This week the Chinese Grand prix will be held in Shanghai for the first time since 2019.

Zhou Guanyu became the first ever Chinese Formula 1 driver when he signed with Alfa Romeo in 2022.

Which means that this weekend is the first time a Chinese driver will race at their home Grand Prix.

Zhou is making history this weekend, and I will be cheering for him to have the best home race possible.

Go Zhou!!!

Poster for his upcoming documentary film "The First One"

2011 British gp Fernando is such a mood...

Laila I hard agree with your tags RE: Italiano leaving. I’ve seen people joke that Danny must have fucked his girlfriend or something but I don’t think it’s anything personal (in that way)

If I had to guess I’d say it was something big, maybe business/money related. I kind of hoped Daniel just realized what a shit trainer Michael was (I can rant on his bs practices all day, but he pushes some unsustainable and sometimes outright dangerous ideas like extensive fasting, etc. etc. which have always rubbed me the wrong way). BUT I think in reality Daniel hasn’t really acknowledged/processed how NOT OKAY that whole McLaren stint was for him. He still talks to Zak, all the McLaren mechanics, friendly with Lando and Oscar, so if it was just “Michael let him down and wasn’t putting his best interests first in McLaren” I think Danny would have just let it go.

One thing he’s not stupid about though, is his money/business (and also, what a lot of people don’t acknowledge, his privacy). We don’t really hear a lot about Danny post-season. So I feel maybe the fall out had to do with Italiano going on podcast after podcast talking about Daniel and then also (presumably) raking in money for it. Again, all allegedly completely-just-going-from-my-own-vibes, Michael Italiano do not sue me

I do think there was a catalyst that led to their break-up sometime after the last race last year, because if I remember correctly, Jack (Doohan) had mentioned that Michael would be training him for F2 while still working with Daniel during his year off. But then, this never happened and MI ended up going to AT. All I'm saying is, whether something happened or someone sat Daniel down and talked to him about it, Daniel on his own would never have realised how harmful whatever MI preached was. And i think whatever it was, really hit Daniel hard because every time he's talked about coming back this year, whether it's the lone wolf comment or other things, he's constantly talked about how he's approaching training differently and how he's realised prioritising his recovery and rest is important.

Regarding your comment about whether Michael wasn't putting Daniel's interests first at Mclaren, I think a lot of people got the same impression, especially if you go by his comments on his Pitstop appearance this year. The way he framed it kind of implied that he was annoyed at Daniel's decision to take a year off and there was the implication that this derailed his own career and aspirations, which fair enough.

But coming to whether it could have been money/business-related, I feel like this is more like it. You do get the impression he was more in it for the money and the fame. Forget the part about dming girls and the cheating allegations, but the side-hustle part of it?? With the F1 season getting more and more hectic and trainers like Brad and Angela leaving because they can't keep up with the strain and time demand of the new calendar, how can you have the time to dedicate to other private clients? To me, it just means you're not really giving your 100% to the driver you are meant to support. Then, there was the mask debacle thing in 2020, his whole 'merch' collection and the way he continued to make money off his posts of Yuki this year.

And then the privacy thing - I know just because Daniel looks like such an open guy that people don't realise how private he is. Even during the whole mclaren debacle, not one person from his side ran their mouth in the press when you constantly have the family or friends of other drivers making snide comments or liking posts they shouldn't. And then, there's mr. Italiano making appearances in dodgy podcasts and obviously whatever he says, people are bound to take it as him meaning it about daniel because that's who they associate him with. And then the whole leaking of his private medical info, coming after the one and sole sighted interaction of theirs must have come as such a betrayal to Daniel

Ready Steady? Get out the way.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEWIS HAMILTON 🎉‼️

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George’s face is sending me- when ur husband is lying through his teeth to the media about being annoyed during the race

failed my driving test twice, no actual friends in college, applied to a cool thing and was rejected, no bitches...thank god i'm seeing goodfellas in theaters in a few days because what do i have going for me rn

your post about getting called ‘sir’ reminded me of the time my uber driver called me ‘young man’ like thank you i will never forget this <3 i love you uber driver

its crazy how much little moments like that stick with you...like wow, that probably meant nothing to you but i will be thinking about this moment for a while now thank you <3

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man what the hell i decide to go on a 2h walk and (literally) touch grass for once and it turns out to be the most bigots-filled day ever.......... i'm gonna stay inside forever

I stoled this meme cause it was fun

Wish me luck. I’m going to drive a car for the second time in about 8(?) years. A friend needs a ride home from the pain clinic. (She’s driving us there - the entrance to the highway at this end is a PITA, and she’s good to drive, so it makes more sense to do it that way.)

The first time was a practice yesterday, to make sure I remembered how to operate a car.

was redbull golden boy bullshit this annoying when it was seb?

This is my personal crossover event of the century

i got complimented for the stickers on my water bottle being so cottagecore…. killing and biting and crying and screaming

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my moms weird best friend who married(?) an also extremely weird lady who used to make monster high stop motion films on youtube is possibly the most insane person ive ever met but also made a point of asking my opinion on marvel movies when we would all go see them together and genuinely debated plot and special effects with me and took my points seriously and i think that probably makes up for him being the type of guy who used to own a jaguar convertible and owned slash owns multiple electric unicycles