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Hi! 👋
I'm Andreia, a motorsport fan from Portugal 🇵🇹🏁
I've been a Formula 1 fan for many years and recently started following MotoGP too. Racing has been one of my biggest passions for a long time.
To be honest, I've always been a little scared to share that passion online. I worried about what people might think, so I mostly kept it to myself.
But I finally decided to be brave and create a space where I can talk about something I genuinely love.
So here I am. 🏁✨
This page will be full of F1, MotoGP, race weekend reactions, opinions, excitement, heartbreak, chaos... and probably a lot of LN4 🧡 and MV1 💙 too. 😅
After the difficult race in Monaco, we go to Barcelona and hope for a better one. 🇪🇸🏁
If you love motorsport as much as I do, welcome aboard.
Welcome to Andreia on the Grid. 🏁💛 by @andreiaonthegrid

An Open Letter to McLaren

Dear McLaren,

I’m writing this as a fan.

Not as someone who thinks I know more than the people sitting on the pit wall. Not as someone who sees one bad decision and suddenly forgets everything this team has achieved.

I’m writing this because I care.

And because today hurt.

Lando started this race from pole. He had the pace. He had the lead. He had the opportunity to win the Spanish Grand Prix.

And somehow, once again, the strategy became the story instead of the driver.

When the VSC came out, that was the moment. The kind of moment you have to be ready for when you are fighting at the front. Instead, the pit stop came too late, the execution wasn't clean enough, and Lando came out of it having lost a race he looked completely capable of winning.

P3 is a podium. I know that.

But that's exactly why I'm frustrated.

Because this wasn't a race where Lando simply wasn't fast enough. This wasn't a race where someone beat him fair and square on pure pace.

It felt like we took the win away from ourselves.

And honestly, I have to ask:

Why?

Why does it sometimes feel like McLaren makes things unnecessarily complicated for Lando?

Why does it feel like we are constantly asking him to recover from decisions that were made behind the pit wall?

And while I'm asking these questions, I also want to talk about Oscar.

Because I love Oscar too.

He is a McLaren driver. He is incredibly talented. He deserves the same level of attention, preparation and commitment from this team.

And that's what makes some of these weekends so confusing from the outside.

It sometimes feels like McLaren is so focused on managing the battle between its two drivers that it forgets the most important thing:

You have TWO drivers capable of winning races.

Lando shouldn't have to feel like he needs to overcome his own team's strategy.

Oscar shouldn't have to feel like he is fighting for scraps of attention.

Neither driver should have to wonder whether the team will make the right call when the opportunity comes.

You built a team capable of putting two incredible drivers in the same garage.

Now you have to trust both of them.

Let them race (continue)... by @andreiaonthegrid

by @andreiaonthegrid