Without Albono, George Now Has To Step Up As The Caretaker Of This Crazy Bunch 😂

Couldn’t have said it better myself 👏🏻. We Asian F1 fans experience the same almost for all the races, heck the races in the US alone is at 1 AM in my time zone, but with Vegas being a night race, it’s gonna be one happy Sunday morning whilst I watch the race 😇☀️

My 2 cents on the Vegas GP bc I can't sleep:

- I don't really have an issue with 3 races in the US. The US, as a country with a rich motor racing heritage, hosts a myriad of historical racetracks of high standards. But instead of making use of those readymade circuits, we have a track that is aspiring to give Daytona a run for its money on bumpiness, a stadium parking lot, and a street circuit. The opening of the US market is a wonderful opportunity to introduce the wider world to the beauty of American circuits and the quality racing they are capable of producing, not tourist postcard attractions with labeled corners.

- This may be total nonsense, but the words of the governor are giving me the vibe that he wants Vegas GP to be the new Monaco GP (in terms of glamour and prestige). First of all, Monaco isn't the most fitting track for current cars, so the racing isn't that great, but that's not the point. The point is that, with Monaco ceasing to be a standalone event this season and Vegas coming onto the calendar next season, I'm sensing perhaps Vegas will be (or attempt to be) on par with Monaco in terms of special events. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I hope Vegas doesn't become like Monaco, where what happens outside of the race is of more substance than what happens on race day. Nowhere else has Monaco's racing heritage to be able to pull it off.

- I think I would be delusional to believe historic European tracks won't be cut from the calendar. In fact, I would rather prefer it over 30 races, although it is not unlikely to have 30 races and less European circuits in a few years time. The removal of motor racing history and heritage from the calendar is sad to watch.

- A bit of tangential observation: Europe (FIA WEC) and America (IMSA) spent years working out a cohesive regulation (LMH and LMDH) to make racing more accessible across the pond. Phenomena like this represent the trend of motor racing becoming more global (especially across the Atlantic), with a key emphasis on the quality and cultural heritage of motor racing (shown in the endurance case: WEC constructors want to race in Daytona/Sebring, IMSA constructors want to race in Le Mans). It shows sacrificing racing heritage like historic circuits is not necessary for attracting new crowds; in fact, one may argue that these historic circuits are drawing said new crowd in.

- Going back to F1 and motorsports. The way to create and maintain viewership is through superb racing and professional race control on high quality circuits. Drive to Survive is all fun and games until the newly-inducted realise the lies and cracks in a gimmicky show. F1 shouldn't aspire to be widely publicised and widely ridiculed as a Netflix show.

- That said, Vegas can end up a great track and if it does so I'd happily eat my words.

- I know some Europeans care about time zone, but it's something most of us non-Europeans had to deal with for most of the season. Just as I don't believe F1 should specifically accommodate American viewers, they are not obligated to go out of their way to accommodate European viewers either. It is one weekend, and no one is putting a knife on your throat to watch it live.

...should we remind them about the time Lewis got Covid? 🤣

some of you are a waste of fucking oxygen

I cannot imagine the position the teams and drivers are in and would never want to be in. (This is just my take on it and apologies for the long rant) I don’t hate the drivers for them ultimately deciding to agree to race. I honestly don’t. This is a “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” situation. They run the massive risk of not being able to leave the country if they speak out. Yes, these are rich athletes, but think about their teams, their engineers, etc. It’s possible these people could have an even more difficult time trying to leave. They need to think about the teams as an entirety here and even if they did want to speak fight for their message, the risk greatly outweighs them. There aren’t going to be army forces rushing in to save them from god knows what they could be subjected to at the split second this happens. If recent events have taught us anything, there would be a great number of casualties before something even happens to try to get these people out. I just hope and pray for the utmost safety of the drivers and their teams and that this finally wakes up the FIA to do something and cancel this godforsaken Grand Prix and make sure it doesn’t see the light of day ever.

People should stop blaming the drivers for deciding to race. First, they didn't hold out for 4 fucking hours just for the funsies. Clearly they didn't want to race. And second, I too would drive around that dangerous as fuck circuit in the middle of a warzone if I was threatened with the possibility of never leaving the country if I didn't do as told.

What would you do? Here's a post to brighten those who are still hungover about that semi against Novak, myself included 😂. A #throwback to one of Rafa's IG posts during Wimbledon. So, what would you do if you meet him like this?

Me? I would be star struck for a few seconds, then I'd grab for the same thing he's grabbing for and hopefully, HOPEFULLY 🤞🏼🤞🏼, our fingers touch 😂😊 Then, he'd say "Sorry." I'd say "No, it's okay." And have a conversation with him 😂😍

While I am absolutely happy that Checo got a podium today, it irks me seeing comments like this when an incident like what happened today happens and it’s out of Max’s hands. What did you guys think? That he himself caused his fuel to leak out, causing his car to catch fire? Either way, congrats to Checo for being able to get P2 and overtaking and defending against the Mercs so beautifully 👏🏻

rb should prioritize checo now. at least he can finish a race

I ship FEDAL all the way, but this is still a better love story than Twilight 😂♥️

when Grigor visited the Rafael Nadal Academy  | on ‘ seeing Rafa on his home turf ’ :

“It was great. I think we had an amazing time. Honestly I mean he’s a special guy to me, I’ve always looked up to him. He’s just — what can I say. I mean I don’t think there’s enough words to explain the importance of that for me to be there with him on the court practicing and kind of just learning. Even if it’s on the court or whenever we have that little time to — while we’re grabbing a bit of food or anything like this. And then we still had some time to enjoy a little bit; we were going around the island a little bit, trying to enjoy the water, so just spending time like two regular guys it didn’t feel — the best thing it didn’t feel like any competing or anything like this, and I think this is so important, like a healthy I’d say rivalry but it’s not exactly the way it is. We compete against each other but in the same time we kind of could put everything aside, we didn’t have to talk about tennis all the time, we enjoyed other topics and just spent some time together. I was very frank with him, and very straight, I was like ‘listen, I want to ask you some things’ and he’s ‘yeah sure, ask me’ so I was just asking him right away without pulling back, and yeah, he was actually a little bit surprised sometimes which was pretty funny but I’m a pretty straight-up person so that’s cool.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself 👏🏻

I get why people are sceptical about the “Drive it out” video - this kind of thing should have been done long ago and they should provide more details on what the plans are to tackle this problem. I do think we need to give it chance though to see what they actually do.

However. I am seeing a lot of finger pointing at other drivers fanbases for being the main problem and I just wanna say… it literally not down to just one driver fanbase, it’s basically ALL OF THEM.

No driver fanbase is without toxic and disgusting fans lbr-

• a popular Charles fan page on here said Carlos needed to kill himself and had consistently made derogatory comments to him. I have now blocked them so I dunno if they are still doing it but there was definitely a severe lack of people calling them out at the time. Seemed to be one Carlos fan did and that’s when people said something.

•merc fans sent death threats to Nicky after Abu Dhabi - and I’m saying merc fans because that’s what I saw and tbh no other team fans really had a reason.. unless they just hated max so maybe I should say mostly merc fans.

•there has been racist abuse towards any driver who is not white from multiple fanbases - pretty sure I remember Alex’s family having to be told not to look at comments on any socials because people were saying they eat cats amongst other things, and the amount of people who were awful to Zhou when he was announced by Alfa Romeo was insane. Can’t mention racist abuse without mentioning Lewis - the fact there are people who think it’s okay to call him slurs is vile. I get people don’t like have to like him, but the fact some peoples first insult to him is racist will never make sense and shows more about that person than Lewis. I do see this more on twitter tbh.

•people constantly wishing drivers to crash… even after Silverstone this year! Wtf is wrong with those people?! Drivers have died - most drivers on the grid know someone who has died from this in their career. I usually only see other drivers fans call out people who say that. Fans of the same driver seem to be quiet most of the time.

•Lando fans vs Daniel fans on the regular and they get really nasty. I’m fed up of the war going on between them.

•Lewis fans vs max fans CONSTANTLY at it when at least those drivers can show respect towards one another. They might not be friends but they seem way more mature than some of their fanbases. I know there are respectful fans on both sides and I actually interact with some (lbr, their teams are the ones typically in the media making little comments anyway) - but there are definitely those who act like either driver murdered that persons entire family and is the reason for every war ever to happen. Like my god, some people need to touch grass.

•Carlos vs Charles fans - so many people were mad about Silverstone for Charles… but the truth ferrari fucked up and that doesn’t mean Carlos didn’t deserve a win. Vice versa - I’ve seen some Carlos fans hating on Charles when something happens that affects his race.

There are so many more examples but I’d literally be constantly listing so I’ve put the ones I’ve seen most and some examples that have just stood out to me.

Instead of pointing the finger at each other, which does absolutely nothing but causing fights, actually hold fans accountable for their words. Not just of drivers you don’t like, but people who support your driver. All that person is doing is contributing to the toxic and hateful environment that seems to be all I see when I now go online. All it does is create a bad name for the driver and make people think all the fans of that driver behave that way. I’m sick of coming online and wondering what fucking fan war I’m about to witness and what happened when I was offline.

And I know people will say “but this drivers fans are worse”, I DONT CARE. I’ve said what I’ve said. It’s about making EVERYONE accountable for their words/actions instead of just the fans of drivers you don’t like. If you don’t hold everyone accountable, even if you’re friends with someone saying this toxic stuff, you’re part of the problem. that does include drivers too - but some people are very picky on which driver they think needs to be held accountable and which doesn’t… which makes no sense. Either hold every driver to that same standard or none of them, don’t pick and choose which driver needs accountability and which doesn’t

End of rant. I just needed to say this💀

THANK YOU!

Unpopular opinion: How about we see how the cars perform around the circuit first before blasting it all to hell?! 😤

Me walking in to see people complaining about the Las Vegas street circuit: Ah, so people are getting aggy and need to take a breather.

I’m being serious, some of you are coming off as bratty little kids when things don’t go their way.

YES A FELLOW ZHOU DEFENDER! I REFUSED TO JUMP ON THE HATE BANDWAGON WHEN IT WAS CONFIRMED HE WAS GETTING GIO’S SEAT AND HONEY HE DID GREAT IN HIS DEBUT! I LOVE HIS OVERTAKES ESPECIALLY WITH MICK, THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL!

Look I’d love to share some thoughts now🥰

firstly, WE WERE SO FUCKING CLOSE AND AGAIN WE DIDN’T GET THE LESTAPPEN PODIUM, I WANT TO CRY

but also I’m so SO happy Charles won, looking at the championship standings and seeing him first is like ARGH😍 hope that stays a little longer for now omg-

And maybe after Charles now had Bahrain redemption we get Max redemption in Saudi so yes let’s just wait and see

THEN the battle between them was SO GORGEOUS and HOT like I remember not long ago my best friend asked if I watch porn (which I have never tbh xD) and what to watch porn for THAT WAS HOT

Also Max giving 0 shit about Charles actually being in an interview and he just goes to him to talk, we absolutely love. 😂

Ferrari 1-2 is amazing of course, they’re back.❤️

OKAY AND NOW Honey, Guanyu you did such a great job all weekend I’M SO PROUD

Hopefully all these disgusting haters apologize as loud as they have screamed shit at him before

Yes I’ll say it again: I’ll defend this man with all I have because I absolutely fucking love him

My dad also knows that now :))

Loved that we saw him this much in the race and his overtakes were 😮‍💨

AND THEN HIM AND OSCAR HELLPPP MEEE-

You know how much I love them and they just keep making me go crazy because that’s EXACTLY what I hoped for before the season started: interviews with them or just pictures of them talking and now Oscar congratulating him and also Joey saying Oscar deserves to be with them in F1 too and ARGH-*goes to sit in her room in the darkness, listening to her zhouastri playlist*

One last time in Arthur Ashe Stadium

We say goodbye to another great tennis player and fighter, David Ferrer 🇪🇸😭. His speed made up for his height. Such a shame he had to end it by pulling out in the midst of the match. Clearly, he has a very dear friendship with Rafa and it makes me so happy that Rafa was his very last grand slam opponent. He plans to play one last time for Spain 🇪🇸 in the Davis Cup, which is around the next month. Hopefully, his calf injury does not affect him 🙏🏻. After that, he will hang up his racquet 😭. Wishing all the best for him and his family 🙏🏻❤️.