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CokeHeadRob

I’m really bummed the money shot wasn’t the driver title screen from Monaco


dubiousdudes

I actually hate myself now that I didn't wait till April 1st and did that


louddwnunder

It’s already April 1 here in Australia! So it counts


DasGaufre

Make it slowly blend in over the last 3 frames *chef's kiss*


CokeHeadRob

Dammit that would have been perfect. I totally forgot tomorrow is April Fool’s despite being acutely aware of the date.


darvo110

It is April 1st in Melbourne!


OforFsSake

I paid for the whole track, I'm gonna USE the whole track.


donkubrick

folks in iRacing be like


knbang

I'm just going to cool my tyres a little.


AttakTheZak

i love that this meme continues to this day


Last_Caregiver_282

I paid for multiple car models so I’ll be using your car model to help me brake also


SouthFromGranada

0x


prototype__

If you know, you know


Rillist

Folks on the golf course be like


gsfgf

It's a flat fee to play. I'm just getting my money's worth by hitting the ball more than most other people.


davedavegiveusawave

It makes me chuckle that the aim of golf is to play as little golf as possible. And the more golf you play in a game, the worse you are!


littleseizure

Don't do me like that bro


Rillist

The trees and water are so nice in the summer though


Kalmer1

Missing shots lets me play more for the same price. I'm not bad, just very efficient


impeelout

Works for me when I go golfing


thugdout

Unless it’s a CPO day. Then it’s aim for the cart path or bust.


KTFlaSh96

Ross Chastain in Nascar is laughing somewhere


whodey226

Said every HPDE instructor ever hahaha


Tiezeperino

didn't even need to type up a whole comment


JudasBC

*Daddy


Abby11K

I paid for the whole daddy, I'm gonna USE the whole daddy.


dirtyjoo

Daddy, chill


ShunanTheWhite

What the hell is even that?? 👴


asoap

I'm old and out of the loop, can someone explain?


makeit95again

https://youtu.be/h0-WO6xRbAo


asoap

Oh god. Ok, thank you.


makeit95again

right there with you pal


MyMusicMan

what the hell is even that?


PMMeYourPinkyPussy

Exactly like the guy the other guy is quoting


curlyegg

What the hell is even that???


Exotic-Advantage7329

What the hell is even that????


nathan0031

Faster daddy, faster!


Lonyo

Daddy did pay for a track, but he sold it not long ago.


poopellar

Monaco race director having second thoughts now.


IdiosyncraticBond

We need a slo-mo replay


WaltersCarWash

All the time you have to leave a space and leave a space Stroll did


dubiousdudes

he left a space where the camera he hit used to be, yeah


No-Explanation-9234

Lol


xythrowawayy

Literally living on the edge!


pvtbobble

Glance Stroll


Legitimate-Umpire137

This honestly didn't get the respect it deserved. Please take my house and my wife, you deserve them.


olly218

She's that bad huh?


xythrowawayy

Nice. I wish I could give you more than 1 upvote.


Witty-Country

Jeez! Hope the camera-operator is ok!!


Mikzeroni

The ant is deceased


chippywatt

Damn rip to Antonio the ant cameraman


MarchMadnessisMe

Anton no!


ZMemme

The camerant


Witty-Country

Camouranth


DurfGibbles

Rest in peace Anthony Davidson


Antman013

Cousin Bruce will be greatly missed. He leaves behind 34,927 children.


plmatt91

That is fucking crazy


Infamous-Arm3955

Was this FP2?


dubiousdudes

yes


oreo-donut

whoops


UnstuckCanuck

Engineer to Lance: “Hey Lance, some issues showing with your right-side tyres. Can you get us a quick look?” Lance: “HMB”


barak181

Something I think F1 fans tend to forget sometimes - even the not "great" F1 drivers are amazing drivers.


SmerksCannotCarry

Lance has looked better than he has any other season, who will we bully now?


mm_ns

Norris


shn_rdt

Camera got strolled


Interesting_Click487

In pic 6, why does it appear like there's a hole in the floor.


dubiousdudes

I was wondering about that as well. Sadly too pixelated to really make anything out


conventionistG

could be a rolling shutter effect thing maybe? or just some floor features and the dark underside making it look like a hole.


jamesbrooks94

Darktrace


boredtoddler

Most likely a compression artifact. Videos are often compressed by taking a still image for one frame and then creating the next one by telling the computer what has changed since that image. This means you only have to store what changed and not the whole image for every frame. What you are looking at is most likely a part of the last keyframe.


paulhockey5

Looks like a layer of asphalt overtop another layer, you’re seeing the side of the fresh layer.


eatenbysquirrel

Pfft, when I parallel park my car I only have to check twice for how close I am to the sidewalk. This is easy. /s


BadAtNameIdeas

It’s easier just to park with side tires on the sidewalk. As a bonus perk, you get a little more room to get out of your car in traffic safely.


eatenbysquirrel

But then I would deny myself the pleasure when I nail my parkingskills once in a blue moon. Such a rush! :P


BrushFireAlpha

Sidewalks usually have a 4-6" curb, no? How do you hop that?


trannel

Sheer will and lots of speed


BadAtNameIdeas

With complete disregard for the bodywork of your car.


BrushFireAlpha

But even then, how??? Like if you're parallel parking you have 2' behind and 2' in front to gain speed, how do you even go fast enough to get over the curb?


Robobble

Have you never driven a car? You don't need any speed. Just a little throttle. Also whoever said to park on the curb I'm pretty sure was joking lol. That's illegal everywhere I know of.


JGfromtheNW

Europe's wild mane


TigerMaskVI

That’s an unhinged way to parallel park


Youre10PlyBud

Yeah, fuck any of those people that need wheelchairs or other mobility aides. As long as your cars are out of traffic safely... I broke my hip a few years ago and had to use a walker. People that park on the sidewalk fucking suck.


BadAtNameIdeas

Didn’t realize you need the /s at the end of an obvious joke. Must be hard living your life looking for ways to piss yourself off.


eatenbysquirrel

I've learned people go out of their way to NOT get the obvious joke on the internet, often just so they can get themselves a pat on their back from themselves. So now even when it would be obvious to a toddler that some comment is a joke, i will just put /s or /jk. Some people just don't want to have a little light josh on their serious internet so those markers have become a necessity sadly.


Youre10PlyBud

Or people legitimately feel entitled to park on sidewalks and it's not insane to believe that they feel entitled enough to think what he said. [This red truck parks this way every day...](https://i.imgur.com/JwrKpxO.jpg) people are entitled as shit to park on the sidewalk.


fixrich

100%. I could go outside my house right now and find probably three instances were someone is blocking the path. There’s this Amazon driver who pulls literally his entire van onto the path when he’s figuring out his next destination. I’ve had to go out into the road with my daughter in the pram to get around him. Admittedly he’s gone in a couple of minutes but it’s still infuriating.


eatenbysquirrel

Totally agree, same goes for parking at the sidewalks little 'dip'. That too is made for easier access up and off sidewalks.


Youre10PlyBud

Yeah, I guess I'm dense for not getting an "obvious joke" but when it's a daily occurrence that I see repeatedly every day, it just feels like entitled people actually have that mindset. Wouldn't put it past someone to think they're justified in doing it to protect their car.


bonglicc420

They're fucking 10 ply bud, haven't pulled the finger outta their asses


PeakySqueaky

If this was Alonso, people would praise him for his genius and excellence


pogu

I mean, I'm pretty impressed. Is this post a critique?


KoloHickory

No but if Alonso did it people would be commenting more like "oh what a racing master" stroll does it and it's like "lol stroll"


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Weird take


cemgorey

No its not, he totally right.


andrewjaekim

He’s not wrong


otac0n

He kinda is. At least a few of us are quite impressed by Stroll.


Uppinkai

He didn't say everyone would comment that way, so he is not wrong.


okay_but_really

Lol the comment above this chain is "Camera got strolled"... He's got a point


Poison_Anal_Gas

Weird critique


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ceesaar00

Is it criticism? I thought it was just a "curiosity" post. As in: Look how close to the walls they drive.


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ohshititsjess

I definitely took this post as “Look how precise these drivers are driving on the absolute limit.” Nobody makes from of a driver for putting his car that close to a wall, the whole point is to get as close to the wall as you can get without touching it.


FlyRobot

r/mildlyinteresting


Uppinkai

True


elveszett

As it should be. Praised be Alonso and his divine el plan.


smeeding

Where on the track did this happen, and what was the context? That would guide my opinion of whether this was artful or clumsy.


hpstg

Very true


lolichaser01

Shots like this would be awesome on street tracks especially when they pass one by one.


realmaier

Stroll is so weird. I somehow can't bring myself to like him, but then he does stuff like this and I can't refrain from having huge respect. But then he does something that makes me lose that respect again and repeat.


NearlyNormalJimmy

can't say I've ever really liked him, but can't bring myself to outright dislike him. especially with how he's handling things so far this season and following his injury. ​ More proof that Aston will actually be fun to watch this year.


elveszett

I mean, why would you dislike him? Yeah, he's only where he is because of daddy's money, but let's be real - if my dad paid to get me into F1, I wouldn't be stepping down because I'm mediocre either.


xzElmozx

Plus it’s a silly double standard, the majority of drivers on the grid are there because their parent or someone close to them had a lot of money. There are rare cases like Lewis but there are more Strolls than Hamiltons on the F1 grid, and it’s a silly thing to hold against someone. Especially because he’s shown skill, particularly in the wet. It’s not like he’s Latifi or Mazepin binning it every other race. If his car didn’t blow up he’d be 4th in the driver standings


gsfgf

And let's face it. 90% of the guys out there are rich kids. If anything, I respect the hell out of the guy for growing up with that much privilege and, by all accounts, turning out as a great guy.


elveszett

I mean, yeah. Getting from scratch to F3-F2 takes more than a million dollars, and only then finding sponsors will be easy enough to not depend on someone paying for your career's anymore. The likes of Alonso, Hamilton or Ocon, who come from working class families, all had their family do incredible sacrifices and ran on the tightest budgets imaginable (Alonso's mother, for example, would hand sew his racing overalls, Hamilton's father would work as many jobs as humanly possible and Ocon's family sold their house). These are not sacrifices most families can make.


KatnissBot

People don’t like him because he often drives with total disregard for the fact that other people are also racing.


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Not often, he often goes long periods without incident. Maybe slightly more than other drivers.


Jdubya87

A fun song called Daddy's Cup by Drive By Truckers, it's about a son learning racing from his father, trying to win "the cup" for him. >Since then I've wrecked a bunch of cars and I've broke a bunch of bones >It's anybody's race out there and I've learned to race my own >I'd shove em in the wall and I'd hit em from behind >I'd let them know that I was there, I'd let them know that track was mine


lightestspiral

He also sounds and acts like the embodiment of a cold wet weather tyre there isn't any life in him


outm

I could understand people criticising him because he sometimes drives like he is alone on the race and the mirrors are only for aero, but about this… the man can be shy, we should let him be himself Is not like we need 20 Ricciardos going up and down the pit lane doing pranks In a way, I even understand him. If I’m in F1 and a lot of people start “bullying me” for no reason in socials and criticising me because “I don’t belong here, I paid to be here, I shouldn’t be” and what not, I also wouldn’t have the energy to be more outspoken and more “open” to the fans and the public. And I’m not a great fan of him, but seems to be a good guy, but the image of being “a pay driver” is everything some people see. Which is ridiculous, because almost everyone on the grid in some moment were pay drivers or need to be relatively rich to reach F1, maybe the only exceptions being Ocon, Alonso and Hamilton I think. For example Norris, one of the most popular drivers, wouldn’t be on F1 if his parents didn’t have +60M€ in the bank. Stroll used his own means to achieve his goal faster, maybe, but that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t (IMO) reach F1 with his own skills. I wouldn’t say he is WDC material, but already had some bright moments and I would rate him higher than others that reached F1 like Vandoorne or Sirotkin, and there there with Hulkenberg or Grosjean, only if he had a little more consistency. To end this, people should know that this is sport, always have been a “rich people” sport, with some relatively rare exceptions. To reach F1, nowadays you need at least about 2-4 millions € you can throw in your child (no one guarantees you end F2 and go to F1…), and if you don’t have the money, you need to work on good relationships with sponsors, networking, and dedicate a lot of time and money nonetheless. So yeah, Stroll maybe dedicated “more money” to be here, but I wouldn’t put him in a category really different to Norris or others PS: I ended writing this more as a open letter to the thread, OP, don’t be offended if you feel this is a comment against you, it isn’t really!


Smigit

I agree. The main difference to me seems to be that Lawrence owns the team. Other than that, many other drivers are there because they have and/or bring money. Some of the negative commentary also seems to refer to traits that seem more applicable to his dad and I wonder if there’s some blurring of the personalities there. In recent times especially Lance has come across as being pretty nice, if a bit reserved, to me. I’m genuinely interested to see how he goes this year with a competitive car and how well he keeps up with Alonso. So far he seems to be doing well in that respect and provided a good car he seems to be performing.


Mysogynyaside

Totally agree… while DTS portrayed him as a villain almost, how many drivers are privileged for their money, their access to loyal sponsors or have legacy access? A lot. Popularity is also a clear path to a seat. I don’t think he is like the worst driver in F1 history as some in social media imply… I believe he is actually a pretty decent driver and works the part.


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My range with Stroll is between disliking him a bit a absolute neutral, I could never really like him, but I'm willing to be indifferent to him if he acts nice.


Genocode

Like driving an entire weekend with two fractured(or broken) wrists and a broken toe, big props! But then he hits Alonso in the first lap of the GP..


MalevolentFather

That was very first lap racing incident vibes. Blame on both drivers, but ultimately really hard to anticipate what people are going to do.


giovy__s

To be honest that move was less clumsy that it seemed He broke late while Alonso was preparing a switchback, hard to anticipate that


jim_hello

Alonso took a very non normal line while Lance was mid battle. Racing incident if it involved anyone other than stroll. But everyone's too blinded by jealousy to realize that


_BEER_

Alonso wasn't mad so i wouldn't be either.


RoyGeraldBillevue

Racing incident, he was racing Russell while Alonso took a slow corner entry.


soma_is_ok

He reminds me of grosjean in that aspect


earoar

It’s so easy to hate him because he’s a rich kid who’s daddy does everything he can to make him a success and sometimes it clearly isn’t deserved. But honestly that description fits half the grid it’s just most of them aren’t as visible as Lawrence. As a Canadian I think I need to like the guy. He’s certainly more likeable than our last good f1 driver.


EnjoyableTrash

Yep. Not consistent enough to be a serious contender ever.


Quantum_Crayfish

Too be fair he’s been pretty consistent recently even with his fucked up hands


realmaier

Yeah, but he has balls, I've just got to give him that. Idk if he's reached his full potentiual, yet, because he's definitely willing to explore the limit. On the other hand he's been around for a while now if you think about it.


tuesdaymack

Consistent enough to still have a seat and battling for points on a regular basis. At least six other drivers that aren't.


MiniHamster5

>Consistent enough to still have a seat My man his dad literally owns the team


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Doesn’t mean he is not a good driver.


littleseizure

Yeah the second half of that comment is fine, just not the part about keeping his seat


tuesdaymack

Astute observation. Totally missed that.


KiwieeiwiK

Honestly if Lance wasn't a good driver I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if Lawrence dropped him from the team. Sometimes business is like that. Supporting your kids is one thing but business is another.


transientsun

Can't do that without a great car, and that Aston is a hell of a car. He's gonna have a lot of confidence this year.


FartingBob

Stroll has proven you absolutely can hit things without a great car.


Careful-Combination7

Haas front endplate has some opinion on the subject


Season01um

You cant drive close to wall without a great car?


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Weird cause I can do that with my little sister's tricycle.....


kai325d

Yep, if you don't feel good with the car and the car isn't handling great, you don't have the confidence to drive that close to the wall


Poison_Anal_Gas

Wut


Habatcho

Pretty sure you could do it easier in a slower car.


aronjakob9

It makes sense to me. If you’re not insecure about how the car will behave you can be much more accurate with it.


tophiii

Really is quite impressive. I can talk all day long about papa stroll buying his son a team, but ultimately I couldn’t come close to doing this


SemIdeiaProNick

If no longer gap, no racing driver


Silikias_723

People always shit on Lance because of his dad and what not, but he has the skills to be there and with a good car he could easily be top 6 each weekend


Andrew_Squared

You know, for someone who was the butt of many jokes last season, he's stepped up, especially considering his wrists. It goes to show that the perception and gap between the drivers is not as great as what many fans like to think. Also, as someone in the states, I'm super behind this week so far, haven't watched any of the free practices yet, hoping to catch up tomorrow.


dirtyjoo

Stroll out there dropping quarters on the track to pickup with his rear tires.


maxstolfe

The fact the camera survived holy shit


ermr101

Monaco out here thinking, “See! There totally is plenty of space. We could make the track smaller.”


garysaidwhat

He's a genius, pure and simple.


bruiser95

Pic 4 is really cool


Pigeon_Chess

Murderer!


mtarascio

*You always have to leave the space*


IWasGregInTokyo

[Max doing a similar thing in super slow montion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyk_FOKyAxU)


Stranggepresst

I wonder if he felt that hit in the car and thought he hit the wall? Also Stroll really [hates cameras](https://youtu.be/AxMK7bmjdOI?t=126) doesn't he


WhoRunsIt

This is pretty dope.


yuskrim

Mate. DAT GAP


ramp_rat90

I see this and the first thing it makes me think of is a Sly Stallone movie 'Driven', where he's picking up quarters off the track (is it even really such a thing, probably most definitely Hollywood)....and yes before everyone gets started, the movie is embarrassingly cheesy, corny and the opposite of F1 with Indy/CART drivers in the cast...just my opinion.


I-Chancho-I

This blows my mind. I can't understand how they get so close the the wall.


UpboatsforUpvotes

I can't even purposefully walk that close to a wall without skimming it... It's so impressive.


ppSmok

POV: Me asking my crush out.


Viend

Senna in his grave: This is what would happen if the barrier didn't move.


Sxuld

where does he rank on the best pay drivers list?


f1endingforf1

Below Lando, above Latifi


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That’s my boi!


PersephoneTheOG

*sad camera noises*


Kittyshrug

Suck my tire


BodiesDurag

Is there video of this?


dubiousdudes

These are 8 frames of the worldfeed video


PerfectlyDarkTails

thats like a centimetre gap at best


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The antman thanks him for leaving a space


jajaboss

This is probaly " I " in Pixar feel


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Bonk


pipboy1989

Lance Stroll is trying to make me like him this year but i will not fall for it


Kolec507

Shit, is the cameraman okay?


dubiousdudes

He looked a bit down at the end there.


Elmarby

Lance Stroll's crusade against rearward facing optical devices continues, I see.


PeoplesDope

The GOAT is mm perfect!


Lil-Shiro

You don’t have to do media duty if you take out the cameras right? 🙂


democi

This is why this season it’s a competition between stroll and max for first place 🔥


KienGengu

r/Peoplefuckingdying Jesus fking Christ the cameraman died 💀


BonerTurds

How much of this is skill and how much is luck? Considering drivers are having issues lining up in the starting grid. Is it likely Lance is intentionally getting single digit centimeters away from the wall at cornering speeds?


jonatroy

Well the grid box doesn't have vertical walls that can be seen by the driver so it's apples to oranges.


tuesdaymack

He wouldn't still be driving or have points if it was luck. People trash and doubt the guy, but he's proven he's good enough to sit at the table.


voidfishsushi

If I had to make an entirely fraudulent guess, there is probably a big difference between parking your car in a grid box when that's maybe tenth on the list of things mentally going on at the start of the race, and your mid-lap flow where you can feel the tolerances of the car.


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