Monaco, Babyyyyy!

HELP ME GODDDDD PALMER TELLING GEORGE THERE WERE SO MANY CRASHES AND ITS MUST OF BEEN SCARY AND GEORGE BASICALLY REPLIES "no enough crashes bc the bozos ahead of me were still there but it was fun 😀" HES SOOOO

personally, I think f1 teams shouldn’t bring the cars to monaco. they should make all the drivers line up on sunday and run two full laps of the monaco circuit. tripping, pushing, shoving, and other general villainy is allowed. may the fastest driver win. also a 2 second time advantage will be given to any driver who takes their shirt off and lets those thangs BOUNCE

thank you for the list of charles analysis media!! if you’d be willing to summarize the ideas from the race podcast episode that would be amazing 🥹

they first mentioned his one lap pace obviously and how he is in fact arguably the fastest (and maybe of all time) they explain that he has something special that most of the other drivers don't have which is basically: god given talent lol

he has so much innate talent that he can't explain or put it into words but it allows him to feel the car to the most insensible degree and that's how he can push it brilliantly to the limit that physically to us seems impossible but he is also very confident in his ability and that's why he's often called a "high commitment driver"

they bring up his famous throttle overlap party trick and how it does not and should not make sense and in fact theoretically if you have some throttle applied while you're braking that logically should make you slower but not him he somehow just goes faster because once again: god given talent. he can feel the car and he can do these things that are incomprehensible to the average f1 engineer and it is why despite ferrari trying very hard to teach this to their other drivers they will and have never grasped it because it is so difficult to achieve and it's basically making your life more complicated and anyone else would put it straight into the wall as a result

another thing they also highlight is his engine braking which i think this is more of a ferrari thing because carlos used to do it as well but charles especially excels at it and he does it frequently enough to warrant a few raised eyebrows because once again why would you do this you're literally hampering yourself you're destabilizing your rear just to induce crazy amounts of rotation to the front but anyway not charles leclerc

most interestingly when they compare him to other drivers and especially max they mention something i have always thought of as well - which is that max is talented but he has a lot of technical knowledge that he applies to his driving. whereas charles operates mostly on natural ability and yes he of course also has a lot of technical knowledge as well which is not to be underestimated but the point here is charles has a lot and a lot and a lot of natural ability he was born with that most of these other drivers have to work extra hard to nail

and it is why he is so freakishly adaptable to whatever car you put him in whether they are season to season ones or literally new generation cars - he will be the first to adapt. just like we saw in 2022 and they mention by example how he adjusted his braking style in testing as opposed to carlos who had to take some time to adapt

yeah that's pretty much it i tried my best to summarize it with some added waffle so hope you enjoy

Charles Leclerc celebrates on the podium after the F1 Grand Prix of Belgium. (Photo by Nicolas Economou).

dreams and hopes of a ferrari predestined

Rolling the credits:-

pics taken from pinterest mostly

poetry/quotes: when love arrives by Sarah Keys, Teaching my mother how to give birth by Warsan Shire, Confessional by Sue Zhao, Jorge Luis Borges, and Charles leclerc because sometimes the shit he says is so freaking poetic, and yeah maybe I did some writing too

article links: Vogue Italia, Giles Richard via the guardian, Giles Richard via the guardian again, also these two bbc articles [x], [x], The Ferrari dream by @ferrarisufferer165 (beautiful writing), and some words I stole from Reddit comments, the rest are from the official f1 website:)

go check out pinterest user235323 because oh man what a collection they have

song/lyrics: riptide by vance joy, hostage by billie ellish, it’ll chew you up and spit you out by concrete blonde, my tears ricochet by taylor swift, mess it up by gracie abrams, nothing new by taylor swift and phoebe bridgers

also tagging the lovely @verstpn i hope this has even 1% of the magic your web weaves have ^_^

thank you to @rigmarole-07 for tagging me!!

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strange trails, lord huron

lowlight, lor

zaba, glass animals

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give me your shoulders pt 1, half alive

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*asked about the russell vs verstappen fight*

oscar: *gestures for lando to go ahead*

lando: oscar told me he had some interesting opinions on it so i'm gonna pass straight over to him

oscar: ugh being teammates with you is so fun 😂 *proceeds to give his answer*

lando: that's not what he said earlier

ollie watching carlos say he’d only have dinner with lando and charles