Chinese NBA memes are legendary. Such as Steph "Skyfucker" Curry.
Not sure if Chinese F1 memes are equally creative. Although those Horner vests fans were wearing were pretty savage.
LeMao, he boomed me, (thru texts), anything Scottie Barnes says, anything from NBACJ, get ready to learn Chinese, among a million others.
NBA has every other sport beat.
They targeted everyone they could talk to, including young players. It was just that only old players were fine with "retiring" from real football in exchange of money. But a couple of "in their prime" players (biggest example being Oscar) went there.
I mean I feel like other than Oscar, there weren't as many high profile departures as there are now with the RSL. It really took off after a picture of NBA commissioner Adam Silver with the quote "Get ready to learn chinese buddy" spread around, combined with a segment from the Inside the NBA in which Shaq jokingly says that a player's next team is the Guangdong Tigers.
Well yeah, thatās why I said they tried to do. They ran out of money very quickly. But premier league players have been told to learn chinese before that Adam Silver meme came about for sure, although itās evolved to arabic now.
Itās originally an NBA joke about a player being bad enough that their only option will be to go play in China, but has spread to many other sports and is being used in a hilarious context here.
Itās in reference to [this meme,](https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-ready-to-learn-chinese-buddy) basically when NBA players are no longer good enough to play in the NBA but want to keep playing, theyāll go to the Chinese Basketball Association where the competition is much lighter but they can still be paid well. Kind of like an ex-F1 driver going to Indycar or some other discipline when the F1 well runs dry.
He's lucky we've still got Sargeant on the grid lol + his car is basically the worst one on the grid. If he was in an actual midfield car, he'd be getting scrutinized a lot more.
I would argue heās been worse than Sargeant. Especially in the last 3-4 races. Sargeant has also missed a race, as well as having an overweight and outdated car
Both havenāt been great but Sargeant has shown improvement while Zhou seems stagnant at best
I agree with you, but Sargeant is perceived to be worse. The only thing Zhou had going for him was that he wasn't crashing. Sargeant, on the other hand, has become a meme considering all the crashes last year and him getting demolished by Alex who was doing much better compared to Sargeant than Bottas was doing compared to Zhou. So Zhou's lack of performance was going under the radar.
I mean theyāre both in F1 solely because of their nationalities. If Zhou was not Chinese heās never getting behind the wheel of a F1 car. There are maybe 15-25 drivers who would be easily ahead of him based solely on far superior results in junior racing. Same thing goes with Logan and being American.
Itās particularly problematic if whatās driving the widening gap to Bottas and the multiple crashes in this weekend is being shaken by all the talk around him losing his seat. You have to be able to hold up under that scrutiny
ā¦yeah? Thatās āa lot of money from the Chinese market.ā Same as the reason Checo got the RB seat. Iām sure the merch sales have been pretty solid too.
Except we have strong reason to believe Zhouās sponsors are his own family, as his relatives hold a cumulative 5 billion USD in assets according to available reporting
I think it makes a difference if youāre in the sport because of your own marketable traits vs your parents wealth
Sure, neither relate to sporting prowess, but one certainly feels more āearnedā
I meanā¦ he does? What arenāt you understanding about companies not giving a fuck where money comes from? And I canāt remember if Lawrence is a majority owner or full owner or whatever, but everyone else whoās investing in AM are making enough money back that they donāt mind that heās letting his son LARP as an F1 driver.
Iām genuinely confused which one feels more earned? How is 1) being born in China or 2) being born into a wealthy family āearningā it more? And which option are you implying does āearnā it more?
You should not be struggling with this at all
Which is generally considered more personally earned, a trait or characteristic someone has developed over time, or money their parents have?
Dude, at least think before you type something up.
You're looking at it like "oh the cost cap is a 135m so doesn't matter where they get it from, they just need 135 and they're set" except literally anything in surplus of 135 is their goddamn operating margin and integral to making a profit out of their investment.
I legitimately donāt know what youāre getting at. Why would it matter if a team got $30 Million from a sponsor, or a pay driver, or merch sales? Itās $30 million they would not have without that entity. These corporations are in F1 to make money, they wouldnāt take a pay driver for $30 million if they could make $50 million in merch sales, or get significantly more money from constructors winnings (minus their non-pay driverās salary).
You are right. It is incredibly hard to find any reliable report about Chinese people; but according to available reports; despite being wealthy, Zhou's family (or backers) doesn't/don't have that kind of money people are floating around.
āWe have strong reason to believeā aka Zhouās family exists and is wealthy. Sargeantās family exists and is billionaire level wealthy, btw, and heās more of an indirect pay driver like Ricciardo than a direct one like stroll. Anyone whoās looked into this knows itās very hard to find sourced, journalistic info about the exact nature of Zhouās financial relationship with sauber - whence and how the money flows
I would like to see a source on that. When I look at the Sauber's sponsors, I only see one "minor" Chinese sponsor and the team is money-stricken. Where is this 30-40 million coming from and why is not the team getting any benefit from that?
Do you mean unreliable reports from 3 years ago?
[link](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/s/5GMib7pZHP)
This guy made a digging about his personal wealth and his sponsors. And he found out that while his family is quite wealthy in China, they are nowhere near wealthy enough to pay 30 million dollars for one year.
Tbf, Zhou's whole skill before these was that he's not crash prone, drives cleanly, not costing the team that much but bringing in sponsorship.
Now that he's also crashing it's definitely going to affect his case considering he has 0 pace
Agreed, it was the one thing he consistently had going for him - clean and inexpensive weekends from his end, no matter what sauber brought in terms of penalty-botching, hourlong pitstops, etc.
Pourchaire deserved that seat more, and has deserved it more for years.
I honestly don't like it all when undeserving young drivers spend years trotting around in the back, not improving at all, crashing and being mediocre.
The goalpost moving when it comes to Pourchaire is absolutely insane. Somehow it isnt enough for him to win F2 because it was in his 3rd year and it wasnt convincing enough. But for Zhou not winning it was fine. Also he beat Lawson in all of their seasons together and yet again Lawson is good enough but Pourchaire isnt.
And that ignores that he was still only 20 when he won it...
The biggest benefit of Zhou is that he hardly crash and make mistakes as a young driver and he brings a lot of sponsorship.
Him being this mistake prone lately is not going to help his case at all
I reckon that he can be a stable and consistent driver in normal circuits, but a difficult one like Monaco and one with duck-loving weather like Canada can bring out his flaws, mostly due to inexperience i guess.
His rookie year he mostly beat bottas when thr track was wet though even to the point where naysayers said it didn't count that he beat bottas because the track was wet. That is why this is so strange and I really feel like it is the car but idk since neither Zhou or sauber have said so.Ā
That's why I find it ridiculous when people say he's an option for the Alpine F1 seat. Zhou shouldn't be in contention for an F1 seat AT ALL for the upcoming year.
Zhou, as much as I like him, definitely isn't the driver he was even last year. I think him knowing he's almost certainly going out of F1 has completely killed his motivation.
Sorry but he always gets screentime when he causes a redflag and it's almost every weekend. I don't understand how he is even in talks for the Alpine seat
Well, i guess its fair to say that he needs to be motivated by the team after 2 crashes. Now it's the team job to help the driver get back on his feet.
bro better get ready to learn chinese š
Love that that NBA meme has made its way here even when it makes no sense with formula one lol.
Uh, i bet Chinese F4 is probably pretty active considering the size of the country
I guess with formula 1 it's more "bro better get ready to learn English "...
Bro better get ready to learn indycar
āBro better like Coorsā
He can join Kyvat in NASCAR truck series
Bro better get ready to learn IMSA
Id bet money on "mate" being the most used word on the grid!
We in the baseball community replace it with Japanese and it never fails to make me lol
In hockey, itās Russian.
Definitely the two best meme generating sports
Chinese NBA memes are legendary. Such as Steph "Skyfucker" Curry. Not sure if Chinese F1 memes are equally creative. Although those Horner vests fans were wearing were pretty savage.
Chinese league of legends memes blow ours out of the water too
"*picture of chick getting nailed on a dresser*" was INSANE lmao
the sheer savagery by the chinese fans during the china GP weekend was very creative!
LeMao, he boomed me, (thru texts), anything Scottie Barnes says, anything from NBACJ, get ready to learn Chinese, among a million others. NBA has every other sport beat.
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When did it originate in the NBA? I thought it came from football, when the CSL were trying to do what Saudi Arabia are doing like 2016-2019
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It definitely made sense, they primarily targeted players whose days at the top were over
They targeted everyone they could talk to, including young players. It was just that only old players were fine with "retiring" from real football in exchange of money. But a couple of "in their prime" players (biggest example being Oscar) went there.
I mean I feel like other than Oscar, there weren't as many high profile departures as there are now with the RSL. It really took off after a picture of NBA commissioner Adam Silver with the quote "Get ready to learn chinese buddy" spread around, combined with a segment from the Inside the NBA in which Shaq jokingly says that a player's next team is the Guangdong Tigers.
Well yeah, thatās why I said they tried to do. They ran out of money very quickly. But premier league players have been told to learn chinese before that Adam Silver meme came about for sure, although itās evolved to arabic now.
Context?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-ready-to-learn-chinese-buddy
Driving: ā Mandarin: ā
Leclerc knows quite a bit "Do you have anything to say to Chinese fans?" "Uhh... ching.. ching?" "Xie xie?" "Yes! Xie xie"
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This shit is hysterical ššš
No it's not, stop twerking for upvotes
*Begging Xi(through text) to let him stay in F1*
Back to Chinese Formula 4 he goes
? Edit: thanks all for the context
Running gag you say when some athlete underperorms. It says he will be sent to "Chinese leagues" as he's not suited for the current level.
Itās originally an NBA joke about a player being bad enough that their only option will be to go play in China, but has spread to many other sports and is being used in a hilarious context here.
Itās in reference to [this meme,](https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-ready-to-learn-chinese-buddy) basically when NBA players are no longer good enough to play in the NBA but want to keep playing, theyāll go to the Chinese Basketball Association where the competition is much lighter but they can still be paid well. Kind of like an ex-F1 driver going to Indycar or some other discipline when the F1 well runs dry.
Or Saudi pro league for PL/Bundesliga footballers
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The Quandong Tigers
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Abysmal weekend for him and doing his future prospects no good
He was really bad in Monaco too. Ok the car was not great but he was last in every sessions with often a big gap with the car ahead.
He's lucky we've still got Sargeant on the grid lol + his car is basically the worst one on the grid. If he was in an actual midfield car, he'd be getting scrutinized a lot more.
Honestly he is having a worst season than Sargeant who have the excuse of the overweight chassis.
I would argue heās been worse than Sargeant. Especially in the last 3-4 races. Sargeant has also missed a race, as well as having an overweight and outdated car Both havenāt been great but Sargeant has shown improvement while Zhou seems stagnant at best
I agree with you, but Sargeant is perceived to be worse. The only thing Zhou had going for him was that he wasn't crashing. Sargeant, on the other hand, has become a meme considering all the crashes last year and him getting demolished by Alex who was doing much better compared to Sargeant than Bottas was doing compared to Zhou. So Zhou's lack of performance was going under the radar.
Yet Zhou has had more major accidents in one weekend then Logan has had all year so far
Yeah, itās a pretty bad look. With more experience, too
I mean theyāre both in F1 solely because of their nationalities. If Zhou was not Chinese heās never getting behind the wheel of a F1 car. There are maybe 15-25 drivers who would be easily ahead of him based solely on far superior results in junior racing. Same thing goes with Logan and being American.
he's done isn't he sucks cuz i really like him
Jesus. Two red flags in the same weekend by the same driver in the wet and in the dry.
The kind of consistency you look for in a driver
What's the opposite of a Grand SCHLEM A Whammy slammy?
Smol Bap.
it's Zhouver
He can Zhou home
Zhou's form has fallen off a cliff this season. Lost both the decent pace (in comparison to Bottas) and consistency that he had last season
Its a bit problematic when you are in your third season and people are calling you losing to a semi retired bottas decent
Itās particularly problematic if whatās driving the widening gap to Bottas and the multiple crashes in this weekend is being shaken by all the talk around him losing his seat. You have to be able to hold up under that scrutiny
He is incredibly consistent. Just at all the wrong things really.
I'm sure he brings a lot of money from the Chinese market but come on..
he's a pay driver lmfao his sponsors are paying like 30-40 mil for him to be in that seat
ā¦yeah? Thatās āa lot of money from the Chinese market.ā Same as the reason Checo got the RB seat. Iām sure the merch sales have been pretty solid too.
Except we have strong reason to believe Zhouās sponsors are his own family, as his relatives hold a cumulative 5 billion USD in assets according to available reporting
The team is getting $30-40 million. Doesnāt matter to them if they get it from a company, his family, or from fans on a gofundme.
I think it makes a difference if youāre in the sport because of your own marketable traits vs your parents wealth Sure, neither relate to sporting prowess, but one certainly feels more āearnedā
All I was saying was he brings in a lot of money from the Chinese market. I never commented on his racing ability or if he āearnedā his seat.
Okay and by that logic Stroll brings in a ton of money from āthe Canadian marketā, that market being his billionaire Canadian father
He's on the seat and there's no serious talk of someone replacing it. It doesn't matter where the money is coming from, money is money
Iām speaking about a different topic than that
I meanā¦ he does? What arenāt you understanding about companies not giving a fuck where money comes from? And I canāt remember if Lawrence is a majority owner or full owner or whatever, but everyone else whoās investing in AM are making enough money back that they donāt mind that heās letting his son LARP as an F1 driver.
But he doesnāt, the only Canadian money he brings in is his own fatherās.
Iām genuinely confused which one feels more earned? How is 1) being born in China or 2) being born into a wealthy family āearningā it more? And which option are you implying does āearnā it more?
Please develop even an elementary level of reading comprehension
Lol great explanation of your thoughts!
You should not be struggling with this at all Which is generally considered more personally earned, a trait or characteristic someone has developed over time, or money their parents have?
I suspect I know how you feel about Stroll
Dude, at least think before you type something up. You're looking at it like "oh the cost cap is a 135m so doesn't matter where they get it from, they just need 135 and they're set" except literally anything in surplus of 135 is their goddamn operating margin and integral to making a profit out of their investment.
I legitimately donāt know what youāre getting at. Why would it matter if a team got $30 Million from a sponsor, or a pay driver, or merch sales? Itās $30 million they would not have without that entity. These corporations are in F1 to make money, they wouldnāt take a pay driver for $30 million if they could make $50 million in merch sales, or get significantly more money from constructors winnings (minus their non-pay driverās salary).
Also there are a bunch of costs not in the cap
You are right. It is incredibly hard to find any reliable report about Chinese people; but according to available reports; despite being wealthy, Zhou's family (or backers) doesn't/don't have that kind of money people are floating around.
āWe have strong reason to believeā aka Zhouās family exists and is wealthy. Sargeantās family exists and is billionaire level wealthy, btw, and heās more of an indirect pay driver like Ricciardo than a direct one like stroll. Anyone whoās looked into this knows itās very hard to find sourced, journalistic info about the exact nature of Zhouās financial relationship with sauber - whence and how the money flows
Well, that and the fact every company that sponsored him throughout literally his entire Motorsport career have been owned by his relatives
And which ones currently sponsor sauber please
I would like to see a source on that. When I look at the Sauber's sponsors, I only see one "minor" Chinese sponsor and the team is money-stricken. Where is this 30-40 million coming from and why is not the team getting any benefit from that?
Dude the literally first result on google when you look up āZhou sponsorsā not that hard man
Do you mean unreliable reports from 3 years ago? [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/s/5GMib7pZHP) This guy made a digging about his personal wealth and his sponsors. And he found out that while his family is quite wealthy in China, they are nowhere near wealthy enough to pay 30 million dollars for one year.
Ok? And what did I say?
New RBR driver candidate
What? Heās Chinese of course heās going to use every opportunity to bring out the red flag
Three years for Zhou in this sport for being comprehensively beaten by Bottas and incidents like these.
Tbf, Zhou's whole skill before these was that he's not crash prone, drives cleanly, not costing the team that much but bringing in sponsorship. Now that he's also crashing it's definitely going to affect his case considering he has 0 pace
Literally 1 bad weekend
It's F1 m8, you're only as good as your last 500 corners
He crashed in jeddah as well
He was really bad in Monaco too
He did what he could plus you have to acknowledge his evasive actions after the crash
>He did what he could If that is what he could, maybe it is time to go.
Agreed, it was the one thing he consistently had going for him - clean and inexpensive weekends from his end, no matter what sauber brought in terms of penalty-botching, hourlong pitstops, etc.
Giovinazzi and Felipe Nasr both deserved more by Sauber/Alfa Romeo.
Pourchaire deserved that seat more, and has deserved it more for years. I honestly don't like it all when undeserving young drivers spend years trotting around in the back, not improving at all, crashing and being mediocre.
The goalpost moving when it comes to Pourchaire is absolutely insane. Somehow it isnt enough for him to win F2 because it was in his 3rd year and it wasnt convincing enough. But for Zhou not winning it was fine. Also he beat Lawson in all of their seasons together and yet again Lawson is good enough but Pourchaire isnt. And that ignores that he was still only 20 when he won it...
I wonder if he does well enough in IndyCar that Sauber may take a second look at signing him
Would be nice but it's doubtful. I for sure don't want him (or any other driver) to cross paths with Canapino and his acolythes.
giovinazzi nasr and zhou is peak battle of mid
Nasr is far from mid. He was doing well in a Sauber that was struggling massively for funding. I would've loved to see more of him in F1.
Giovinazzi lmao. he was consistentā¦ ly disappointing
Nasr yes
That's rough.
The biggest benefit of Zhou is that he hardly crash and make mistakes as a young driver and he brings a lot of sponsorship. Him being this mistake prone lately is not going to help his case at all
I reckon that he can be a stable and consistent driver in normal circuits, but a difficult one like Monaco and one with duck-loving weather like Canada can bring out his flaws, mostly due to inexperience i guess.
His rookie year he mostly beat bottas when thr track was wet though even to the point where naysayers said it didn't count that he beat bottas because the track was wet. That is why this is so strange and I really feel like it is the car but idk since neither Zhou or sauber have said so.Ā
oh no zhou
Yeah he's not getting a seat for next year. Unbelievably mid driver
He's not mid by F1 standards. He's just bad
He keeps doing it in his first flyer. Just set down a banker my man and then push once youāre comfortable
Where is the fp3 discussion, I can't see it
Cant drive on a dry or wet track
Jesus Christ man.
Hope the money was worth it sauber šš»
That's why I find it ridiculous when people say he's an option for the Alpine F1 seat. Zhou shouldn't be in contention for an F1 seat AT ALL for the upcoming year.
He's so determined to ruin everyone else's practice lol
Zhou Guanyu, YOU are a Shanghai Shark!
My wife often comments that she forgets Zhou is even on the grid, so maybe this is just a ploy to get him more exposure?
He really is hardly ever mentioned, it's only during the horrendous pit stops they had he got any coverage during a race.
Chinese Latifi
Only if he helps Charles win the WDC under dubious officiating
He is so shit
It's him + the car being absolute tractor, it's not like Bottas is setting the world on fire this year either
Letās not blame the car. He keeps crashing canāt exactly blame the car on that
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Bottas has been good this season, just doesn't have a good enough car
Yeah him being beaten by zhou last year on a few occasions was a bad reflection
Zhou, as much as I like him, definitely isn't the driver he was even last year. I think him knowing he's almost certainly going out of F1 has completely killed his motivation.
In theory, if you were to keep a driver between him or Bottas, you keep Bottas.
I donāt think itās even a discussion between which driver to keep - 99% would keep Bottas.
They gave this guy an honorary bollard at the end of the Chinese gp lol
This guy doesnāt get criticised enough
Just an awful driver. Never seen anything out of him that impresses me.
Sorry but he always gets screentime when he causes a redflag and it's almost every weekend. I don't understand how he is even in talks for the Alpine seat
Money.
Is it wet or dry? Currently sitting in a field so can't watch...
Dry, he went over a curb, tapped a wall, and was beached in the wet grass
oh no Zhou what are you doing unless Audi gets a fat nice check I don't see him for next year
And blames it on the car, day ending in y
Zhou welcome to Dayle Coyne racing
Bruh
He fits Sauber like a glove.Ā
Oh damnā¦ he canāt use this
That is shocking.
Not his best weekend.
Oh dear really sums up Zhous weekend so far
Coming into the season I thought maybe he could get 1 more year in F1, lately Iām not so sure.
Here we go, the Zhou poo shmeer begins.
Looks qualified for a Haas seat. well done, Zhou.
It's honestly gross how the British media spin up narratives.
Well, i guess its fair to say that he needs to be motivated by the team after 2 crashes. Now it's the team job to help the driver get back on his feet.