I can somewhat understand the crash out about Oscar being near passing Charles' career wins. I really do. He is a talented driver. This stat only shows how incapable Ferrari is to give Charles a competitive car so that he can have more than 8 career wins to show for his talent.
But also, this is not a spec series with equal machinery. The talent has never been the *only* deciding factor. There are other talented drivers who are/were also talented and capable of fighting for championships if given the right car. The team matters. The car matters. (ask alonso)
Charles has had the opportunity to ditch Ferrari on multiple occasions. He wants to be the Ferrari champion, which is admirable. He knows the shortcomings of the organisation. Still, he chose to extend his contract every single time rather than moving on to a team that can give him the competitive car.
I think it is about time we collectively accept that he doesn't want to be a champion if not with Ferrari.
Don't save Charles, he doesn't wanna be saved.
personally, I think f1 teams shouldn’t bring the cars to monaco. they should make all the drivers line up on sunday and run two full laps of the monaco circuit. tripping, pushing, shoving, and other general villainy is allowed. may the fastest driver win. also a 2 second time advantage will be given to any driver who takes their shirt off and lets those thangs BOUNCE
mclaren: borderline illegal rocketship, norris fans on twitter beginning to crash out with favouritism accusations to cope with piastri leading the championship
red bull vcarb industrial complex: falling apart at the seams but at least max verstappen is a dad now
ferrari: seemingly committed to making strategy decisions so poor that their drivers kill each other before the car gets any faster
mercedes: letting their tiny italian wunderkind distract you from the fact that george russell is calmly shithousing his way to a podium every other week
aston martin: forgot how to build a car
stake: forgot to even show up
haas: flip flopping between anonymous and slay-adjacent depending on the weekend
williams: pushing their way to the upper midfield with the power of friendship and hamster memes
alpine second driver subplot:
there’s nothing like an oblivious race winner. “i was wheel spinning in sixth gear”. oscar babe, max tried to kill several people and a sauber finished fifth, your gear shifts are so irrelevant they may as well be a williams
81s are saying the team has a Lando bias, 4s are saying the team has an Oscar bias, the strategy team is driving the bus without a map, Will is starting a podcast on the team radio, and landoscar are snogging each other in the back seat
the only right way to hold a flag
2025 Chinese GP Qualifying | Oscar Piastri P1, Lando Norris P3
i aspire to be like george russell. imagine going:„yeah so this guy was annoying me real bad so i kinda crashed out and committed several crimes bad enough to warrant a drive through penalty and now i‘ll make the guy i committed the crimes against buy me dinner about it“
and the other guy actually doing it? incredible. what an absolute diva.