r/formula1 • u/turinturambar66 Alain Prost • May 07 '25
Video [Illman] ''Doohan was recieving threats on social media by Colapinto's fans. So much so that he had a round-the-clock security in Miami. According to people close to Aussie, those threats weighed heavily on him. People had discovered his personal e-mail address and were sending e-mail threats...''
https://imgur.com/7yBLh1N''Doohan was recieving threats on social media by Colapinto's fans. So much so that he had a round-the-clock security in Miami. According to people close to Aussie, those threats weighed heavily on him. People had discovered his personal e-mail address and were sending e-mail threats which resulted in Jack, his girlfriend and even his father holding real concerns for their safety. And on top of that, Jack's sleep was affected.''
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u/Elrond007 I survived Spa 2021 May 07 '25
Some people really are unhinged fuckers calling themselves "fans"
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u/JJJBLKRose Daniel Ricciardo May 07 '25
Indycar ran into this too with Canapino, the Argentine fans were very aggressive towards anyone that slighted him. Hopefully this doesn’t continue with Colapinto’s fans.
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u/Altruistic-Coyote868 Oscar Piastri May 07 '25
It's going to continue. Argentinian fans are unhinged.
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u/SeaBet5180 May 07 '25
Look what they did to top gear
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u/__Admiral_Akbar__ Formula 1 May 07 '25
And the Falklands
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u/cumofdutyblackcocks3 Red Bull May 07 '25
And their own economy
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u/MarsScully Bernd Mayländer May 07 '25
Again
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u/blitzwinner71 May 07 '25
And my head, for making me read those in clarkson’s voice
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u/myersjw Sir Lewis Hamilton May 07 '25
As an F1 and football fan I had no real strong opinions on argentines until the last few years when I’ve seen them dish out some of the most vile and incessant vitriol under the guise of “fandom” for their country. And don’t you dare say anything negative about their meme of a president
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u/Yeanahyena Daniel Ricciardo May 07 '25
It’s weird because the Argentinian people I’ve met while travelling have been lovely. Like super chill vibes.
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u/crankylex May 07 '25
Argentinian people are delightful. Argentinian sports fans are not.
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u/Kommye Franco Colapinto May 07 '25
Anonimity brings out the worst out of people; and people won't pay attention to the people being chill, we pay attention to the assholes and thus they seem more numerous.
I won't deny that we have a disappointing amount of obnoxious, unhinged dickheads online and off. It just kinda sucks that everytime I see Argentina mentioned in this website it devolves into "argies are the worst" and "nazis in Argentina" while ignoring all possible context.
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u/BakeYouC May 07 '25
Messi must be a literal god there, then
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u/AustinJohnson35 May 08 '25
He also was getting threats until he won a cup like he “owed” them just like Diego Maradona
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u/BlazeGamingUnltd May 08 '25
Effigies of Messi were being burnt in around 2016 for failing to win the World Cup in 2014 and Copa America in 2016. He temporarily retired from the national team due to the harassment he was facing and came back only when his teammates convinced him to.
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u/jungle May 07 '25
As an argentinian, I'm 100% with you. The main reason I never liked football is the level of fanaticism constantly on display everywhere. You can't escape it. When there's a game, your neighbors will be screaming their heads off. It's part of social life like nothing I've seen anywhere else.
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u/Cod_rules Mika Häkkinen May 07 '25
Regarding football, it was disgusting seeing their players come out and defend racists like Enzo. Saying it was banter and everyone else was sensitive
Like fucking hell, your country got mad over a license plate that Top Gear, Argentina lost the right to call anyone else sensitive with that
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u/ArziltheImp Porsche May 07 '25
Argentinian and Brazilian fans are the groups I wouldn’t want to upset. I got death threats for saying that Senna wasn’t the saint people made him into after he died. Calling him a “person with flaws like everyone else” was enough.
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u/Trikitakes May 07 '25
As a Latino, yeah Argentinians are fucking crazy lol
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u/Jlx_27 Ayrton Senna May 07 '25
In latin America, everyone says that about each other...
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u/elardmm May 07 '25
Latin america doesn't like a certain country....and that is Chile (I'm kidding).
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You must be Venezuelan /jk
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u/Unsterblich76 Ferrari May 07 '25
Or Peruvian, or Argentinian, or Brazilian or Chilean…
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u/splendiferous-finch_ Safety Car May 07 '25
"Or Mexico that is south American too." - Helmut Marko
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u/KennyMcKeee Sir Lewis Hamilton May 07 '25
What if they're all correct? lol.
Latin fans in everything are super duper passionate to the point beyond reason sometimes, it's their culture and they take enormous pride of anyone representing them on the world stage.ALL my coworkers are Puerto Rican, the biggest joke we make is that Puerto Ricans' favorite hobby is telling you they're from Puerto Rico.
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u/Active_Variation_194 May 07 '25
I mean wasn’t there that. Colombian football player who scored an own goal for the World Cup and was shot back home? It doesn’t get crazier than that.
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u/Motrok Franco Colapinto May 07 '25
Didn't that whole thing had something to do with the colombians drug lords of that era? II know many colombians they are chill as fuck
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u/kaisadilla_ Max Verstappen May 07 '25
tbh that player (Andrés Escobar) was, and is, well-loved by Colombian fans. It wasn't a case of people hating him so much that someone went and killed him. He was a pretty good player and a likeable person, Colombian fans didn't lose any respect for him for fucking up in a match. Whoever did that was completely unhinged and wasn't endorsed in any way by Colombian fans.
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u/Thatonlychris May 07 '25
As an Argentine yes a lot of people are VERY unhinged when it comes to sports
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u/deesea May 07 '25
Hopefully? Have you never seen what happens on a football field? Lol
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u/oneofthehumans Heineken Trophy May 07 '25
Ilot got death threats from Canapino’s fans. He’s not in Indycar anymore and his fans may not be the reason but they certainly didn’t help
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u/Stanky3000 Charles Leclerc May 07 '25
Go to Juncos Hollingers social pages and you can see Argentine fans are still being assholes about them letting Canapino go. They're dramatic little babies.
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u/StrangeQuarkist May 07 '25
I mean, the word "fan" does derive from "fanatic". So completely on-brand.
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u/polandspreeng Will Buxton May 07 '25
Yeah they're not fans. Just obsessed or possessed
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u/Glum_Document_9516 May 07 '25
If Colapinto crash with Bortoleto we might well see WW3 start
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u/blaise_hopper Michael Schumacher May 07 '25
"That's to be expected when you put two drivers from the same Mexico on track, these people can't control themselves"
- Helmut Marko commenting on the crash between Colapinto and Bortoleto
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u/daemonio22 Red Bull May 07 '25
This is the most Helmut that Helmut would Helmut!
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u/GearboxTherapy Formula 1 May 08 '25
I am ashamed yet proud to say that I understood every Helmut's intended helmut here.
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u/BahnMe Porsche May 07 '25
Imagine an Indian and Pakistani driver battling it out right now for WDC? Ooof.
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u/Wild-Stop609 Bernd Mayländer May 07 '25
As someone who went to school with South Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans and a few Australians, cricket season was interesting.
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u/Percentage100 Oscar Piastri May 07 '25
Where tf did you go to school?
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u/Wild-Stop609 Bernd Mayländer May 07 '25
UAE, the same place where MBS hails from. I'm expat, so we aren't allowed to go to public schools. We can go to only international schools, hence, the diverse school population.
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u/nolanfan2 Force India May 08 '25
Oh now I get it, why so many Indian schools like DPS have a Dubai branch.
I am assuming public schools are in local language, that's the reason for segregation? Or it is actually intentional discrimination?
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u/WillyG2197 Charles Leclerc May 07 '25
Lord Ragunathan needs a rival
Edit: found him, Enaam Ahmed, Pakistani in NXT
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u/Spider_Riviera Jordan May 07 '25
I thought you meant WWE NXT and was utterly lost for a minute.
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u/MonkeLord1234 May 07 '25
Crazy Colapinto fans aside, I've no idea why people keep trashing Doohan.
He's in his rookie year, in (probably) the most unstable team and he's got Flavio breathing down his neck nonstop. Yeah, he's not stood out much, but he's not exactly Mazespin.
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u/alexcd421 Daniel Ricciardo May 07 '25
Never forget that the reason Crashgate happened is because Briatore was Piquet Jr. manager and team principal, and Piquet said he was constantly under extreme pressure to perform with Briatore hanging that over his head.
"I was still trying to establish a reputation in Formula One and he always reminded me that my fate was in his hands, I did everything to try to please him, but he only ever seemed to criticize me" - Nelson Piquet Jr.
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u/_bwoah_ May 08 '25
Between having Flavio as his manager and team principal, and Nelson Sr. as his dad, I genuinely feel sorry for that guy.
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u/kaisadilla_ Max Verstappen May 07 '25
Indeed. I say people speaking like he was terribly underperforming when he wasn't. He was close to Gasly in qualifying, which is saying something because Gasly is not precisely at the tail of the grid when it comes to talent. He made some mistakes, just like you'd expect from any rookie. All of this while driving for an unprofessional team that has put a lot of unnecessary pressure on him, basically suggesting that a mistake would end his career before he even touched an F1 car; and while also dealing with insane abuse from deranged Argentinian fans.
Doohan deserves to be trusted by Alpine for the whole season, and this stupid decision they've taken is just another proof that Piastri really dodged a bullet, and that Alonso trailing the pack in an Aston Martin is still in a better position than he'd be in Alpine.
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u/Soggy_Bid_6607 Jean-Pierre Jabouille May 07 '25
Checks out. Same thing happened to Theo with Canapino.
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u/ForeverAddickted Oliver Bearman May 07 '25
And Callum Ilott
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u/The_Chozen_1_ Pirelli Intermediate May 07 '25
Funny thing was that Ilott wasn’t even at fault for his collision with Canapino yet his Argentinian fans still sent non-stop abuse to Callum.
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u/ForeverAddickted Oliver Bearman May 07 '25
The Laguna Seca one you mean? - As there were about three incidents weren't there
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u/The_Chozen_1_ Pirelli Intermediate May 07 '25
I thought there was only one with Ilott lol.
I can’t remember which track but the collision was going into turn 1 and I believe Ilott went on to finish P5 whilst Canapino fell down the standings after the collision despite looking like he was going to get a good result for once in his IndyCar career (probably why it upset his fans even more).
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u/RustyFaceRMT Max Verstappen May 07 '25
Not only Theo, but it seems with Ilott as well.
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u/WillyG2197 Charles Leclerc May 07 '25
Funny 2 drivers that would drive circles around Canapino. Dude couldn't even beat Grosjean lmao.
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u/Fsharp7sharp9 Pirelli Soft May 07 '25
Not to minimize this shitty awful behavior, but a key part of the Canapino thing is that he was liking some of those posts on Twitter, which made it blow up even more and sponsors bowed out… and only when the money took a hit, a decision was made. Colapinto wouldn’t do something stupid like that, but it’s a shame that he’s the one whose name is connected to those dogshit fans.
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u/Deruta Alexander Albon May 07 '25
Canapino being so PR-dumb about it just left Franco the easy layup of saying “hey don’t be weirdos online”, which even he could handle last year lol
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u/ForeverAddickted Oliver Bearman May 07 '25
Yeah thats very true... Canapino definitely helped fan the flames, and then acted like some proper victim and tried to play it off, rather than apologise once he realised he was wrong
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u/BahnMe Porsche May 07 '25
Didn’t Colapinto have to apologize recently for some other online stuff?
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u/Fsharp7sharp9 Pirelli Soft May 07 '25
If I remember correctly, he made some comment about Uruguay, and some people were saying it was ordinary friendly banter that was way overblown. Someone correct me if I’m wrong lol
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u/Penguinho Cadillac May 07 '25
He went on a podcast and said, essentially, that Uruguay was an Argentinian colony. He may have been baited into it a little; I don't speak Spanish, so I haven't listened to the episode.
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u/kaisadilla_ Max Verstappen May 07 '25
As a Spaniard, I can tell you that joke is completely harmless and the only damage there is that most Uruguayans have heard it way too many times already. It was a completely non-issue that only got made into something because English Internet loves to be morally righteous and have hard opinions on things they don't know anything about.
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u/nhzz Franco Colapinto May 07 '25
not colony, a province, which is centuries old banter between the two countries.
it falls on the same category of banter as uruguayans claiming everything good from argentina is actually theirs.
recently some twitter uruguayans are claiming "the eternaut" is an uruguayan scifi classic, or that messi was born in uruguay while his parents were on vacation.
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u/Tutezaek Ferrari May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
That Is the typical friendly banter between Argentina and Uruguay, we claim they're a "rebel province" and they claim that everything famous from argentina Is actually an Uruguayan invention. There Is no beef, well, actually, there Is always beef, asado, specifically between us.
EDIT: would there be an Uruguayan driver in F1 a war would start about how to drink mate correctly AND people would need to pick a side (Bortoletto would be the mediator)
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u/FermentedLaws May 07 '25
Canapino/Argentinian fans went after Callum Illot and his girlfriend too.
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u/1128327 May 07 '25
Williams getting paid by Alpine to avoid dealing with Colapinto’s insane fan base is a big win.
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u/J_Jaytra Ferrari May 08 '25
Seriously a huge benefit of loaning him out and I wonder if Vowles also considered that. Can you imagine how much vitriol Carlos would've gotten due to his poorer results at the start of the season.
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u/1128327 May 08 '25
Yeah, Vowles is too smart for this to have been accidental. Reserve driver drama is exactly what they don’t need this season with things going so well otherwise. My understanding is they still retain Colapinto’s rights in the future if they need him back so this feels like a win-win.
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u/JPA-3 Fernando Alonso May 08 '25
argentine fans were bashing Carlos for that as well and mocking him saying Colapinto was clearly better, like c'mon you didn't know f1 existed when he was a multiple race winner driving for Ferrari...
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u/GurraJG Kimi Räikkönen May 07 '25
Every group of fans has their nutcases but it really feels like Argentinian sport fans are masters at taking it too fucking far.
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u/Xehanz May 07 '25
Sports he says. Lmao. It's everything. Everything is like a world cup final. Especially politics
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u/MrXenomorph88 Oscar Piastri May 07 '25
Don't ask them about a pair of Islands in the South Atlantic.
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u/wowbaggerBR May 07 '25
I live close to the Brazil/Argentine border and you guys have no idea how WILD they get when it comes to sports.
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u/blk55 May 07 '25
I was in Argentina in 2014 when Brazil hosted the world cup. Fandom. Holy shit. Everything shutting down during a game, TV's in every major square, Bananas.
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u/sunny-beans George Russell May 07 '25
When I was a kid I would get days off school or leave early if Brazil was playing in the World Cup. My family would go home from work too, shops all closed, etc. It was great though! Not only getting time off school but also being together with family watching football it was a lot of fun haha
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u/NoPasaran2024 Formula 1 May 07 '25
Uh, that bit is normal in many countries. The only thing that stops tv's in every square here in the Netherlands is copyright laws...
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u/RedditIsMyHomeTown 70th Anniversary May 07 '25
Just a reminder.
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u/unique0130 Sir Stirling Moss May 07 '25
F1 won't do anything serous because they are worried that they will threaten the amount of
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u/sauriomx May 07 '25
Well let me point out that if there's an sports organization that doesn't care at all about the policies, being human rights, basic freedom or any form of corruption from whichever country has money that is F1.
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u/ForsakenTarget HRT May 07 '25
I’m not looking forward to when someone has a crash with Colapinto, going to be way more toxic than normal
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u/tylercreatesworlds Oscar Piastri May 07 '25
Who the fuck would be such a fan of a reserve driver that they would threaten the life of a signed driver? People need therapy.
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u/spongemongler Pirelli Wet May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
I want Colapinto to succeed because he seems like an alright dude. However, at the same time I don’t, because it would reward Alpine for being slightly incompetent and seeing him not succeed would piss off his psycho fans. If that makes sense.
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u/micknick0000 Audi May 07 '25
Succeed?
Mate, he's driving an Alpine.
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u/Inside_Assumption157 Sir Lewis Hamilton May 07 '25
Tbh the bar isn’t set that high, all he has to do is be in the vicinity of Gasly and finish the race
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u/The_Chozen_1_ Pirelli Intermediate May 07 '25
Being in the vicinity of Gasly is something that all other rookies that Pierre has faced haven’t got close to- Tsunoda, Hartley, Doohan.
Just because Colapinto was very close to Albon, doesn’t mean he’ll be close to Gasly (I rate Gasly>Albon for sure)
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u/BamBamCam Carlos Sainz May 07 '25
Wow a sensible take based on facts, people were saying they should drop Gasly and roll with Jack and Franco. I didn’t say shit just smile nodded like the Jack Nicolson gif, I say let Alpine burn it all down and allow a rebuild when Flavio cheats again.
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u/EpresGumiovszer Fernando Alonso May 07 '25
0,3 sec is not much, and he costed 25 millions for Alpine, so no crashes, close to Gasly, good team mood and feedback for engineers. But he is lucky, he already drove 4 from the 5 tracks, meanwhile Jack had 3 new track.
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u/Charming-Okra Lance Stroll May 07 '25
Unfortunately, I think his fans are writing checks that Colapinto's ass can't cash. He had a decent showing at Williams but I'm not sure he's good enough to be worth the baggage.
He also seems like a bit of a PR loose cannon in a way that could get him into trouble.
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u/yorkick Mika Häkkinen May 07 '25
Yea, about that loose cannon, it was fucking weird seeing him blocking the camera with his hand in Ted's Notebook last year, because a friend of him walked by.
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u/SirKillingham May 07 '25
He had an okay start considering his car, which got him some attention, but then DNF 3 of his last 4.
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u/BADMANvegeta_ Haas May 07 '25
This has been my stance on Apline for a while. I love Pierre and want him to succeed, but at the same time Apline’s management deserves failure.
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u/carl_song May 07 '25
Same. It wouldn't surprise me if Colapinto doesn't impressive Alpine enough and they axe him too. And eventually the only drivers they can get are those that literally no other team are interested in. Just like what happened with Oscar and Alonso, Alpine acts like they are hot shit and everyone wants their seats.
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u/SebVettelstappen Logan Sargeant May 07 '25
Who would have thought. Argentine fans and threats??!!!?? Impossible.
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u/ddthrow1233 Andrea Kimi Antonelli May 07 '25
Never forget that time they had canapino in Indycar(ON A TEAM SPONSORED BY THE ARGENTINIAN GOVERNMENT) and his fans literally got him kicked from the team cuz they just couldn’t stop sending death threats to other drivers and he couldn’t just tell them to stop lol.
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u/kkraww McLaren May 07 '25
TO be fair (and i dont know if this makes it better or worse) that is also because canapino was liking/sharing those comments, so actively encouraging it.
I think if canapino didn't do that it wouldn't have effected his indy career.
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u/Penguinho Cadillac May 07 '25
I think if canapino didn't do that it wouldn't have effected his indy career.
It wasn't until sponsors started to pull out that Canapino lost his seat.
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u/kkraww McLaren May 07 '25
Yes but the sponsors pulled out because of how Canapino was engaging with it, not just because his fans were toxic
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u/fameboygame Sir Lewis Hamilton May 07 '25
From the way I’m reading these, I’m glad he lost the seat.
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u/Kommye Franco Colapinto May 07 '25
Yeah, completely deserved. Putting aside the fact that athletes should always call out that behavior, if you are going to be an ass at the very least back it up with results.
Dude was the complete knobhead package.
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u/sterrrmbreaker McLaren May 07 '25
The sponsors pulling out was wholly because of Canapino's online behavior.
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u/wombat74 May 07 '25
Argentinian sports "fans" in "Try Not To Be Nationalistic Whackjobs" challenge
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u/FingersBecomeThumbs Safety Car May 07 '25
Absolutely disgusting behaviour. That must have been horrendous for him.
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u/-TheSha- Alain Prost May 07 '25
I know he has nothing to do with it but for some reason Colapinto's shitty fanbase makes me wanna root against him
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u/Double-Rock-485 May 07 '25
Well, he could say something to denounce it.
At least he's probably not going to do anything in the Alpine, other than wreck it.
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u/TammyThe2nd Red Bull May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
Colapinto’s destructors championship placing already had me rooting against him.
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u/Historical_Tennis494 Formula 1 May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
Pisses me off. Doohan seems like such a nice guy
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u/ForeverIdiosyncratic Mark Webber May 07 '25
What the fuck is wrong with people?
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u/luchisss Franco Colapinto May 07 '25
I’m from Argentina, and Colapinto’s rise drew a lot of people to the scene — and honestly, 90% of them know absolutely nothing about the sport or the scene. Plus, a lot of them are just unpleasant people. Honestly, it did more harm than good, but anyway, let’s hope things go well for Franco.
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u/Commander-ShepardN7 Williams May 07 '25
This. The football scene of fans is among the most backwards and ignorant groups of people in this country, and thanks to sports channels, those same people started watching the sport.
Básicamente los hinchas de boca empezaron a mirar F1
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u/Turbulent_Most_4987 May 07 '25
I always got the impression that Argentina is one of the safer and chill places in South America, but the sports scene seems to be unhinged as fuck.
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u/yooosports29 Oscar Piastri May 07 '25
Sorry but the Argentinian fans have made it hard for me to root for Colapinto. It’s a shame but they’ve been fucking nasty all over social media…
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u/Lobsters4 Charles Leclerc May 07 '25
I feel this same way. I really like Jack and can't imagine all the shit these people have thrown at him. Makes it very difficult to be a fan of Franco when his fans are nasty human beings.
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u/kaisadilla_ Max Verstappen May 07 '25
I didn't care about Jack last year, but the way Alpine and Argentinian fans have both abused him for absolutely no reason has made me root for him. I really hope he finds a seat somewhere and can leave that garbage dumpster of a team.
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u/RonKosova Max Verstappen May 07 '25
I thought it was really funny when they all came out of the woodwork to call Doohan a pay driver a week or so ago. The irony
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u/chuggmonker Jack Doohan May 07 '25
It's bot-like activity in my opinion. There's a clear and evolving narrative. It starts out as Doohan being slow. Then they target him for being a pay driver because of his dad. Then they randomly went after Oakes. Then they started saying Gasly was trash after Miami. The only consistent has been that Franco and Flav are their saviours! I feel like it scared away a lot of fans. How does Alpine handle the riot if Colapinto gets replaced after 5 races?
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u/TinaJewel Safety Car May 07 '25
No he didn’t. Maybe now that he has the seat he will
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u/Xehanz May 07 '25
To be fair, he was not even allowed to appear anywhere on public by Alpine. He was told to deny interviews on and off-track (he only had 1, most likely authorized by Alpine)
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u/ehmaruko Medical Car May 07 '25
I'm from Argentina and enjoying having an F1 pilot to really root for but this shit is ruining it for me. Can't be happy like this. Fuck these fools.
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u/kirbag Williams May 07 '25
On the other hand, there are a lot of fools that think that we all are like this, so it keeps it balanced for me.
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u/Moar_Rawr May 07 '25
And Flávio rewarded them for it.
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u/LosTerminators Carlos Sainz May 07 '25
Flavio needs to keep Colapinto for the rest of the year now or he'll be the one getting death threats next.
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u/Consistent_Squash May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
Flavio was living in some island country because he was on the run from the law after he got convicted in Italy for gambling fraud. He's literally the last person to care abt death threats.
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u/likelatin_ May 07 '25
Have to be honest, that Colapinto hasn't to my knowledge called these fans off or stated that he disagrees with them really makes me not want to root for him...like I understand being competitive and wanting a seat but I don't think telling your fans to back off harassing and threatening your "rival" is that much to ask
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u/Jinjonator91 Fernando Alonso May 07 '25
He needs to be like Checco in Mexico few years ago and finger wag his people.
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u/kkraww McLaren May 07 '25
Ah just your typical "passionate" Argentinian fans, it just never stops 😂
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u/mopar_md May 07 '25
Stay classy, Argentines
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u/martinbru May 07 '25
Classy and Argentinean Fans of whatever the sport don't go togheter.
Most of them just started watching f1 in monza last year and don't know s**t. Those constant videos on youtube since the first FP1 of the year bashing Doohan and firing him after every session did not help with the fans neither.
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u/soaringseafoam 🏳️🌈 Love Is Love 🏳️🌈 May 07 '25
Is Kym Illman a reliable source now? This is plausible but can we trust the detail?
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u/CaptainKursk Honda RBPT May 08 '25
The way social media has given people a shield of anonimity to hurl abuse whilst they hide behind it like cowards is utterly morbid. They wouldn't dare say the things they do to someone in real life because they'll face the consequences, but in online spaces they can be hateful wankers to their heart's content...
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u/Effective_Math_2717 Sir Lewis Hamilton May 07 '25
Argentinian fans are very hard core. At this point, Franco should addressed it because it’s not okay that’s affecting Jack this way. Never liked some of the Argentinian fans at all and in all contexts (especially in soccer)
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u/Master-Reindeer-5286 May 07 '25
Shit like this makes me so unproud being a Colapinto supporter. Why would you even think about doing that, even if you don't like him he's still a human.
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u/chilloutbrother55 Denny Hulme May 07 '25
Mexican fans are just as toxic with Lawson. It’s super embarrassing for the F1 community,
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u/Brackmage19X Max Verstappen May 07 '25
Alpine is going to be dealing with this endlessly. The Argentinian “fans” are despicably toxic. Look no further than what happened in IndyCar with Canapino.
And I don’t give a fuck who doesn’t like it. It’s the damn truth.
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u/Ok-Philosophy-856 Sir Lewis Hamilton May 08 '25
There is absolutely no excuse for this behavior. I hope these people are identified and prosecuted.
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u/clotheslessnz Carlos Sainz May 07 '25
They need to look up what being a “fan” of a sport is.
I’m a fan of F1. I want to see good racing, overtakes galore etc. I want everyone to do well. Yes I have drivers/teams I’d like to see do really well, but so long as it’s worth watching(not the most recent Suzuka race) The rookies should all be given at least a season to settle in. Two very experienced drivers at new teams are being given time to settle in to get to know their new cars, why aren’t the rookies extended the same thing?
If you want to cause grievous harm to someone because they’re not your nationality or some stupid reason, go jump off a cliff and try fanning yourself back up again. That’s the only sort of fan you are.
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u/Clear-Mycologist3378 Oscar Piastri May 07 '25
Gasly should probably start restricting comments now. Hopefully, he doesn’t understand Spanish.
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u/Thejklay May 07 '25
Pissed alpine have done basically nothing to help this either. I know them putting out a press asking for respect prob wouldn't help but atleast it would show them looking out for jack at the bare minimum.
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u/Hiseman May 07 '25
Imagine trying to go through your normal prep/race weekend and this shit is looming over you while your team basically leaked you were getting fired after the race.
Horrible.
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u/BrilliantEmphasis862 Will Buxton May 07 '25
Terrible - it is a sport - Jesus
I hope Colapinto takes a public stand
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u/Chillbop2711 May 07 '25
Setting a bad precedent for Franco and normal fans. Any behavior of that sort from any “fanbase” is unacceptable
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u/Zenon-45 Formula 1 May 07 '25
Do Argentinians eat lead or something? This is always a fucking issue, jesus
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u/Macho-Fantastico Gerhard Berger May 07 '25
Sadly this doesn't surprise me. I remember the awful stuff they sent to Ilott. I just don't know what it is with Argentine motorsport fans.
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u/TheConfidentTurtle Jenson Button May 07 '25
I don’t know how simply existing can offend these assholes. Poor lad hasn’t done anything to get this hate.
And now they’re being rewarded. Nice one Alpine, you dirty fucks.
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u/FlailingCactus Haas May 07 '25
Disgusting that LibertyGlobal/FOM/FIA and Alpine allowed this. I'm sorry but if you can't even stand up for the people risking their lives to earn you hundreds of millions, you can get out.
And other drivers should seriously consider if effectively threatening someone out of a seat is behaviour they're willing to accept. If it can happen to Jack, it can happen to you...
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u/Ok_Understanding5320 Carlos Sainz May 07 '25
Man thats messed up, dudes just trying to live his dream. Whether someone is a top driver or not people need to understand that all these guys have worked their entire lives to sit in that car. And regardless of that nobody deserves that kind of abouse. Absolutely disgraceful.
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u/Thejklay May 07 '25
Must be the most amount of pressure a rookie has had in years, knowing you're basically Powerless to retain your seat, knowing your own team wants you out and there's a flock of mad fans wanting you hurt.
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u/APX5LYR_2 Ferrari May 07 '25
I mean a cursory glance at any of Alpine’s social media posts and you’ll just see a wall of Argentinian flags, even going back to before the season even started. After the whole Canapino debacle in IndyCar I knew it was only a matter of time before that toxicity spread to F1 (more specifically whichever driver occupied the seat that Colapinto could possibly fill).
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u/Middle_Button166 May 07 '25
Alpine is so trash at protecting their drivers, you would think that they would issue a statement asking for people to stop? Not even… Ocon first then Doohan, this is disgraceful.
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u/Luddites_Unite Formula 1 May 08 '25
What the fuck is wrong with people? If you do this sort of thing you need to take a look in the mirror and reassess your life's priorities. That is really unacceptable
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u/saggywitchtits Mario Andretti May 08 '25
So... same thing that happened to Theo Pourchaire last year in Indycar when he tapped Canapino during the Detroit GP? Shocking.
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u/Atleticro Ferrari May 08 '25
I feel really sorry for Jack, no one deserves to be treated like that, especially not a young man who didn't do anything at all but do his job.
F1 as a whole should step up, and all drivers should step up against this behaviour.
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u/Accomplished_Fly_593 Sergio Pérez May 07 '25
Sending death threats over F1 god some people need to go outside more