this is the void into which I scream

Personally I don’t like him, firstly, cause he said he would destroy Lando once he joins McLaren (Lando destroyed him instead tho karma is bitch)

And secondly, cause of his infamous, very toxic fanbase who are still crying about Lando’s words – “I have not sympathy for him” when DR was struggling in the car… hypocrite much 🤢 ?

And then eventually all his toxic stans run to piastri & the rest is a history

I don't really have strong opinions on him. I wasn't around during his racing era, and most of what I know comes from DTS which we know is just an F1 fanfic with a Netflix budget.

That said, he wasn't the first driver/fans of a driver to say he was going to destroy Lando and he definitely won't be the last. Atp, it's become one of my favourite F1 traditions. Half the grid seems more interested in beating Lando than winning.

As for that quote...it's still dumb. Why would you want people to pity you for struggling at your job? I want you to help me get better or leave me alone. Drivers struggle with cars all the time. Lando spent chunks of 2024 fighting race starts because of the car. Nobody cared. Drivers up and down the grid have rough patches and everyone just shrugs and says, "Skill/car issue. Figure it out." But Lando saying, "Yeah, I'm not going to sit here feeling sorry for my teammate who's also my rival" is apparently where they drew the moral line? Please🙄

The same people clutching their pearls over that comment will spend race weekends joking about safety cars as if SC's aren't deployed 99% of the time because a driver crashed, praying for certain drivers to crash and generally treating the sport like a reality show.

They are friends. Lando literally flew to see Daniel in Indy the moment he could and picked Daniel's farm as his refuge when things were rough for him. Daniel chose to be with Lando when things went down in Singapore and gave him the shirt off his back just to be able to hang out. The lore runs deep. These are random examples.

Saying "I don't like Daniel because he said X about Lando" or saying "I don't like Lando because he said X about Daniel" is absolutely ridiculous to me and ignores both the context of the comments and the growth of their relationship. They're (were) competitive athletes, there was always going to be, I don't know, competition there.

Both Lando and Daniel would think you are silly for disliking the other.

But it's real 😂🤣 They named a wasp after him. This is from the science journal:

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