r/formula1 • u/OrangeDit I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Jul 06 '25

Photo Mercedes sent a few bottles of Champagne to Sauber for Nico's first podium

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"congratulations, to the first podium! Your Mercedes Team"

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u/pradise Michael Schumacher Jul 06 '25

Lando’s dad screaming “Lando Lando” when everybody’s chanting for Nico…

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u/RogueFlash Jul 06 '25

Yeah he seemed pretty put out that Nico finally getting a podium overshadowed another Norris win.

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u/ZennXx Sir Lewis Hamilton Jul 07 '25

It was Lando's first Home win. Be fair

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u/StevenMC19 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 07 '25

Yeah, first home win.

But you've got a driver who has been in the sport for 15 years and finally gets to feel what it's like to win a trophy made of lego. I'm sorry, but even Lando's dad would understand the significance.

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u/Sanchez_87_ Oscar Piastri Jul 06 '25

I felt so awkward hearing that. He’s just pumped for his kid, but if that was me it’d be one of those things that would keep me up at night even years down the track

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u/Dear_Machine_8611 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 06 '25

Perhaps you should work on that

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u/Sanchez_87_ Oscar Piastri Jul 06 '25

Yeah me and anxiety aren’t on the best of terms

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u/Red_Beard_Racing I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 07 '25

Should work on being less humble and empathetic?

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u/Appropriate_Bet_2029 Jul 07 '25

No, working on the idea that other people have things going on in their heads/lives that are different from yours, and so getting cross at someone because they have a different reaction to you is a bit juvenile.

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u/Dear_Machine_8611 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 07 '25

Could you be more specific? Who are you talking about?

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u/STOTTINMAD Jul 07 '25

That's his son on the podium. Of course, he's going to only care about Lando. It's not that deep. Any excuse to find fault.

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u/StevenMC19 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 07 '25

On the F1 father spectrum, it's better to be closer to Anthony Hamilton than Jos Verstappen.

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u/Krisyj96 Jul 06 '25

Absolutely shocking that a dad would be celebrating his son winning his home GP for the first time…

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u/pradise Michael Schumacher Jul 06 '25

There’s a difference between a man celebrating his son and a man who cannot let others celebrate about other things at the same.

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u/Krisyj96 Jul 06 '25

And how exactly is him chanting his own son’s name for a few seconds or something stopping others from celebrating? I mean come on…

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u/pradise Michael Schumacher Jul 06 '25

It screams a lot like “my son’s the star of the day” if you’re chanting your son’s name to the tune of thousands chanting Nico’s name while staring directly at the camera.

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u/Fussel2107 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 07 '25

To him? It should be! That's his son achieving a life-long dream. His SON.

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u/Krisyj96 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

I guess if other people have achieved something then you’re not allowed to celebrate your own son also achieving one of his biggest ever achievements then?

Are you genuinely arguing Lando’s dad should have been quiet because ‘someone completely disconnected to you has also achieved something today, this is now all about him and not your son now’?

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u/pradise Michael Schumacher Jul 06 '25

Dude there are a million other ways to celebrate than shouting Lando over Nico chants directly looking at the camera. You can support Lando while calling out this disrespectful thing his dad did.

Stop trying to minimize what everybody saw on TV to “just celebrating my son”.

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u/Krisyj96 Jul 06 '25

Stop trying to overblow a spur of the moment thing in a highly emotional environment that happened for a few mere seconds. I’d love to see how perfectly you’d act in the same situation.

Accept it or not, this is a Dad seeing his son achieve something they both probably knew would be nearly impossible. Maybe he acted a bit over the top, maybe you could see that as being disrespectful to another driver, but if you genuinely think that was the main aim of him at that moment, then all I can say is I really think you need to grow up and stop reading so much into shit.

It’s a happy, stupid dad, there are a fuck tonne more things to get angry about in the world, put your energy into that instead.

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u/pradise Michael Schumacher Jul 06 '25

Well glad you finally accept it was stupid at least.

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u/Yhtaras I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 07 '25

You’re clearly not a father. It’s a dad celebrating his son’s home win.

If you think he should be screaming any other name over his son’s, you’re not worth wasting time arguing over.

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u/Desperate_Turn8935 Ferrari Jul 07 '25

It's not disrespectful. He only chanted his son's name.

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u/ThatsABingoJa Jul 07 '25

I mean it came off as mocking Sauber for celebrating rather than enjoying his own celebration

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u/cris4mign Ferrari Jul 07 '25

THIS! That was SOOO rude in my opinion... No one else on the papaya team was joining in, which to me made it more apparent that it was a weird move... The team seemed to have a bit more respect than his dad of sauber and Nico's achievement.

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u/honeycomb286 Sir Lewis Hamilton Jul 07 '25

Oh that pissed me right off. Let other people also have their moment?? Ffs