Here Are Some Jonas' Pics That I Really Love Because I'm Really Worried About Him And I Hope He's Recovering

that talk about self belief is really important and something I think other drivers could benefit from hearing in f1, which keeps pushing the "having that dog in you," "he has a championship mentality but he doesn't," and really just ideologies that further stigmatize mental health struggles. it's refreshing to hear a world champion say something like that actually.

you have to be able to contextualize nico is saying this NOW, almost 8 years after he retired. he has no skin in the game now.

in 2016 and before, he was absolutely saying to the media "of course I believe I can be world champion" regardless of he did or not.

because the f1 media landscape is brutal, as much as we talk about #authenticity why on earth would you hand them this insecurity on a silver platter? can you imagine how fucked his mental health would be if every time lewis won a race, the articles say "rosberg, who believes he can't win, proves it again by losing to his teammate." ???

it is ultimately a sport, and an insanely competitive one at that. you can't be saying self-defeating rhetoric in public, not when you're the face of 500 ppl who work for you and on your car every weekend. how demotivated would the engineers and pit crew feel, if the driver they're working blood sweat and tears for doesn't even believe in himself?

ultimately, in sports some people DO believe they've got it, and some fake it til they make it. but this rhetoric to the public is also a way of protecting themselves, because how can you root for a guy who can't even believe in himself?

nico saying "but it's reassuring, you can still achieve great success even without believing in yourself if you are damn committed." goes to show he DID that have dog in him. he Was that damn committed, he clawed his way to victory. he's the "do it, even if it's scary. do it scared."

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if there's one thing jonas vingegaard is going to do it's use every muscle in his fingers to hold his teammates tight when he hugs them

Mathieu telling Wout about the crash

you can also look at it in reverse order

我说阿特你是真的有福了😘😘😘

Exact Cross Loenhout, 29 December 2023.

梦一下可以吧😌

via mathieuvanderpoel instagram story | 20.06.22

happy birthday Jonas🥳

sorry for late

@flammerouge it’s not fist bumps but we do have this!

My heart is so broken for Wout tonight. I can't imagine how he's doing – all those sacrifices, all those changes, all for nothing. And he doesn't even get to know if he had made the right choice or not. Next year this will all be a mystery once again, a risk once again. All while being one year older.

His bad luck in the classic season in the last few years is just unbelievable. I hope he can bounce back from this – I know he will physically, but I hope everyone stands by him on an emotional level, too. It's a hard blow.

磕晕😇

你们明年也要有夏日约会季好不好🥺

Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar as “Long Live”