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Unpopular opinion but Charles didn't drive horrible today? Like if that was dangerous, what do we call his performance last year? Lol Apart from the lap 1 incident, all the others were just racing to the limits. People accuse him as if he caused dnfs here and there.

If he was racing with the same mindset as last year, in Baku he would have cause an accident with seb but he didn't. Today, after many races ferrari had the best pace comparing to the McLarens, so it was a chance to get points.

Was it risky? Yes. But it's ferrari, we won't see another enjoyable race like this probably😭

ansjdjd, oh anon, I don’t think he drove horrible today at all either!

Quite the contrary, his dirve was impressive today, especially given how little confidence we had in the SF21 after Paul Ricard, or just given its confusing performance over the season — I just wish it could have been a bit cleaner (Lap 1 the obvious one I wish he avoided, also wish he didn’t clip Kimi’s front wing during overtaking but looking back I don’t think that’s entirely on him?, or I think there might’ve also been a touch with Alonso??). Babette, one of the sanest people here whom I trust, took a look at those incidents, so I’m going to link the posts here: On Pierre-Charles incident in Lap 1. On Kimi-Charles & Fernando-Charles.

Tumblr generally is…just such a reactionary place, and people are quick to come to their own judgments. I don’t get it. I admittedly get a bit confused since I definitely haven’t watched F1 long enough to be able to judge drivers’ performances/FiA penalties so well. So I can’t comment on whether or not he deserved to get some penalties today for any of that, I just know people seem to have the impression that he has more leniency from the FiA — whether that claim is substantiated or not, I don’t know. I didn’t watch the 2020 or 2019 seasons when it was happening, nor do I have like the data or knowledge to compare to other drivers. But the FiA, to my knowledge, has never been…the most consistent body with any of this in the first place 🤷🏻‍♀️ I digress, I just. generally would prefer it if Charles can keep out of these controversies COMPLETELY so I don’t have to go through extra psychic damage of seeing bad takes on his driving.

Still, I agree that his driving this year is not comparable to the magnitude or seriousness of errors he made in 2020, so I am glad for that progress! In some ways, you could say I am probably just having sky high expectations for him, given his talent and also how he’s always had an attitude of learning from mistakes. He’s probably my favorite driver on the grid right now, of course I want him to be ironing out his mistakes ASAP and having smooth, clean drives where he can go apeshit without consequence or comment.

But, yeah, as you said, he is driving on the limit. I think with the SF21 not being the most consistent car and also losing so many places from the Lap 1 incident, he absolutely had to push it above and beyond, especially when Paul Ricard was such a dismal result for him personally and for the team, plus how they need those points from both cars to keep up the competition with the McLarens, as a precious anon said! Of course, he’s taking risks and of course he’s willing to get a bit of his elbows out if needed. He’s lucky that most of the dents in his drive weren’t detrimental, so this is a really good result for the team, and I think that’s super important to have good drives like his recovery drive today to keep the team going through tough times (same as how his almost miraculous performances last year must’ve sustained the team through an intensely painful season). It’s not just a recovery from lost positions from the first lap but also from last weekend, honestly.

Also, I think people really forget every once in a while that Charles has always been capable of taking these risks that don’t always pay off but are arguably largely necessary gambles when you have a subpar car. Or the fact that he has always been capable of being a bastard on track (the aggression came out in F1 because of Austria 2019) — but hello? 2012 “just an inchident”? Even in F2, where I always thought he drove most beautifully, aka cleaner and more calculated imo compared to his post-Austria 2019 style or 2020 “high risk high reward” mentality, he was absolutely capable of being really “racey.” For example, the last race of the F2 2017 season in Abu Dhabi, Charles already won the championship two races ago? but he still fought very on the limit with Alex Albon to win this last race and even made contact, which did screw up Alex’s exit in a corner and allowed Charles to take the lead on the last (or penultimate?) lap and win. Mind you, the Prema he was in was a dominant car. I think that also makes a lot of difference when it comes to how he drives. When he has a shitty car like SF1000 and less shitty but not great not consistent car like SF21, I can understand how he can’t afford to not drive to the limit. Regardless of the car though, I think Charles has always been explicit about enjoying driving on the limit like this. So guys, just accept him for the demon he is and has always been, or like spray holy water on your households to repel him from your space.

But take heart, anon! I weirdly think that Ferrari is going to be okay. Charles seems a lot more motivated this week in all his interviews after the free practices compared to Paul Ricard, where he really looked like he was struggling and also how dead inside he looked whenever someone asked him about the race 😂 It’s a good sign that he was disappointed for P7 in quali and for the race. It means he was expecting and aiming for a lot more. I think if Ferrari can figure out what they did right (God, what a sentence lmao), there’s some hope that they can keep up the performance (I really hope). I feel pretty encouraged honestly, even though I said I was prepared to drop the whole season just last week. Ferrari is weirdly taking everything in well, staying calm and pretty energized to fix its problems. So, as I said before the race weekend, we should just take it chill and treat it as extended testing sessions for Ferrari. I’d rather they be flailing now than after 2022 hits. The earlier they can figure out their problems, the better next year’s car can be.

Besides, Charles managed to drag ShitboxFerrari1000 into some pretty unbelievable places last year, so I wouldn’t rule it out for him to do something batshit this year either with a better though not great car (and he already parked it on back to back poles) 💖💖

apparently they were slandering charles on the sky stream today

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it is very important to learn how to do cpr and learn first aid. i did it and even though it can be scary, it can save lives. honestly if you can, do it

besties, I’ve seen that some of you have like these autographed cards from some of the teams and I want to know how you get them?

Like I know some of you sent an email but what did you write in it? Like, how do I ask for the cards? Do I have to include my address or what :( pls help

Charles Leclerc as Halsey 'Hopeless Fountain Kingdom' album cover.

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no but like... the thing about pierre and charles knowing each other by heart... yeah. yeah.

like we've seen it mentioned that charles' dad used to bring gifts for pierre when he was on the podium in karting races, and that now pierre's parents promise charles has a family with them no matter what. they used to go on vacations together as kids and pierre used to basically live with charles when they were karting in the south of france and even as recent as 2019 they've mentioned trying to have a holiday together every year even since joining F1.

and how charles saw pierre suffering in 2019 but we still saw them supporting another seemingly every weekend when even other well respected drivers took opportunities to dunk on pierre's shortcomings. how charles' friendship and support didn't falter even when pierre got demoted despite everyone else treating that situation so cautiously. how in brazil he crashed out in a stupid and embarrassing incident but still showed up for pierre. made a post for him to congratulate him on his first podium even though he's never done the same for anyone else. and same in monza even though we know he hit the wall hard enough to need medical checks but he embraced pierre hard enough to push him back a little. how in baku he sped up in his cooldown lap to wave at pierre and nearly ran through parc ferme to congratulate him even though he himself just lost out on that podium.

and then there's the way they interact. pierre saying "in 8 years, teammates again?" to charles bringing up their karting days. pierre, without hesitation, associating charles with the word friend. saying "me and charles saying basically the same thing? that's not surprising," in reference to their team radios in 2019. pierre saying he would pick charles to take with him on a desert island because he'd know he would have fun. how he'd pick charles as his teammate over world champion idols.

and then there's charles crediting one of his best qualifying performances in 2020 to watching pierre's onboards and learning from him. charles telling the media he would love to have pierre as his ferrari teammate even though at the time everyone knew there was basically zero chance of that happening. he praised pierre as the most impressive last year on more than one occasion. charles fulfilling on a not so sure promise to pierre that he'd win in spa in 2019 for anthoine, and never once even implying to the media that maybe it's strange that a fellow competitor would ask for that.

they continue to speak well of each other even though more often than not they've been in direct contention with each other across several teams. today most of us were sweating, afraid they'd take each other out and then both of them got out and gushed about how fun it was.

so yeah. it really is fair to say they do know each other by heart.

I'll leave this here

Do I use tumblr or do I just scroll through my fav driver's tag, look at the first five posts on my dash and then log out, repeating the process the next day?

maybe I’ll crash into you maybe we would open up these wounds (insp.)

The Things We Never Got

Erica and Malia meeting

Isaac and Theo meeting

Theo and Derek meeting

Isaac and Liam meeting

Allison beating the hell out of Liam for killing Scott then literally being Theo’s worst nightmare for betraying all of them

Genuine Jordan Parrish and Lydia Martin pairing

A conclusion of Kira’s journey with the Skinwalkers

A conclusion about why Chris decided to leave Isaac in France

How Ethan and Jackson met

That awkward convo between Ethan and Jackson that went something like this:

Jackson: Yeah my friends back in Beacon Hills tried to stop me from murdering innocent people but I was constantly controlled. A girl named Lydia Martin finally brought me back.

Ethan: My twin brother, Aiden, dated her while I was with a guy named Danny.

Jackson: You dated my best friend.

Ethan: He was your best friend?

Jackson: Yes.

Ethan: Well…your friends tried to kill me.

Jackson: And you tried to kill them…

Ethan: So did you.

Jackson: Is Stiles still helpless in love with Lydia like Scott is with Allison?

Ethan: Stiles still loves Lydia. Allison died saving Isaac. 

Jackson: Why did she save his worthless pathetic self?

Ethan: They were a thing.

Jackson: Why the fuck did I leave? Everything went to shit once I left.

A cute ass Hale story of Peter, Laura, Derek, Cora and other younger generation family members playing together when they were under 10 and somebody did something embarrassing as hell and the others always reference it. 

Theo’s revive green muck being used on Allison

An actual progression of Scalia

The pack hitting Chris for healing Gerard with the special flower

A proper explanation of Alec’s purpose - great, he was an omega that was saved and he gets to know all of Scott’s story because he’s taking him on just like that???

Noah and Melissa romance - It would’ve been great instead of Natalie and Noah which would’ve made Stiles and Lydia weird or Chris and Melissa which was basically Scott and Allison in the sense an Argent and McCall were together to the end as a sweet bliss thing. Stiles and Scott could’ve been actual brothers.

A proper reason for that elevator scene between Theo and Liam and why it was filled with so much sexual tension but neither one acted on it. Like you can sense each other’s chemosignals JUST BE CANON ALREADY.

No junior prom

No senior prom

NO GRADUATION

The story behind Peter meeting Corinne and that whole love fiasco

Other supernatural creatures from other cultures’ myths and tales. We got Kitsune from Japanese legend, Kanima from South-America, even the Wild hunt, so why is everything else were-blah blah.

Stiles having any PTSD from VoidStiles

The full extent Mountain Ash can be used for.

The use of these magical herbs Chris knows so much about but can’t mention them in earlier seasons 

What Alan Deaton and Marin Morrell actually are. Are they siblings? Are they both emissaries/druids? 

Liam’s struggles with I.E.D. after he’s used to being a werewolf. Like where’s the progression of him struggling again after Hayden left? Yeah, he was sad but him raging out in 6b should’ve been more frequent. 

An actual team-up between the babes of Beacon Hills. Banshee, Kitsune, Werecoyote, Hunter, Mercenary, Nurse, Were-Jaguars, Werewolves. All of them in one frame. The boys have nothing compared to them.

Greenberg. If any rando was filmed during 6b then it should’ve been Greenberg with Coach taking down those hunters to save Jackson. We went six seasons for Stydia, why must we never get an answer as to who the hell Greenberg is?

Any hints as to what will happen next. Does the main pack go off to College while Liam and the pup-pack guard Beacon Hills with papa Derek? Is Nolan accepted? Thiam? 

The underlying curiosity if Malia was to go to France at the start of 6b would she had met Isaac? She should’ve gone, sniffed him out and brought him back. 

That genuine talk between Scott and Isaac about caring for Allison.

Why Allison went by her middle name since her full name is apparently Celestine Allison Argent?

Allison’s funeral

Erica’s funeral

Boyd’s funeral

Aiden’s funeral

Any funeral at all other than Kate’s fake one

An answer to a possible spin-off or reboot

Isaac’s actual answer as to why he insisted on wearing scarves

We didn’t get a lot of things. I’m still mad about some - mostly the lack of explanation for characters’ dropping off the face of the earth or how deaths didn’t get properly mourned and grief wasn’t properly expressed.

mazepin will never change

- Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc, speaking his truth on a peaceful day at  Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya

Imola GP summed up

Lewis

Charles

Seb

Race stewards

Kimi

Yuki

Daniel

Val & George

Merc office

Ferrari

“HADES : Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because they taste like blood, like love.”

— Pauline Albanese, The Closed Doors (via houseborgia)

i really feel like saying this but i feel like sometimes some of y’all forget Charles is a generational talent ... that man is an exceptional driver put some respect on his name !

ellie’s 200 follower celebration for @ffriluftslivv

ELU + OSCAR WILDE

I just don't know

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”

— Dave Eggers