A lot of you underestimate how prevalent British bias is not only in F1 but across sports generally, and even in other industries.
Max saying he has the wrong passport in the paddock is an accurate statement. Do you think he, Seb, or Michael would've been half as vilified by the British media if they had a British passport instead? Would Fernando? Do you think Yuki would get half as much shit about his radio "conduct" if he was British? Because it's the British commentators who consistently have issues with it, and say shit like it's "unbecoming" for a driver to speak that way, ignoring that 1 it's not his first language and 2 IT WAS ENGLISH PEOPLE HE LEARNT THAT LANGUAGE FROM. Sometimes people misspeak, but Yuki has always taken accountability and apologised if he has and if he caused harm. Martin Brundle did not get nearly as much backlash from the media when he misspoke and called an Asian driver a slur while commentating. He also never apologised for it.
Alex, one of the four Brits on the grid but who drives under the Thai flag, has said that the commentators only call him British born when he does well. He was completely excluded from the Silverstone publicity about the home crowd heroes, whereas George, Lewis & Lando were heralded, not only on race weekend, but for weeks leading up to it.
Alex's statement also reminded me of this Richard Harris quote, "When I'm in trouble, I'm an Irishman. When I turn in a good performance, I'm an Englishman." Genuinely, if I took a shot every time a British organisation/person claimed a talented Irish person was actually a Brit, I'd have died from alcohol poisoning years ago.
Hell, I see George wearing the poppy pin this weekend in the lead up to remembrance Sunday. Do you know the amount of shit James McClean gets every year because he refuses to wear one? And he has very valid reasons for choosing not to wear it, yet he's torn to shreds every year by not only random people on the Internet or on the streets but by commentators and the media too.
Because of how this sport became mainstream and because no one challenged Bernie Eccleston's monopoly on broadcasting rights back in the day (people were given the opportunity to buy a share of the broadcasting rights; the idiots said no), this sport has prioritised the British voice/perspective for decades. I know the other broadcasts are just as biased for their home team/drivers, but the British one is the biggest one, as it's the main broadcast for better and more often for the worst. It's the broadcast with the most reach and influence. Their bias has to be challenged eventually if this sport ever hopes to properly expand and grow. The British bias is so difficult to miss once you start noticing it.
Yo, correct me if I am wrong please, but didn't Hitler rise to power because he promised to fix the German economy and people really liked that so they looked past everything else he was doing??? Like exactly what's happening in America right now???
So many people said they voted for Trump, put a truly evil person in power, because he said he'd fix the economy, and a little voice in my head is going, "Isn't that what happened with fucking Hitler??"
But I've seen no one point that out so maybe I'm miss remembering???????
"tomorrow I have media training and this time is not a joke... y'all still have a few hours to save me"
absolutely in tears this is cinema. my man is on a MISSION
we usually think of mood as a scale from 1-5, but there's actually a negative scale too, where the frown turns back into a smile, but just a little insane !
Not even 6 in the morning and I’m screaming about red flags my neighbours must love me right about now
This is 24 year old George Russell, who due to Seb’s illness was the sole director of the GPDA present at the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. This is him leaving an impromptu drivers’ meeting held after the evening FP2 session; the meeting was arranged after it became apparent that there was a non-zero chance that the circuit might become the victim of a missile attack.
For some three hours, the entirety of the paddock’s press stared through the floor to ceiling windows of their ground floor meeting room, with several of the drivers still in their race suits as they debated how they should respond. After it began to become clear that no consensus could be easily reached, the team principals, who had all left the track much earlier in the evening, started to return. Helmut Marko took the opportunity to announce that Max was two tenths less scared than everyone else, and that while Checo was frightened he would soon get over it because these sorts of things happen all the time in Mexico.
Eventually, and it was well into the early hours of the morning by this point, the rest of the drivers left through a back door while George came out alone, on his way to race control to inform the FIA whether the race weekend would be going ahead.
Yes it’s about swearing, but it’s not just about swearing.
“don’t eat honey because it exploits the bees and they can’t consent!!!” bees are literally unionized and will walk out if they don’t like being in the beekeeper’s hives
The thing is, no one cares how hard you’re trying. They just want you to pass their expectations. Anything less means you’re lazy. What a brutal world we’re living in right now.
My cat likes you more than me at this point
Also her name is Muriwai here are some photos of her
I've been trying to get up and start my day for almost two hours now but Fox's cat is too cute I don't want to stop cuddling her
inchident: charles gaslighting everyone his shady move was just an accident and he did no wrong. max is pissed.
community service gate: charles gaslighting everyone him saying fuck wasn't such a big of a deal and no community service is needed. max is pissed.
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