It’s not been the best season for Aston Martin in 2024, with the team failing to score a single point over the recent triple header.
So what was this team mechanic thinking during last weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix weekend?
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Mark Thomson (@melthom)
9th November 2024, 10:57
“My application for RB was rejected”
Wheel Nut (@wheel-nut)
9th November 2024, 10:58
Oh no, now I will be in trouble with the FIA for swearing during the pitstop
Jungle
9th November 2024, 11:06
“He just beached it on the formation lap. I cannot continue with this facade….nup…can’t do it…can’t do it anymore”
notagrumpyfan
9th November 2024, 11:11
Don’t call me Martin; I’m Jack, man!
WesselV1
9th November 2024, 11:21
“I’m starting to think we let the wrong driver go in 2022.”
FlyingLobster27
9th November 2024, 11:25
Following the formation lap debacle, Derek was asked to rearrange the letters of Lance Stroll’s name on his paddock scooter to form a rude word. But it was proving a real head-scratcher.
(for reference: Ricardo RosseT, 1998)
MurasamaRA300 (@murasamara300)
9th November 2024, 11:26
When I was five years old, I had a small green toy racing car. It was my favourite.
I remember being in the sandbox at the playground… I think I went on the swings for a short while… and I never found the car again…
This painful childhood memory has been suppressed for over 20 years.
It’s all coming back to me now!
Rich Hill
9th November 2024, 11:57
‘Significant damage to Aston’s bicycle meant definite retirement’
Rich Hi
9th November 2024, 12:07
‘The cost cap had left teams with no option but to simply wait for fans to throw money in the hat’
Dane
9th November 2024, 12:24
I told Lance he should go to the beach in Brazil, I never meant to beach the car!
Constantijn Blondel
9th November 2024, 12:40
Thinking about Lance a lot …
Diego (@diego388)
9th November 2024, 13:00
Why I am still here? Just to suffer
Raphael
9th November 2024, 13:03
But, but … I just fixed it … and he broke again!
Crawliin-from-the-wreckage- Special Unhinged Edition (@davedai)
9th November 2024, 14:22
€5000 fine for not wearing kneepads!
That’s BS.
Crawliin-from-the-wreckage- Special Unhinged Edition (@davedai)
9th November 2024, 14:23
,__knee and elbow pads.
Johns
9th November 2024, 14:38
Good thing he beached it, guess they wont find out about the bolt I forgot to install.
Hotbottoms (@hotbottoms)
9th November 2024, 14:50
When the mechanics’ bingo cards for the owner’s son’s performance have both ‘hits a wall on the formation lap’ and ‘beaches the car in the gravel on the formation lap,’ but your card doesn’t have them on the same line.
PlosslF1 (@f1-ploss)
9th November 2024, 15:37
After running back from the grid on the formation lap “He drove into what now?”
An Sionnach
9th November 2024, 15:39
I don’t have a snappy caption, just my feelings on this team. There’s been a lot of promise, potential and even some success ever since it was the Irish team and the car even had a shamrock on it. They just never seem to get there. There’s no reason why they can’t finally be successful, but I feel I have to give up hoping at some point. With Alonso there, it would be good to have one season where he has a good car (with the same for Lewis and Max, but perhaps a worse one for Max!). I don’t know. I don’t even think Adrian’s involvement will lead to success immediately. Not all of his cars have been amazing, and it can take more time than Alonso and perhaps even he has. Stroll is a rich man, but F1 is a very expensive business. I’m sure he has to sort out sponsorship just like Eddie Jordan did. If he has to put too much in out of his own pocket, not even he can afford to keep the team going and he’ll have to sell it. There is a time limit for success and the results have to come in the next few years.
Johns
9th November 2024, 15:57
There comes a time in every boys life they have to leave their father and take up golf.
Tim Parkinson
9th November 2024, 23:21
Tell that to Max!!
555
9th November 2024, 15:55
That was not what I thought when Lance promised not to crash the car in race.
HJ
9th November 2024, 16:05
Alright, we’re going to Lourdes with Lance. Maybe that will help.
Only Facts!
9th November 2024, 16:20
Common…It’s called gravel trapp for a reason!
RBAlonso (@rbalonso)
9th November 2024, 16:47
Following Newey’s arrival, a mechanic sits with all the elements which will be on the 2025 car.
Stephen Crowsen (@drycrust)
9th November 2024, 17:26
“I just can’t believe I won my bet that Lance would finish the race ahead of Fernando”.
Stephen Crowsen (@drycrust)
9th November 2024, 17:40
“Just not enough hours training him on how to do the formation lap”.
Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
9th November 2024, 18:43
“He… he did what?”
Feuerdrache (@xenomorph91)
9th November 2024, 18:56
“Another year with this spoiled brat. I can’t take it anymore.”
Jeanrien (@jeanrien)
9th November 2024, 18:59
Lance, we said to cause an incident to benefit Alonso!
Red Andy (@red-andy)
9th November 2024, 19:15
Looks like Lance Stroll has been given a contract extension.
Urvaksh (@thedoctor03)
9th November 2024, 19:53
Seeing Lance beach his AMR yet again, this poor Aston Martin mechanic was shaken. Not stirred.
Hunter
9th November 2024, 20:35
Not even Newey can build a car Lance won’t destroy..
PeterD
9th November 2024, 20:45
Kneeling in prayer hasn’t done any good – what else can I do?
BMW P85 V10
9th November 2024, 21:00
Oh well, it’s probably the cheapest way to crash the car, could have been worse.
DavidS (@davids)
9th November 2024, 21:40
When your best friend goes to play in the sand pit without you.
Goriot
9th November 2024, 22:03
I heard Alonso say “el plan!”
mog
9th November 2024, 22:06
Ooch. I forgot to put jam on the inside of the visor.
Derek Edwards
9th November 2024, 22:07
Given Lance’s propensity to hit anything and everything in sight, his jack man cannot bear to think about the next pit stop.
Tim Parkinson
9th November 2024, 23:05
Once!!!..I had the Jack upside down ONCE!!
Tim Parkinson
9th November 2024, 23:07
Just Once .I had the Jack upside down…!! They just won’t let it go!!!
Tim Parkinson
9th November 2024, 23:17
Great friends I’ve got!! Told me it was my dream job with the ‘Villa!
Jorge Ortiz
9th November 2024, 23:40
Gravel box is too much for my head…
FlyingLap (@flyinglapp)
9th November 2024, 23:44
“I never want to feel like this again. Newey can’t come soon enough.”
Jockey Ewing
9th November 2024, 23:58
“I have already had to kneel in the corner because I predicted this. Now what do I have to endure?”
Jockey Ewing
10th November 2024, 0:00
“Luckily, we do not have a spare car anymore.”
DONALD ROBERTS
10th November 2024, 2:43
“I should’ve had a V-8!”
j sc
10th November 2024, 6:02
Gosh! When would this (s)trolling end??
Dantes111
10th November 2024, 7:16
Ohh noo… I hate this team! They cut cost on everything to get Newey! I have to work without protection gear, and now they give me this child’s helmet that DOES NOT FIT! And man… can someone take this depressing sign off the jack!!
PJ
10th November 2024, 8:32
“Man… this season can’t end soon enough!”
MurasamaRA300 (@murasamara300)
10th November 2024, 9:20
40 years in the wilderness – all those promises of gold-lined finish lines, champagne spraying and the most glorious of victories…
All I see is sand and yet more sand.
Craig
10th November 2024, 12:28
Team reacts to the extension of Lance Stroll’s contract
Steve Rogers (@yossarian)
10th November 2024, 14:36
Aston Martin let off with a warning after water in tyres traced back to their mechanics’ tears.
Johns
10th November 2024, 15:11
Best
Stoo
10th November 2024, 18:48
This is the One picture that really doesn’t need a comment !
Keefy
10th November 2024, 18:57
Oh no, I have forgotten to bring my raincoat!
Mark Thomson (@melthom)
10th November 2024, 21:08
“Lance can’t dance, but he cost a lot of money, watch him while he crash the car”
Melody: Vanz Kant Danz – John Fogerty
EffWunFan (@cairnsfella)
11th November 2024, 7:07
“No I will not operate the jack, nor will I get up or even look at you until I get a go in the Vantage saftey car like the rest of the pit crew.”
Todfod (@todfod)
11th November 2024, 7:23
Aston Martin mechanic loses his life savings when he put money on Lance Stroll starting the Brazilian GP.