I'm dying ππ
One last race before the season ends and I'm already crying because Nico's at abu dhabi talking about Lewis and Mercedes during the pre-show
quick reminder that franco is not the one to blame for this abysmal choice (and that it SHOWS that some of you are just looking for reasons to hate him)
LOL not the twitter community notes going after the fake ass misinformation. πππ
Look, I totally get supporting your favourite driver, and I even understand a lot of people actively root against drivers they don't like - that's sport. But my god can we at least stick to using actual facts in these online driver fanbase wars, instead of posts that are either intentionally misleading or just straight up blatant misinformation, like the one here. The only thing accomplished with posts such as this is creating additional and unnecessary friction between driver fanbases online and the F1 team's social media/communications personnel having even more hate/abuse aimed at them online.
Ricciardo up 5 places and yuki in P7 π₯π₯
Some quick doodles while I work on something for Sukuza π
Daniel's probably watching the shit show that is Red Bull (VCARB included) this weekend and sighing in relief bcs that doesn't have to be him anymore
Out Q1
Zhou Guanyu, Magnussen, Ricciardo, Sargeant, Bottas
(In order from lowest to highest position, so P20-16)
Magnussen unfortunately not in a place to get points, citing too many cars in the last corner as the reason
Ricciardo also to qualify last following his 3 place grid penalty from China. It seems if you do irregularly well in the sprint you end up placing last during quali... π₯²
Out Q2
Alonso, Albon, Ocon, Gasly, Stroll (P15-11)
Albon complains about low grip and high tire degradation, almost hits the barriers while turning
"The tyres are absolutely destroyed, I can't get them to last more than six corners."
Lando Norris gets a lap time deleted but it has no effect
Alonso, not making it through to Q3 for the first time this season
Q1 results
Tsunoda, Hulkenberg, Hamilton, Russell, Piastri, Norris, Perez, Sainz, Leclerc, Verstappen (P10-1)
Verstappen takes pole position again
Hamilton went 2nd fastest in Q2 but isn't able to replicate it for Q1
Sainz and Hulkenberg have an incident (impeding) but no further action is taken
I know I usually do little recap posts but since the time difference is insane and the quali and race is at 6am and the race is on a MONDAY I'm probably not going to (either that or they'll be so extremely delayed) so. real sorry about that folks. ππ
"Some of these teams have more people in media and hospitality than haas has in it's entire team" is a BRUTAL comment ππ