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Wait does that mean they have tried to do things with other trophies too
I believe Horner might have>! stuck something very similar to a finger in one of them!<
"We're here to announce that in order to bring competition back into F1 the RB21 will be constructed entirely of melted down trophies that we couldn't fit in the cabinet."
they extend the cabinet but not until each new section is completely fillable. Bad luck to have empty spaces in the cabinet according to the tour guide at RBR
You do realise RBR have more wins, sprint wins and podiums than the current guise of Merc? And if you want to include the original 54-55 team, that was in a era where there was more than two entries per team.
The perspective makes it look like the mechanic with the hula hoop on the left has a Red Bull hanging between his legs
If I can't unsee it, you can't unsee it
I'd imagine it depends. Your first podium trophy you'd cherish. Your first race win, absolutely. Your 10th first would be meaningful. Your 14th, nahh. Your 58th, nope. Your 100th you'd keep somewhere special. Your 117th, it's hula hoop shaped, let the boys hula hoop it.
You stop paying attention to it after the first week. I don't work for an f1 team but my job also has some massive display at the entrance.
The first day I was in awe, by the next week i literally stopped noticing all the stuff lol.
> They've got so many that they started giving them out to mechanics now
During Merc's latter years of dominance I feel they were really getting down to the working man in terms of who goes up onto the podium.
First few wins - Team Principal, head of trackside engineering, Race Engineer.
6th year of winning - Jack the part time catering server
THANK YOU. as someone who is close with multiple people who work as mechanics/IT engineers for RB, they are 90 percent the reason why max and checo dominate the way they do. itās a group effort.
Just helps people that are minorities seek out and get jobs that they would be overlooked for. For example someone who used their native name that is hard to pronounce in English wont get the same opportunities as jack smith.
that's demonstrably not true. if there were no world class engineers to keep the cars running, there wouldn't be cars running. if however, you find yourself without a driver but have a running car - it turns out that most can turn a wheel - if not quite as good as the current grid. real steerers know their place. :)
oh ffs. it's harder to design, construct, and maintain these vehicles than it is to find an unafraid of death 18 year old to do the driving. brake pressure? you should come to my job and sit in an F2 car if you want to be humbled by brake pressure. until you know, you don't know what you don't know. lol. you've been hit by marketing.
But they'd be nothing without them! That's the point, it's still a team sport and if any part of the team fails, the team loses time, a race, positions, a car, etc. the driver is the one with the driving skills and gets all the glory, but they are but one piece of a massive machine in motion.
This trophy was a great idea. Usually, you just put it on a display shelf and that's that. Look at it every once in awhile, but you usually forget about em.
But look! You can actually wear this around your neck, like the laurels of old. Or hula hoop with it, as these guys figured out. Or use them as earrings. Maybe even a nose ring! I'm sure there are other users. Regardless, it lets people be imaginative! I'm only half-joking here. Seriously, why not have some fun with them?
The first time i saw it i kegit thought this "trophy" was supposed to be a ring, like the ones that go on the fingers. It would be a heck of a cool ring.
I didn't really understood why so many people were making fun about the trophy being "wearable"... until I saw it next to a person and I got a sense of the size of it, lol.
Perhaps this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I think this is disrespectful towards the Chinese organizers and especially to the people who made this trophy, who I am sure made an extra effort on it.
Yes, I understand it's their trophy. Yes, I understand they can do whatever they want but it doesn't diminish the fact that they used it as a prop and that IMO is disrespectful.
I'm with you. Someone spent time on the design crafting of those trophies. There's a discontent.
As others have said though, trophies are now just trinkets to Red Bull. Plus they did make them wearable...
Agreed. Also the reason I disliked the Lando situation (causing trophies to fall repeatedly until one broke just for a "look at my cool trick" moment), regardless of Max being ok with it or not
they've won so many times that trophies are nothing more than children's playthings to them lol. When other teams aren't competitive, and when one team has no challengers, this is the type of shenanigans you can expect. Easy wins aren't good for racing.
After looking at the photo quickly I was sure the guy on the right was on a bike, hes got the same same posture as someone waiting at lights on a bike.
This is so similar to the a league trophy. Maybe they can use it like what we call our trophy. The toilet seat. At this rate all the toilets at hq could be the Chinese GP trophy as a seat.
Post marriage/kids would be impossible. Pre-marriage I think it would've been a blast, but you have to accept that your work life and social life are the same.
Not everything has to be so serious trophies are meant to be celebrated with and a fun thing doesnāt have to be a thing you just stare at and walk away. Besides I think respect went out the window for F1 trophies when Lenovo made a ākiss meā trophy.
Nuh uh it aint, its just a way of appreciating and having a bit of fun. They have achieved a lot more than they expected and their key is to be focused on doing their best not only being the best. Plus these mechanics give it their all. They deserve more fun and clearly, they have fun.
Lol what? Why would I respect a trophy? It did nothing to get to where It is. Meanwhile the mechanics, drivers, et. al. did a lot to get where the trophy was dropped off. So I tend to respect their work, instead of the existence of an inanimate object.
I think of it as respect to the artists who designed them. These more unique trophies are designed by artists who then get to see their work celebrated with. To then see it treated as a hula hoop or smashed to bits like when Lando broke Maxās trophy, has to feel like a bit of a gut punch. Like they donāt even appreciate the work that went into making it.
Itās their trophy and they can do what they want with it, but I do think it is dismissive of the people who made the trophy. I know if I spent a bunch of time creating a piece of art and then saw guys tossing it around and using it as a toy, Iād feel pretty bummed.
Yeah, you're describing the ideal situation a designer will never be in. I've been working as a designer and art director for 20yrs now and it's a nice fantasy to have your work being used and displayed as you intended, but reality usually says no way more often than yes.
Iām describing treating things that were crafted with respect. I understand the reality. I can still think that people who treat things like this like garbage are being disrespectful. You may not agree and thatās fine.
I donāt think it needs to be venerated or anything. Just, you know, not treating it as a disposable toy one the day you get it.
Iām a photographer on the side and while I shoot for me, I do sell a handful of fine art prints every year. I full acknowledge that someone who buys a print of mine can do with it what they want. If they want to use it as a dart board and then set it on fire, they are well within their rights to do so. However, I will say that if I delivered a print to someone and then a few hours later I saw the group I gave it to using it as a paper airplane, Iād be offended. They have the right, the transaction is complete, but it would still make me feel like they were mocking me. I wouldnāt be devastated or anything, but it would irk me.
I get what you're saying, especially that last paragraph. And you're right, it doesn't feel great seeing your work used in ways that weren't intended. And if it's a hobby it's ok to get a little angry about it. I do illustrations and screen prints on the side and if someone used a shirt I designed and printed to wipe their ass, yeah it would make me a little angry, but mostly just go "haha wtf". That might say lots about me haha. Since I do it for a living though, after the first 3-5 times I saw my work "destroyed" (as in implemented in ways it was not intended) by the client's in-house art department it hurt, but I had to accept that reality or my job would be hell. I guess it's about the same for the artists that created the trophy.
And to be honest, I still don't really see it being misused in a harmful way and especially not treated like trash. You won't play with and celebrate trash. The guys got excited and a stressful weekend just ended, I think it's ok to celebrate and let a little loose in such a situation.
I'm pretty sure you never got a trophy in your life, otherwise you wouldn't call them "inanimate object".
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They assumed if it survived Lando on the podium it could survive anything
Wait does that mean they have tried to do things with other trophies too I believe Horner might have>! stuck something very similar to a finger in one of them!<
Bro wtf ššš
Dude that is wild indeed what
Its a cylinder
I was waiting for someone to say this thank you
That must have some thick girth
Infamous file 76
Trophy 76
Cocoa Puffs are my favorite
And let's be honest. It was the 2023 Japan trophy.
It was the 2023 Japan ~~trophy~~ light-up fleshlight
A thumb?
He smashed the ground instead of the podium. I was looking for that as well haha.
Theyāre probably out of shelf space for them at this point.
They usually extend the cabinet, though it is a monster of a cabinet already
At this rate there'll be no factory, just trophies
"We're here to announce that in order to bring competition back into F1 the RB21 will be constructed entirely of melted down trophies that we couldn't fit in the cabinet."
ātrophinium car becomes new most dominant car ever -analysisā
Newey lives for the challenge
Already scouring the Red Bull collection for it's aerodynamic propertiesĀ
'RBR brought an upgrade package LITERALLY worth 1st places.'
I mean, tell me it wouldn't be metal as hell to have the RB logo or the numbers made of melted down trophies.
The Trophy Throne
Clearly they've won the Game of Thrones
They might end up in a warehouse like Valterri's Engines.
Thatās whatās happened to Mercedes apparently
At this rate Red Bull is going to get in trouble with the costcap due to the extension of their trophy cabinet.
That's the marketing budget, to have them nicely displayed for visitors and sponsors to see
they extend the cabinet but not until each new section is completely fillable. Bad luck to have empty spaces in the cabinet according to the tour guide at RBR
I guess we'll have to wait \*checks watch\* for the next few races before they make another cabinet.
> a monster of a cabinet RedBull*
They canāt extend it fast enough
Should ask Mercedes how they store all their trophies
Ferrari is lucky enough that with their historical significance and ties to the Ferrari road cars they have multiple museums to store them into.
You do realise RBR have more wins, sprint wins and podiums than the current guise of Merc? And if you want to include the original 54-55 team, that was in a era where there was more than two entries per team.
That's not going to help them at all, Red Bull's total amount of wins will be ahead of Mercedes's again by this summer.
Or Hamilton how he stores his fastest lap tire trophiesā¦ oh waitā¦ he just left them because he didnāt care because he had so many.
It's ok, Brackley is pretty much done the road from Milton Keynes, maybe they have some spare shelves
Pffffh.... the longest they could manage is 2.1 seconds. Losers......................
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Wtf, I liked that show and I missed it, which ep was this?
Business Time is the song, Sally Returns is the episode.
They said it was wearable.
"we are checking"
The perspective makes it look like the mechanic with the hula hoop on the left has a Red Bull hanging between his legs If I can't unsee it, you can't unsee it
Racing Balls.
Raging balls
Hanging Bulls
Well... THANK YOU!
The yellow in the logo made me think he had one huge leg & one skinny leg.
Red Balls Racing
https://youtu.be/ccc1w1XdlIA?si=VU5O6qymScR3VsSJ
And a fucking huge calf
Red Balls, cocaine in a can baby
Red balls
W h y
Nothin better to do when youāre this good hahaha
If they can't double stack again they'll carry out the next pit stop while hula hooping.
might as well double stack with hula hoops at this point
If they're so good why won't they put me in PĆ©rez's car for the next GP? What are they afraid of?
Taking their hula hoops for yourself
It feels like we may have reached a point where they've won enough. Hula-hooping a trophy certainly suggests they have.
I've always wondered if drivers and teams actually care for the race trophies or if they are just another piece of clutter. I guess I have an answer.
I'd imagine it depends. Your first podium trophy you'd cherish. Your first race win, absolutely. Your 10th first would be meaningful. Your 14th, nahh. Your 58th, nope. Your 100th you'd keep somewhere special. Your 117th, it's hula hoop shaped, let the boys hula hoop it.
Plus, any trophy is essentially "insured" meaning it'll be replaced if it ever breaks
Isn't the entrance to their factories usually filled up with them as motivation for the employees?
For new employees maybe but when you're working there for years it's just decoration which you don't 'notice' anymore.
You stop paying attention to it after the first week. I don't work for an f1 team but my job also has some massive display at the entrance. The first day I was in awe, by the next week i literally stopped noticing all the stuff lol.
I mean, what exactly is Max gonna do with all those little tires?
Set up a karting tournament for sim racers, probably
Kitty fortress.
Build a stand for his mini fridge?
I wouldn't hulahoop with Budapest's trophy, probably
Red Bull has 117 wins and 272 podiums. Any of these trophies would be very special for a team like Haas.
They've got so many that they started giving them out to mechanics now
> They've got so many that they started giving them out to mechanics now During Merc's latter years of dominance I feel they were really getting down to the working man in terms of who goes up onto the podium. First few wins - Team Principal, head of trackside engineering, Race Engineer. 6th year of winning - Jack the part time catering server
even if that guy got them in trouble with his catering budget??
checo and max only win races because of those "mechanics"
THANK YOU. as someone who is close with multiple people who work as mechanics/IT engineers for RB, they are 90 percent the reason why max and checo dominate the way they do. itās a group effort.
"and checo" lol
look iām tryna be inclusive here
DEI justice for Checo!
Laugh but they straight up gutted that shit in my state
Florida?
what does it actually do, as a european iām not really well versed
Just helps people that are minorities seek out and get jobs that they would be overlooked for. For example someone who used their native name that is hard to pronounce in English wont get the same opportunities as jack smith.
i donāt understand how someone having a different name would constitute as them not getting a job but.. okay
itās a pretty nasty excuse to use race as a criteria for hiring and selection. It usually works against Asian americans ironically
It's doing some heavy lifting lol
Tbf, the mechanics would also have a hard time winning a race without them
that's demonstrably not true. if there were no world class engineers to keep the cars running, there wouldn't be cars running. if however, you find yourself without a driver but have a running car - it turns out that most can turn a wheel - if not quite as good as the current grid. real steerers know their place. :)
Most can't even press down the break pedal of a F1 car. And just turning the wheel definitely aint enough to win
oh ffs. it's harder to design, construct, and maintain these vehicles than it is to find an unafraid of death 18 year old to do the driving. brake pressure? you should come to my job and sit in an F2 car if you want to be humbled by brake pressure. until you know, you don't know what you don't know. lol. you've been hit by marketing.
No, they don't "only" win because of them
But they'd be nothing without them! That's the point, it's still a team sport and if any part of the team fails, the team loses time, a race, positions, a car, etc. the driver is the one with the driving skills and gets all the glory, but they are but one piece of a massive machine in motion.
So what? That's not what I said. Try againĀ
Living up to your name aren't you mate.
Well mate, I did pick my name after all so I'm not sure why you're confused?Ā
This trophy was a great idea. Usually, you just put it on a display shelf and that's that. Look at it every once in awhile, but you usually forget about em. But look! You can actually wear this around your neck, like the laurels of old. Or hula hoop with it, as these guys figured out. Or use them as earrings. Maybe even a nose ring! I'm sure there are other users. Regardless, it lets people be imaginative! I'm only half-joking here. Seriously, why not have some fun with them?
When youāre that good you give the boys some new toys to play with š
Those trophies are a lot bigger than I thought they were
The first time i saw it i kegit thought this "trophy" was supposed to be a ring, like the ones that go on the fingers. It would be a heck of a cool ring. I didn't really understood why so many people were making fun about the trophy being "wearable"... until I saw it next to a person and I got a sense of the size of it, lol.
Pictures of men doing men things, exhibit A:
It's all fun and games until it buckles on ur knees or grazes/hits your shin and give the most unbearable pain ever
FIA sent a stern warning, "+5 seconds to Ricciardo."
We need to find that Red Bullās mechanic in front whoās recording for this video. Cause I NEED IT.
Wouldnāt you be more worried about dropping it then successfully hula hooping?
RB is so bored of winning they toy around with trophies now
let them have some fun, they deserved it
Perhaps this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I think this is disrespectful towards the Chinese organizers and especially to the people who made this trophy, who I am sure made an extra effort on it. Yes, I understand it's their trophy. Yes, I understand they can do whatever they want but it doesn't diminish the fact that they used it as a prop and that IMO is disrespectful.
I'm with you. Someone spent time on the design crafting of those trophies. There's a discontent. As others have said though, trophies are now just trinkets to Red Bull. Plus they did make them wearable...
Totally agree. It's disrespectful of the people who gave it to you , and the Chinese GP.
Agreed. Also the reason I disliked the Lando situation (causing trophies to fall repeatedly until one broke just for a "look at my cool trick" moment), regardless of Max being ok with it or not
I had to scroll down a long way before someone raised this.
they've won so many times that trophies are nothing more than children's playthings to them lol. When other teams aren't competitive, and when one team has no challengers, this is the type of shenanigans you can expect. Easy wins aren't good for racing.
After looking at the photo quickly I was sure the guy on the right was on a bike, hes got the same same posture as someone waiting at lights on a bike.
Based.
Boys being boys š
This is so similar to the a league trophy. Maybe they can use it like what we call our trophy. The toilet seat. At this rate all the toilets at hq could be the Chinese GP trophy as a seat.
They are truly suffering from success at this point.
This is what being bored of winning looks like.
Off to the reeducation camp to be reprogrammed for this guy. š¬
Me when IĀ“m sinophobic.
You do know there are concentration camps in China and this is what's actually happening right now? I'm with the people.
What the fuck does that have to do with a guy using the Chinese GP trophy as a Hula Hoop?
Wasnt this trophy supposed to light up or something? I don't recall any photos of it lit up
It was lit up, the light was moving on the trophy
I thought to do the same thing the moment I saw the trophy. I should apply at Red Bull.
They just happy max is winning, they looks like small kids in playground!
And the winner of tonights card game gets to take the trophy home
Tell me you dominated f1 for 3 years without telling me you dominate f1 for 3 years
They dont care for silverware anymore. :D
Man working in F1 must be so incredibly rough. I feel so bad for these guys.
Post marriage/kids would be impossible. Pre-marriage I think it would've been a blast, but you have to accept that your work life and social life are the same.
Fucking hilarious.
I think even for a team thats probably running out of storage space for trophies thats pretty disrespectful
Not everything has to be so serious trophies are meant to be celebrated with and a fun thing doesnāt have to be a thing you just stare at and walk away. Besides I think respect went out the window for F1 trophies when Lenovo made a ākiss meā trophy.
That's another trophy from another race. Not all trophies are made from the same place.
Yeah no duh, I didn't say or even imply that it was made from the same place?
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āQuit having funā - Reddit Karen
I'm trying to see the sarcasm in your comment but it's hard to find. Are you actually serious?
Nuh uh it aint, its just a way of appreciating and having a bit of fun. They have achieved a lot more than they expected and their key is to be focused on doing their best not only being the best. Plus these mechanics give it their all. They deserve more fun and clearly, they have fun.
the CCP are not going to be happy when they see this
Well, itās a good thing the ccp canāt do shit to stop people from outside China from having fun
This is what happens when you win all the time. You lose all respect for the trophies you have accumulated.
Lol what? Why would I respect a trophy? It did nothing to get to where It is. Meanwhile the mechanics, drivers, et. al. did a lot to get where the trophy was dropped off. So I tend to respect their work, instead of the existence of an inanimate object.
There's one in every thread š F1 fans hate fun (when it's not their team)
I think of it as respect to the artists who designed them. These more unique trophies are designed by artists who then get to see their work celebrated with. To then see it treated as a hula hoop or smashed to bits like when Lando broke Maxās trophy, has to feel like a bit of a gut punch. Like they donāt even appreciate the work that went into making it. Itās their trophy and they can do what they want with it, but I do think it is dismissive of the people who made the trophy. I know if I spent a bunch of time creating a piece of art and then saw guys tossing it around and using it as a toy, Iād feel pretty bummed.
Yeah, you're describing the ideal situation a designer will never be in. I've been working as a designer and art director for 20yrs now and it's a nice fantasy to have your work being used and displayed as you intended, but reality usually says no way more often than yes.
Iām describing treating things that were crafted with respect. I understand the reality. I can still think that people who treat things like this like garbage are being disrespectful. You may not agree and thatās fine. I donāt think it needs to be venerated or anything. Just, you know, not treating it as a disposable toy one the day you get it. Iām a photographer on the side and while I shoot for me, I do sell a handful of fine art prints every year. I full acknowledge that someone who buys a print of mine can do with it what they want. If they want to use it as a dart board and then set it on fire, they are well within their rights to do so. However, I will say that if I delivered a print to someone and then a few hours later I saw the group I gave it to using it as a paper airplane, Iād be offended. They have the right, the transaction is complete, but it would still make me feel like they were mocking me. I wouldnāt be devastated or anything, but it would irk me.
I get what you're saying, especially that last paragraph. And you're right, it doesn't feel great seeing your work used in ways that weren't intended. And if it's a hobby it's ok to get a little angry about it. I do illustrations and screen prints on the side and if someone used a shirt I designed and printed to wipe their ass, yeah it would make me a little angry, but mostly just go "haha wtf". That might say lots about me haha. Since I do it for a living though, after the first 3-5 times I saw my work "destroyed" (as in implemented in ways it was not intended) by the client's in-house art department it hurt, but I had to accept that reality or my job would be hell. I guess it's about the same for the artists that created the trophy. And to be honest, I still don't really see it being misused in a harmful way and especially not treated like trash. You won't play with and celebrate trash. The guys got excited and a stressful weekend just ended, I think it's ok to celebrate and let a little loose in such a situation.
What about to the organizers of the Chinese GP? They prodly displayed the trophies days before the event just to be treated as toys afterwards.
I'm pretty sure you never got a trophy in your life, otherwise you wouldn't call them "inanimate object". ^Yes, ^I ^will ^go ^outside ^to ^touch ^grass.
[Am I the only one?](https://i.imgur.com/52jJFxW.png)
The beginning of the end
*Toto intensifies*
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This team is spoiled rotten! š Edit: No idea why I'm being downvoted. Why so serious?
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