on a personal side i dont really like liam lawson so the whole thing is whatever to me, but on the other hand im absolutely horrified by whatever is in their contract that allows for this to happen and im absolutely pissed about whatever labor practices go down at rbr because what the fuck

yeah yap about the conditions, rain, tires, strategy, lando win, max p2, australian drivers curse, charles radio all you want i simply cannot hear you over the ALEX ALBON P4, the KIMI ANTONELLI P16 TO P5 and OSCAR PIASTRI SOMEHOW WRANGLING HIS CAR OUT OF THE GRASS TO GET POINTS AFTER THE TIMING SCREEN ALREADY SHOWED HIM AS OUT AND ALSO A LAP DOWN

yeah! won’t be anything insane. not going to lose my sanity over it this year (and so far it’s been really fun watching to watch and not scrawling down every detail like a crazed legal scribe in 1945) but when i have thoughts i will share. i suppose people can ask questions because you all seem to think i know what i’m talking about

australia 2025 f1 qualifying. thoughts.

crofty please please please continue to flame helmet marko live on air this is absolutely hilarious (marko called gabriel bortoleto a b grade driver. gabriel (who won f3 and f2 championship his first year in both series (also done by piastri, leclerc and other people i can’t currently remember) is in a back marker car (stake) and managed to knock kimi antonelli (rookie mercedes driver also on debut. (admittedly his suspension was a little fucked) mercedes who finished fourth last year. stake finished tenth of ten) out of q1 of qualifying ON HIS DEBUT WHEN!!!! liam lawson (red bull driver and thus, on the very team that marko works for) was out in q1 after he ran across the grass and the gravel a bunch of times.) (also his save in q2 was insane) “lawson out and bortoleto through. not what the doctor ordered.” i am screaming this is so funny

also not crofty and martin comparing liam to checo. “you can almost hear the mexican fans” insane. wild.

beyond shocked at the not one but TWO WILLIAMS in q3. big improvement from australia last year (where they made alex albon drive logan sargeants car after alex crashed in practice and they had no spare chassis cause the team was being held together with an excel sheet and they thought alex would score points and then he didn’t)

ferrari. ferrari what are we doing. your tire strategy never fails to baffle me ferrari. how did they let charles run out of tires?? you have a 7x world champ on your team and you’re letting him go spin???? that being said charles provisional pole lap that was insane no one does it like him

“happy maple syrup day in canada” crofty. crofty what. also aston martin seems to continue their streak of getting everyone’s hopes up with a good q1 and then bongling it to fuck in q2.

ollie bearman i Sincerely hope that you’ve gotten all of your crashes out now and we can have a nice smooth clean happy race tomorrow. please. (he crashed twice in practice and then cause of that his gearbox crapped in qualifying)

i’m shocked and baffled that alex albon is p6. the only one who i think might be more shocked and baffled than me is alex albon himself.

BUT EVEN MORE SO! YUKI!!!! putting the visa cashapp alpha tauri racing bulls whatever it’s called this year up into P FIVE. i hope you’re watching horner and marko. I Hope You Are Watching

ive only watched 3 eps of drive to survive so far but honestly they did a somewhat decent job (thus far) (not quite sure how they managed to skip over the george spa dnf tho and also why did we need a closeup shot of zak browns toes?) though the totally fabricated max lando feud is nothing short of hilarious.

also to everyone who wanted me to talk about f1 pre season testing.....its a solid Maybe because i forgot that i have midterms. and im like 2 hours in lol. i can probably give you a decent dts summary because i think my sister is going to subject to me to The Entire Season tomorrow

ah shit i didnt realize i was such an authority on this

"they key for williams this year is to have less crashes" natalie pinkham i love you

haven’t watched any of f1 pre season testing yet because i’ve been unfortunately busy but i am also low key scared to, which is stupid but i’ll explain anyway.

last year, the year of the massive f1 post, was the first year i watched a season in its entirety from start to finish. every race, qualifying, sprint and sprint qualifying. and some practice sessions. yea it was for the post but it was mostly for me to learn as much as humanly possible. i did so much googling and wikipedia diving and so much rule book reading and highlight watching from previous years so that i could understand just what the fuck was going on. turned out to be the longest and most insane season but i kept with it and i still did it. like the final product of the Post you all saw was a very small amount of information that i wrote out when you compare what i actually looked up.

and now i am sitting here. at the start of a new season. going. do i still remember all of that. will i be massively confused. or will i have to go back down the research holes again this year. and also: am i even still interested in this

i fear the sexiest car that ive seen for this season remains marcus armstrongs. like it looks like an icie but its sexy unlike every other car but merc, which loses points for not fully commiting to the gradient.