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in support of jupiter's beautiful wonderful dtm summer project i in my official capacity as deputy have made a horrid meme. join us in #experiencingdtmsummer if you are interested in:
whimsical lil austrian fella
dani juncadella's face and shenanigans on track
cars that bonk into each other and don't immediately die badly
cars that die badly in new and interesting ways
cars losing significant parts of their bodywork and/or more vital parts and continuing on like nooo i'm fineeee it's just a flesh wound i don't need it anyway
cars with Colors! pink! yellow! green! blue! red!
ten races' worth of esteban ocon in a car with bonking enabled. sure to be interesting
just kind of generally the best hits of f3 european championships 2014 drivers excluding max really. but rest assured max Will be brought up. you cannot escape him. he is everywhere
regulation fuckery in desperate attempts to avoid ending up with a multimanufacturer series with only like 2 manufacturers -> 1 season with only 2 manufacturers. oops -> change to fia group gt3 cars which means LOTS of manufacturers you can choose from to loathe and despise personally i would suggest lamborghini
a season of alex albon getting to be at the front of the field! win a race even! sometimes a good thing can happen to alex albon! only sometimes though
eventual appearance of jules gounon ready to not do math and fuck shit up
free on youtube full races free on youtube have i mentioned free on youtube :)
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speaking of luggi's brief lived bmw era here's another rare relic of that bygone time. sadly the audio is dogshit and my screen recording did not improve it but it IS fun to watch him fling that thing around so i'll take it. My favorite bit is in the second one where the interviewer's like haha and there goes Lucas in circles again it's like an addiction with you π and Luggi doesn't respond because he's too focused on his circles #hiscircles
So, ehhh, tanz, when you said 2020 is dry, did you mean content- or racing-wise? As for the moment, it's both. I hope it's because of a messy start of the season and we'll see improvements.
max asking to pit onto wets is one of the most attractive things he's ever done. to identify the issue, weigh the pros and cons, trust his own judgement, trust his own ability to cleave back through the field,... ALL of it. he's in p2. he wasn't gaining time on the inters but he wasn't losing it either. he takes the risk to fight instead of be stuck. ugh. he's SO GOOD he's soo good. he's so skilled and SO smart and so aware of his own craft. he's insane and i love him.
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No broadcast for Qualifying 1, no German broadcast (at least on DTM YouTube channel, there's a race archive on joyn but it's on subscription), it's going be tough, yeah?
Corona times hit different. They're all in masks and keep distance everywhere.
Marco's signature green livery arrived. Luggi's livery is so BMW, but we have to endure it for him. Sheldon van der Linde is in Farfus' evil car. I fear he can't do anything for me to change my opinion on him, he was predestined to be evil.
Without qualifying it's so overwhelming to try and get into racing part. At least, rules didn't change that much. I don't see number of DRS laps next to drivers' names, have to check if they're still here.
Nico had a great start, Luggi was okay.
Marco did an amazing overtake on Glock on the outside, Nico made a successful move on Frijns for P1.
I think I'm more into reading sporting regulations for this season than watching the race. :D I needed a bit of context, though. They imposed stricter rules on team communication (again), not sure how communication between private teams and a manufacturer worked in previous seasons but in 2020 it's prohibited during the race. They still can't box during safety cars and slow zones. And push-to-pass system was introduced! Let's look if it's a significant change.
Comms haven't mentioned cold tyres once so it's not a problem anymore, I guess.
I was surprised nobody pitted after the first lap but it's about new rules, too. They can't pit earlier than lap 5.
Battle for P3 was intense!
Rast pits for the second time, something with his tyres, their degradation is impossibly bad.
Five minutes to go and they showed Luggi for the first time this race (apart from the start), wow and thank you.
Green is flying, win is impossible but P2 is here. Green isn't in an orange car. What an awful development. :(
Liveries do look more boring, no worthy candidates to be bugs or scurubs or actually any nickname.
Nico was veryyyy loud on the radio. I get that he's happy but he could've had mercy on my ears. He's handling his car like she's a goddess, religious experience, I'm telling you.
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2024 started with red bull winning the first races so everyone was like ok lads pack it up its max's again π but then the car decided to become Evil and the mclaren got upgraded into a rocketship. suddenly british press were wetting themselves at the thought of Lando Norris World Champion. lando was also wetting himself for possibly unrelated reasons. max won a few races on account of being Him but then went on a Looong streak of zero wins which was deeply stressful for his fans.
then comes the COTA-Mexico-Brazil triple header. at COTA max puts on such an incredible defensive masterclass he forces lando to overtake illegally and get a penalty so that max finished ahead of him. this resulted in everyone Losing Their Shit and crying about "clean racing".
max heard all of that, said "bet" and went Double or Nothing at Mexico by deliberating fucking with lando. this resulted in max getting a 20-second penalty because the stewards wanted to look tough, but really just gave max the chance to show off a very sexy comeback drive. and he got what he was working for: lando didn't win the race. afterwards, everyone lost their shit again and failed to comprehend that max fully meant to do that, it was not an accident or loss of control or temper.
going into brazil, everyone was asking: can max verstappen drive?
sprint race: car goes off track and hangs out there for a long time while the stewards wait to throw up any flags until it benefits lando. then they give max a penalty + penalty point for exceeding the delta during a safety car period. they have not given anyone else a penalty point for the same infraction since, if I recall correctly.
quali is postponed until sunday because of the rain, so it promises to be one hell of a long day. and max will be starting with a new power unit, meaning he's starting at least 5 places down from wherever he qualifies. quali is a mess all around and includes a very inconveniently timed red flag (very similar to the sprint race with very different reactions) meaning max qualifies p12, which then becomes p17.
he then pulls off the race of the gods. a race so good people compared him to jesus. a race so good lewis hamilton recognized it. a race so good even the british press ate their words. a race so good lando norris had a full on crisis online and liked hate comments about himself. a race so good pierresteban reunited.
and then vegas: max finishes exactly where he needs to in order to secure the wdc. he then gets visibly drunk in every interview they have him do, and he is never without a drink in hand. he calls out zak brown on sky sports with his whole chest and pours hefty vodka red bulls with reporters. he drinks all night and eventually makes his way to qatar, stopping on the way to pick up his mother and sister so they can have a mini vacation together and he can look silly in the water.
qatar. max gets pole. the red bull, for the first time in months, looks strong in the dry. and then george russell bitches so hard in the steward's room post-quali that max is given a penalty which had never been given before and which has never been given since: a 1-place grid penalty for driving "unnecessarily slowly" on a cool-down lap during quali. george claimed he was impeded. I claim he was a fucking loser.
the race takes place the next day and max, from p2, lines up with his nose pointed almost directly at p1 (george). he is either taking the lead or he's taking them both out. he takes the lead and wins the race. george finishes p4. gp, on the radio, says "you weren't driving unnecessarily slowly today" because he is petty and holds many grudges. in the post-race media, max is asked about the situation with george. the other podium sitters giggle. they certainly know something. max takes a beat and then gets mad - something we very rarely see from max. he says he has never seen someone act the way george did in the steward's room. he says he cannot respect it when someone acts one way in front of the cameras and another way in private. he all but calls george a two-faced snake.
going into abu dhabi, george's reputation is in the pits. people have been laughing at him for a week straight. his strategy is, of course, the media.
THURSDAY: george gets in front of sky sports, asks ted kravitz to please mention max to him. when ted obliges, george gives his now infamous teary speech. he is thinking pr is HIS game, and he will exploit it to make people hate max to his advantage. toto is behind him and takes almost no time to say "george's opinions are his own and do not reflect the opinion of myself or mercedes as a whole". he's probably texting max about yacht plans. max says very little about george in the media because that was a whole week ago why would he care? that evening, the drivers dinner. as more of them arrive, they think it will be funny to make max and george sit next to each other, so they leave space. max arrives first, sits down, thinks its funny. when george arrives, max smiles at him and greets him. george takes the available chair and moves it all the way to the other end of the table. no one is laughing. while this is happening, the media is absolutely frothing at the mouth to be the first to get max's response to george's comments. they want to know: max, how do you feel about george calling you a bully and a bad person? max, do you think you're evil?
FRIDAY: before fp1, max and kelly post an instagram picture. the world recalibrates. someone on reddit asks "can he drive if he's pregnant?" and someone screenshots that and posts in on tumblr, tags it #max verstappen. I wake up in a different timezone, see that post, go "haha yeah maxpreg" and reblog. then I open instagram and realize that comment was actually about max. because baby is officially on the way. george russell is now officially the guy who said all that shit about dad-to-be max verstappen. what the hell, george? that's so rude, george. why would you say that, george? he's PREGNANT, george.
max is not asked any questions about what george said for the rest of the year.
