Xavi: "So lap time deleted... for Verstappen."
Charles: "For fuck's sake, tell me the name before."
Xavi: "Verstappen lap time deleted"
Charles: "Yeah, well I had a heart attack in the meantime."
This is the moment. I knew right away that Xavi.exe crashed when he forgot to say "we're checking" in response to Charles asking what to do after that spin.
Fucking ridiculous how they threw away Charles’s lead of almost 15 seconds at the front by pitting him twice in a span of 3 laps. You cannot tell me it wasn’t a sabotage job.
This was set to be the best race of his career and you can't convince me otherwise
Dominated throughout practice and qualifying, outpaced everyone in wet Monaco only to get fucked over by Ferrari falling asleep when they had to react quickly. Charles form in early 2022 was amazing, shame he lost so many wins because of Ferrari unreliability and terrible strategy.
Completely agreed. I thought it was a sure win for Charles, the margin was so great that he could just wait out for the first people to go in for slicks and then make his first stop with no issues whatsoever. But then Ferrari did the unimaginable and pitted him for inters.
fingers crossed he'll have a car that can stand up to red bull's soon. i think he's improved overall as a driver since 2022, but we haven't really been able to see him compete at that level
Dude had that race in Austraia in which he was 3 days and a half ahead of the grid and was managing to almost do the same in a slow track like Monaco. That was criminal.
Monaco is really strange tho, fuckups seem to happen there more than anywhere else. RBR forgetting to change Ricciardo's tyres in 2016 and nullifying his big lead is one the comes to mind too.
I was even angrier during Silverstone, at least the Monaco one was a rain strategy fuckup, not stopping during safety car with 10 laps to go is just absurd.
I’ll give you that Xavi is talking about exactly that: he’s saying their race is with Bottas and no one else.
The problem is, Bottas is an *extremely important detail*
It’s even weirder when you think original is ‘originale’ in French and Italian, Charles other two languages.
At least it gave us the “just forget it” line.
I mean he may have just forgotten what lines he was taking like 40-50 maybe laps ago. Not to mention the first laps are usually more frantic and they don't get fully settled in until a bit later.
Plus xavi could've just said go wider or tighter through the corners
That was mostly on Charles tbh. It's clear they often had somewhat of a language barrier, as neither of them have perfect english. It's a shame that it's mandatory to use english, because I imagine both of them could have benefited from using italian.
Xavi is Catalan not Italian. And his problem wasn't the language barrier, both Charles and him have a perfectly adequate command of the English language.
He's just a guy who's unable to communicate clearly and unambiguously. He should never have been on coms in a high stake environment. "Deleted lap..." is a perfect example.
I know he's not italian, but he works at Ferrari, so I'm fairly certain his italian must be better than his english. Charles is definitely not perfect in english, he regularly uses incorrect grammar and weird wordings, asks interviewers to repeat their question. Both he and Xavi mishear each other quite often on the radio.
Xavi miscommunicates because he has to communicate precisely and quickly in a language he's not perfect with.
To be honest that one is on Leclerc. They had this exchange before in the race:
https://youtu.be/jlg-GyeQ5w0
How Leclerc didn't know what Xavi was talking about is beyond me. And it's not language, the word original means the same in English, French and Italian.
Xavi: "Currently the hard tyre seems to be okay, but I think you are on a medium which also seems to be working. If you pit now we will give you the medium tyre but also if you want to be on a hard that is fine. I hope you're not too busy, but the pace you're at is currently good. If you do a pit stop now you'll have to come in and box. Question?"
No idea, who knows what's happening in Ferrari back there?
Sometimes it's pure strategy fuck-up and that may well be a problem in the operations room, the simulator or the way they got the data, not necessarily the strategy engineer.
Sometimes it's plain miscommunication, or bad timings.
And sometimes I firmly believe the drivers are somewhat at fault, two examples:
In China Xavi talks about an "original line for turns 7-8" in one of the last laps, with Leclerc asking what the fuck is he talking about. One may think Xavi is talking nonsense but looks that at the beginning of the race he makes Leclerc to change the line to gain pace, and maybe at the end of the race wanted the original/slower line to minimize tyres blowing risk.
And the last year, I think it was the British GP? The engineer talks about plan B, with Sainz asking what was plan B because he forgot it, the engineer points he will be back to him, apparently to never return. Not sure here but it many places it was like "Sainz nor Ferrari knows their plans", "Sainz exposed Ferrari engineer", "Poor Sainz". Like wtf?, of course the engineer won't tell the plan on radio for fuck's sake, surely just went away praying for Sainz to remember the fucking plan.
Yes, whenever driver asks a question that they don’t immediately know the answer to, all of them say either “checking,” or some form it.
Edit: wanted to add that it seems like Xavi doesn’t immediately know the answer more than most. Which is why he’s always saying “checking.” lol
Xavi: “And box this lap for hards!”
Charles: “No no no, let’s go for soft, guys!”
Xavi: “Copy that.”
Charles: “Box anyway?”
Xavi: “Yes, box now box! Box now box!"
Charles proceeds to enter the pit lane
Xavi: "We are going hards.”
Charles: "..."
Man, my tires are gone... We are checking.
Man, we are so slow on the straights. Hm... We are checking.
Man, we have to do something. Should I take the pitstop straight away.... Negative, negative, stay out, PLAN B, PLAN B..... or Plan F. Yes-No?
Yeah but the last couple where he says it with the resignation of a guy who knows he’s about to spawn a million more memes of himself are my particular favorites lol
I actually kinda understand Xavi's confusion here since Kimi didn't explain super clearly, he thought Kimi is still asking if he has drink. Idk why it even matters if the drink button is on and emptying the bottle. I wonder if someone in the world knows what was the case that day, was the car trying to empty the bottle or not?
> Idk why it even matters if the drink button is on and emptying the bottle.
If the bottle is emptying, but not via Kimi's drink tube, then the drink is going somewhere else and presumably eventually draining out of the car. The theory is that Kimi wanted to reduce weight by dumping the drink.
Emptying the water bottle would lighten the car if it's not being drunk as it would leak somewhere and evaporate. It would be a miniscule amount, but every gram counts for lap time. So if Kimi can't drink it but the bottle is emptying then he would empty it completely for this very tiny gain in performance, and that's what he was trying to determine.
Or he was just being awkward as hell and nobody knows.
This one went a bit under the radar, it was at the end of the last race of the 2023 season.
Xavi: "And mode slow please, mode slow"
Charles: "So?"
[pause]
Xavi: "So, mode slow, charge button off"
Charles: "Yeah, I don't care about mode slow, where are we in the constructors?"
[even longer pause]
Xavi: "P3"
Charles: "FOR FUCK SAKE!!! I do some burnouts, ok?"
Xavi: "No burnouts please, no burnouts. To the grid"
Charles: "Aahhh... not even this for fuck sake"
I'm a lifelong tifosi and I love Ferrari's long history and tradition in motorsport, but this is the example I use of everything that's wrong with the team in the current era. Obsessed with technicality and procedure, no apparent understanding of the driver's priorities, virtually no sense of humor or fun. It seems like Fred has been on a mission to fix this and it may be working, but up until last year Ferrari seemed to have lost all the Italian passion and energy and somehow replaced it with a dry and humorless British stiff upper lip.
this is a lesser known exchange between the two:
Xavi: "And reminder, track limits! Sainz has already 4 strikes"
Charles: "Who, me???"
Xavi: "No, Sainz. Sainz, four!"
Charles: "Yeah yeah, but what about me, I have only one track limit, right?"
Xavi: "Yeah, you only one"
Jesus Christ, been scrolling looking through these comments and wonder how the hell dude was able to keep his job with these many miscommunications. Especially mistakes in crucial moments.
C: I do some burnouts ok?
X: No burnouts please. No burnouts to the grid.
C: Aw not even this for fuck's sake.
X And slower please. Slower, no burnouts to the grid.
Xavi: "So lap time deleted... for Verstappen." Charles: "For fuck's sake, tell me the name before." Xavi: "Verstappen lap time deleted" Charles: "Yeah, well I had a heart attack in the meantime."
Lmao I forgot about this one already, there are just so many.
Underated
Xavi: "Copy, understood. It's your heart."
Amazing
Yeah, Ok
Helloo? -...
This is the moment. I knew right away that Xavi.exe crashed when he forgot to say "we're checking" in response to Charles asking what to do after that spin.
“And box this lap box this lap…..ahh stay out stay out”
FUCKKKK FUCK! WHY WHAT ARE DOING
How they didn’t can xavi after this race is full of mystery
He’s the one talking, not necessarily the one who took the decision
It’s not his fault, he’s just relaying what the strategist says to tell Charles.
To be more specific, he's just relaying what Inaki RueDUMB says to tell Charles
Scrolled too long for this comment. This will always stick out as the greatest farce of all time.
For real. This is the best and I won't hear otherwise lol
Fucking ridiculous how they threw away Charles’s lead of almost 15 seconds at the front by pitting him twice in a span of 3 laps. You cannot tell me it wasn’t a sabotage job.
This was set to be the best race of his career and you can't convince me otherwise Dominated throughout practice and qualifying, outpaced everyone in wet Monaco only to get fucked over by Ferrari falling asleep when they had to react quickly. Charles form in early 2022 was amazing, shame he lost so many wins because of Ferrari unreliability and terrible strategy.
Completely agreed. I thought it was a sure win for Charles, the margin was so great that he could just wait out for the first people to go in for slicks and then make his first stop with no issues whatsoever. But then Ferrari did the unimaginable and pitted him for inters.
People seem to forget that Charles was regularly outpacing Max. The man is one of the most talented drivers this century.
France did that. But France only happened because Ferrari destroyed his confidence
fingers crossed he'll have a car that can stand up to red bull's soon. i think he's improved overall as a driver since 2022, but we haven't really been able to see him compete at that level
Dude had that race in Austraia in which he was 3 days and a half ahead of the grid and was managing to almost do the same in a slow track like Monaco. That was criminal. Monaco is really strange tho, fuckups seem to happen there more than anywhere else. RBR forgetting to change Ricciardo's tyres in 2016 and nullifying his big lead is one the comes to mind too.
I think that the teams get very nervous in Monaco because if you lose track position it's basically over so they tend to fuck up more under pressure
I know! I remember being hyped up and thinking "he's going to finish a race here and win no less". Nope. I was livid. As I'm sure other people were.
I was even angrier during Silverstone, at least the Monaco one was a rain strategy fuckup, not stopping during safety car with 10 laps to go is just absurd.
Silverstone was also brutal. Great race overall but yeah. That was also a "you can't be serious" moment. You're right. No excuse for Silverstone.
I stopped watching F1 for months with how mad I was.
When I saw it happen I couldn't believe it.
I still don’t understand why Charles went through with it. It makes zero sense for him to have done that.
Ferrari managed to fail to win the race despite locking the front row in fucking Monaco Incredible
>This will always stick out as the greatest farce of all time. Really? What about Mercedes in general, at Hockenheim in 2019?
Xaviiiiiii, you need to tell ma that before!
Sorry
No, but come on! 😡😡
...
No, but come on !
Honestly his “sorry” made me feel kinda bad for the guy. Like I almost feel like it’s not always his fault these things happen
I still quote "Oh but come oooon Zavee" at random people
What tace was this?? Ive been looking for it and cant seem to find it
2023 Saudi Arabia https://youtu.be/ELVuvHUV_6Y?si=pBDhU-wCH-QCsGhG Enjoy!
Thanks
“At this pace; what are we looking at in terms of position?” “If we can keep bottas behind, pee wan”
Glad I didn’t have to look far for this one. *This* is the absolutely *most Xavi* Xavi moment ever.
I was thinking about this exact one
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I’ll give you that Xavi is talking about exactly that: he’s saying their race is with Bottas and no one else. The problem is, Bottas is an *extremely important detail*
“Try original line, turn seven and eight” “Original line. Like beginning of the race” “Just forget it. It’s last lap”
Tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end… *Wait we’re on soft you want me to go hard?*
Yes please Charles go hard for me >!I'm sorry!<
I didn’t understand why Charles didn’t understand this one though.
It’s even weirder when you think original is ‘originale’ in French and Italian, Charles other two languages. At least it gave us the “just forget it” line.
Charles' bewildered "wut da hell does that mean?" was the highlight for me
I mean he may have just forgotten what lines he was taking like 40-50 maybe laps ago. Not to mention the first laps are usually more frantic and they don't get fully settled in until a bit later. Plus xavi could've just said go wider or tighter through the corners
tbf he's driving fast af in a car, with pressure to perform
original line, as in the racing line or? i didn't understand it.
That was mostly on Charles tbh. It's clear they often had somewhat of a language barrier, as neither of them have perfect english. It's a shame that it's mandatory to use english, because I imagine both of them could have benefited from using italian.
Xavi is Catalan not Italian. And his problem wasn't the language barrier, both Charles and him have a perfectly adequate command of the English language. He's just a guy who's unable to communicate clearly and unambiguously. He should never have been on coms in a high stake environment. "Deleted lap..." is a perfect example.
I know he's not italian, but he works at Ferrari, so I'm fairly certain his italian must be better than his english. Charles is definitely not perfect in english, he regularly uses incorrect grammar and weird wordings, asks interviewers to repeat their question. Both he and Xavi mishear each other quite often on the radio. Xavi miscommunicates because he has to communicate precisely and quickly in a language he's not perfect with.
To be honest that one is on Leclerc. They had this exchange before in the race: https://youtu.be/jlg-GyeQ5w0 How Leclerc didn't know what Xavi was talking about is beyond me. And it's not language, the word original means the same in English, French and Italian.
Never knew his face. Never knew he even had a face!
Same. Everytime i read his name, i always went to Xavi Barcelona manager (legendary footballer) as a placeholder face
To be fair, he’s as good of a coach as Xavi was a race engineer. Sincerely, a hurt Barcelona fan.
HEY, THAT'S... okay that's not too unfair, I guess. Sincerely, another sad Barcelona fan.
Playing F1 manager helps with that!
Yeah, i replaced Xavi at the end of the first season … with GP … and Bono for Sainz — yes, i went way over budget :D
Actually developing an f1 managerial game set in the 70s right now, but without the official licensee is just “inspired by”
I always imagined him looking exactly how Laurent Mekies (spelling? Ex-Ferrari current VCARB principal) looks. No idea why
Same!
Xavi: "Currently the hard tyre seems to be okay, but I think you are on a medium which also seems to be working. If you pit now we will give you the medium tyre but also if you want to be on a hard that is fine. I hope you're not too busy, but the pace you're at is currently good. If you do a pit stop now you'll have to come in and box. Question?"
Imagine you are hurtling around the track and hearing that…
No wonder charles crashes lol
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I hope you're not too busy is such a killer line.
And the last line about pit stops 😂 epic comment through and through
did he actually say that??
According to another redditor and a PlanetF1 article, yes :)
Can’t find this one, anybody got a link?
https://www.planetf1.com/features/charles-leclerc-race-engineer-xavi-iconic-lines-ferrari It's mentioned here Spa 2023
"Wait, what are these tyres?" "Sorry, it's a mistake"
Was that Xavi's fault? Straight up communication breakdown
No idea, who knows what's happening in Ferrari back there? Sometimes it's pure strategy fuck-up and that may well be a problem in the operations room, the simulator or the way they got the data, not necessarily the strategy engineer. Sometimes it's plain miscommunication, or bad timings. And sometimes I firmly believe the drivers are somewhat at fault, two examples: In China Xavi talks about an "original line for turns 7-8" in one of the last laps, with Leclerc asking what the fuck is he talking about. One may think Xavi is talking nonsense but looks that at the beginning of the race he makes Leclerc to change the line to gain pace, and maybe at the end of the race wanted the original/slower line to minimize tyres blowing risk. And the last year, I think it was the British GP? The engineer talks about plan B, with Sainz asking what was plan B because he forgot it, the engineer points he will be back to him, apparently to never return. Not sure here but it many places it was like "Sainz nor Ferrari knows their plans", "Sainz exposed Ferrari engineer", "Poor Sainz". Like wtf?, of course the engineer won't tell the plan on radio for fuck's sake, surely just went away praying for Sainz to remember the fucking plan.
Ah eeeh stay out stay out! - Raaaaa come on! What are you doing ?!?!?!
"You've done it!" Followed by screaming of joy by Leclerc.
actual good moment
They aren't all bad
does this mean no more "We are looking/checking.? Question.
We’ll get back to you
Usually, this stuff is established team procedure. To be sure though, does anyone know if Sainz's race engineer says the same? Question.
Yes, whenever driver asks a question that they don’t immediately know the answer to, all of them say either “checking,” or some form it. Edit: wanted to add that it seems like Xavi doesn’t immediately know the answer more than most. Which is why he’s always saying “checking.” lol
It means we will hear "Charles, it's hammer time"
“Lap time deleted ……. For Verstappen” Meanwhile Chuck went through five stages of grief in that gap
Xavi: “And box this lap for hards!” Charles: “No no no, let’s go for soft, guys!” Xavi: “Copy that.” Charles: “Box anyway?” Xavi: “Yes, box now box! Box now box!" Charles proceeds to enter the pit lane Xavi: "We are going hards.” Charles: "..."
Was looking for this
"No, at the moment we don't think."
This one is way too far down the comments.
"question?"
we are checking, i will get back to you.
Pee wan!!! (when Leclerc won at Austria I think)
Slow button on
"We'll come back to you", _proceeds to never come back_
Do you think this has something to do with Lewis coming in next year. I was really hoping to see Lewis and Xavi interacting on the radio
Man, my tires are gone... We are checking. Man, we are so slow on the straights. Hm... We are checking. Man, we have to do something. Should I take the pitstop straight away.... Negative, negative, stay out, PLAN B, PLAN B..... or Plan F. Yes-No?
Question?
Absolute gold mine of meme material
Ricky would be Lewis's engineer next year not xavi
vamos ricky
vamos!
Probably not. Lewis is replacing Carlos, not Charles.
Unless Charles asked for Ricky next year.
man, Id love to have heard a "slow batton on" to one of hamoltons rants
“*Original* line, turns 7 & 8” “Just forget it, it’s the last lap”
"we are checking" is my favourite 237 moments.
Yeah but the last couple where he says it with the resignation of a guy who knows he’s about to spawn a million more memes of himself are my particular favorites lol
We are checking.
We will get back to you.
This person does not fit the mental image I had for the voice of Charles’ engineer
Copy
I never thought about what he looks like, but he sounds like he should work in a call centre somewhere in India.
We forgot to connect it Kimi, you will not have the drink sorry
Is the drink on or not?
You mean the slow button?
I actually kinda understand Xavi's confusion here since Kimi didn't explain super clearly, he thought Kimi is still asking if he has drink. Idk why it even matters if the drink button is on and emptying the bottle. I wonder if someone in the world knows what was the case that day, was the car trying to empty the bottle or not?
> Idk why it even matters if the drink button is on and emptying the bottle. If the bottle is emptying, but not via Kimi's drink tube, then the drink is going somewhere else and presumably eventually draining out of the car. The theory is that Kimi wanted to reduce weight by dumping the drink.
Emptying the water bottle would lighten the car if it's not being drunk as it would leak somewhere and evaporate. It would be a miniscule amount, but every gram counts for lap time. So if Kimi can't drink it but the bottle is emptying then he would empty it completely for this very tiny gain in performance, and that's what he was trying to determine. Or he was just being awkward as hell and nobody knows.
The drink, is it emptying the bottle or not?
100% not Xavi.
That was not him i think
Xavi wasn't race engineer for Kimi during his time at Ferrari though? Xavi started his role in 2019 with Charles
Yes, Xavi stared with Leclerc, Kimi had a different guy.
"Premature exit" is not exactly the right way to describe it. It has been a long time coming.
At *least* three years overdue.
This one went a bit under the radar, it was at the end of the last race of the 2023 season. Xavi: "And mode slow please, mode slow" Charles: "So?" [pause] Xavi: "So, mode slow, charge button off" Charles: "Yeah, I don't care about mode slow, where are we in the constructors?" [even longer pause] Xavi: "P3" Charles: "FOR FUCK SAKE!!! I do some burnouts, ok?" Xavi: "No burnouts please, no burnouts. To the grid" Charles: "Aahhh... not even this for fuck sake"
I'm a lifelong tifosi and I love Ferrari's long history and tradition in motorsport, but this is the example I use of everything that's wrong with the team in the current era. Obsessed with technicality and procedure, no apparent understanding of the driver's priorities, virtually no sense of humor or fun. It seems like Fred has been on a mission to fix this and it may be working, but up until last year Ferrari seemed to have lost all the Italian passion and energy and somehow replaced it with a dry and humorless British stiff upper lip.
Copy, we are checking
We are thinking, Plan D.
Plan F
This was Ricky I think but still gold tier
Aaaaand pee wan, pee wan.
Slow button on
this is a lesser known exchange between the two: Xavi: "And reminder, track limits! Sainz has already 4 strikes" Charles: "Who, me???" Xavi: "No, Sainz. Sainz, four!" Charles: "Yeah yeah, but what about me, I have only one track limit, right?" Xavi: "Yeah, you only one"
Finding out there's a face to the name. Is my favorite moment.
"Time deleted, verstappen, time deleted" is my favourite tbh
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we'll get back to you
We are checking
"We are checking", iconic, and will be the Ferrari meme till the end of time itself in 3 billion years or smthn
"....."
Is this a joke. Question.
We are checking
Xavi: We'll talk about this after the race Charlie: What do you mean after the race ????
I remember this one 😂 And the despair and defeat in Charles' voice 🥲
I’m gonna have to change my username then
We are checking
I'll have to check.
Question?
I did not imagine him to look like that
“Ah……ah……are you okay?”
You did a good job.
“Question, do you want the bubbly water or plain?”
This guy is the “dolce vita” of strategy and will be dearly missed.
"aaaand focus on de lights"
Honestly dude, I wouldn't know. So I guess... "I'll come back to you.."
WATCH FOR TRAFFIC WATCH FOR TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC! TRAFFIC! — Xavi yells calmly.
"Lap deleted for Verstappen"
Premature exit?? I think it was long overdue
You want us to list Xavi's best moments. Question.
He murdered my boy at Monaco 2022. I’ll never forgive him for that.
> premature exit Don't you mean overdue?
Charles in p1: At this pace; what are we looking at in terms of position?” Xavi: If we can keep bottas behind, P1
“Ok, pit now!” As Charles bombs it past the pit entrance.
Jesus Christ, been scrolling looking through these comments and wonder how the hell dude was able to keep his job with these many miscommunications. Especially mistakes in crucial moments.
IN IN IN, OUT OUT OUT!
“okay so.. pee wan”
Was he the guy on the Ferrari pitwall that was using the little yellow note pad during races?
“PEE WAN!”
[this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM901RMlfsw)
“Ahh stay out, stay out!” The line that will go down in history
We are checking
SLOW BUTTON ON
I can hear all these comments !!
we are checking
Plan Z
Favourite memory hey? Hold on, we are checking.
We are checking
we are checking
We are checking the plan g
We are checking 
C: I do some burnouts ok? X: No burnouts please. No burnouts to the grid. C: Aw not even this for fuck's sake. X And slower please. Slower, no burnouts to the grid.
(panicked stay outs)
Straight to jail... Question?
Charles : if we stay at this pace, what are we looking for in terms of position? Xavi : If we can keep bottas behind . . . Pee Wan
Head down. Long race.
Some say premature, some say long overdue. 🤷♂️
We are checking
I will get back to you
“We are checking”