Charles Leclerc You Beautiful Monaco Mouse. I'd Torch Maranello If It Made You See The Light. I'd Fight

redbullracing: putting Max's knowledge of cat breeds to the test!

watching the front positions of f1: Same 5 guys trading off finishing positions with each other every week

watching the midfield/backrunners of f1: Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon are roleplaying Javert and Hugh Jackman in a Les Miserables fight to mutually assured destruction over a no-points position. Lewis Hamilton is going to physically fight his own car to the death. Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo are going to physically fight each other to the death, but Daniel has a disadvantage because Lance Stroll has a sniper rifle aimed at his head. The Saubers are rewriting the federalist papers in the pits. Kevin Magnussen has planted a bomb on the track, and the blast has inevitably caught a Williams.

Everyone else fighting for p1 in f1 meanwhile my favorite midfield drivers Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen are out here competing in their very own competition called "Who can be more embarrasing about the other" and the championship leader changes each week.

I think Max has developed a new level of respect for Charles. Now that he finds himself in a situation that Charles has been in many times, namely a crappy car, an inconsistent team that makes mistakes. I think he has even more realized how talented Charles is to have managed to still be at the top, give good results and save his team despite all that.

Anon, given the amount of time Charles has already struggled with this in Ferrari, I don't think Max's respect for him is anything new. Not to mention the fact that Max also spent several years competing in a car that wasn't exactly performing all that well prior to winning his first WDC in 2021. Max made his F1 debut in 2014, after all, and it's not like he's been dominating since that day. Our favorite Dutchman is quite familiar with the struggles of subpar machinery himself prior to this season.

If there is one driver on the grid - and one person in the world in general - who has always been acutely aware of how exceptionally talented Charles is despite the dreadful machinery, and at times team, he's working with, and who has never once doubted Charles' ability as a driver regardless of results, it's Max. Hell, our boy has been praising Charles to the high heavens since his emotional support rival made it into F1, regardless of how Charles' car and team were performing. So I will have to disagree with you here, because that respect has always been there and I don't think it's anything new for Max at all.

What I do think Max has gained with the issues Red Bull has been experiencing this season, however, is a new level of realizing just how unhinged Charles Leclerc actually is. He has watched that man drag several versions of that red tractor to positions it has had no business being, year after year after year, while also dealing with a team who has lived on nothing but historic glory for 15+ years. He has watched Charles be fueled by but nothing but athletic insanity, rage, unparalleled stubbornness and the love of the Tifosi for years while his biggest (and most favorite, don't even try to fight me on this) rival has made F1 history repeatedly.

If anything, the only new thing Max has developed for Charles this season is that weird kind of fear you only feel towards someone who absolutely terrifies you, while still being the single most attractive and appealling person you have ever met.

You are laughing! Nicole Piastri’s only son sold himself to a Monégasque member of One Direction and you are laughing?

serendipity (noun)

the phenomenon of finding something good you weren't explicitly looking for.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60246181/chapters/153738448

i wrote this a while back, and finally got around to making a collage! i'd be very happy if some of you would check it out, i'm very proud of it :)

me, trying to explain to my dad why Oscar Piastri is now Oliver Bearman's brother, and they are both brothers to the dachshund puppy

Max: are you

Yuki: Fucking

Max: kidding me. You

Yuki: FUCKING.

Max: idiot

Checo:. what was that..?

Yuki: FIA banned Max from swearing, so I volunteered to help him out.

Daniel: I think you just like saying the f word.

Yuki: That doesn’t make my job any less important.

Okay one last post before the race.

Hamilton's post quali interview broke me.

Maybe it's the realization that he really is leaving Mercedes for good, because Kimi was officially announced earlier that day. The seat he'd held onto for so long no longer being his.

He's won championships with them.

Lost his best friend when he was with them.

I don't know what else could possibly make a seven time world champion doubt himself like that.

And it's for that reason I genuinely hope that Ferrari does right by him next year. That the Tifosi show him lots of love and acceptance. That he and Charles get along and that their fans at least try to be civil.

That for once, Ferrari makes the two of them good cars and makes good strategy calls.

I might be a little dramatic, he is a veteran but he's still leaving his home in a way.

I might be asking for too much (It's definitely too much) , but I hope he never regrets the move to Ferrari.