14 laps to go. The decision is : are the tyres at risk of failing or not? Are they going to try for more points than 5th place or not? Is it even worth it? Webber pits from P3, supersofts. That puts Lewis in 4th but on old, old tyres. Jenson pits! Webber is attacking Lewis who defends but he has no grip on his tyres but he has to wait for Jenson to be done to pit, here he comes. Ooooh he's falling back... He's P9. 12 laps to go. Time to grind. Seb also pits. The Ferraris will have to react. Yeah, Alonso is in.

So the standings are : Seb, Jenson, Webber, Alonso, Di Resta, Rosberg, Sutil, and Lewis is 8th as he just overtook Perez. And he overtakes Sutil for 7th as someone stops on the track? Trulli? Whoever. Yellow flags. Lewis attacks Rosberg for P6. It's done. What a job he is doing in this race my god. Supreme. He's closing on Di Resta already. Easy done. P5. Alonso is 10 seconds ahead though. Jenson is now 2 seconds a lap faster than Seb. Seb runs into traffic. McLaren is really pushing the envelope here but they are going for it. 3 laps to go. Now Jenson has to clear the traffic as well. 5-second gap. Lewis is not closing on Alonso at all. All the focus is on Jenson. 2 laps to go. They're in the clear. Alguersuari DNF. Final lap.

And it's the end of the race!

Seb wins but not the WDC. Jenson second. Webber third. Lewis fifth.

Massa is very angry at Lewis for that incident. Jordan believes he shouldn't have gotten a drive-through for that and argues again that we've seen other people get into similar incidents and not be handed penalties. (No comment from me lol.) We unfortunately don't get to hear from Lewis himself.

#f1 #lewis hamilton #2011 #2011 singapore gp #vro0m's race reviews

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djarrex · 3 years

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Hi everyone, just wanted to address what happened last night along with some other things from before that all tie in together.

There’s multiple parts to the following post - please make sure you read all of it if you’re gonna take the time to even start.

It was midnight and y'all were still jumping in on anon and telling me how I'm awful for not commenting, owning up, or taking responsibility - I should have been in bed. I have a life and job outside this app; and with the several of you in my inbox and it being too late at night to address each, I’m gonna do it now. I can’t not say something about all of this. I just can’t keep quiet and ignore the problem - it’s not fair to you all. Deleting one post already has you guys even more riled up and all I wanted to do was offer something better than a “half-hearted apology” (it was very late at night when I wrote that very short apology, and wanted a redo tbh).

I really didn't want to make a long post like this. I reached out to a select few on here because I care about them (there's more of you, but like I said, it was at the time after midnight and I was fucking exhausted). but I was being demanded for accountability. So here I am.

Allow me to be real with you all, if that's ok. If it's not, well, idk. First I wanna address all you anons, who, instead of speaking to me one on one about all this, want to criticize me and shame me and my writing when truthfully it feels like you haven't even read more than a handful of my work. I didn’t realize that I write the clones all the same way? That I always make them super aggressive and uncaring and dom? “you write every single clone as so dominant instead as unique individual men with their own personalities” Interesting. See, that right there tells me you haven't read nearly enough of my stuff for me to believe that's true. That's one accusation I absolutely will not back you on because I know it’s inaccurate - saying how I group the clones into some overly-aggressive, and uncaring category - that I always write all of them as mean in bed because they're men of color. And hey, if I do write rough smut - which yeah, it's out there and I write it, as do a lot of you - there are warnings at the beginning, aftercare, dialogue, reader sharing their feelings, and most importantly... consent between the two. That’s what warnings are for, so that you know what you’re going to be reading. That’s why I, as we all do, appreciate warnings listed at the tops of fics; honestly, write them sub or dom or switch or however you want but don’t come at me like that. I’m sorry if I'm coming across as rude because I'm usually not, I’m one of the nicest people you’ll meet, but I will not stand idly by while you chastise my writing (writing that is pretty much the same type of stuff a lot of you write & rb with the same characters) that you haven’t read enough of to back such claims.

Next: Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart,

I get it. Really, I do. I fully understand the problem of whitewashing in SW along with almost everywhere else, and I do not agree with it. It's a huge problem, and it needs to be rectified. Now just because I don't speak publicly about it and opt out of publicly shaming TBB, doesn't mean that I agree with what’s going on. Not everyone is comfortable with sharing their opinions on a subject, no matter what that subject is or which side they're on. You live and you learn when it comes to that.

It has never been my intention to fetishize POC in my writing, which btw, the same people who are saying that it is my intention are the ones claiming I portray all of the clones as the same, aggressive men, lacking their individuality. It’s a claim that is simply not true, and I know I have followers on here to back me up on that. I know what I've written; how about you check it out and tell me that you don't see the words "soft" or "fluff" or "cuddling" or “gentle” or “tender” within my work linked in my ML. Clone character being a good partner and father? Tender love making? Holding each others faces in their hands? “We/you survived” sex? Taking care of their partner? Saying “I love you” to one another? Confirming the safe word and going slow at first? Oh my - riveting and harsh stuff - totally unacceptable.

Now: My admittedly problematic writings of Rex + Zygerria,

I went into writing that rp fic totally unaware and unknowing of the true implications. For that, I sincerely apologize. When I posted the NSFW alphabet, that’s when I was called out on that rp fic - not when I first posted it. Which the timeline doesn’t matter, I know that, but it concerns me a little bit that no one spoke up about it sooner - letting me dig myself deeper into a hole that I didn’t realize I was inside of in the first place. I've apologized once, and I know that doesn't negate what happened; I acknowledged my mistake back then, but I suppose that wasn’t good enough. I had asked you, anon, to message me to give me guidance, to teach me on what to do about the fic - you stayed hidden. Well, respectfully, what the fuck? I know we're all adults but don't lecture me and avoid me when I’d literally reached out for guidance on how to properly rectify the issue. I fixed my wording in some of my fics (the things I’ve caught upon rereading them) because I recognized and more importantly learned about and from my mistakes along with the unintentional negative implications of how I wrote those characters. Some of y'all wanna tell me that I "haven't learned"? Who are you, my personal blog police? My professor? My life coach? Are you even my friend? If I'm wrong and haven't learned, then fucking educate me. I worked hard on that rp fic, just like I do with a majority of what I write, but it doesn’t matter because I will delete it knowing that it’s harmful to others and I apologize for inadvertently romanticizing slavery with what I wrote - it was unintentional, and I’m truly sorry to those who have been hurt by it. I know it’s wrong, and there’s no proper excuse for it. Can’t go back in time, but consider it gone now.

Since that first wakeup call, I’ve been working hard to ensure I avoid using certain words and ideas when describing the clones in my fics. If there’s still something you see that isn’t correct or is inappropriate, please tell me! Don’t hold it in but then jump on the “attack M” bandwagon. Private message me, or come peacefully off or on anon, there will be no hard feelings. I don’t mind being corrected when I make a mistake - that’s just part of life, we all make mistakes and we live and learn from them. Making mistakes doesn’t = scumbag human. When you hold your breath and choose not to take the time to guide me, and if I appear to still be making the same mistakes, well, idk. I’m telling you right now that I do not mind if you message me with the good intention of pushing me in the right direction. When you come at me with hostility on anon, well, no thank you. To the anons that came without rage: thank you! I read what you wrote, and I have a better understanding as to how my writing had hurt the lovely followers of mine, and tried to address as much as possible in this post. See, angry mob anons? It costs zero credits to be kind and offer up your thoughts and advice with a good heart. I’m not going to hate you or block you if you try to correct me. I don’t block unless you’re a snoopin’ minor. Just don’t hold a knife to my throat.

Now: Why did I delete the tags and then my response to that anon ask?

Simply put: I felt awful. Deleting it doesn’t immediately mean I’m hiding from it and ignoring the issue. I wanted to come up with a better apology, explanation, whatever you wanna call it, because my followers deserve that. The ones who enjoy my work, the ones who interact, the ones who I call my friends, the ones who know that I’m a good person. Didn’t want to leave the tags/post floating around all night, giving more people time to sharpen their pitchforks and join the mob while I attempted to sleep. Trust me, I know saying that I had no ill intentions when tagging that post doesn’t make it better nor does it make it go away. I’m just trying to show you my point of view, that I knew immediately how I should not have tagged it that way, so that’s why I deleted them. I corrected my mistake. But y’all are too fucking quick I swear.

One more thing:

I know some of you who had called me out with the passive-aggressive inbox messages are still following me, and for what? You don’t like what I post, which is why one would follow another in the first place, so why bother sticking around? Do you feel like you need to police my blog? You want to be there the literal minute I make a mistake? I’m gonna turn off anon for a bit, so if you wanna discuss, message me. Just know that if you’re going to come at me with knives out, I probably won’t reply to you.

To conclude:

I’m sorry. Truly sorry for the entire Rex + Zygerria outfit + slaver ordeal with both the fic from a while ago and then the tags from last night. We can’t go back in time; the only option is to correct past mistakes that are able to be corrected, and then move on with new knowledge that’ll aid in me working even harder to ensure my writing isn’t inappropriate or offensive, and doesn’t hurt my followers nor the characters I write for. I’m still going to write self-indulgent filth and fluff, post-order 66 Rex, and other misc shit. I enjoy writing fanfic, as I know a lot of you enjoy reading what I write and love to talk to me about it. I hope that this didn’t come off as me being a bitch, because I’m really not. I enjoy interacting with the handful of people on here that I’d call my friends, and I love reading your reactions and tags to my fics when you’re excited and/or horny (LOL). It’s just after lunch time where I’m at, so I hope you have a great rest of the day/night/morning whatever for wherever you are.

#long post #m personal

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