Life Is A Highway And I Am Carlos Sainz At The 2024 Jeddah Grand Prix

"I'll get a day of community service if I swear so lets leave it at that" 👀

F1 drivers and constellations I'm assigning them

2019 rookies - the Summer Triangle (ik this isn't a constellation just keep reading)

Lando Norris - Aquila (The Eagle)

The constellation is easy to spot, flying opposite the celestial Swan (Cygnus). It's located in the fourth quadrant of the northern hemisphere.

Its bright star is Altair, which forms the 'Summer Triangle' with the bright stars of Cygnus and Lyra.

Alex Albon - Lyra (Lyre)

Lyra is a small constellation that lies in the northern sky. The constellation was often depicted as a vulture or an eagle carrying Orpheus’ lyre in its wings or beak, and called “the falling eagle” or “falling vulture.”

Vega, it's brightest star, was the first star other than the Sun to be photographed.

George Russell - Cygnus (The Swan)

Cygnus is also sometimes identified as Orpheus, who was transformed into a swan after his passing and placed next to his lyre in the sky. The lyre is represented by the neighboring constellation Lyra.

Charles Leclerc - Columba (The Dove)

The constellation’s original name was Columba Noachi, meaning “Noah’s dove.” It was named after the bibical dove that was sent from the Ark to see if there is any dry land left after the Great Flood. The bird returned holding an olive branch in its beak, signalling that the flood was receding.

Lewis Hamilton - Phoenix

Ovid wrote in his Metamorphoses that the Phoenix lived for 500 years. When it reached the end of its life span, the phoenix would build itself a nest, then ignite it and meet its end in the fire. A new bird would be born from the ashes.

Daniel Ricciardo - Apus (Bird of Paradise)

Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name means "without feet" in Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. 

Max Verstappen - Leo (The Lion)

Leo represents the lion and is usually associated with the Nemean lion in Greek mythology, who lived in a cave near a town and set upon the local inhabitants. It could not be defeated because of it's impenetrable golden fur.

Carlos Sainz - Hercules

Hercules is the fifth largest constellation in the sky, but has no first magnitude stars. It is named after the Roman hero, who had to carry out a series of tasks, one being the slaughter of the Nemean lion. He only managed to kill it by trapping it in it's cave and strangling it with his bare hands.

Might continue this but I'm not quite sure what to put for the others so drop suggestions

On my way to make my funny little guides with nothing except free trial canva, procreate and a dream

Blocking y’all using the anti piastri tag cuz what the hell do u mean “anti piastri” … this him?

Thank you, Kyle

If anyone was wondering, here's the full list of Alex Albon's suffering today:

He pits super early for some reason (around Lap 9), then reports "We have a problem. Tire not on properly." The commentstors review the footage and say it doesn't seem like the tyre was loose.

He pits a second time, ends up a lap down.

Williams gets investigated for Albon's unsafe release, end up with a 10 sec penalty.

It's then revealed he also damaged his only set of hards when that first pit stop got messed up

He pits around Lap 55 just to retire the car. DNFs the race.

Q3

Both RBs into Q3, 100% Q3 record at Imola for Daniel!

Verstappen gets another pole at Imola despite a slower last sector

Mclaren take P2-3 behind him, Piastri ahead of Norris (but remember, Piastri's still under investigation)

((update, Piastri handed a three-place grid penalty after the investigation, drops from P2 to P5))

Both Ferraris go slower on the first sectors, locking out P4-5 with Leclerc ahead of Sainz

The Mercedes separated by Tsunoda, Russell ahead of Hamilton to make P6-8

Ricciardo makes one last minute lap on fresh tires, ends up starting 9th on Sunday

Hulkenberg went fastest but was immediately kicked down by Verstappen, Norris and Tsunoda, will start P10

Imola GP Quali

Q1

Out: Sergeant, Alonso, Magnussen, Zhou, Bottas (P20 to P16)

Oscar Piastri investigated for impeding on Magnussen

Logan Sargeant's lap time deleted for track limits, drops from P17 to P20 :(

Hulkenberg goes third fastest

Both Williams and Alonso hit the gravel, turn 18 also almost caught out Verstappen and Norris

Both Alpines and RBs into Q2!!

Verstappen went fastest in Q1 in the last few seconds

can’t wait for them to come together to maximize their joint slay

“I think if anything we probably talk less,”

You've probably seen this circling around, but has anyone actually gone and read the full article? Because the sentence after that is "We still [make time to hang out] every once in a while... But realistically it’s not really possible in a race weekend.”

So no, they haven't stopped being friends. Logan's just explaining that they talk less because 1. They're on different teams now and 2. The paddock is always busy and there's not much time to talk to people.

Full article: here, take a read for yourself. It's pretty short but it's nice and talks about how Logan feels about the upcoming season a bit too.

Here is everything that every driver has said about the Max-Lando contact in Austria 2024:

Nico did take the time to look at the incident again. 'Verstappen didn't swerve towards Lando and he also left Norris a car width of space. And on the left there was a kerb and a large run-off zone, no wall. I think the stewards have intervened quite a bit in Austria, more than usual and maybe a little too much even,' the German concludes.

Yuki also does not think Verstappen's action in Spielberg was too harsh and explains: "To be honest, everyone does that." The world champion did not drive dangerously and it was not "moving under braking." It is completely normal to put "a little pressure" on the other driver and not let him overtake voluntarily. And contact can sometimes occur, says Tsunoda. He also believes that there would have been no penalty if there had not been contact in the same situation. "That's part of racing," says the Japanese driver.

Lando himself said: "Honestly, I don't think he needed to apologise. Some of the things I said in the pen after the race were more just because I was frustrated at the time, a lot of adrenaline, a lot of emotions and I probably said some things I didn't necessarily believe in, especially later on in the week.

Daniel said: “I think the contact, that can happen probably nine times out of 10 with no consequence... But I think the outcome was bigger than probably what was actually happening on track. From what I saw, at least nothing seemed over the top. Was it pushing the edge? Probably. But was anything dangerous or reckless? At least from what I've seen, no.”

George said: "Max will push the rules to the limits…as most of the top drivers do!"

Kevin said: "Max paid the price already by having a puncture. So I think some of the things they should just let the drivers sort it out in a natural way, it works out in other racing series very well, IndyCar, Sportscars and in the US, they have that approach and it works out well. The racing is tough over there, everyone understands the rules and it's more simple."

Checo said: "I think Max pushes every single bit to the limit as many top drivers do and when you're racing him it's gonna be a hard and fair battles."