"what’s going on with you charlouu" Charles: 😡🤬🔪🔫 Carlos: 🤣😜😆
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I feel like there aren't enough people are talking about that Lando vs George battle.
Haters love to yell that Lando isn’t aggressive enough, doesn’t go for it, plays it too safe. But he was glued to George’s rear wing. Had him sweating about his tyres the entire time.
Lando was relentless. Smart, clean, and aggressive. George definitely held his own, but Lando had that dog in him the whole time.
Just because he’s not dramatic about it doesn’t mean he isn’t lethal on track. He said he wanted to have fun this weekend, and honestly? He looked like he was having the time of his life out there.
WILLIAMS???? TESTING WASN’T A JOKE???? THEY DID NOT COME TO PLAY?????
One of my favourite f1 podcast episodes to rival Alex Albon’s High Performance one.
Highlights include:
The Netflix Carlando episode where they’re made out to be enemies and how he and Lando laughed over it and are buddies. Later on he reveals that McLaren gave him a “ball protector” as a joke after Lando and Ricciardo kept giving him “besitos” on the balls?
How growing up with a World Champion father affected him. All the kids wanted to beat him while karting and he was trying to make friends and play football. His father had to tell him that in this sport you bite or get bitten and “right now you’re getting bitten”. Since then he learnt to push someone off track right back.
He describes himself as an introvert and also doesn’t like the taste of alcohol- he hates feeling perceived and doesn’t let himself go in public.
The pressure he felt as a kid and the pressure he’d feel having a kid and the motorsport expectations. Apparently his father would tell him he’d be loved either way and there’s millions of things in the world to do but that didn’t stop the feeling and he worries for his own hypothetical child.
A lot about his appendicitis! He was calculating in his head if it was possible to race in Jeddah (big strategy brain) and the doctors had to tell him he might die if it burst 😭. Also hating being a passenger in the ambulance.
How he copes with f1 being a “shitty sport” when you’re taken out of a race through no fault of his own. He goes on to talk about experiencing fatigue and heavy burn out at the end of last year and his leaving Ferrari wasn’t in his plan.
He praises the 1000s of people who work in order to give him his car to drive and comes across as very thankful.
He won’t share his ideas about the future of f1 in case they are stolen (his big brain once again).
He’s been an uncle for a week!
He talks about how you need a very very rich family or sponsor to make it to f1 or be a standout member of a driver academy for years- preferably both. He says there will be two new faces next year (I think there’s a likelihood of three) and talks about his experience of having his father’s name again.
If your Spanish isn’t great there’s a few translated clips on Twitter/X!
I do think we’ll get news of where Carlos is going around the Spanish GP so expect a lot of Carlos media coming up around his home race. He comes off so well in Spanish, it really makes you think how much gets mistranslated tonally in all the post race sound bites we get.
First race of not following my favorite driver in Ferrari, and my god what a great feeling.
He might have DNFed but he still helped his new team with strategy calls, to help his teammate get some amazing points for the team (Alex what a drive, super proud!) and he looked quite happy in his interview after his race ended.
and the biggest thing of all is that he's appreciated and loved by his entire team.
I of course could he happier if he didn't DNF and had scored some points as well, but I am very happy.
Let's go Williams!