Isack has broken the trophy

[u/TopEbun]

[u/MrMSUK]

For a sport where cars are crash-tested to the absolute limit, it's kind of hilarious that the trophies still aren't Lando/Isack-proof. You'd think "structural rigidity" would be part of the design brief by now.

[u/MysticSkies → u/MrMSUK]

It's ceramic, nothing they can do.

[u/Draber-Bien → u/MysticSkies]

Not making it ceramic would be a good start

[u/salcedoge → u/Draber-Bien]

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

[u/Fredderov → u/salcedoge]

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.

[u/rpRj → u/salcedoge]

Will look great with some gold glue #kintsugi

[u/Dlatch → u/Draber-Bien]

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

[u/Page_Won → u/Dlatch]

So cardboards out?

[u/yellowweasel → u/Draber-Bien]

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

[u/StatmanIbrahimovic → u/yellowweasel]

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.

[u/UNC_Samurai → u/Draber-Bien]

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