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suffering over sports and rewatching old tv faves

[rita @redclerc]

a forma como constantemente os rumores sobre o próximo treinador do united começam no nível megalómano, caem para respeitável e acabam no hilariante

[B24 @B24PT]

Carrick foi despedido e Mauricio Pochettino será o novo treinador do Man United.

[rita @redclerc]

@BenBarnigoat @NotFifthGear i just have a different perspective on these last years tbh but i'd love to be wrong about where it's going

[rita @redclerc]

i'm getting quite tired of explaining the same thing over and over again so i'll just do it on the post that gained the most traction and ignore everyone else trying to act like there's no reason to be skeptic about this. when i say downgrade, my point isn't about dtm's validity

[Fifth Gear @NotFifthGear]

DTM is not a downgrade! I would love to see Doriane try out a season there against the world's finest GT drivers.

It's quite different from the other sportscar racing series, but it's definitely not worse than racing in LMP2s with a bronze driver in the lineup

[rita @redclerc]

@BenBarnigoat @NotFifthGear the iron dames collapsing doesn't mean i can't wish merc handled her more thoughtfully

[rita @redclerc]

@NotFifthGear looking at how merc has managed her since 2023

[rita @redclerc]

@NotFifthGear i was never pro her doing f1a in the first place so if the jump had been f1a into dtm then i'd agree she was getting back on the right track. that it was lmp2 one year and then off endurance racing again into dtm to me is just another here damn with no concrete plan. to ME,

[rita @redclerc]

detour in four years a downgrade

[rita @redclerc]

someone who rates her and has seen the complete lack of long term planning for her career since f1a isn't thrilled about this move and the complete lack of year to year consistency or progress across the same type of motorsport, or that that someone would consider the fourth

[rita @redclerc]

@alejandrogil017 @Norek_Inter sure. or maybe i've been looking at mercedes having no idea what they actually wanna do with her career wise for four years. if this actually leads to a step up, great, i truly don't know how the fuck it's so hard to get why i find that hard to believe given the context

[rita @redclerc]

if mercedes is really downgrading pin from lmp2 in elms to gt in dtm after she just had a very good season competing for the title, conversations must again be had about how much merc, toto and susie have pinkwashed off her name only to progressively regress her career each year

[rita @redclerc]

@mickeyychec0 it's not about going into gt3, it's about going into gt3 in a sprint series and this being the second time she's exiting endurance championships with the vague goal of getting back into that same championship

[rita @redclerc]

suddenly everyone wants to pretend gettting out of a prototype and back into a gt car is better if the goal is to get into a hypercar wec seat. sure man 👍🏻

[rita @redclerc]

if mercedes is really downgrading pin from lmp2 in elms to gt in dtm after she just had a very good season competing for the title, conversations must again be had about how much merc, toto and susie have pinkwashed off her name only to progressively regress her career each year

[rita @redclerc]

@Norek_Inter @alejandrogil017 look, i'd love for that to happen. however, if you can look at pin's career trajectory since getting into f1a and sincerely tell me you believe there's a plan for that then idk what to tell you

[rita @redclerc]

@JustJoshingF1 @NotBrandonBrown reason to believe that's likely given how things have gone going on four years now

[rita @redclerc]

@JustJoshingF1 @NotBrandonBrown they advertised a fucking one off gt test for maya as a prize and you think they wouldn't advertise a full time seat? i'm also quite tired of thinking about everything as an opportunity when those opportunities keep fizzling out. i'd love to be wrong but i actually have no

[rita @redclerc]

@JustJoshingF1 @NotBrandonBrown sport, i think i'm still allowed to find that fucking annoying when it fucks with the careers of good talents

[rita @redclerc]

@JustJoshingF1 @NotBrandonBrown for like the third time in this conversation, being aware of the budget constraints she's under does not mean i cannot be frustrated by the complete lack of upwards mobility for years now for a driver i consider to have a huge amount of potential. i'm aware it's a rich people's

[rita @redclerc]

@JustJoshingF1 @NotBrandonBrown whose career in motorsport is handicapped by lack of sponsor funds

[rita @redclerc]

@JustJoshingF1 @NotBrandonBrown 1) there was no prize money, no series is just not advertising what their prize money is if it exists. 2) i'm aware she has no money and that the iron dames and prema are dead, i'm still allowed to be frustrated by the career trajectory regardless as i am for any talented driver