NO TRULY!!! Watching The Entire Filipino F1 Fan Community (including Me) Freak Out Was So Cute But Also

NO TRULY!!! watching the entire filipino f1 fan community (including me) freak out was so cute but also seeing the rest of the world (or at least the accounts i follow or come across) celebrate it as well is so heart warming ❤️‍🩹 bianca deserves nothing but the best and all the support!!

bianca bustamante getting signed by mclaren in their driver development programme is, dare i say, monumental for philippine motorsport. bianca is from a country that doesn't have an accessible racing facility. i can count one race track and two karting tracks off the top of my head. getting funding to be in motorsport here is a massive pain in the ass, it's virtually impossible for a filipino to break through international motorsport. the furthest a filipino has reached in single seater racing is gp3 with marlon stockinger in the early 2010s.

bianca is the philippines' closest hope to get to f1. she is doing the unthinkable, the impossible. bianca bustamante is breaking barriers for philippine motorsport. she is the first woman to score a win in a FIA sanctioned single seater event, first since marlon stockinger winning in monaco in 2012.

when she said in her introductory video from mclaren that she is a child of an overseas filipino worker—a working class citizen who has to leave the philippines for opportunities abroad that offer higher wages because no job in the philippines can offer you a salary that is livable—that is very powerful. it is striking and only adds weight to why this signing is very important to us. she's now in the radar of f1 teams, hopefully filipinos also take notice.

i'm so proud of bianca and i'm so looking forward to her carrying the flag for this country in southeast asia with a population of 109 million. god i hope she thrives so badly.