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Bonus brocedes because they aren't Classic F1 but this was too perfect for me not to do it:

Classic F1 + socmed posts 2/?

it's all very well and good to say "oh maya weug getting dropped from racing series and opportunities is ferrari's fault, they're the ones that didn't do enough f1a did everything they could" but when f1a served as an excuse for ferrari to not take her career seriously, to effectively demote her when she was already competing in freca, to shuffle her off to the 'girl series' i think we do have to question f1a.

if the goal of f1a is to promote women in motorsport, to help them develop their careers and move through the junior formulae with the ultimate goal of having a woman competing full time in f1, then we have to question whether the system is actually working effectively. f1a is still in its infancy, so that kind of success at this point is not expected, but when the most successful women who have gone through the system have all failed to actually progress in single seaters in any meaningful way, we have to question it.

when marta and abbi and maya and dorianne have all had opportunities taken away from them by the teams they worked with or had teams simply decline to give them opportunities, then doesn't it seem like the system of having f1 teams run the f1a teams is not actually effective? if f1a is being used as a method of segregating and dismissing the women and girls in this sport shouldn't we, and f1a itself, question how it functions within the broader context of single seater motorsport?

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Maya Weug will no longer race in 2026, and has opened up about failed plans after her 2025 vice championship season in F1 Academy. She was left on her own; with no support. Weug has publicly requested for teams and sponsors to reach out to her. The plans that were originally in place were pulled out from under her and she scrambled for a seat. Now even that has gone away.

Maya Weug is one of the greatest talents of her generation. She was abandoned by Scuderia Ferrari. They dropped her unceremoniously with not a single explanation.

classic f1 as text posts: 12/?

There was a big push to eliminate "degrading jobs" but the strategy was to eliminate the position, then create a new position outside of the bargaining unit to do the work. So like, we wouldn't have dishwashers, but we'd have people who washed dishes that weren't eligible to be in the union.

I was like A) what the actual fuck? Dish washing isn't "degrading", it's fucking vital. B) What the actual fuck? You want to create a union just to exploit different people?

The first time someone told me that busing tables was "degrading", I was like "Oh, uhh, yeah, like it's very necessary work but under compensated for how vital it is?" and they responded "No, touching plates that other people have eaten off of is disgusting."

In bargaining, someone on the Union side suggested that we eliminate all the cashiers and exclusively use self-checkouts (they were a cashier and didn't like it). The organizer told them that the union wasn't in the habit of eliminating bargaining unit positions. (This is the same person I've talked about how said that "as a prison abolitionist" we just needed to execute most criminals.)

It got me thinking, along with Ann Russell talking about how to treat cleaners (being a cleaner herself), about how we conceptualise domestic service as particularly degrading in all its forms, when, really, why is that? Why is paying someone to do something intrinsically bad?

Like, even in a moneyless, gift economy society, there would still be people whose primary contribution to their communities would be cleaning. Some people like to clean, and are really rather good at it.

I've talked ad nauseam in the past about how British attitudes towards cleaners and other service based positions today are the descendants of Victorian attitudes. That is, both the attitudes of conservatives and many progressives of that time. The trade union movement was particularly exclusionary towards service workers.

The worst part of it was that I couldn't tell anybody about it. My public persona is so vehemently against AI that I felt like if I told anybody, they would laugh at me or judge me. "Clam, why are you using AI?? Don't you know how bad it is??" I did and I do but I couldn't stop. It was too easy. A way to shut down my brain and not have to think too hard and to not be so alone.

On top of that, I didn't think that people would believe me if I said I was addicted to AI. My whole life I've been seen as the smart one, the logical one. Only idiots got addicted to AI. Was I even sure I had a problem? It's not like I was doing substances or anything. That spiral was especially tricky to break, but I've been seeing more and more people talk about this online and it has been very freeing.

I've finally quit and I haven't used any AI for anything for the last three months (? I think). I've definitely felt really strong urges to hop back on, particularly when I'm bored, but I'm proud of myself and my self control. I'm about to start a semester at a new school closer to home, I have a lot of wonderful friends who are able and willing to support me, and I feel optimistic for the future for the first time since last year.

All of this is to say that I can't help but sympathize with Hank Green. AI, any kind, is a slippery slope that starts with fine intentions but can get so so so quickly out of hand. It's tough and it's isolating. That being said, Hank Green the Brand is damaged in my eyes. I saw somebody else in the notes compare this to concepts brought up in Plagiarism and You(Tube) by Hbomberguy, where once you find out somebody is plagiarising (using AI) it can be hard to trust even the stuff that you did like. There's been credibility lost here, and it will take a while to get over that.

Just to name a few:

Oscar Piastri did A-levels in Maths, Physics and Computer Science

Arvid Lindblad either did or is currently doing A-levels in maths and chemistry

Carlos Sainz was forced by his dad to get to a uni entrance exam, meaning he has finished school and has the required qualifications.

Yuki Tsunoda WENT to uni and dropped out for racing.

Nico Rosberg rejected an offer from Imperial College London to study some sort of engineering.

While not having A-levels (which aren’t even compulsory so idk what Wolff is on about) Lewis Hamilton, Oliver Bearman and George Russell all have their GCSEs. Lando Norris is actually the only current British driver (Including Alex Albon) to NOT have his GCSEs. Pierre Gasly has the Baccalaureate. Charles did whatever they do in Monaco i don’t know. Fernando Alonso and Nico Hulkenberg both finished secondary education. Liam Lawson did education in NZ before moving to Europe. Lance Stroll did his education in Switzerland.

There are actually only 7 drivers who didn’t complete compulsory education. Lando Norris, Max Verstappen, Esteban Ocon, Sergio Perez, Gabriel Borteleto, Franco Colapinto and Isack Hadjar.

68.2% of the current grid completed compulsory education. And then there’s also Nico Rosberg cause i love that guy and wanted to bring him up!

BREAKING! Aston Martin finally join the grand prix

*Aston Martin in P13and P14??!what year is it 🥹

In 1981, Ayrton Senna da Silva, was a 21-year-old aspiring racing driver, making his mark in the Townsend Thoresen Formula Ford 1600 Championship. Soon Senna's talent and determination began to draw attention, even before his meteoric rise in Formula 1. Cathy Beswick a young 12-year-old English motor racing fan soon became what I consider Ayrton's first fan and followed his career very closely. She would come over in the paddock at Oulton Patk and talk to him and be photographed with Ayrton and his first wife Lilian.

Cathy continued to support Ayrton throughout his early racing career and when Ayrton won the F3 title for the Dick Bennetts West Surrey Racing Team in 1983, she was invited to the teams F3 Championship winning dinner celebration, cementing her reputation as his first fan.

- Keith Sutton