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You know what? Real talk, If Charles really could not attack after the pit stop like he is saying bc of tire degradation (he did have to go through half the grid after that pit stop) then I am happy there were team orders. Because if charles attacked with tires that were not doing OK and he lost against Carlos on 7 lap newer tires who have not seen an overtake the discourse of Carlos winning wheel to wheel would have been horrendous. It would have been worse than it will be now.

I am not undermining charles or anything. I think he didn't attack not because of the team orders but by his own decision. I think he would have attacked if he had a better grip on his tires. I think the grandiosity of Charles as a driver is exactly in the fact that he can read the situation and feel his car. Feel what he can and cannot do with the car. If the car felt like it could not pass Carlos in that moment I trust Charles that it is true. Any other driver in his position would have gone for it (cough Russel cough). He attacked in Monza but it was the last laps and he essentially had nothing to lose that year. This year he is in a fight with red bull and it was the beginning of the race so burning his tyres even more on a useless overtake would have put him in danger against the mclarens much faster.

If you think about it this was some brilliant management and decision making on Charles side. I am still his fan (shocker!!!) And I still love him to death and I think he made all the right choices today.

#f1 #charles leclerc #disregard all my previous posts they made in the spur of the moment #if you slow down and think about it it was the best charles could do this race #is it frustrating that max dnfs the one time charles is not right behind him? yes #did ferrari make the wrong decision holding their positions? no #in the heat of the moment i forgot that charles is a capable driver and ferrari is becoming a capable team #verdict is i am positive about this charles race #could they have switched them and told carlos to hold position instead? theoretically yes but calros would never agree to that so they woul #only be making it worse #the tags are longer than the post but i wanted the post short and concise

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putting-it-into-parc · 2 months

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jealousy, jealousy - chapter 8: like the french do

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summary: when your car catches on fire, it’s probably a good thing to just get out…

warning(s): vague mention of suicidal ideation, copious swearing, scary car accident

chapter 8: like the french do

Max knew the second he smelled the fuel leaking that the race—well, his race—was over.

“FUCK!” he bellowed in frustration as his car halted. “FUCK!”

Max hadn’t had a DNF since 2022. He stalked around the pit lane garage, irate, watching the race proceed without him on the screen. Charles flew around the Circuit Paul Ricard unchallenged, leading by a comfortable margin until he suddenly lost the rear end, spun one, two, three times, and crashed into the tyre barrier.

“Are—are—are you okay?” the Ferrari engineer asked through the broadcast.

Charles’ radio beeped. “I CANNOT FIND THE THROTTLE!” he wailed.

Heavy breathing, one exhale after another. Max imagined Charles exercising all the control he had left to keep it together.

But then the engine. Fucking. Caught. On fire.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” came a bloodcurdling scream of pure anguish. Then…an equally deafening silence.

Max desperately scanned the broadcast for signs of Charles climbing out of the wreck. Or the fire crew running over to extinguish the flames. But neither was happening. What was happening were flames climbing slowly over the rear wing. Then the intake. Then the sidepods…

Charles was going to die right there in his burning car.

Max tore out of the Red Bull garage, through the pit lane, straight to the tyre barrier where Charles had spun out. His lungs screamed for air. His legs screamed as the lactic acid started to build up in his calves.

Even several metres from the flaming car, Max could feel the scorching heat.

“CHARLES!!!” he screeched at the Ferrari. He clawed his way up the suspension of the left front wheel.

Charles’ helmet was motionless behind the halo.

Without hesitation, Max reached into the cockpit, seized Charles under his armpits, and hauled him out of the car. His foot slipped under the suspension; both drivers tumbled to the road. Max felt a searing burn across his left cheekbone as it scraped the asphalt, and pain shot up his ankle as he scrambled to drag Charles as far away from the fire as he could.

At least five pit marshals ran over wielding fire extinguishers and a stretcher. Several of them swiftly secured Charles to it. One helped Max shakily to his feet. He started to limp as fast as he could towards Charles, but the pit marshal stopped him.

“He’s alive,” he informed Max. “Don’t worry. He’ll be okay. Can we get another stretcher here, please?” he called.

You don’t know that, Max wanted to scream.

But no amount of protesting stopped the damn marshals from hauling him away to the medical center. Away from Charles.

Shallow laceration over left zygomatic process. Left ankle injury, grade II sprain. The doctor evaluating Max might have well been writing in Greek. He had tapped his uninjured foot impatiently against the exam table. “I’m fine. Really. We fell, like, half a metre. I need to go see if Charles Leclerc is okay.”

After what felt like an eternity and then some, they finally released Max. He limped as fast as his bum ankle would let him down the hall, looking into every room until he saw Charles. Max breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him sitting up.

“Lost a rear. That’s it. I tried to take too much on the outside…but yeah. It’s my fault. And if I keep doing mistakes like this, I deserve to not win the championship,” Charles said grimly to the reporter who had the fucking nerve to interview him in his hospital bed. Max clenched his fists, hovering behind the cameraman and glowering at the reporter until he left.

“You shouldn’t have let him ask you questions,” he berated Charles.

“It’s all true. If I keep making mistakes like this…it’s pointless. Pointless to race here,” Charles muttered. Then he rounded on Max. “What are you doing here?” he asked dully. “Did you come over to gloat?”

“Gloat?” Max positively choked on the word. “What the hell are you talking about?”

“You win, Max. Okay?” Charles said morosely. “I guess you figured me out. Well I get it, you like Carlos. And my car is fucked, probably for the rest of the season, and maybe you should’ve just let me go with it, because it’s just…pointless now.”

Max felt an icy dread creep up his spine, follow his arteries down his arms, through his hands, out his fingertips.

“Charles,” he whispered raggedly. “Please…please just answer one thing for me. Just one thing.”

“What…”

“Did you choose not to get out of the car?”

A single tear slid down Charles’ cheek. He didn’t need to say anything. The silence told Max enough.

Max buried his face in Charles’ shoulder and burst into tears. Great, gasping, heaving sobs. “Oh, Charles,” he blubbered pathetically, “there—there is no winning—no world—nothing—without you.”

Charles started shaking, tears dripping onto Max’s neck, snaking their way into the collar of his racing suit.

“No no no—I’m sorry—sorry for everything—Charles, I’m so, so sorry.”

The two drivers remained like that, arms entangled, covered in soot and salt and tears and not caring about it at all, until a nurse finally discovered them a long while later and demanded Max leave for Red Bull hospitality at last.

notes: ouch. at least they know they care about each other? this chapter was a conglomeration of a few races in 2022, all of them total shitshows: - charles’ crash - french gp where charles spun out. chapter takes place in france on purpose, it’s no longer part of the season and therefore the events in this chapter cannot possibly happen irl. no jinxing. - fire - austrian gp when sainz’s car literally exploded and he barely made it out. i might have nightmares permanently from that one - and max’s fuel issue at the very beginning of chapter - australian gp

none of these resulted in injuries irl. but plenty of frustration and pain.

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Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Max Verstappen wins in as Charles Leclerc retires

Verstappen won the 25th race of his career Max Verstappen won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and took control of the world championship after an engine failure on Charles Leclerc's Ferrari. Leclerc's second engine-related retirement from the lead in three grands prix leaves him trailing Verstappen by 35 points, despite six pole positions in eight races. And it continues the impression that Ferrari's season is falling apart after such a promising start as Leclerc's team-mate Carlos Sainz also failed to finish, following an early hydraulic failure. Verstappen led team-mate Sergio Perez to a Red Bull one-two, as George Russell took third for Mercedes, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton fighting back to finish fourth. 'It is more than significant. I don't really have the words' Leclerc immediately lost the advantage he had earned with a dazzling pole position lap as Perez dived for the inside into Turn One after a good start. The Ferrari then came under pressure from Verstappen, but was able to hold the Dutchman off until a virtual safety car period on lap nine caused by Sainz parking up in a run-off area. Ferrari leapt on the opportunity to pit for fresh tyres, which Red Bull did not, hoping that it would vault Leclerc into the lead - which a few laps later it did. As Leclerc dropped briefly down to third following his stop, Verstappen soon closed in on Perez and passed for the lead on lap 15, after the Mexican was told "no fighting". Perez stopped the next time around, and Verstappen two laps later. After the Red Bull drivers' stops, the race looked set to boil down to whether Leclerc, in the lead, could hold off the challenge of the Red Bulls, who would have a significant grip advantage. And that question would have been made all the more intriguing by a second virtual safety car when Kevin Magnussen's Haas suffered a failure in his Ferrari engine. But by the time the Dane pulled off, Leclerc was long out of the race, a cloud of smoke erupting behind his car towards the end of lap 21. "I am more than frustrated," Leclerc said. "The first stint we weren't particularly at the beginning but then I was catching back Checo. I think pitting was the right choice. We were leading and then I was managing the tyres well. We just had to manage the tyres to the end and we were in the best position to do that. Another DNF. It hurts. "It is more than significant. I don't really have the words. It is just a huge disappointment and I hope we can jump back from it and be on top of those things." From that moment on, Red Bull were in total control. Verstappen comfortably had the measure of Perez and the two cars cruised to the flag. The heat was on as cars and drivers lined up on the hot grid on Baku More to follow via BBC Sport - Formula 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/

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It hurts Leclerc more than frustrated as Ferrari pair lament double Ferrari DNF in Baku

Ferrari suffered a double DNF in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix – as rivals Red Bull secured a one-two to rub salt into their wounds – with first Carlos Sainz and then race leader Charles Leclerc dropping out of the race. And both drivers were understandably frustrated when they faced the media in Baku. Lap 9 saw Sainz pull up with what transpired to be a hydraulics failure, dropping him out of P4. Pole-sitter Leclerc had lost the lead at the race start to Sergio Perez, but regained it after pitting under a Virtual Safety Car brought out for Sainz’s stoppage – only for what appeared to be a second power unit issue in three races to force him to pit into retirement on Lap 20. READ MORE: Verstappen leads Red Bull 1-2 as both Leclerc and Sainz retire in Azerbaijan “I am more than frustrated, obviously,” said Leclerc. “The first stint in the beginning, we weren’t particularly strong, but towards the end of the stint on the medium I was catching back Checo [Perez] and then obviously there was the VSC [Virtual Safety Car], and we decided to take that opportunity to pit, and I think it was the right choice. “We were in the lead of the race, I was managing the tyres well, we just had to manage the tyres and the race till the end, which I think was… we were definitely in the best position possible to do that. Another DNF – it hurts… We really need to look into that for it to not happen again.” 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Race leader Leclerc retires after engine blowout With Leclerc falling from P2 to P3 behind Baku winner Max Verstappen and Perez in the drivers’ standings following the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Leclerc was asked whether the result was significant for the championship, replying: “It’s more than a significance. I don’t really have the words to be honest, I came straight from the car to here. It is just a huge disappointment and I just hope we can jump back from it, and to be on top of those things.” AS IT HAPPENED: All the action from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sainz echoed his team mate’s sentiments – while adding that Ferrari’s recent issues were costing him learning behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1-75 that he’s struggled to tame at times in 2022. “The hydraulics went, and that was it,” said Sainz. “Even more frustrated to see Charles not finishing the race and having another issue. For sure it’s a tough day for Ferrari, a tough day for all of us but we are a team, we will go through different moments in the year, and this one is probably one of the most difficult and frustrating, but we will try and make sure we recover. 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Car failure forces Sainz to retire in Baku “[Apart from] reliability it hasn’t been that bad [this year, but] it’s getting momentum, and trying to have consecutive races clean this year, it’s been impossible,” added Sainz. “Especially the DNF comes in Lap 9 and I’m still looking to get laps, and get knowledge from the car, it is very difficult and so far, the 2022 season has decided to go this way for me and it’s frustrating, it’s extremely frustrating but we will have to recover this and we will need to stay patient and positive.” With Red Bull scoring a maximum 44 points in Baku, meanwhile, Ferrari have fallen to 80 points behind their rivals in the constructors’ standings. via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

#F1 #‘It hurts’ – Leclerc ‘more than frustrated’ as Ferrari pair lament double Ferrari DNF in Baku #Formula 1

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