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apparently they were slandering charles on the sky stream today

I just don't know

Unpopular opinion but Charles didn't drive horrible today? Like if that was dangerous, what do we call his performance last year? Lol Apart from the lap 1 incident, all the others were just racing to the limits. People accuse him as if he caused dnfs here and there.

If he was racing with the same mindset as last year, in Baku he would have cause an accident with seb but he didn't. Today, after many races ferrari had the best pace comparing to the McLarens, so it was a chance to get points.

Was it risky? Yes. But it's ferrari, we won't see another enjoyable race like this probably😭

ansjdjd, oh anon, I don’t think he drove horrible today at all either!

Quite the contrary, his dirve was impressive today, especially given how little confidence we had in the SF21 after Paul Ricard, or just given its confusing performance over the season — I just wish it could have been a bit cleaner (Lap 1 the obvious one I wish he avoided, also wish he didn’t clip Kimi’s front wing during overtaking but looking back I don’t think that’s entirely on him?, or I think there might’ve also been a touch with Alonso??). Babette, one of the sanest people here whom I trust, took a look at those incidents, so I’m going to link the posts here: On Pierre-Charles incident in Lap 1. On Kimi-Charles & Fernando-Charles.

Tumblr generally is…just such a reactionary place, and people are quick to come to their own judgments. I don’t get it. I admittedly get a bit confused since I definitely haven’t watched F1 long enough to be able to judge drivers’ performances/FiA penalties so well. So I can’t comment on whether or not he deserved to get some penalties today for any of that, I just know people seem to have the impression that he has more leniency from the FiA — whether that claim is substantiated or not, I don’t know. I didn’t watch the 2020 or 2019 seasons when it was happening, nor do I have like the data or knowledge to compare to other drivers. But the FiA, to my knowledge, has never been…the most consistent body with any of this in the first place 🤷🏻‍♀️ I digress, I just. generally would prefer it if Charles can keep out of these controversies COMPLETELY so I don’t have to go through extra psychic damage of seeing bad takes on his driving.

Still, I agree that his driving this year is not comparable to the magnitude or seriousness of errors he made in 2020, so I am glad for that progress! In some ways, you could say I am probably just having sky high expectations for him, given his talent and also how he’s always had an attitude of learning from mistakes. He’s probably my favorite driver on the grid right now, of course I want him to be ironing out his mistakes ASAP and having smooth, clean drives where he can go apeshit without consequence or comment.

But, yeah, as you said, he is driving on the limit. I think with the SF21 not being the most consistent car and also losing so many places from the Lap 1 incident, he absolutely had to push it above and beyond, especially when Paul Ricard was such a dismal result for him personally and for the team, plus how they need those points from both cars to keep up the competition with the McLarens, as a precious anon said! Of course, he’s taking risks and of course he’s willing to get a bit of his elbows out if needed. He’s lucky that most of the dents in his drive weren’t detrimental, so this is a really good result for the team, and I think that’s super important to have good drives like his recovery drive today to keep the team going through tough times (same as how his almost miraculous performances last year must’ve sustained the team through an intensely painful season). It’s not just a recovery from lost positions from the first lap but also from last weekend, honestly.

Also, I think people really forget every once in a while that Charles has always been capable of taking these risks that don’t always pay off but are arguably largely necessary gambles when you have a subpar car. Or the fact that he has always been capable of being a bastard on track (the aggression came out in F1 because of Austria 2019) — but hello? 2012 “just an inchident”? Even in F2, where I always thought he drove most beautifully, aka cleaner and more calculated imo compared to his post-Austria 2019 style or 2020 “high risk high reward” mentality, he was absolutely capable of being really “racey.” For example, the last race of the F2 2017 season in Abu Dhabi, Charles already won the championship two races ago? but he still fought very on the limit with Alex Albon to win this last race and even made contact, which did screw up Alex’s exit in a corner and allowed Charles to take the lead on the last (or penultimate?) lap and win. Mind you, the Prema he was in was a dominant car. I think that also makes a lot of difference when it comes to how he drives. When he has a shitty car like SF1000 and less shitty but not great not consistent car like SF21, I can understand how he can’t afford to not drive to the limit. Regardless of the car though, I think Charles has always been explicit about enjoying driving on the limit like this. So guys, just accept him for the demon he is and has always been, or like spray holy water on your households to repel him from your space.

But take heart, anon! I weirdly think that Ferrari is going to be okay. Charles seems a lot more motivated this week in all his interviews after the free practices compared to Paul Ricard, where he really looked like he was struggling and also how dead inside he looked whenever someone asked him about the race 😂 It’s a good sign that he was disappointed for P7 in quali and for the race. It means he was expecting and aiming for a lot more. I think if Ferrari can figure out what they did right (God, what a sentence lmao), there’s some hope that they can keep up the performance (I really hope). I feel pretty encouraged honestly, even though I said I was prepared to drop the whole season just last week. Ferrari is weirdly taking everything in well, staying calm and pretty energized to fix its problems. So, as I said before the race weekend, we should just take it chill and treat it as extended testing sessions for Ferrari. I’d rather they be flailing now than after 2022 hits. The earlier they can figure out their problems, the better next year’s car can be.

Besides, Charles managed to drag ShitboxFerrari1000 into some pretty unbelievable places last year, so I wouldn’t rule it out for him to do something batshit this year either with a better though not great car (and he already parked it on back to back poles) 💖💖

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god charles leclerc has such a grip on my heart like he’ll give one sad look at the camera and I’m ready to go kill a man

Do I use tumblr or do I just scroll through my fav driver's tag, look at the first five posts on my dash and then log out, repeating the process the next day?

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”

— Dave Eggers

Charles Leclerc as Halsey 'Hopeless Fountain Kingdom' album cover.

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president zelenskyy is a stronger man than me because if two ignorant and deluded men like trump and vance started demanding i say please and thank you and calling me disrespectful like im a naughty child instead of a very traumatised and frustrated man trying to save his country from putin id have put them both in the ground with a single fucking punch

Boop if you think the world is a little better when we all calm down and unite over booping the shit out of eachother.