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forgive me lord for I have imagined a life far more soft and tender than the one you created for me

"Rachel, my partner, has been very confused as to our relationship together relative to mine and Carlos"

"More late night events in a hotel room than I want to think about"

What is happening at Williams?!😀

Thst's enough James ...

Me when it's an essay for college: 5k words is so long😭😔

Me when it's ao3: 5k words is so short, I need to sit in the author's lap and have a heart to heart 😀

something we don’t talk about when we talk about nico rosberg, and honestly even though it involved being a horrendous cunt, is that he did what generations of drivers have tried and failed to do - he refused to be made second driver and still walked away with his championship.

like think about that. there are so many people in my memory, and many more before that, that fell to that hurdle by accepting their fate or switching teams and making the wrong call, or just never quite getting there. you’ve got valtteri and daniel and mark webber and felipe massa and before that you have rubens barrichello and david coulthard and eddie irvine and so on and so on. and they either had some moment of quiet resignation to it or they let it completely destroy them, sometimes both.

nico rosberg was the part of the foundations of mercedes. he was there since it took the name mercedes and was brought in to play second fiddle to michael fucking schumacher, and then he outdrove him every damn day, when the mercedes wasn’t championship contention material but was outclassing the rest of the midfield. i remember it so well when you had button and hamilton at mclaren, vettel and webber were at red bull, and alonso and massa were at ferrari. you had no idea what was gonna happen with that top six but you could count on one thing like clockwork, nico rosberg would be seventh, making that scrappy little bastard of a car sing.

and then lewis arrived when schumi left and people assumed nico would play that second fiddle like he hadn’t won them the lion’s share of the points with schumi in the other car. no one gave him his due. and then the car was a winning car and he was suddenly a winner, someone no one had ever rated from that stacked as hell grid. and lewis already had his championship. he wanted more, sure, but he didn’t need to prove that he had it in him the way nico did with his dad and everything else hanging over his head.

let’s not beat around the bush, mercedes wanted him to be second driver. toto came in with lewis and didn’t respect what nico had achieved under ross brawn. lewis was already a championship winner even if nico knew the car and the team much better. certainly the management at mercedes were never on his side once toto took the reigns. and lewis must have expected it somewhat too, it’s just how teams work. and his long-standing teammate at that point had been jenson, who had just as many championships and seniority in the sport, which made them as close to equals as possible and also frustrated lewis no end at that time because on some days he was second driver. it was owed to him, at last, to have a teammate whose only job was to prop him up.

i’m not saying if it was the right decision, or the ethical decision, or a decision that he doesn’t deeply and intimately regret, but the point at which nico had to say to himself no, lewis isn’t allowed to do this to me, no i won’t be second fiddle, not even to my best friend, must have required such strength of conviction like sport has never seen. and yeah it’s sad to think that a championship ended a friendship that old and that caring, but reframe it for a moment. what must it have felt like to escape out from under the thumb of schumacher who was never ever going to support nico, who could be affable outside racing but had a long history of being the meanest of sports on the grid, and think finally, a friend, someone to support and care for me, someone who wants me to win just like i want him to win, and be told no, it’s just the same as it was. like yes this is work, but imagine what that would do to you in any career - a fellow artist, a fellow businessman - to be told that your friend, in any context, sees you as an obstacle to overcome, or even worse just a tool to get ahead.

like we make fun of that - look at the man that sold his soul for a championship - but so did everyone else, so did lewis even. we have no idea who went first in sacrificing the friendship to the flames but we do know it was the first time nico ever fucked someone over in the sport. he’d never driven a winning car before. lewis had, and lord knows he learnt well enough from fernando, from jenson even.

nico had never had the opportunity to do it, and even when he was teammates with schumi, it was a noticeably sedate schumi racing in a midfield car. there wasn’t a championship for him to snatch at like he had done before. and that must do damage to you, as someone that’s never been at that kind of desperate infighting team before. and to have someone who is supposed to love you more than anyone else on the grid right there in it, in your first true experience of it? ooft.

then you think about him retiring, right after he’s finally done it. he must have wanted to step away before hand but imagine that friendship up in smoke and to go away empty-handed, with nothing to show for it. so he says no, i have to have this championship. all this had to have been for something. think about keke, who won one world championship pretty much by accident. how he won because the front runners on the grid that season died in those cars. and what had just happened to poor old jules. and how keke has always insisted that nico is his greatest achievement, not his championship, his son. and nico has just become a father. think about how important his daughters are to him, how much he loves them. how he was burning down his relationship with vivian too just to get this stupid title, these stupid trophies.

and maybe some part of him thinks i can fix this, i can have lewis back if i just put the weapons down, if i walk away. but lewis doesn’t see it like that - he sees it as cowardly, that nico took something from him and didn’t give him the chance to get it back, even though held already proved over and over and over that he could beat nico, that he was definitively the better driver. but nico only had to be better once - keke won his championship with a single race win to his name that season and it was enough. goddamit it was enough. and even if it hurt him to give up being in that car, nico had things that were more important. just once was enough for him in a way it never could be for lewis. lewis has nothing else, no partner, no children, no real friends at that point. of course he could never understand. maybe he envied nico in that moment, for once to be enough, but lewis never had that luxury.

god it’s so tragic, but nico really did achieve the impossible.

Was worried that the interview with Nico might be just a bit awkward,given the race as well😬,but there you go, Lewis giggling plenty and Nico sounding Happy 🥺🥺

Thank you, Hungary 😭🙏🏻

I love Max,but man is whining when he's not winning 😂😂

And also the way everything was going with max lapping Charles in the last couple of races, it's so exhilarating to see charles above max in the race results🙂🙂

(Congratulations to Oscar ,if it HAS to be a McLaren,then I'm glad it's osc.)

i posted the gif with the ayrton and mika part but so much happens in this video is unbelievable

Everyone talking about Daniel replacing checo because he's not doing well...and I'm thinking that this is the best case scenario for Charles to join RBR,cause checo brings sponsors and money bit Charles can bring sponsors, money and fans... certainly a better deal for RBR than Daniel!

Why do people give away the dotd award to lando? Piastri went from p8 to p2, George literally won the race when he started from p4 Haas boys dragged that tractor stop it seriously he doesn’t deserve it.

Somebody tell Norris that the only man Max Verstappen apologizes to, is Charles Leclerc 💅🏻

max verstappen and victoria verstappen - "i would happily share my password with my sister"

dedicated to me, for working on this for the past several months, and to @xiaoluclair who took my very eloquently put complaint of "it's ugly" and found the perfect way to fix it

jandy nelson, i’ll give you the sun / victoria, the sports rush, john corey whaley, where things comes back / original broadway cast of hamilton, the reynolds pamphlet / maurice sendak / max, essentially sports /sportskeeda / kodaline, brother / max, twitter / victoria, rtl late night / phillipa gregory, the other boleyn girl / max, race fans / belle and sebastian, i don’t love anyone / james gray, max verstappen: born to race: a biography / mighty oaks, brother / unknown / max, instagram / mitski, i guess / unknown / victoria, the sports rush / james tw, when you love someone / steven berkoff, the fall of the house of usher / @cup-noodle / the crane wives, icarus / max, twitter / george ezra, coat of armour / max, instagram / max, sportskeeda / unknown

Friends are not supposed to get too close

And feel emotions that we're feeling now,now,now

We ain't slowing down,down,down

But once we cross the line

There's no denying,you and I

Can never turn around, 'round 'round

Know we'll never be the same.

"You and I go back to like 09, it's like FOREVER."

V(BTS)- Fri(end)

I might like you that much

And it’s making my eyes gleam

And it all comes down to that question

Do you like me?

Or are you being friendly?

You see

I might have viewed everything differently

'So are we platonic?'

It would have been so beautiful if max was up there too, a 2.0 version of Austria 2022 podium in Charles' home would've healed the world!♥️

lestappen monaco gp alchemy edit bc it's what we deserve

On the hand of Ferrari and the ambivalence of touch

it keeps coming back to that: what do I do with these hands? — Richard Aiken, Black Telephone

📝 : Jenny Slate, Little Weirds / Rob Chinchero about Charles Leclerc on Twitter / Hammer Time Magazine / Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

Oh, our ao3 authors are going to have a field day with this one✨♥️

OUR CHARLIE BOY...🥺♥️

he won his home grand prix after years and years of the universe denying it to him he threw himself into the arms of the team he has loved since he was a child he stood on the top step of the podium with his country’s flag on his shoulders as he sang both the monégasque and italian anthems he is charles leclerc and monaco has finally loved him back

Don’t think about Arthur Leclerc growing up dreaming about racing in Monaco. Don’t think about Arthur Leclerc watching from the sidelines as his brother — the hometown hero — gets pole. Don’t think about Arthur Leclerc having to paste on a smile while listening to everyone joke about it being a Leclerc 1-2 in qualifying. Don’t think about Arthur Leclerc wishing it could be him.

Charles and Oscar really saw Carlos and Lando being so close and went, well guess what will top this bromance?😌

Dear Forgiveness, I saved a plate for you. Siken / Mitchell-Malm / Tsunoda / Rich & Hida / Powell / George / Swift / Tsunoda / Atwood / Swift / Tsunoda / Yelich-O'Connor / Tsunoda / Powell / Plath / Powell / Golding & Deckers / Prakash

Can't stop thinking about how 'Reflections' by

' The neighborhood' is so brocedes coded..

"We were too close to the stars,

I never knew somebody like you, somebody

Falling just as hard

I'd rather lose somebody, then use somebody"

The sun of Maranello ✨🛐

Dragon and the pheonix....

as more people are waking up to the kind of relationship charles and max have and the way out of the entire grid it takes charles leclerc to go toe to toe with mad max, you can NOT talk about one of them without mentioning the other. The inevitable and the predestined, the prancing horse and the charging bull, the sun of maranello and the rain of milton keynes

do you ever think about "the winner takes it all" being so brocedes coded... they had nothing to lose... they had everything to lose... friendship...

HELLO, İ LOVE YOU

Their entire history? It's tragic. And i am but a sucker for tragedies,,

Going from such close friends to someone you can barely stand to look at? Having someone you trust more than most, someone you can relate to so deeply, and it's ripped from your hands by your own dreams and ambitions??

And in the end, it still feels inevitable - because that's what the sport is all about: proving that you're the best. It's a tragedy in itself to know how many people attempt to leave their mark, only to lose their seat in an instant. It's a sport like any else, there's the winner and the loser, and everyone wants to succeed.

And still, imagine having so much shared history with someone, something that runs so deep, that your names will forever be associated with one another.

Imagine being Nico Rosberg and knowing that despite everything, Lewis Hamilton will always be the modern face of F1 - that you've witnessed the birth of a legend. To watch him grow bigger and bigger, win race after race. And no matter how hard you try, compared to him your efforts seem fruitless.

And yet, even today, the name Lewis Hamilton will never stand without the mention of Nico Rosberg, his best friend and his biggest rival, the ghost of a legend who managed to dethrone him in the end.

It's as beautiful as it is heartbreaking to know that at some point you'd have to look back and ask yourself whether or not it was worth it all, at the cost of your friendship.