YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW SAD THEY MAKE ME

Lando didn’t say they won’t be friends anymore if he doesn’t apologise. He just said he would lose a bit of respect for him. The quotes going around have been translated into Italian then back into English and then have an added element of media melodrama added to them. Same with Lando supposedly saying Max should have let him past, he never said that he sarcastically said he had enough wins, he didn’t need to employ those tactics to get one more. Max also said in the heat of the moment that it was all Lando’s fault and GP was literally laughing and kicking Lando and agreeing with him. Max has had time to reflect and backtracked on that now. What he is saying is about as close to an admission of guilt as you can get. Lando hasn’t spoken on it since the immediate aftermath interviews so people are still quoting those. He looked much calmed down in McLarens race summary where he didn’t really address it at all other than to say he was taken out which was objective truth. They’ll sort it out between themselves once they’ve both calmed down and they’ll move on.

People acting like Lando shouldn’t have fought so hard (literally the same people claiming he was too chicken to fight Max not long ago) and picking apart every tiny error are pathetic, as are those people saying Max should just have let him by. So much of this fandom online is so deeply toxic. The hate on Lando in particular, but also on Max too, is absurd and childish and says so much more about the people doing it than it does about either driver. The parasocial issues in the F1 fandom are some of the worst I’ve ever come across.

THIS. exactly this is what i've gathered now that it's been like a while since the whole thing has happened. some of y'all need to get a life and go to therapy to deal with all the hatred you have stored inside.

guys f1 is not about going to war hating other drivers. it's also not about making sure who they're dating is a "good" person or not. it's about watching cars go vroom vroom in circles. i get that we all have our favs but that DOES NOT give you any right to dictate or micro inspect their private lives or hate on other drivers. i get that we all have opinions about all the drivers. that doesn't mean you have any right to go on the internet and just be a hater.

i am just shocked at all the anti-lando, anti-max, anti-oscar, and many other terms. like how miserable and unhappy are you with yourself and your life that you have to go on the internet to express hatred about people who actually don't even know who you are. support your favourite drivers for sure, but don't go around spreading hatred.

as of who they're with, and their personal life. these are GROWN men who are ADULTS. they know what they're doing and can make decisions of their own. you should never form opinions based on a couple of pictures. you don't know what their private lives look like. you absolutely have no right to dictate their personal lives. especially sending threats. like in what world is that okay? get a job ffs.

and as to how the drivers react to certain situations, you have to keep in mind that you can never know them personally. you don't know what's going on in their head. how many times have all of you argued with your friends and in the heat of the moment said shit or done shit. all of us have gone through that. so, just relax, alright?

if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all.

and as i have said multiple times in the past, focus your energy on supporting your favourite driver, not bringing down others.

and I'm not going to sit here and pretend that i like all of the drivers, i have my own favourite drivers that i love and i also have drivers that i strongly dislike. but that's my opinion. i don't go around being a vengeful person on the internet of all places.

I've just learned about villeroni and I'll be sobbing in my bed if anyone asks.

the whole point of anti tags was so that if people felt the need to say something mean it didn't go in the main tag where people could see it who didn't want to

filtering tags exists, filter out the anti norris or anti verstappen tags, etc. and you won't see it anymore but you can't police people wanting to express their opinions - just politely ask they tag it appropriately so that you can have it hidden unless you look for it

fully agree with you about the over analysing their private lives because that's nothing to do with us, who they date, who they want to be friends with etc, literally none of our business, but we are allowed to have an opinion about on track behaviour since that's public, same as you would football, rugby, hockey etc.

i can understand that. but the thing is, I've seen it just go too far. I've seen posts talking about drivers families under these tags. i do avoid these tags as much as i can, but they sometimes show up. i can understand criticism but i genuinely do not understand blatant hatred and petty comments.

and of course we're all allowed to have opinions and express them but there is a way to express them well.

LESTAPPEN PODIUM QATAR I LOVE YOU FOR GIVING ME MY DADS!!!!

but this race was so fucking crazy I'm like shaking what the fuck even happened

i'm not even gonna pretend that i'm okay.

FERNANDO PINCHING HIS CHEEK. I'M GONNA COMBUST

guys should i start writing fan fiction? just for funsies?

It’s wild that people don’t like Max. He’s hella competitive yeah, but seems like such a sweetheart as well. I really liked his interview with Will Buxton. But I guess that’s how I like my athletes. Cutthroat at their job, but also softer and straight forward outside of it.

truly honestly, i've never agreed with anything more. let people enjoy media and entertainment however they want to. if you don't want to read two hot fictional characters having sex or cuddling, you don't have to read fanfictions. in this sad, cruel world, let people enjoy things that makes them happy. ship whoever you want to ship, as long as it makes you happy. (don't ship minors tho, that's just so fucking weird and should be illegal)

also I love when people platonically ship two or more people. like yes girl make the two people, who hate eachother, understand eachother and become found family. like i will eat that shit up.

all in all i love fanfictions and if it makes people happy, let them have it.

“this ship is not canon” babe, they’re fictional characters. they’re not real. they’re literally dolls we play with. we don’t care about whether or not these fictional characters’ love story is canon in this piece of media that is also entirely based on fiction. I mean, sure, canon would be lovely, but it’s a bonus. it’s not necessary. what we care about is the fun of talking about these 2 idiots being in love.

we don’t give a fuck if they didn’t kiss in “canon”. they had raw sex in thousands of fics about them though. and I’d say that’s more than enough to make people who ship them happily ship them even harder. happy shipping!