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Voici le lien vers une initiative européenne contre les pratiques de conversion : https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Elle prend fin samedi (17 juin), donc ça devient pas mal urgent.

In case you've missed it:

Here's the link to an EU citizen's initiative to ban conversion practices, it ends on Saturday (June 17th), so it is kind of a pressing issue now: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

In case you've missed it:

Here's the link to an EU citizen's initiative to ban conversion practices, it ends on Saturday (June 17th), so it is kind of a pressing issue now: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

#absolutely #the unnecessary heartbreak it causes #tag them as incomplete #pls

BEGGING ao3 authors to not mark their incomplete works as complete. You're messing up filtering for everyone for literally no reason.

I wasn't expecting how accurate it is

jacob mccarthy looks like if you put Draco Malfoy and Tadej Pogačar in a blender

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751: the broadcast race radios of 2023

Alternatively: lies, damn lies, and statistics

Radio messages are a huge part of the F1 tv broadcast. Whose radio messages are chosen to be broadcast and the contents of these messages has the capacity to be enormously informative, but never gives the bigger picture.

As such, those who select these radios possess the ability to influence how the viewer feels about a driver, so the radio messages chosen for broadcast have an impact beyond that of the race in which they appear. We have all heard comments about drivers based on their broadcast radios - Lewis moans, Yuki shouts, Carlos plots, Charles despairs, Fernando waxes lyrical about Lance, George never apologises - but are these fair conclusions to draw based on what we hear?

The following is a record of the in-race radio messages broadcast through the 2023 F1 season, plus analysis.

Method

All radios that were featured by the F1 tv directors during the 2023 season were recorded to produce a data set showing which drivers' radios were broadcast during each race, and how many times. Each radio was also classed as either a positive message, a neutral message or a negative message.

What counts as a race?

A Grand Prix. God did not grant me the strength to also re-watch the sprint races too. I wish that he had, but alas. We work with what we've got.

What counts as a radio message?

When the radio icon appeared, it was recorded. Although the tv direction has a tendency to amalgamate a conversation that took place over several minutes into one short pithy soundbite, all the words that were spoken while the icon was visible on the screen counted as one message. If the same driver's icon reappeared ten seconds later, that was a separate message. It did not matter whether the person speaking was the driver, his race engineer, or both.

Although most of the messages broadcast are broadcast in audio form, a minority of radios only appear on the screen. These tend to be very simple messages chosen to give strategy insight (e.g. 'box box', 'outlap critical') or to report an issue (e.g 'got damage', 'retire the car') and these radio messages were included. Also included were messages broadcast during the formation lap or a red flag period.

Not included were the congratulations to the winner / podium finishers after the chequered flag. This is because as the tv director is practically obliged to broadcast these messages, rather than choosing freely from the entire grid as throughout the rest of the race.

Why only the broadcast radio messages?

Please see above: God did not grant me the strength required to watch every driver's onboard from every race either.

Also, I was primarily interested in how the drivers are being portrayed; to a greater or lesser extent, we all have preconceived ideas about the drivers based on what we hear on the radio, and therefore the tv direction has great power to influence us. Are the common stereotypes about some of the drivers fair? Read on to find out.

What counts as a positive / neutral / negative radio message?

Radio messages were classified according to the mood of the message, rather than the context in which it was sent. For example, George's radio message during the red flag in Australia was classed as positive - even though he had just lost six positions by pitting from the lead before the red flag was thrown - because he was reassuring his pit wall that they had made a good call even though he lost out as a result. A driver radioing to confirm that they are okay after a crash counts as a positive message, even though the situation itself is negative.

There is the potential for the same basic information to fall into two different categories; 'there's a weird fucking noise coming from the stupid fucking engine' is a negative message, while 'PU sounds odd' is a neutral message. When one driver complained about another, it didn't matter whether their complaint was valid or not; a complaint is always a negative message.

Examples of positive radio messages:

Encouragement from the pit wall, 'you are the fastest man on track', 'it's hammertime', forecasts of a strong finishing position, 'tyres are good', teamwork, confirmation that a driver is okay after a crash, asking after another driver after a crash, apologising after a mistake, praising a teammate (hello Fernando)

Examples of neutral messages:

Strategy chat, reporting tyre condition, reporting damage, reporting debris, 'box box', a weather report, reporting a safety car, recommending the need for a safety car, receiving team orders

Examples of negative messages:

Requesting team orders, rejecting team orders, arguing against team orders, 'he just turned in on me', 'he pushed me off the track', snitching on another driver for track limits, complaining about the car, criticising strategy (hello Ferrari), complaining about a penalty, suggesting another driver should get a penalty, complaining about the speed of the safety car

Surely you could have missed some messages?

It is very possible. In fact, I'd say it's almost certain.

Won't this affect your results?

Yes.

Will this affect your results in any meaningful way?

Hopefully not. I'm confident that I recorded the vast majority. If you want to gather your own data to check mine, please go ahead.

Results

Whose radios are broadcast? - team edition

Not all teams are created equal. 751 radio messages were broadcast during Grands Prix throughout 2023, and the difference between the most frequently featured team (Mercedes, with 200 radios broadcast) and the least frequently featured team (Haas, with 10) is substantial. As shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, there is clear favouritism of the so-called 'big three' teams (Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes). Red Bull and Mercedes between them account for almost exactly half of the total number of radio messages chosen for broadcast (Red Bull 23.17%, Mercedes 26.63%). The bottom five teams (Alpine, Alfa Romeo, Haas, Alpha Tauri and Williams) were responsible for just 11.98% of all broadcast radios between them.

Figure 1. The total number of broadcast radio messages from the drivers of each team.

Figure 2. The share of broadcast radio messages between the ten teams.

Caught in no-man's-land between the big three and the bottom five teams were McLaren and Aston Martin. McLaren's season was almost a mirror of Aston Martin's; they improved significantly throughout the season, while simultaneously the Aston Martins slipped back from the front of the field. This is reflected in the radio messages broadcast throughout the season (Fig. 3), which shows the radios broadcast in each race as well as running mean for both teams, confirming that the number of McLaren radios broadcast increased throughout the season, while the opposite is true for Aston Martin. [A running mean is re-calculated after every race, e.g. the value for Miami is an average of Miami and all races that preceded it. This method smooths out race-by-race fluctuations and instead shows the longer-term trends.]

Figure 3. A comparison between McLaren and Aston Martin, showing a correlation between the number of radio messages chosen for broadcast and the performance of a team.

Whose radios are broadcast? - driver edition

The trend here, shown in Fig. 4, closely resembles the trend of the teams (Fig. 1) with the drivers of the top five teams making up the vast majority of radio messages (661 out of 751 ). Perhaps unsurprisingly, Max was the most popular driver, closely followed by George, Lewis and Carlos. Both Max and George reached a century by the end of the season (116 and 104 radios broadcast respectively), and only six other drivers (Checo, Charles, Carlos, Lewis, Lando and Fernando) were above the average of 34.1 radios broadcast per driver throughout the season. Over half of the drivers (Pierre, Valtteri, Guanyu, Lance, Kevin, Nico, Yuki, Nyck, Daniel, Liam, Alex and Logan) each had fewer than 15 radios broadcast throughout the season.

Figure 4. The total number of broadcast radio messages throughout the season (top) and the average number of broadcast radio messages per race (bottom) from each driver.

Distinguishing between total radios broadcast throughout the season and the average broadcast per race is important to get a true read on the drivers of the second Alpha Tauri car. Nyck entered the first ten races of the season, Daniel seven and Liam five, which clearly impacts significantly on the number of times their radios were featured. Calculating the average per race entered moves Daniel from the 20th most popular driver in terms of radios broadcast (out of 22) to 11th.

As well as variation in the number of races entered, there is also a lot of variation in the number of laps completed by the 19 fulltime drivers, ranging from all 1325 driven by Max to Esteban with 1112. Fig. 5 accounts for this variation by showing the average number of laps each driver completed per broadcast radio. Again, the difference between the highest and the lowest value is huge; one of Max's radios was broadcast for every 11.4 laps he drove, while Nyck had to complete well over 500 laps per broadcast radio.

Figure 5. The number of laps driven per radio broadcast for each driver.

Some teams were represented fairly evenly by their two drivers. Mercedes and Williams are the best examples of this, with both teams having a 52% / 48% split (in favour of George and Alex). However Fig. 6 shows a clear bias for one driver in many of the other teams, most strikingly for Fernando (responsible for 82% of Aston Martin's broadcast radios), Lando (76%) and Yuki (71%). It should be noted that Alfa Romeo, Haas and Alpha Tauri all have very small sample sizes (fewer than 20 radios broadcast per team throughout the season), so the data for these teams is far more likely to be influenced by one particular race rather than to reflect a predictable trend. For example, Alfa Romeo had their total radios broadcast throughout the season increased by 20% when both of their cars retired in Brazil.

Figure 6. Each driver's share of his team's total broadcast radio messages.

When considering if each driver is fairly represented in the broadcast, the number of times that a driver actually speaks on the radio needs to be considered. Max accounts for 15.43% of all radio messages broadcast throughout the season, while at the other end of the scale we have Valtteri and Nico, the least featured of the fulltime drivers at just 0.67% and 0.53% respectively. This may give the viewer the impression that Max speak a lot more than most of the other drivers on the radio. It is extremely unlikely that Max and GP were responsible for over 15% of all radio transmissions throughout the year; assuming that all drivers communicate with their engineers an equal amount, each driver should be responsible for 5% of the total radio transmissions per race. This is not likely to be the case - factoring in DNFs and the fact that some drivers simply prefer more communication than others - but it indicates that Max is likely to be hugely over-represented in the broadcast; whenever he sends a radio message, it is more likely to be broadcast than that of any other driver.

Data regarding the total number of radio messages that each driver sends or receives (whether broadcast or not) has to be obtained from another source. F1 Multiviewer published this data on twitter for five races in the middle of season (Spain, Canada, Austria, Great Britain and Belgium), which has been compared to the number of radios broadcast during these races (Fig. 7).

Figure 7. The average number of radios broadcast per driver per race (top) compared to the average number of radios transmitted per driver per race (bottom) in Spain, Canada, Austria, Great Britain and Belgium.

Comparing the number of broadcast radio messages per driver with their total number of radio transmissions made throughout these races tells us which drivers were over-represented by the broadcast and which were under-represented. This comparison has been made for these races, with the data from all five combined to create a larger sample size which will be less likely to be influenced by anomalies. The most over-represented (Table 1) and under-represented drivers (Table 2) of these races are shown below.

Table 1. The most over-represented drivers from Spain, Canada, Austria, Great Britain and Belgium, ranked.

Table 2. The most under-represented drivers from Spain, Canada, Austria, Great Britain and Belgium, ranked.

The five most over-represented drivers all come from the top five teams, and in fact these drivers are the only ones (throughout this run of races) to be over-represented by the broadcast; Max, Carlos, Lewis, George and Lando dominated the broadcast radio messages to such an extent that every other driver is under-represented. Table 2 shows that Lance is an outlier among the top five teams.

To ascertain that there is an element of bias when choosing which radios to broadcast - e.g that certain teams and drivers are deliberately favoured over others, rather than the radios being chosen completely at random - a chi-squared statistical test was carried out. The results of this indicate that there is a far greater than 99.95% probability [a chi-squared value of 134.88 compared to the critical value of 47.50 at DoF = 20, p = 0.0005 for the statistically minded] that some drivers are indeed deliberately favoured, e.g. Max et. al's radios are not being chosen more than anyone else's purely by chance.

This test factors in the total number of messages transmitted by each of the 21 drivers who entered these five races and considers how many radios messages you would expect to be broadcast from each driver if the radios were chosen for broadcast without bias. For example, Max and GP transmitted 624 messages of the total 12684 messages sent between the drivers and their race engineers, making him responsible for 4.92% of all transmitted messages. 148 radios were broadcast throughout the same time period, meaning we would expect to hear 7.3 messages from Max spread over the five weekends. In reality, we heard 28. At the other end of the scale, we would expect to hear 9.8 radios from Guanyu over the same period; we only heard one. The chi-squared test tells us with more than 99.95% confidence that this 20.7 message discrepancy is not due to chance; tv directors are (unsurprisingly) biased towards Max, and are therefore more likely to choose their radios to broadcast compared to the average driver on the grid.

This result is not unexpected; the part of the race that holds the most interest is usually the front, which is where Max tends to be. Fig. 8 shows how starting position (not qualifying position) affects the number of radio messages broadcast, further suggesting that this is not merely a Max issue.

Figure 8. The average number of radios broadcast from each starting position. A driver who started from the pits is classed as starting in P20. If multiple drivers started from the pits, they are placed at the back of the grid in qualifying order.

Fig. 9 plots each race by the ten drivers in the top five teams, allowing outliers to be identified. The radios of drivers from top teams starting out of position and working their way through the pack are more likely to be broadcast than those of the drivers who usually qualify towards the back of the grid, and the fact that a Red Bull started from P15 three times but never from P14 has inflated the mean number of radios from drivers starting P15 significantly.

Figure 9. Number of radios broadcast by the Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren and Aston Martin drivers at each race throughout the season.

What kind of radios are broadcast?

By far the most common type of message to be broadcast were neutral messages, accounting for 63% of all radios broadcast (Fig. 10). A lot of these consist of strategy discussions, drivers reporting things like the condition of their tyres, and calls to pit. They are mostly heard from the drivers running at the front of the race (90% of neutral messages broadcast came from drivers in the top five teams) as they provide the most insight into how the winner / podium finishers of the race are likely to be decided.

Figure 10. The total radios broadcast throughout the season, categorised as positive, neutral or negative messages.

More negative messages were broadcast than positive ones (200 compared to 80), although this varies significantly between the drivers. Some drivers have a reputation for complaining a lot on the radio, and Fig. 11 shows that far more negative radio messages are broadcast from some drivers than others; six drivers (Lewis, George, Lando, Max, Checo and Carlos) were responsible for almost three quarters of the negative messages chosen for broadcast. As a team, Mercedes had two thirds more negative messages broadcast than the next most featured team (65, compared to 39 from Red Bull).

Figure 11. The number of positive, neutral and negative radios broadcast from each team (top) and driver (bottom).

Some drivers were responsible for almost 100% of their team's negative messages, particularly Lando (25 out of 29), Fernando (9 out of 12) and Yuki, who was responsible for all 7 negative messages broadcast from an Alpha Tauri driver in spite of having three teammates across the season. Fernando was also responsible for the vast majority of Aston Martin's positive radios (13 out of 14), while most of the positive radios from a Mercedes came from George (20 out of 31) and from a Ferrari came from Carlos (7 out of 9).

Among those who had a high number of negative messages broadcast, some patterns emerged throughout the season. For example, Lewis' negative radios were either complaining about track limits in Austria (9 messages out of 38 broadcast throughout the season), questioning strategy or complaining about how long he was going to have to make his tyres last. The majority of Max's 20 negative messages were him complaining about how bad various different aspects of his car were, the Ferrari drivers (27 negative radios broadcast) were mostly complaining about strategy or flat-out telling their pit wall that they were wrong, while both George and Lando were heard several times hinting at (mostly George) or outright asking for (mostly Lando) team orders, including four such messages in as many minutes from Lando in Japan. Does this tell us that Max is the only one to complain about his car, only the Ferrari and Mercedes strategists ever cop any criticism from their drivers, and no one other than Lando and George wants to be let by their teammate? No. Does this tell us that the F1 tv directors want us to think that that is the case? Perhaps.

It is interesting to consider the difference between how Lewis and Lando in particular are perceived, as I have heard Lewis criticised for complaining on the radio far more often than Lando. Of course this may be due to his longevity in the sport, with many more years of radios to look back on, but Lewis did have far more negative radio messages broadcast than any other driver (38, compared to the next highest of 27 by George and 25 by Lando). However, Fig. 12 shows that the percentage of Lewis and Lando's broadcast radios that were negative is very similar (39.6% and 40.1% respectively). Perhaps surprisingly, Lewis actually had considerably more positive messages broadcast than Lando (11 compared to 2). Whether drivers like Lewis and Lando do send more negative radio messages than the other drivers, or whether their negative messages are simply more likely to be selected for broadcast is beyond the scope of this analysis.

Figure 12. The types of radios broadcast from each driver. Only drivers with 20 or more radios broadcast throughout the season are included.

Another opinion that I have commonly heard expressed is that George frequently moans on the radio, but he actually had a similar number of positive (20) and negative (27) messages broadcast. In fact, George had the highest number of positive messages broadcast throughout the season (20, ahead of Fernando with 13 and Lewis with 11). [Note - the fact that Fernando shows as having more positive messages in Fig. 12 is due to the fact that this is presented as a percentage of all of his radio messages; as George had more messages broadcast in total, his positive radios make up a lower percentage of his total.]

Yuki was one of only two drivers to have over half (58.3%) of his broadcast messages be negative (Pierre was the other), which offers some insight into the commonly held opinion that Yuki speaks very angrily on the radio.

To consider the balance of positive and negative messages broadcast, the ratio between the two was calculated. The number of negative radios broadcast was divided by the number of positive radios broadcast, to give a ratio for each driver in the form n : 1, which was then plotted (Fig. 13) to allow comparisons to be made between drivers. A value on the y axis of greater than 1 indicates that more negative radios were broadcast than positive ones, while a value of less than 1 indicates the opposite. Only Fernando, Alex and Logan fall into the latter category.

Figure 13. Negative radios broadcast : positive radios broadcast, expressed as n : 1. Valtteri, Guanyu, Kevin, Nico, Nyck, Daniel and Liam are excluded from this analysis as their sample size of radios is too small (fewer than 10 radios broadcast each throughout the season), while Oscar is excluded due to the impossibility of dividing a number by 0 (he had no positive radios broadcast).

Race-by-race variation

The number of messages broadcast varies significantly across the races (Fig. 14). The highest total number of messages broadcast was in Monaco (63), while the lowest was Belgium (22). The changeable weather is responsible for a significant number of the messages broadcast in Monaco, with drivers discussing strategy with their engineers and far more calls to pit than in a typical race.

Figure 14. The number of radios broadcast in each race.

Fig. 15 shows that there is also significant variation between races with reference to the types of radio messages broadcast. Neutral messages were responsible for at least 50% of all broadcast messages in the majority of races, but not all. In 16 out of 22 races, more negative messages were broadcast than positive ones. Some of the races featuring a very high proportion of negative radios had an obvious cause (e.g. multiple incidents causing safety cars and red flags in Australia, track limits in Austria) but this was not always the case.

Figure 15. The types of radios broadcast during each race.

Podium positions in various categories

Notes:

Categories like 'grumpiest driver' and 'most emotional driver' are not value-based, nor does the inclusion of a driver on such a list imply that I believe this is an accurate or fair judgement - these are purely based on the radios chosen for broadcast, and as such what the tv directors may wish the viewing public to perceive about said driver

To be included in an 'as a percentage of all their broadcast radios' or a 'fewest number of...' category, a driver needed to have at least ten of their radios broadcast throughout the entire season, which excludes Valtteri, Guanyu, Kevin, Nico, Nyck, Daniel and Liam

Any category marked with an * only considers Spain, Canada, Austria, Great Britain and Belgium, as these categories require data on the total number of radio transmissions rather than the number of radios broadcast

Most popular driver (average number of broadcast radios per race)

Max - 5.27

George - 4.73

Lewis - 4.36

Most popular driver (races with at least one broadcast radio)

Max and Lewis - 22

Carlos and George - 21

Charles - 20

Most popular team (average number of broadcast radios per driver per race)

Mercedes - 4.55

Red Bull - 3.96

Ferrari - 3.39

Least popular driver (average number of broadcast radios per race)

Nyck - 0.10

Liam - 0.14

Nico - 0.18

Least popular driver (races with at least one broadcast radio)

Nico - 2

Valtteri - 4

Pierre - 6

[Part-time drivers are excluded from this category.]

Least popular team (average number of broadcast radios per driver per race)

Haas - 0.23

Alfa Romeo - 0.28

Alpha Tauri - 0.39

Chattiest driver (average number of transmitted radios per race)*

Carlos - 178.6

Guanyu - 168.0

George - 154.8

Chattiest team (average number of transmitted radios per driver per race)*

Ferrari - 160.1

Mercedes - 151.1

Aston Martin - 143.7

Quietest driver (average number of transmitted radios per race)*

Oscar - 79.0

Nico - 89.2

Esteban - 94.8

Quietest team (average number of transmitted radios per driver per race)*

McLaren - 90.7

Williams - 110.6

Haas - 113.0

Happiest driver throughout the season (total number of positive broadcast radios)

George - 20

Fernando - 13

Lewis - 11

Happiest driver throughout the season (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Alex - 27.3%

Fernando - 27.1%

George - 19.2%

[Technically Logan should win this, as half of his broadcast radios were classed as positive, however 3 (of 5 positive radios in total) were James telling him that it was okay to retire in Qatar, and as that situation hardly counts as happy I have taken the executive decision to remove him from this category.]

Happiest team throughout the season (total number of positive broadcast radios)

Mercedes - 31

Aston Martin - 14

Red Bull - 10

Happiest team throughout the season (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Williams - 38.1%

Aston Martin - 24.1%

Mercedes - 15.5%

Most optimistic driver throughout the season (fewest number of negative broadcast radios)

Alex - 2

Lance and Logan - 3

Esteban and Oscar - 4

Most optimistic driver throughout the season (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Max - 17.2%

Carlos - 18.1%

Alex and Charles - 18.2%

Most optimistic team throughout the season (fewest number of negative broadcast radios)

Alfa Romeo and Haas - 3

Williams - 5

Alpha Tauri - 7

Most optimistic team throughout the season (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Ferrari - 18.1%

Aston Martin - 20.7%

Red Bull - 22.4%

Grumpiest driver throughout the season (total number of negative broadcast radios)

Lewis - 38

George - 27

Lando - 25

Grumpiest driver throughout the season (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Yuki - 58.3%

Pierre - 54.6%

Lando - 40.1%

Grumpiest team throughout the season (total number of negative broadcast radios)

Mercedes - 65

Red Bull - 39

McLaren - 29

Grumpiest team throughout the season (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Alpha Tauri - 41.2%

McLaren - 36.3%

Alpine - 33.3%

Least optimistic driver throughout the season (fewest number of positive broadcast radios)

Oscar - 0

Esteban, Lance and Yuki - 1

Charles, Pierre and Lando - 2

Least optimistic driver throughout the season (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Oscar - 0.0%

Lando - 3.3%

Charles - 3.6%

Least optimistic team throughout the season (fewest number of positive broadcast radios)

Alfa Romeo - 0

Haas - 1

McLaren and Alpha Tauri - 2

Least optimistic team throughout the season (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Alfa Romeo - 0.0%

McLaren - 2.5%

Red Bull - 5.8%

[When considering Red Bull's appearance on this list, remember that this data set excludes congratulatory post race radios for podium finishers.]

Most emotional driver (total number of positive and negative broadcast radios)

Lewis - 49 (11 positive and 38 negative)

George - 47 (20 positive and 27 negative)

Lando - 27 (2 positive and 25 negative)

Most emotional driver (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Logan - 80.0% (50.0% positive and 30.0% negative)

Pierre - 72.7% (18.2% positive and 54.5% negative)

Yuki - 66.7% (8.3% positive and 58.4% negative)

Most emotional team (total number of positive and negative broadcast radios)

Mercedes - 96 (31 positive and 65 negative)

Red Bull - 49 (10 positive and 39 negative)

Ferrari - 36 (9 positive and 27 negative)

Most emotional team (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Williams - 61.9% (38.1% positive and 23.8% negative)

Alpha Tauri - 52.9% (11.7% positive and 41.2% negative)

Mercedes - 48.0% (15.5% positive and 32.5% negative)

Most strategic driver (total number of neutral broadcast radios)

Max - 91

Carlos - 70

George - 57

Most strategic driver (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Oscar - 79.0%

Max - 78.5%

Charles - 78.2%

Most strategic team (total number of neutral broadcast radios)

Red Bull - 125

Ferrari - 113

Mercedes - 104

Most strategic team (as a percentage of all their broadcast radios)

Ferrari - 75.8%

Alfa Romeo - 75.0%

Red Bull - 71.8%

Most broadcast radios from a single driver in a single race (total number of broadcast radios)

Carlos in Monaco - 13

George in Monaco, Max in Vegas - 12

Max in Monaco, Carlos in Austria and George in Singapore - 11

Most broadcast radios from a single driver in a single race (as a percentage of each driver's transmitted radios)*

Max in Spain - 7.07%

Max in Hungary - 6.98%

Max in Canada - 5.41%

Most broadcast radios from a single driver not named Max in a single race (as a percentage of each driver's transmitted radios)*

Lewis in Austria - 5.38%

Carlos in Austria - 4.98%

Lando in Great Britain - 4.96%

Chattiest race (total number of broadcast radios)

Monaco - 63

COTA - 43

Japan - 41

Quietest race (total number of broadcast radios)

Belgium - 22

Baku - 24

Australia and Great Britain - 27

Happiest race (total number of positive broadcast radios)

Bahrain - 7

Spain, Hungary and Vegas - 6

Australia, Canada, Qatar and COTA - 5

Happiest race (as a percentage of all broadcast radios)

Vegas - 20.7%

Bahrain, Spain and Hungary - 20.0%

Australia - 18.5%

Happiest driver in a single race (number of positive broadcast radios)

Fernando in Bahrain - 5

George in Spain - 3

Checo in Hungary, Lewis in Bahrain / Australia / COTA / Abu Dhabi, George in Miami / Monaco / Canada / Great Britain / Qatar / Vegas, Carlos in COTA and Fernando in Jeddah / Baku - 2

[As above, Logan has been removed from this category as his three positive radios in Qatar were not exactly happy.]

Happiest team in a single race (number of positive broadcast radios)

Aston Martin in Bahrain - 5

Mercedes in Spain - 4

Mercedes in Australia, Aston Martin in Baku and Red Bull in Hungary / Vegas - 3

Grumpiest race (total number of negative broadcast radios)

Austria - 19

Monza - 16

Australia and COTA - 15

Grumpiest race (as a percentage of all broadcast radios)

Australia - 55.6%

Austria - 51.4%

Monza - 47.1%

Grumpiest driver in a single race (number of negative broadcast radios)

Lewis in Austria - 9

Carlos in Austria and Checo in Monza - 5

Max in Australia / Belgium / COTA, Lando in Japan and George in Brazil - 4

Grumpiest team in a single race (number of negative broadcast radios)

Mercedes in Austria - 9

Red Bull in Monza - 7

Red Bull in COTA and Mercedes in Brazil - 6

Most drivers featured in a single race

Netherlands - 15

Monaco, Mexico and Brazil - 14

Jeddah, Qatar and COTA - 13

Fewest drivers featured in a single race

Austria and Belgium - 8

Miami, Spain and Great Britain - 9

Bahrain, Australia, Hungary, Monza and Vegas - 10

Conclusions

The F1 tv directors love to shit stir. The end.

Where do you guys watch F1?

'Cause I wanted to watch the race in China, but I didn't know where it was available, so I'd like to be prepared for the next race :)

#I didn't know I needed that until I saw it #my heart is mealting #flowers AND formula 1?!? #too much for me to survive I'm afraid

f1 drivers x spring flowers

in the spirit of the spring-themed event the lovely tsgc discord server is hosting, i am kindly asking you to suspend your disbelief, put your silly goofy goggles on and follow me into the abyss in which i have spent far too much time trying to match f1 drivers to spring flowers and their myriad of different meanings!

logan sargeant x lilies of the valley

pierre gasly x zinnias

charles leclerc x bluebells

alex albon x hyacinths

esteban ocon x crocuses

lewis hamilton x lilacs

carlos sainz x snowdrops

george russell x narcissi

oscar piastri x azaleas

bonus 1: sebastian vettel x irises

bonus 2: lestappen x pansies

bonus 3: landoscar x primroses

Oooh a lil proud of myself there, didn't expect that 🙃

Tbh I really love the English language, so it's good to see that somehow it doesn't hate me as much as I thought 😅

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

The 2024 Beginners' Guide to F1 from Shunted Towers.

Reminders for new ao3 users (in no particular order):

- filter your searches like you would on a library website or in an online catalogue

- don’t post placeholders, fic searches, or recommendations as fics. DON’T! It’s against ao3 TOS

- there is no algorithm. ao3 sorts by date posted/updated unless you filter with specific search criteria

- ao3 is a non profit. that means it doesn’t sell ads to make money — it only survives on donations. this is why it can show you so many fics without ever flashing an ad or pop up at you!

- report fics that break TOS when you see them (I.e., placeholder fics, searches) to help other users navigate better

- the tag “dead dove, do not eat” doesn’t equate to gore/awfulness automatically. it is a complementary tag that enhances current tags. E.g., if the fic is tagged “gore” and “dead dove, do not eat” the author really wants you to mind the gore tag

- most fandoms have a variation of “no beta, we die like (x character)” and they all link back to the “No beta” tag

- publishing a new fic sometimes means it won’t show up in the fandom/pairing tag for a few minutes

- subscribers receive update emails at different times, depending on when you update/publish your fic. there’s no good way to predict when an e-mail will be sent — it can be in 30 seconds, or two hours later

- some fics are restricted by authors to those with ao3 accounts only. if you see a blue lock in the upper right corner, that fic is only visible to logged in ao3 users

- you can block commenters now! this didn’t use to be a thing

- updating a fic just to stay at the top of the pairing tag/fandom tag is a dick move. unless you’re legitimately editing or adding chapters, this just annoys readers and fellow authors, and people will skip over your fic

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

Listen up!

You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled

Hit that.

Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern

Yes.

Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in

Tumblr will follow up and help them.

Warning: this is only for mobile. If anyone knows how to do this for desktop, please add it!

This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO REBLOG THIS.

I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT DOESN'T GO WITH YOUR BLOG'S THEME.

And yes, REBLOG. Liking does no shit at all. This isn't ig.

You reblog, people see it. You don't, people don't see it. This shit's that simple.

This could save someone's life. It's not a joke.

It's BEAUTIFUL, how are people so talented on this app???

arthur pendragon, inspired by rochegrosse's knight of the flowers / prints

Just found out, and honestly, it's amazing, but what the heck people, why is it trending? (Appart from the obviously never dying fandom :) )

Let's say it's 'cause it's pride month and our babies gotta celebrate too

why is merlin trending rn literally nothing has happened

Look at this beauty! Wonderful artpiece <3

Happy pride month everyone!!!

(Quite a bit late I must admit)

Happy Pride Month! It is Pride in Camelot too.

Drawn for pride exchange @merlinpride

It is my gift to @feuxx I hope you like it.

I draw that many people at once for the first time, that was both hard and fun to do. @eachpeachpearplume suggested a way to add Elyan and Percival cause I couldn't find enough space.

I used a photograph by @maryluis to draw background. Thank you so much!

I saw it on instagram and I just had to come here and share it with people, because it's good honestly.

I feel like despite being short (as in shorter than a novel), the story is really captivating and it's wonderful how easy you get in the story, like the whole universe and quest are perfectly built, it's amazing.

Anyway, that were just my thoughts on it, but I don't have any specific education in literature, so I might be saying nonsense.

Also, sorry if I did any mistakes, english isn't my mothertongue.

(Read it, it's worth it)

A mark on your forehead identifies the god you must worship to stay alive, usually by joining its local church or temple. Your mark is unknown, meaning an old, forgotten god sponsored you. To survive, you must either find an old temple to worship at, or do the arduous task of building a new one

crying as we speak

I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

someone please help me. for the past two months, i have been working non-stop on an essay for an essay contest. i was stupid, though, and didn't check what country the contest based in. their time zone was different and I entered the essay in the day it was due, instead of the day before, like I planned. they wouldn't accept it. i worked 40+ hours on this essay and I can't even submit it. i'm panicking and on the verge of a breakdown. does anyone know of any essay contests that specialize in media or tv analysis, or will allow an essay with that topic so i can submit it somewhere else? i am absolutely desperate. (for my merlin-fan followers, it was an essay analyzing magic in the merlin universe and how it was a metaphor for queerness.)

“I didn’t care about anything that was left. I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.”

— George Eliot, from Middlemarch

Go read it if you ship merthur, it's great.

YOU GUYS

GO READ THIS FIC RIGHT NOW ITS INCREDIBLE

Hey y'all, I'd appreciate anyone from the UK signing this petition to allow trans/nonbinary kids to stay closeted from their parents if they're out at school. It's obviously very important that children be able to keep potentially dangerous information about their identity away from their parents, and explore it safely in a school environment.

If it reaches 10k votes the government must respond, and 100k means they need to debate it, but any votes are good for raising awareness and profile.

If you're not from the UK please share this so others see it

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Do not require schools to tell parents their child is transgender/non-binary

There are reports that the Government is planning to introduce guidance stating that schools in England must inform parents if a young perso

Merlin:

Alright, you prat! Shut up about being a girl boss and a gatekeeper. I get it!

Arthur:

You're forgetting one.

Merlin:

What? No. Wait. Which one?

Arthur:

Which what?

Merlin:

What am I forgetting about your prattishness??

Arthur:

I don't know what you're going on about.

Merlin:

Arthur!!

My favorite part of the Teen Wolf movie was when Liam and Theo kissed. Really was perfect.

I also loved that Derek and Stiles were married. Oh and Isaac and Kira came back.

Wow that movie was good!!

Pride vs Place!

Introducing the hot new quiz show: Pride vs Place!

It's simple: you just have to identify whether the flag belongs to a place or is a pride flag.

Easy Mode

Hard Mode

my super homophobic relative asked me for ya books to read, preferably contemporary and u know what i gave them

ari and dante

muahahhahahahhahhahahahah they’re in for a surprise

Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends

Alby: My mum is calling, everyone shut up! *picks up phone* Hello?

Chuck: hiiii

Winston: *banging on various things*

Frypan: EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!

Minho: *starts making sex noises*

Newt: *screeching*

Thomas: AYE! PASS THE WEED!

Gally: PUT YOUR PANTS BACK ON!

diversity win! everyone’s favorite maze runner character was confirmed to be gay 9 years after his in-series death!

Thomas: Your future self is hating you for the poor decisions you’re making today.

Minho, chugging an entire pot of coffee: That’s cool, current me is also hating myself for making the decisions that I am making.