Maybe I’m over thinking things but it feels like a lot of what determines if someone gets labeled a pay driver or not is race
Off the top of my head the drivers that are called pay drivers currently on the grid are Lance stroll, Checo Perez, Zhou Gaunyu, and Yuki Tsunoda. When Lando Norris’ dad has paid a lot to McLaren during Norris early career, Ollie Bearman’s dad currently sponsors him, Liam Lawson’s career was funded by New Zealand companies, etc, but none of these drivers are ever called pay drivers.
The same level of scrutiny surrounding how driver’s of color fund their seats/careers is not applied for most white drivers, especially if theyre anglos
And even when it is true that a driver is a pay driver, like Lance Stroll, I still find it icky that around 80% of things said about Lance Stroll, the only Jewish driver on the grid, is about how wealthy his family is.
'They should fire Liam'
'They should promote Yuki'
'Bring back Ricciardo'
'They shouldn't have fired Checo'
'They're gonna get Colapinto'
Actually the only contracts that they should revise are horner's and helmut marko's. And by revise I mean. rip apart. set on fire. throw the ashes on completely different points of the world so they can never ever be put back together or even try to resemble a redbull contract
I also just have to say that I know people are worried for Jack Doohan about his seat (and they have a right to!) but I hope this doesn’t come with more hatred for Franco and his fans. People can talk about how much Alpine sucks without dragging Franco about it.
people were so terrible about Franco after he replaced Logan and acting like him and his fans were the problem instead of Williams Racing. And its not a stretch at all to say people were being weirdly aggressive and mean towards them because franco’s fans are mostly latine.
“Oh people only notice or care about how awfully Williams treats its drivers now that it’s Franco 😒—“ I don’t understand, more people were noticing and talking about Williams driver mistreatment BECAUSE with Franco came a new and larger audience who was helping vocalize the issues within F1 fan spaces. Why are you complaining and calling us the problem?
I’m worried the same convos will come up this season with Alpine. Franco is a delight who is respectful to all the drivers unlike other rookies while also fighting properly for his ambition within the sport. And us fans are there to support that too! Discuss awful F1 business practices without being weird and critical towards minorities.
Nothing worse than knowing that they see it and Franco retweeted
Btw it was a reply to this tweet
Idk who my riize bias is cause I'm trying to stay loyal to sungchan and shotaro but the other members
this presenter is like what id imagine f1twt to be if it were a person
this montage 😭😭 I like it
CHECOOO FOR THREE SECONDS MY SHAYLAAA I MISS YOU COME BACK
I feel so bad for joao felix because he is getting so much hate for missing the penalty. People hating on him act like he is the only person to miss a penalty and I get being upset that this is Ronaldo's last euro but the comments are not okay. If this was another player I feel like the comments would be so much different
can I adopt him please
everything I have learnt about the f1 movie is against my will