#MotoGP related stuff

[batsplat]

hello i saw in your tags that you don't think people on here get casey stoner and as someone relatively new into the sport i would love to hear your thoughts <3

(context here) okay first of all, this post will be framed as ‘things I wish people talked about more with regards to casey stoner’, rather than arguing against what I think people think

I've tried to come up with a concise response to this ask but kept heading into thesis-length territory. so I decided to write a bullet point list and it’s still… yeah… but well it could be worse. if you, dear anon, wish to read thousands of words of casey stoner lore then please let me know. otherwise, here are just a few things I find interesting about this bloke:

casey has a very complex relationship with the concept of confidence, both in other riders and himself, in the sense that he KNOWS how important it is but also believes/wishes that he specifically is kinda above all that

this feeds into how he wishes that racing were Just Racing and not all this other stuff… not his brain not his body not other racers being assholes on/off track not talking to journalists or doing photoshoots not having to deal with politics etc etc - central underlying tension of his career

he has openly spoken about not ever really enjoying race day, saying the only thing he's missed after retiring is qualifying. very perfectionist, the anxiety, the over-thinking, craving control… all key casey traits

(which also ties in with the valentino rivalry, because valentino obviously adores racing (in particular wheel-to-wheel battle) but he’s also great at all that other off-track stuff)

some very rigid ideas of How The Sport Should Look, which you can see in everything from how he talks about racing standards to the introduction of CRT riders (he had it OUT for them, head hot every time aleix espargaro shows up in parc fermé) to valentino’s influence on ducati and the importance of the colour red

let him have his mean streak! the grim satisfaction in discussing jorge’s 2008 injuries after his early-season arrogance towards casey, the dismissiveness towards dani, some of the wilder valentino remarks (this isn’t a criticism to be clear, alien-on-alien violence is part of the natural order of things)

casey is a classic case of ‘just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t after you’. definitely a suspicious guy and perpetual underdog 'me against the world' mindset. not to get too psychoanalytic-y, but I reckon this was partly born out of how he had to leave australia as a teenager (with his family completely dependent on him succeeding) because of how the racing establishment down under fucked him over

they definitely were out to get him a lot of the time, cf yamaha and then ducati drama plus the slander from some of the greats of the sport, fellow riders, the media etc etc (particularly egregious in 2009 when he was dealing with his mystery illness and a lot of people said some pretty unpleasant stuff in his absence - here is just one example)

his struggles were constantly downplayed. the chronic fatigue misdiagnosed as lactose intolerance led to people calling him weak-minded, broken, running away from the sport (part of why he was so allergic to the idea his results might in any way be connected to what was going on in his head). add in the undiagnosed anxiety and you have all this invisible strife people wouldn't even take seriously

that being said, he definitely did have a propensity for jumping to the worst possible conclusions

two specific examples: firstly from his autobiography, where he makes the claim that valentino may have been sabotaged in the 2006 title decider and was deliberately given a rubbish tyre to make him lose the championship - to which casey’s response was: “welcome to my world, mate”. he does have a tendency to believe he’s being sabotaged, and is constantly on the look out for conspiracies even when they are… unlikely

the other example is mat oxley talking about his issues with casey in his stint working for ducati, partly based on a misunderstanding:

something allegedly written about him in 2001!

let’s just say he can definitely hold a grudge

the moaner stoner stuff was definitely nasty, calling him mopey and whiny and all of that, but he also has never shied away from some good old-fashioned complaining (some of this was a bit of a spiral - complaining for good reason worsening public perception of him leading to more reasons to complain)

see also the lingering marc grudge, who probably did play a significant part in getting casey kicked out of honda (as casey has accused him of). whether marquez prevented stoner from racing in 2015 is more of an open question. casey still speaks about how honda made a mistake by only listening to marc (which, again, does have some truth to it)

casey was always very quick to shut down the idea that momentum, motivation, confidence etc could affect his results (unlike that of his competitors) because he argues he was always very rational & clear-sighted about when things were his fault & when things could be blamed on the bike + extraneous factors. he really goes into detail about this when discussing 2008 laguna seca in his autobiography, which he argues had no effect on him psychologically (but was followed by him crashing out of the lead of the next two races)

has definitely spoken more about his rivalry with valentino than valentino has, which probably has also helped shape perception of it over time

on ‘ambition outweighed talent’ - I feel like people almost understate just what a (hilariously) out of pocket remark it was in context. it was rossi’s second ever race at ducati (and the start of his season was impacted by his shoulder issues) - and the rain meant he had a ~win it or bin it~ approach because he knew it was as good a chance as he might get for some time (despite starting from 12th). the move on stoner for second place was at best optimistic, most definitely impatient and at worst foolish - but sort of understandable in that situation, rossi was definitely rapid, and this stuff can happen in the wet. in that sense, it was obviously more a reaction to the manner of the apology (and his frustration with the stewards) than to what casey himself described as a racing incident

stoner made a remark in his autobiography about how rossi had stolen 25 points in a title battle he was never going to be a part of (oof). whether you're obligated to race title contenders differently is already a bit sketch but certainly should not be a consideration for anybody in round TWO

he was forced to publicly retract the remarks, though he doubled down on them to a deeply funny extent in his autobiography by suggesting they were true of valentino’s entire career and that he’d just benefited from a weak era. rossi mostly took it on the chin especially when interviewed about it for documentaries, probably because with something like that you do just need to take the L

it's understandable how it’s become such a defining image of their rivalry (along with laguna seca), not least because of how evocative the whole thing is - rossi showing up still wearing his helmet, trying to make a PR apology stick while he’s been eating nauseating amounts of humble pie at ducati; stoner casual as you like, pissed off about the points loss while still indulging in schadenfreude about how the Great Big Ducati Adventure is working out for rossi

but again, I think it’s funnier because of just HOW over the top an insult it was in that situation (and more broadly how it does have a different vibe to their interactions when they were meaningfully competing, aka 2007-2008)

in conclusion: casey has his doubts and his insecurities and his obsessions and his foibles… a complicated guy in his own right

and a big thing I’d like to stress here is that the rivalry with valentino does benefit from treating them both as somewhat unreliable narrators

I just think he's neat

#ty for giving me an excuse to be annoying at length about one of my number one guys!! #casey stoner #valentino rossi #motogp #// #cs27 #vr46 #lotsss of other stuff you can go into here. he gets a bit sanitised sometimes I feel which is kinda a shame #u can be justifiably resentful and still be very resentful. spite is still spiteful when it's deserved. same with the misanthropic streak #being called weak-minded really got to him imo - and the thing is he's clearly not (& good lord did some big names say some nasty things) #the autobiography feels almost an overcorrection and then you've got him recently talking more openly about his mental health #(even if not specifically about how it affected him competitively - which is obviously a related but not identical conversation) #it's an uplifting development in a way and it's nice seeing how much more comfortable in his skin he seems these days #but he is also a little bitch :)

[moonshynecybin]

I just have a question after looking at that picture. What is Marc's body hair removal routine like. Man is always smooth as a baby dolphin. What ARE the rosquez implications of this....

i think he’s just naturally hairless like one of those cats that looks like a penis…. either that or he is getting his entire body waxed literally constantly like a crazy person. anyways does anyone get this joke.

#i DO have thoughts about marc’s relationship with his own hotness. like i think he enjoys being hot and people telling him he’s hot #(ESPECIALLY IN AN EXCERCISE CONTEXT. like he wants you to knowwww he works hard and trains and tell him hes goooddddd PLEASEEEE….) #but i also think it relates to his thing with like. being perceived outside of his control. #like the quote from when he was younger about how he feels uncomfy when people ask him to look sexy makes sense! he has no control over tha #and he’s young! it’s uncomfortable! its weird when people significantly older than you that you dont know ask you to play that role! #but then he gets older starts producing his own stuff controls his own instagram… yeah he enjoys people telling him he’s hot. lol. #ANYWAYS. #motogp #asks #callie speaks #marc marquez

[marquezian]

‘Some PRs won’t be happy until MotoGP is just a corporate event, stripped of its beauty and soul’

(OP Note: Mat Oxley has a new article out about his battle with KTM's PR but its behind a paywall so I grabbed it since it's a great read! here's the original link)

The MotoGP paddock can be a battlefield between PRs and journalists, who have opposing goals. Once again Mat Oxley has a MotoGP PR machine coming after him and this time the fallout is gloriously entertaining

A couple of years ago I had a disagreement with the PR people from a MotoGP team who tried to stop me doing my job.

I wrote a blog about it. Because a journalist’s only power comes from his or her laptop. If we don’t tell these people to back off, pretty soon there’ll be no point in journalists attending races, so you’ll all just have to enjoy the PR releases instead.

Also, these stories offer fans an interesting insight into the weird and occasionally wonderful dynamics of a journalist’s life in the paddock.

Even better, this latest story is hilarious in its craziness. The team’s PR machine started out complaining that I hadn’t used a certain word in my story (even though I had), while banning their engineers from using that word.

Freaking weird.

It seems like PRs like these won’t be happy until MotoGP is no more than a soulless corporate marketing event, stripped of all its joy and beauty, existing purely to sell you stuff, with a bit of motorbike racing on the side. Just like Formula 1.

Most MotoGP PRs do a great job. They arrange interviews and generally help us to write about MotoGP. Back when I started, in the late 1980s, the only way to talk to a rider was to go knocking on his motorhome door. Or his tent.

Now some PRs behave like we’re there to help them do their job (flog product), rather than the other way around. If any PRs are in doubt about this, the clue is in their job title: PR, for press/public relations.

I still love MotoGP for the racing and technology, and I enjoy talking to the world’s greatest riders and engineers, but the layers of PR bullshit grow thicker and stickier each season.

Clashes between journalists and PRs are inevitable, because they have contradicting objectives. Journos want to dig into what’s going on, while a PR’s job is to protect the brand. Truth isn’t their number-one priority.

Like George Orwell wrote, “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations”.

The world’s first PR person was American Edward Bernays, who during World War I was hired by the US government to sell the idea of the country entering the war, when most Americans weren’t keen. He was so successful that he set up the world’s first PR agency after the war.

Among his numerous corporate gigs, Bernays was employed by the US tobacco industry to get women smoking, because at that time few women smoked. He consulted a Freudian psychoanalyst and promoted cigarettes to women as ‘torches of freedom’. This campaign was another big success.

Bernays’ work spawned a global PR industry that now works in every sphere of human endeavour.

Press relations – as Bernays proved – is a psychological game: you tell journalists selective truths, giving them information you want them to have, while hiding information you don’t want them to have. You cultivate friendships with journalists, because if they like you, they just may be nicer to your brand. And you stay friends, even if you hate their guts, because that’s a game.

Also useful is the possession of a vague idea of how journalism works. That’s why some of the best PRs are former journalists, who swapped sides to make more money. “Journalism is more fun,” one journo-turned-PR told me. “But PR is much more lucrative.”

The Red Bull KTM team is one of MotoGP’s best – hugely dedicated, massively hardworking and well looked after by its management. It enjoys possibly the best morale of any factory team. There’s always a buzz in the KTM garage – the mechanics really enjoy what they do and usually give a friendly nod when you walk down pit lane.

Its riders Brad Binder and Jack Miller are great to talk to and its engineers are generous with their time when you want a quick chat behind the garages. And I’ve had some great interviews with motor sport director Pit Beirer, engine designer Kurt Trieb, technical director Sebastian Risse, crew chief Paul Trevathan and others.

I last interviewed Risse (whose nickname in the team, which includes several Sebastians, is Clever Seb) during last November’s Malaysian GP.

The full interview was published on this site a while back, running to more than 2200 words. The print magazines I work for – in Europe, the USA, Australia and Japan – are more restricted on space, so I had just 500 words to cover each manufacturer, including rider and engineer quotes.

If an editor says he or she wants 500 words, you write 500 words, not 499 or 501. Magazine writing has to be tight, with quotes edited for clarity and brevity. I’ve been doing this for more than forty years, so I think I have the general idea.

PRs who try to control me by telling me what to write is like me walking into the KTM garage and telling the mechanics how to tighten the RC16’s brake bolts. I’d rightly get a slap.

And yet a KTM PR thought it a good idea to tell me how to do my job. This PR accused me of making “misquotations” in my magazine story and asked me to contact my editors, so they could make “the necessary corrections to reflect what was said accurately”.

At first, I thought it was a joke because I still have the tapes and transcripts of the interviews.

But I take the attack seriously. KTM asked these magazines to correct my text. I have no contracts with any of the magazines that publish my stuff, so I’m only ever as good as my last story. And why would an editor want to employ a journo who changes quotes to alter their meaning? Because that’s a serious crime in this job.

The attack seemed especially perverse because my story was very complimentary about KTM’s MotoGP project – “It’s a fantastic motorcycle to ride,” said Miller

To make sure I wasn’t being wrongheaded, I forwarded KTM’s email to two renowned MotoGP journalists, who between them have covered the championship for eighty years.

“I can’t understand what the complaints are about,” wrote Michael Scott, the doyen of MotoGP journalists, who started covering GPs in the early 1980s. “It is a journalist’s job to edit comments for brevity and comprehensibility. However, if someone is going to nitpick about exact wording, you either have to adopt the approach of [a former MotoGP journalist] and publish every ‘um’ and ‘er’ and every half-finished sentence and end up with overlong garble, or report in indirect speech, to preserve clarity and ensure brevity. They are nitpicking because they are nits.”

Sounds like a carpet stroller trying justify their existence,” wrote my other colleague, who covered his first GP around the same time. “It’s astounding, just mindless nitpicking. The really baffling thing is that the context of your story is 500 words of positivity about how KTM are tech trendsetters!”

I would’ve published the rest of this email, but it was way too rude.

I even contacted Britain’s National Union of Journalists to ask its opinion. “I can’t see anything that changed the meaning,” replied an NUJ advisor.

So why is KTM so mad at me?

The first complaint concerned my magazine headline and subsequent discussion about the RC16’s carbon-fibre frame.

(Italics denote their words.)

“We note that in the headline you included ‘CARBON’ whereas in the text itself you’ve removed this and kept it to just ‘frame’.”

A quick read of the story – below – reveals that the word ‘carbon’ did indeed appear within the story. Twice. Whatever they’re smoking is making them paranoid and confused. And a bit sleepy too.

Next, KTM complained about this.

“We are convinced that sooner or later everyone will have carbon frames,” says Risse.

This sentence was edited for clarity from the original, “We are convinced that sooner or later everyone will end up on this”. This was Risse’s answer to my eighth consecutive question about the RC16’s carbon-fibre frame, so there was no doubt that “this” referred to carbon frames, so the meaning hasn’t been changed.

Their last complaint concerned this Miller quote…

“We’ve been able to find more grip with the carbon-fibre frame, so the thing I’ve been working on is understanding the front end to carry more corner speed.”

This quote was subbed for clarity and brevity, from 49 words to 28. Cutting text is a major part of a journalist’s job – in fact it often takes longer to edit a story down to the required word count than to write the first draft.

This was Miller’s full quote…

“We’ve been able to find quite a bit more grip with the new chassis, so that’s the biggest thing we were trying to chase and we’ve got some steps coming to keep improving that and trying to understand the front end a bit more, to carry some corner speed.”

Again, both quotes say the same thing: the new frame gives more grip, but we need to find more corner speed.

What the PRs would’ve liked me to write was something like this, to signal each of my edits to the reader…

Risse, “We are convinced that sooner or later everyone will end up on [have] this [carbon-fibre frame technology]”.

And…

Miller, “We’ve been able to find [quite a bit] more grip with the new [carbon-fibre] chassis [sic, the swingarm was already carbon-fibre], so [that’s the biggest thing we were trying to chase and we’ve got some steps coming to keep improving that] and [Ed: what he’s been working on is] trying to understand the front end a bit more, to carry some corner speed.”

There’s a reason you never read quotes like this: because they’re ugly to read, they make the speaker sound ridiculous and they use twice the space, so the story would contain half the information.

This is why I don’t like PR people telling me how to be a journalist.

As already noted, the story praised KTM’s valiant attempts to beat Ducati. Perhaps its PR geniuses would’ve been happier if I’d more accurately reflected KTM’s recent efforts in MotoGP and written this instead…

Despite massive investment from KTM and Red Bull, working with Red Bull Advanced Technologies (arguably the world’s foremost motor sport aerodynamicists), having one of the best riders on the grid and taking some of the key brains from MotoGP dominators Ducati and Öhlins, KTM is the only manufacturer not to have won a single dry-weather grand prix in almost three years, since June 2021. Even Honda and Suzuki have won more dry GPs in that period.’

During the Sepang tests I had a lively, er, conversation with KTM, in the hope they’d realise their accusations were false. The PR doubled down, so I suggested KTM sues me, so we could go to court and let the experts decide. My offer was declined.

When I got home from Sepang I contacted the magazines that had published the story, because KTM wanted them to make corrections, where possible.

And this is when things got really funny.

The first of my editors that contacted KTM’s PRs told them he had reviewed the transcripts and story and saw no need for any corrections. It provoked this response from KTM’s motor sport PR chief.

“To be clear on this – nobody from KTM clarified that the new chassis was a carbon fibre chassis in 2023 and we were surprised and disappointed to read it as a quote from an official KTM spokesperson.”

So that’s it! KTM engineers weren’t allowed to use the term carbon-fibre to describe the RC16’s new frame, even though everyone was talking about it.

Risse and I spent more than three minutes talking specifically about the carbon frame. He went into some detail describing how it improved the bike but couldn’t actually say carbon-fibre.

How wild is that?!

KTM’s PR wonks had gone wonky – they were in a terminal tank-slapper, triggered by diametrically opposing brainwaves.

What I would’ve given to be sat in that PR/marketing meeting…

“Ladies and gentlemen, our genius MotoGP engineers have designed a genius new frame, so our genius marketing plan is to ban our genius engineers from mentioning their genius creation to anyone. Even though everyone already knows about it.”

“Dude, you’re a marketing genius!”

High-fives all round.

I assume that following this great meeting of the minds the KTM PR team gave KTM’s actual chief MotoGP engineer a bollocking for not telling me that the carbon-fibre frame didn’t exist.

Talk about the tail trying to wag the dog.

And now the crowning glory to this comedy wild-goose chase.

A few weeks after my chat with Risse, another journalist interviewed Risse and he did say the word that should not be said. (I wonder if the crack PRs returned to the office of their actual chief engineer to give him another bollocking.)

So, the PR boss was being economical with the truth when he told me that, “nobody from KTM clarified that the new chassis was a carbon fibre chassis in 2023”.

These people have their knickers in such a twist that I wonder how they get out of bed in the morning.

One last thought: a PR’s job isn’t only to establish good relations with journalists, it’s their job to promote MotoGP to a wider audience.

Considering that motorcycle racing is currently the world’s 30th most popular sport (after horse dressage!), I believe these PRs would be better spending their time trying to grow the sport – by getting stories in mainstream magazines and so on – instead of chasing after journalists for petty nothings.

Finally, I’d like to wish Red Bull KTM all the best for the 2024 season. They’re a great bunch of people (mostly) and I’d love to see them winning GPs again.

#motogp #* #*article #i love PR insights its like cocaine to me

[kingofthering]

Carc Primer : come meet the Spanish boyfriends

Marc Marquez, MotoGP rider. Carlos Sainz, F1 driver. Two Spaniards of the same generation who were brought together by various circumstances and who are now very good friends, as demonstrated below.

NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS 2015

Oldest photos of them I could find are from the 17th of November 2015 when they attended the National Sports Awards in Madrid.

HONDA / RED BULL

Marc has spent his whole carreer with Honda. Carlos was a RB junior driver and then drove for Toro Rosso up until 2017. I couldn't find more content than what you have right after (from pre-season 2016, you can see more pictures here).

ESTRELLA GALICIA

The Estrella Galicia 0,0 Youtube channel is a gift. They had Carlos and Marc in the same commercial but separately in July of 2015 (video) and June of 2016 (video).

We can see them on screen at the same time on this video from March of 2017.

In 2018, they shot this beautiful thing.

(gifs source by @rookie-ofthe-year)

In July of 2021, they shot a video for the Artesanos del paddock series of videos.

In November of 2021, they were both involved in some promo stuff for the 5th season of La Casa de Papel. Here you have some backstage thing.

In December of 2022, Estrella Galicia made them visit MEGA (the EG museum) and they looked very boyfriends while doing it (video).

(gifs source by @c2-eh)

They interviewed each other (video in English - video in Spanish). They talked about how Carlos should try a motoGP bike one day (the way Marc says "claro que te gustaria" lives rent free in my mind).

They filmed a "this or that" video that Carlos published for Marc's Birthday (video). It has Marc saying "you guard it [my beer] and I dance" and the two of them challenging each other to a race (we're still waiting).

EG also made them pour beers (video) and we had some intense heart eyes action from Marc.

(gifs source by @c2-eh)

You can find more pictures from that day here, the "then and now" insta reel here. They also did some VR stuff, with Marc inadvertedly grabbing Carlos' hand (pictures & video).

In January of 2023, EG released a commercial for their new 0,0 beer with them (insta reel) and you can see Marc handing the beers to Carlos saying "you're stronger" and after Carlos struggles to understand the mechanism, Marc has to take the beers from him (saying that the guys from motoGP are stronger).

MADRID

In early 2022, Marc (and his brother Alex) moved to Madrid. Carlos helped him, he said : "Since I found out he was coming to live in Madrid, I tried to help him adapt himself and feel as comfortable as possible in my hometown [...] I don't live in Madrid anymore, but I go back there every weekend and try to meet him. We met twice for dinner, I have shown him the gym where I train, he is also training there now, and we have a lot of contact." (article)

They indeed trained together earlier this year, with the following photos from January 2023 (insta post).

During the World Cup, on the 1st of December 2022, they watched the Spain - Japan game together with friends (and made a joint insta post for their selfies).

You can find a group picture of that night here. And now, very important things to witness : Carlos feeding Marc omelet from his fork and playing the plane game with him (video) and the two of them discussing while Marc is seating at Carlos' feet in a very babygirl fashion (video). The scenes are from All In (Marc's Prime Video documentary), you can see Carlos in episode 5.

(gifs source by me)

INSTAGRAM

You can find them in each other's comments (for example here or here). Here you have Carlos filming Marc while he was sleeping in early 2017.

Also, this is Carlos wishing Marc a Happy Birthday in 2021 (here) via EG. And Marc was watching the Bahrain GP (2023) and I'm making it count as Carlos support (photo here).

OTHER

I couldn't find out where this was from but have some leather jacket Carlos.

And then, something that might be EG related but I'm not sure so we're putting it here. An event at the Barcelona Grand Prix in 2019 with Marc's brother and Carlos' dad. More photos here.

In March of 2023, Ignacio Rivera, president of Estrella Galicia, talked about Marc & Carlos in an interview. It’s pretty interesting and I will just highlight one quote (translated to the best of my abilities) :

But it’s sure that the understanding between the two was building while they were participating to events and publicity campaigns together. There, you could see how they supported each other and competively provoked each other. It’s fantastic for us to do sponsor activities with the two because you can immediately perceive their affinity.

FANDOM CONTENT

This is where I do promo for myself and my friends. I've written a couple of fics for them, you can find them on my AO3 (one, two, short stories). @c2-eh also wrote a very beautiful and very hot fic for them and @backwardscapcarlos makes the best moodboards.

I also made a dedicated gifset for them, which you can find here.

We're all obviously looking forward to more content so please join us in the Carc madness.

#marc marquez #carlos sainz #primer #5593 #this is my first primer and i'm sure i've forgotten stuff #i hope this was useful #i'm truly dying for more carc content

[dystini]

Indycar - Social Media

Who, what, where to follow.

Social Media

NTT INDYCAR SERIES YouTube - videos go back 15 years. Twitter Instagram TikTok

Team Penske (Josef Newgarden, Scott McLaughlin, Will Power) YouTube - a mix of all the series Penske runs in. Go look for the Penske Games - they're hilarious. Twitter Instagram TikTok

Andretti Autosport (Colton Herta, Kyle Kirkwood, Romain Grosjean, Devlin DeFrancesco, Marco Andretti) YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok

Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team (Pato O’Ward, Alexander Rossi, Felix Rosenqvist, Tony Kanaan) By far the most active and on-trend of the Indycar teams. YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok

Chip Ganassi Racing (Scott Dixon, Marcus Ericsson, Alex Palou, Marcus Armstrong, Takuma Sato) YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (Graham Rahal, Christian Lundgaard, Jack Harvey, Katherine Legge) YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok

Juncos Hollinger Racing (Callum Ilott, Agustin Canapino) YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok

Ed Carpenter Racing (Rinus Veekay, Ryan Hunter Reay, Ed Carpenter) YouTube N/A Twitter Instagram TikTok N/A

Dale Coyne Racing (David Malukas, Sting Ray Robb) YouTube N/A Twitter Instagram TikTok N/A

AJ Foyt Racing (Santino Ferucci, Benjamin Perdersen) YouTube N/A Twitter Instagram TikTok N/A

Meyer Shank Racing (Helio Castroneves, Simon Pagenaud) YouTube N/A Twitter Instagram TikTok N/A

Indianapolis Motor Speedway YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok

Indy NXT (Indycar Junior series) YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok

Media/other

RACER YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok N/A

Marshall Pruett YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok N/A

INDYCAR on NBC YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok

Nathan Brown (IndyStar) YouTube N/A Twitter Instagram N/A TikTok N/A

Dalton Kellett (former driver) YouTube Twitter Instagram TikTok (tech explanations)

Speed You Later YouTube N/A Twitter Instagram TikTok N/A

TikTok

Misc Caterina Masetti Zannini (Callum Ilott's girlfriend) Behind the scenes and Indycar tech explained, some F1 content. James and Becky Hinchcliffe (hasn't been updated in some time) Honda Performance Development - features all series that use honda engines so you'l have to search for the Indycar stuff.

Drivers Pato O’Ward Conor Daly Callum Ilott Christian Lundgaard Alex Palou

Instagram

Misc PitFit (The gym a lot of drivers use)

Podcasts

Racer's Roots - A deep dive into the history of motorsports and the genealogy of the racers we know and love.

The B1tch Stop is a podcast about motorsport hosted by Charlotte, Almay and Steph: an exasperated sports fan who'd make a better team principle than half the paddock, someone that reads about the aerodynamics of cars for fun, and a woman with a lot of opinions and no driver's licence. Follow for biweekly breakdowns of major race series (including F1, 2 and 3, Formula E, W Series, F1 Academy and IndyCar), the judgement of professional drivers based on their birth chart, and very valid and correct opinions about which drivers would catfish each other.

The Race IndyCar Podcast Race reviews and analysis from the fastest circuit racing in the world. Jack Benyon hosts, ex-Indycar racer JR Hildebrand adds expert knowledge, while a host of special guests bring colour and insight. Join us for the ride!

The Week In IndyCar The Week In Indy Car features one or more guests to weave through the latest news in North America's premier open-wheel series and its related junior formula. Like The Week In Sports Cars show, it's an interactive affair driven by listener questions submitted via social media.

Motorsport101 - covers F1, MotoGP and FE as well as IndyCar

Did I miss anything? Have a podcast to recommend? Send me a message.

#indycar #indycar rpf #fanfic #driver lore

[sainzcentral]

INTRO

★ Personal Pinpoints

Name: Tea

Pronouns: She/He/They (Any!)

Country: USA [ew, I know /lh /hj]

★ F1 Favourites

Favourite Driver: Carlos Sainz Jr. [uh, duh!]

Favourite Teams: Ferrari, Williams, McLaren [I can’t choose just one…]

Favourite Track/Circuit(s): Circuit de Barcelona-Cataluña, Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez

Favourite Friendships: Carlando, Charlos, Maxiel, Simi, Jenson/Mark/Fernando. [idk what they’re called]

★ Miscellaneous Motorsports

I know a little bit about F1 Academy, but I’m not super well versed. I know the names of most of the drivers, but can’t really place them to their teams or programmes that well. Love Susie Wolff (and the rest of their fam) with all my heart.

Same goes for Indycar. There, though, I root for Arrow McLaren because I know and love their team (Alex, Pato, and David). [I MISS FELIX AUGHHH]

MotoGP I want to get more into, I really only know of Marc and Álex Márquez for Gresini.

★ Further Fandoms

I watch a lot of sitcoms and comedy/drama shows, I guess? Here’s some stuff I go crazy over, but will post more about on my main blog. [@doodles-bi-tea]

Ted Lasso

The Bear

Abbott Elementary

Community

Parks and Recreation

The Office

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Grishaverse [although I haven’t read all the books, only watched all of the Netflix show…]

Star Wars

Top Gun

★ Horrendous Hobbies

Um. Some other stuff I do!

Writing [mostly fan fiction or randomly poetic prose, not sure if I’ll write for the drivers since I’ve never done RPF. we’ll see!]

Editing [sorry guys i’m a tiktok editor BAHDHDHDHDH — I also edit writing and occasionally images though, like my header and overall theme]

Drawing [not sure what I’d post on here, I haven’t been doing too much of it recently cause I’m always busy]

Singing [I doubt I’d ever post anything on here though]

★ Etc.

I’d like to think I’m pretty friendly??? Please feel free to interact!! My inbox is usually empty anyways LMAO

Talk to me about all your F1-related stuff. Send in asks, submit posts, etc., I’ll try to answer back asap. If you ask for a little drabble/imagine about any of the drivers (or related people [e.g. WAGs, management, celebrities, etc.]), I’ll do my best to write a little something for you!

#introduction #intro post #me #f1 #formula one #favourite drivers #favourite driver #favourite team #favourite teams #favourite track #favourite tracks #about me #about blog #f1 fanfic #f1 x reader #formula 1 #nyoom…

[raulfernandez]

13., 42., 48., 67. and 83. for the "100 questions to invade my personal life" 🧡

Tysm haha these were fun!!

13. Name a list of shows that have changed your life.

Sk8 the infinity, Top Gun (both parts), When Marnie was there (movies lol but anyways)

42. Favourite song right now?

'Raise y_our glass' by Yunjin

48. Are you good at giving advice?

I hope I am but I'm pretty impulsive so probably not whoops

67. Which tv character do you relate to most?

Reki Kyan my beloved

83. How would you spend a billion dollars?

Going to every single race in the Motogp calendar and getting like the fancy experience packages with all the fun stuff + buy all the merch I want (+ I think that's enough money to take all of you with me lol)

#ask games

[waru-chan8]

🔢 - 🎬 - ❤️‍🔥(current and past) for the motogp ask game 💗

Thank you so much Mira 💜💜💜💜

🔢 what would be your racing number? That's an easy one! It will be 08 because it's my favourite number. And if I can't that one, then a number that finishes in 8 with the exception of 88 (for some reason I'm not fan of double 8).

🎬 any motogp related media you would recommend? MotoGP unlimited and Hitting the apex. And for those Spanish speakers, whatever DAZN does or gets his hands on.

There's Ángel Nieto el hombre que vencio al tiempo that' is a documental about Ángel Nieto told by his family, friends and rivals and helps you understand why Spain is so important in motorcycling and why is it like it is today.

I also love 12+1 títulos en la mesa, where DAZN put together several world champions and let them talk. We have at least 3 different generations in there al let you see how it much racing changed over the years.

And then there' Cuatro Tiempos (my beloved) that is basically a 2 hour long Pedrenzo story (mostly) just 4 MotoGP legends talking and comparing racing between them and currently and how they see the future. It's fun to watch and the talk about diferent stuff like nutrition, how they got into racing, rivalries, rituals and stuff they did when racing... I haven't gone through DAZN's whole catalogue but what I saw already is amazing, so if anyone of you can get your hands on them, please watch them

❤️‍🔥 favorite rivalry? Past? It's that even a question? Pedrezo 100% The raw emotion and the tension And currently? Fermín Aldeguer vs track limits it's just... No seriously? In MotoGP they are pretty boring and tamed, and mostly done by the press, so my favourite one is actually a Moto2 rivalry. It's Pedro Acosta vs Alonso and Aldeguer. I swear Pedro is pretty bitchy about the SpeedUp guys and taking notes and making snarky remarks here and there.. basically he is 2 seconds away from punching them (or screwing with them). It's a time bomb ready to go off.

#Ask #Ask game #Mira's tag #MotoGP #MotoGP unlimited #Hitting the Apex #DAZN Spain #Ángel Nieto el hombre que venció al tiempo #12+1 títulos en la mesa #Cuatro Tiempos #Dani Pedrosa #Jorge Lorenzo #Pedrenzo #Pedro Acosta #Fermín Aldeguer #Alonso López #The parallels between Pedrenzo an Acosta-Aldeguer are there and I'm dying to explore them

[callmecams26]

🗺, 🫂, ❤️‍🔥, 🔢, 🃏 and 🧨

Hey Waru! Thank you sm for this ask <33 I appreciate it.

🗺 favorite circuit?

I have a couple, but the ones I always enjoy watching races on the most are probably Mugello (everyone loves Mugello), Twin Ring Motegi, and provably Jerez. I love these circuits so so much, I’m ngl. I love that they have to go under like a lil bridge or whatever at Motegi, and I love the whole atmosphere at Jerez.

I’ll say this, too. I LOVED Laguna Seca and Brno, as well as Indianapolis speedway circuit. I think I just hang onto the good old days a bit too much, but MotoGP felt like peak MotoGP when they raced at these. There was just something about them.

🫂 favorite teammate pairing?

AHHHH you know I have to go with Rossi and Lorenzo! That’s truly Yamaha for me (as a Yamaha fan). Their history just goes way back, and for some reason, their relationship was so special in some kind of way. I remember always feeling confused watching races, because Nick Harris would sometimes mention how Rossi and Lorenzo didn’t like each other, and this and that, but I always thought their relation couldn’t be described that way exactly.

Because like, Lorenzo and Rossi had their moments. They had arguments, they fought (MISANO 2016), and they had their spats. Rossi was always a bit targeting toward Lorenzo, especially his pre-Ducati days, around 2008-2010 (I’m thinking about that wall and the fact that Rossi tried getting Lorenzo booted from Yamaha). But at the same time, they were also always friendly at press conferences. Like they would make small jokes, or they would laugh a bit. It was never really “they don’t like each other”, bc it never felt that simple to me.

(SORRY their story is just so amazing, I love them, I’m rambling)

❤️‍🔥 favorite rivalry?

Already answered this one in detail, but it’s Dani and Lorenzo, or Marc and Valentino.

🔢 what would be your racing number?

My favorite and lucky number is 7, so I’d probably go with that. Perhaps do a little Dovizioso and make it 07, which would also remind people of James Bond tee hee🤭🤭

🃏 a rider who is underrated, in your opinion?

Hmm, I feel like all the talented ones are somewhat popular. I don’t really have a good feeling on who is underrated or rated correctly, yk? Because I have no idea if someone is loved by everyone or loved by some. I’m itching after saying Lorenzo just bc people tend to dislike him, but dw I’ll shut myself up, or we’ll be here all day.

Maybe Brad Binder? I know people like him, as I was in Spielberg and saw the KTM fans, but I also don’t see THAT much love and appreciation for him anywhere. Like I haven’t met someone who has him as their ultimate favorite. He’s super talented though, a good rider. He has potential.

🧨 a rider who you didn't like at first but they grew on you?

I already answered this on another ask, but I’ll say it here since I didn’t put much detail into it before. Aleix and Pol Espargaro rubbed me the wrong Fucking way when I first watched interviews with them and stuff. I thought Aleix talked about shit that didn’t concern him, and added himself into drama instead of keeping his nose to himself. He was also harsh with his words, I feel like. Never careful, very much old school MotoGP, which I normally would’ve liked, cus I miss those days, but not when he’s bashing my faves :((

Either way, the mf grew on me, because he isn’t as bad as I thought. He’s just really passionate about this sport, and he seems like a good person. I rooted for him at Catalunya, I really did.

And Pol. He had too much hope for his time on the Honda, and he mentioned somewhere in an interview that he “hoped” he could “do better than Pedrosa and Lorenzo” which annoyed me, bc thinking you’ll be better than Dani at Honda Repsol?? Brother gotta be dreaming. I just clowned him for it for a while, the same way I clown Mir for saying he’ll “make Honda win again” HAHAAAAAA KEEP DREAMING MY GUY

#thank you for the ask #dani pedrosa #jorge lorenzo #valentino rossi #Marc Marquez #motogp

[collectmytears]

Don’t even watch/follow it but I enjoy the motogp content on my dash more than all the f1 related stuff 💀

#g talks #maybe I will finally get into motogp

[moonshynecybin]

other than rosquez and bezz and cele who comples u the most from the current (or past) grid?

okay so i am truly a baby motogp fan so im still feeling it out but!!

im interested in the pedrenzo lore but dont know enough about it! i just enjoy when men hate each other comma weirdly. so someone evangelize me about it

but the bulk of my braincrazy this weeks has been regarding casey stoner. he compels me sooo much i love a hater. more detailed under the cut but i get personal~ so read at your own risk i guess

actually so. hmm. VULNERABILITY ALERT: the thing is. i do somewhat. relate to casey in lots of ways. like looking at a person like marc marquez its easy to call him crazy (and even easy to call less reckless riders crazy) because its a very dangerous sport with lots of injuries but i do kind of get it. because i know a LOT of people like marc and the other riders. like my entire family is like that lol. family motto is "but did you die?" and like sometimes its close!! adrenaline junkies allllll of them

basically! i was heavily involved in a very niche extreme sport (whitewater kayaking) from a young age bc my parents (and brother) were/are very very good kayakers. some of the best in the world for a bit there. like for context: i know multiple olympians and did a few clinics with people who are now olympians when i was a kid/young teen before i quit. and my dad really wanted me to be an elite kayaker bc i was a little better than my brother. not as intense as some dad/coaches but its like. hard to articulate how integral to the fabric of our family this sport is. and how many people i know who have drowned/been permanently injured from it and how everyone i know loves the sport despite that, in ways that are really hard to understand from outside of it. like yes they are crazy (and marc is crazy) but if any one of us was away from a river for more than a month at a time we WILL go insane including myself.... theres photos of me being conerningly young in the cockpit of a kayak that i look at now and im like. who let me do that lol.

so its interesting for me to get into motogp with all these kids staring way too young and knowing each other and coming up in the sport and sacrificing their safety at the alter of a death sport they love so, so much because. hey i lived that! people i love still live that! im involved in the industry still! i cant let whitewater go, even if i do a less dangerous version of it now!

but i quit! because i was battling anxiety. which is an already alienating experience but ESPECIALLY when your entire life is dominated by a sport that is exclusively for people with maladaptive adrenaline responses lol. and when i was reading stuff that casey said about his retirement and how he would lie in his motorhome wanting to die before a race and then just. tell himself to suck it up bc he couldnt let people around him down.... well. same! i would literally cry before every kayak clinic or river trip for years until i had enough and fucking quit! and then i grew up, got an anxiety medication prescription, and started doing forms of the sport that didnt rely on me being strapped in to a vehicle under water and freaking out all the time and im generally in a much better place with it. but its kind of an impossible thing to explain to my peers who kayaked as kids who have the OPPOSITE of an anxiety disorder, who are also the only people who have that specific experience as being a kid raised in the sport bc the sport is sooo small. and i imagine casey deals with something similar.

so this has been DISGUSTINGLY vulnerable but its casey. he gets me i get him. we are holding hands

#literally asked my brother for a marc hat for xmas and he said he wouldnt get me anything red bull bc people would think i was sponsored lol #anyways root for evy liebfarth at the 2024 olympics she is going to slay at the kayaking slalom events i know it #asks #callie speaks

[toni-peperoni]

Hiya!!

I'm Toni and I love Sports and writing!

✿You can find me:✿

My ao3: ToniPeperoni

My playlists: Rosquez, Lucalex, Pedrenzo

♡little help on how I tag anything rpf related:♡

The riders ar tagged with their initials+numbers, so Marc Marquez would be mm93 and so on :D

✷I'd love writing asks about...✷

... anything MotoGP

I'm the biggest multishipper ever, so even if the ship isn't that common, I like a good challenge!

... some Formula E stuff

There is few I don't write, so you can ask anything you like :D

✧⁠* Feel free to message me whenever, I love discussing fic ideas and anything fandom *✧

[milfmuller]

Hi :)

I'm Blake (22• he/they)

This is a sideblog for football, specifically the German nt, English nt, Liverpool FC and FC Bayern

Main (F1/MotoGP) : @bbglewis

Tennis : @fedal

My inbox is always open for anyone who wants to talk!

(we do talk about RPF on here, but it is all in good fun and nothing that is intended to be taken seriously)

I follow a tagging system for the sake of organisation, and there are some tags you can blacklist if you feel you don't want to see it: 1. random-non-sport.tag : non sport related stuff 2. fic-talk.tag: again, if it's not something you like 3. hater.tag: i am, at the end of the day, a massive hater and if you don't want to hear it, please skip this one out

Zionists, Ableists, Homophobes, Transphobes, TERFS, Misogynists, Xenophobes, and Racists GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE

(link to the divider)

#blake.talks

[kingofthering]

I’ve said it before but the reblogs/likes ratio in the MotoGP fandom is really heartwarming in the current state of tumblr. I'd say it's usually about 1 to 3 likes for every reblog.

Meanwhile F1 is like, at best 3 likes for every reblog, more easily 4-5 if not more.

#and to say this used to be the norm and even better for every random #i just checked my band of brothers/cut&run/swimming stuff from 2015-2016 and it was pretty much always a 1 for 1 ratio #sometimes more reblogs than likes #but hey it is what it is #to be fair I haven't done a lot of F1 related stuff #and obviously some of my MotoGP stuff don't even reach 10 notes but still #i know people have been making posts about how to use tumblr #this isn't to complain but more to thanks people reblogging my shit #it makes me happy #sure F1 is overall getting more notes but at what cost uh

[theianitor]

So one prompt is clocking in around the 5k-mark (not done), another is at 3k-ish right now (not done). I have missed... 9 days?

Will I finish at all? Yes. This month? ... possibly not. But I shall do my darnedest.

#fic related #writing stuff #I was on such a Martianson bender last night #and then today the MotoGP-boys are back in my head #so it's all a bit of a mess #I write too long #all the f*cking time

[waru-chan8]

Please assign your mutuals a motogp team and teammate and your reasoning :)

Hey anon, thanks for sending this. I'm happy to be included in a mass message.

Daphne (@alex-marquez) is pretty calm, so Suzuki and as for her teammate, I'd go with Franky because they share the same vibe.

Sarah (@robin-frijns) goes to Ducati  because they are a great team as does she.  Her teammate is Pecco, girl show him how to treat a woman.

Elena (@ducaticorse) to Pramac Racing with Jack. Clearly Jack struggles more in Ducati colours, so if he goes to Pramac Elena will follow. I just think that Pramac has done a great work to nurture future talents, and Elena is very talented.

Meli (@alabaeforever) to Esponsorama Racing because they are chaotic as a team, and I think she won't bat her eyelashes about it, plus she'll give them a lot of shit, so win-win situation (or disastrous). As teammate, if I say Fabio, she won't work, so Maverick, so they can simp about Fabio together.

Mira (@canet-tsitsipas.) to Sky VR46 Esponsorama so she can hang with Bezz and teammate I want to say Dovi because he gets the job done, but sadly he's no longer on the grid, so I'm going with Petrucci.

Liza (@shieldmaidenof221b) goes directly to KTM with Brad Binder. She likes Binder and I want to make her happy.

Anna (@eneabastianini23) is going to Tech3 because Herve treats well his riders and he'll help here with their confidence. Enea for the teammate because they deserve it.

Emi (@baellerin) goes to Honda because she has big brains and Honda is in desperate need of them. As teammate I go with Joan Mir because she'll need all the help in the world.

Emma (@marcsmarquez) goes to LCR Honda Castrol with Álex Márquz otherwise she won't be able to properly function as a human. Also, she'll be close to Marc and hang with the bigger Marc simper on earth.

Jyana (@jyanadavega.) to LCR Honda IDEMITSU with Taka, she's a Taka fan, so I don't see any problem.

Isabel (@lexitomarquez) goes to Aprilia because they are surprising us this season. Isabel likes to think out of the box and here answers are mind-blowing, so it fits. His teammate Aleix because I'd like to see the two of them railing each other.

Grace (@checoswin) to Yamaha because at this point racing for them is about passion for racing and faith that the one working bike is yours. You are super passionate about your football team, so I think it fits. As your teammate I go with Savadori because he seems soft and both of you deserve more love.

Ellie (@albertarenas) to Petronas because you need someone to lift you and who takes care of you, and they are supposed to be good at that. Her teammate will be Miguel, it just feels right.

Corey (@francodium) Honda because he does great gif/edits, and we all know what Honda is capable of. As for the teammate, I think Luca because he is very focused on what he does, so they will do well.

I have more mutuals than teams, so I had to be creative. I tried to include as many people as I could. If I forgot someone, I'm sorry, my memory is nearly non-existent.

#Ask #MotoGP related stuff #MotoGPblr #This was tough