May I introduce you to, once again, the people who work(ed) in F1 and it's feeder series?
Weird camera angles, genuinely almost kissing, pictures with little to no context, Kimi's Lego car with oranges as wheels, questions all around, it all checks out.
a lot of people, especially newer fans, don’t factor this into the brocedes discussion but it is absolutely important to the story: lewis hamilton used to be an absolute little bitch, from a media and pr perspective.
i do not believe that he is any more - he’s a shining example of growth and maturity across the board, educating himself in political matters beyond his own identity, discovering humility, learning the wisdom of when to bite his tongue, and (most importantly in my book) how to acknowledge when he is wrong and apologise honestly. this is the post-brocedes lewis we all know and love. but before this, in both the brocedes and britclaren eras, lewis was the sorest of losers and quite meanspirited when people caught him right out of the car after a bad race. some non-nico-related highlights of this:
- twitter unfollow gate (wherein he was outraged on main about jenson allegedly unfollowing him on twitter only for jenson to reveal that he was never following him)
- he straight up fucking tweeted jenson’s telemetry data like he was goddman wikileaks
- telling ron dennis, in the pit lane, with journalists everywhere, to “go fucking swivel”
- every time he spoke about his front-wing destruction championship with felipe massa in 2011. (seriously, the pair of them were awful that year. felipe gave as good as he got but he’s also brazilian and i swear they put something in the water there that makes all their racing drivers dramatic and messy).
so yeah, when you think about bizarre behaviour from the brocedes era and think it doesn’t tally with what you know of lewis now, please bear this in mind. man was an absolute pr disaster before 2017.
sam raimi's rules of horror: don't make a boring picture!
1. the innocent must suffer
2021 abu dhabi grand prix | 2008 brazilian grand prix | 1999 italian grand prix | 2019 canadian grand prix
2. the guilty must be punished
renault and their crashgate | michael schumacher's 1997 disqualification of the championship | mclaren and their spygate
3. you must taste blood to become a man
2010 turkish grand prix | 1990 japanese grand prix | 2016 spanish grand prix | 1998 belgian grand prix