Another Chaotic Race, Another Race Summary! Usually I'd Make These Digitally But I Got A New Set Of Pens

maybe if pulitzer did this xx

oh nothing, just thinking about George Russell and how his story is equally as tragic as some other drivers’ but just as himself, sometimes it goes unnoticed…

thinking about little teenager George sitting in his father’s car, listening to the verbal abuse and frustration hurling at him after a bad result. head down, quiet and stern, swearing to be better, to be good enough next time.

thinking about George, just 16 years of age, showing up to a meeting with Toto Wolff and the Mercedes executives, all alone, nervous, hands sweaty, with nothing but determination and a Power Point presentation, trying to convince them, to make them see that he's good enough.

thinking about George, now a Mercedes junior driver, back-to-back F3 and F2 champion, at that time only the second driver to ever achieve something like that, Formula 1 bound, Mercedes' future and next big thing.

thinking about George, hopeful and wanting to prove himself, being promised the Mercedes seat by Toto and then getting the Williams seat instead and even that, just barely. bitter and left thinking, maybe if he had done better...

thinking about George, now in F1, but not where he was promised to be, nonetheless, relentlessly trying his best, still trying to prove himself, while watching his peers in top teams achieve their dreams, the same dreams he had as well.

thinking about George, finally getting a chance to prove himself in a Mercedes, something he's fought for his entire life, ending up P9, disappointed and powerless, thinking, yet again that he wasn't good enough.

thinking about George, getting the second Mercedes seat, after years of fighting and proving his worth to Toto and to everyone else around him, finally feeling like he was good enough.

thinking about George, now a Mercedes driver, although always the second best, but it's okay, because he's racing alongside the very best, he's teammates with the best driver in the history of Formula 1 and he understands.

thinking about George, ambitious, calculated and relentless, now a race winner, making a name for himself, fighting against the very best in the world, he is one the very best in the world; he's. finally. good. enough.

thinking about George, his teammate set to depart from the team at the end of the season, finally getting the opportunity to step up as a leader, but still being questioned if he's ready, if he's good enough by the media and by his own team principal.

thinking about George, now the driver with the most experience in the team, ready to lead, to be the driver that scared, but somehow confident 16 year old kid promised he could be, giving it his all for the team he always wanted to be a part of.

thinking about George, now a multiple race winner, experienced and widely respected, suddenly alongside a kid, just barely 18 years of age, nurtured, supported and admired by Toto Wolff himself, getting the treatment he never got, but always yearned for, despite all his hard work and dedication.

thinking about George Russell, an incredibly talented driver, driven, scarily intelligent and cunning, on and off track, just wanting to be acknowledged by the one person he looked up to, by the team he fought to be in, watching them prepare their future number one driver, while he's still in the team. is he really that easily replaceable?

thinking about George Russell, consistently performing, fighting for podiums, almost P3 in the world championship standings, seen as one of the best drivers on the grid, but somehow still not being good enough in the eyes of the people that matter the most to him.

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

every day i learn something new about logan sargeant and his racing career, not just about his performance in f1 but in f2 and previous series, too. and every day i end up so sad because he genuinely has so so much potential and can do so much but he keeps being give a poor hand of cards. this guy out qualified his teammate in f2 TEN TO FOUR. and who was his teammate?? liam lawson. liam joined redbull’s driver academy in february of 2019 while logan only got to join an f1 team’s driver academy in october of 2021. that team was williams. which, as we know, hasn't exactly been the best performing team in recent years. oscar piastri got to join an f1 team’s driver academy in january of 2020 (the renault sport academy, later rebranded as the alpine academy). liam and oscar both got the opportunity to do f1 tests for YEARS prior to their f1 debuts in 2023. liam had 4 and a half years of experience in f1 cars before 2023. oscar had 3 years of experience in f1 cars before 2023. even if it was just testing and practice sessions, it's still something.

what did logan get? one measly fp2 session, post-season testing, and then jumped right in to pre-season testing in 2023. he already had a seat in williams then, so with the experience from before the pre-season testing in 2023 he got to do maybe 800km of testing in an f1 car. the others — in this case i mean oscar, liam, and heck even nyck de vris — had opportunities to drive f1 cars and gain experience for YEARS before logan. if you look at nyck de vris: he got signed to the mclaren young driver programme in 2010. he joined the audi sport racing academy in 2016.  granted, he left the mclaren programme in before the 2019 season and left audi after the 2019 season, too. but he then went to mercedes as a reserve driver and tester for 2020 and afterwards. this means he got just about a DECADE AND A HALF of teams putting their time and energy into training him to join f1.

logan got a year. one. single. fucking year. that is entirely incomparable to the other rookies from 2023, who had so much more experience before hand. and yet logan was jumped into f1 and the expectations were so high for a guy who hasn't had the chance to train and learn and gain experience.

and yet when we look at the 2022 f2 season, logan sargeant, a rookie, was 1 point off from his teammate —the one and only liam lawson — scoring p4 in the championship. he outqualified his teammate 10 to 4. he was the first american to win an f2 race (that is, of course, following the rebrand from gp2 to f2, but regardless, that’s still an important thing to note and an achievement of his that should be celebrated).

logan sargeant has so much potential and if only williams would show him a little more faith unlike what they’ve been doing, if only they’d give him the same upgrades as alex, if only they wouldn’t force him to drive a car 15kg overweight from that of his teammate’s car, if only they wouldn’t force him to use outdated rear and front wings from the season prior. then perhaps he would have a chance to show what he can do. perhaps if he wasn’t stuck in a team with a crap car who have shown zero faith (which has been vehemently obvious since the circus in australia) in him and made him absolutely miserable, a shell of himself — which you can clearly see in recent interviews and photos of him — then maybe he’d be able to show how good he really is. and maybe if williams hadn’t been so adamant about taking him out of f2 so quickly and let him develop for one more year, we’d be seeing headlines that say “logan sargeant, first american f1 driver on the podium since michael andretti in 1993.” and perhaps we could even see him winning races.

no matter what someone says about his current f1 performances — though most base that solely off of where he ends up on the grid rather than looking at his actual driving and seeing how good he is as a driver considering the crap circumstances he’s in — logan sargeant is a better driver than what everyone says. he is trying so insanely hard to get a car that is miles off from the rest of the field to place as high as humanly possible. no one can say that if you put another driver in that car that logan is driving they'd be doing better than he is now. the fact is, they wouldn't be. he's been given an absolute tractor and is expected to score points when that car isn't built for getting in the points. and yet logan managed to get p10 in the miami sprint race — which should be recognized and commended. because he was in an awful car and he absolutely shined that day. that was just the start of showing what he could do. but he hasn't been given the same resources as alex, those being the upgrades, so what more can he do compared to what he's doing now?

and i am actually sitting here crying as i type this because this is a driver who is giving it his all even when the entire world is against him, even when his entire TEAM is against him, and he is persevering to the best of his abilities. and i know exactly what it’s like to sit here, wanting to reach for your dreams and show everyone how good you are, but to have only your closest friends and family on your side, rooting for you. what it’s like to look everywhere around you and see everyone calling you crap and saying you should quit and that you aren’t and never will be good enough. to look around and see your closest friends and family cheering for you, yet feeling like crap because you aren't doing as well as you would want, feeling inferior to everyone around you.

news flash: logan sargeant is and will always be good enough. he just needs the opportunity to show it, and williams is ruining that for him.

and yes, i will defend him with my life. people who try to say otherwise can try to do the same hours — the WEEKS — worth of research that i’ve done about logan and his career because he IS a good driver and HE DESERVES BETTER.

any hate comments towards logan will be deleted, because i have neither the time nor the energy to deal with that and argue with logan haters. i've said all of what i know and can remember about him and his career above, and will add what i can as time goes on and i remember something else or learn something new. if you have the time to hate on logan, you have the time to do your research and examine the fact that he has the potential to do well, but is not in a position for that because of the abhorrent circumstances he is currently in.

thank you for coming to my ted talk. edit: i'd also really recommend reading this twitter thread!! it goes into some more depth on logan and his f2 / f1 career, and even a little bit about his f3 career. it's very informative and articulates much of logan's career and why he is a better driver than many believe very well. https://x.com/herrocult/status/1795747913588761027

Chris Samnee + Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, & Natasha Romanoff (in their own issues)

“ummmmm ur bra strap is showing :/ ”

i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane

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