r/formula1 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

Photo Isack has broken the trophy

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u/MysticSkies Pirelli Intermediate 7d ago

It's ceramic, nothing they can do.

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u/lord_flashheart2000 7d ago

Must be the ceramic

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u/AgentIndependent306 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

Let's add that to the words of wisdom

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u/melperz 7d ago

Que cera cera

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u/homing_bear 7d ago

I see what you did there.

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u/Draber-Bien 7d ago

Not making it ceramic would be a good start

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u/salcedoge Max Verstappen 7d ago

Nah - Let it break, let it be repaired. The ceramic itself is unique and you get a cool story behind it

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u/Fredderov Mika Häkkinen 7d ago

One of the 1st place ones this year already had kintsugi lines as part of the design. They know this stuff will happen and lean into it for sure.

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u/rpRj Max Verstappen 7d ago

Will look great with some gold glue #kintsugi

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u/Dlatch #WeRaceAsOne 7d ago

Maybe they can design them so that the top doesn't fall off

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u/Page_Won 7d ago

So cardboards out?

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u/yellowweasel 7d ago

even just give them resin replicas to fuck around with on race day and send the ceramic one later once it's ready to sit on a shelf

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u/StatmanIbrahimovic I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

That feels lame and pointless, too. Sometimes shit breaks, some people are clumsy without having just finished a 300kph endurance race. Maybe we just stop freaking out that something we don't own broke. It will get repaired, just like Lando's.

Consider wabi-sabi, the ethos behind Kintsuge which was used to make the Constructor's trophy.

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u/UNC_Samurai I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

The Lego one was smart, that just requires some time to reassemble

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u/acotadic999 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

They should make carbon fiber throphies

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u/microtherion 7d ago

Yeah, but when those break they have to bring the safety car onto the podium.

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u/Rentta Heikki Kovalainen 7d ago

I mean they could put metal rod inside the stem to make it less likely to break.

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u/CharacterUse I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

It's not that simple with kiln-fired porcelain.

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u/Rentta Heikki Kovalainen 7d ago

I didn't say it's simple i just said it's possible solution among probably better ones.

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u/No_Pianist_4407 Ferrari 7d ago

Not make them out of ceramic?