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arrivederci boss🫡

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Max and Daniel in the post-race media pen | Abu Dhabi GP, 2022 [x]

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TED KRAVITZ - MIAMI GRAND PRIX 2022

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hi I’m so sorry to bother u but WHAT IS THE STORY OF SEB GOING BAREFOOT IN THE SNOW FOR HANNA 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 I love him sm my god

so he's barefoot in the snow/sludge and hanna in the background is wearing his shoes and carrying her heels,, the only man actually

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PATO O’WARD Competing for Arrow McLaren SP in Indycar

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your Emilia Romagna GP Q’s top 3 👍

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Azerbaijan, 2018

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Charles Leclerc during Pirelli testing in Imola today (04.27.2022)

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How tough it is to be alongside Max Verstappen, when you look at the data what is Max Verstappen particularly good at?

If anyone watches MotoGP, think of someone like Marc Márquez, he has a very specific driving style and it works for him and it’s quick but it’s not always the easiest to follow. If that guy is always doing well, there’s no reason for the team to ever deviate to something else. Of course he is on the limit and he likes a car that is very much on the nose, he likes a lot of front. He’s obviously super talented and likes the car in certain way and it’s hard for others to follow.

Is he political?

No, he is not at all. He’s very straightforward, one of the most straightforward actually. He has a lot of self confidence, self belief. And he is in a position where he doesn’t need to be political because he can just do the talking on the circuit. People see him maybe as arrogant but I don’t think he is at all, I think he’s very determined, very hungry, sure of himself, but he is not arrogant.

If Max likes a strong front-end, what does Alex Albon like?

Before I even drove with Max I always loved front-end grip, I’d always had way more front than anyone else I used to race against, and that was from go karts as even through GP3 when I was with Charles and De Vries. And it’s the same here, I still like front. It’s just that Max was almost another step in a different section of- he liked a whole different world of front. So it sounds weird but I like a car on the nose, even if it doesn’t sound like I did in 2020.

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And you know what this is what upsets me so much is that the very same people that Lewis grew up idolizing and loving are the very same people now who insult his character every single chance they get and then you get a race like today where every single thing that could’ve went wrong went wrong and all Lewis says is “no worries, let’s keep pushing” but all of his old heroes will call him a crybaby and a whiner and say he has no loyalty. Like can you imagine that. Growing up and having someones posters on your walls only to come of age and have them spit on you.

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live, laugh, vettel.

AUSTRALIA 2022; 📸: Zak Mauger

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when you realize it's race week but you have w13:

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I’m literally stunned. a missile struck an oil facility 12km from the track. the smoke billowing from the fire is encircling the circuit. verstappen thought his car was on fire because he can smell smoke. sainz said he can see it from the car. what the fuck. how can they countenance continuing.

this sport is late stage capitalism embodied. it’s chilling. they have 0 regard for every. single. life. in. that. paddock.

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Formula 1 History: 1982 South African Grand Prix drivers strike

The 1982 South African Grand Prix was a Formula 1 race held at Kyalami on January 23rd, 1982. It was the first race of the 1982 season. Strike action was taken by the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, led by Niki Lauda and Didier Pironi, to protest the new super license conditions imposed by FISA, which tied drivers to a single team for up to three years. A late compromise was reached and the race went ahead. All drivers who participated were fined between $5,000-$10,000 dollars and handed suspended race bans. The FIA Court of Appeal later reduced the penalties and criticised FISA’s handling of the dispute. Alain Prost went on to win the race and Niki Lauda participated in his first race after two years out of F1 and finished fourth.

When the season started, only five drivers of twenty-five had signed their contracts (which included the super-liscence clause). Pironi and Lauda stated the case that “there should only be contracts that were mutually binding … if I [Lauda] am not allowed to leave McLaren, then McLaren is not allowed to fire me.” At a meeting of the drivers before the race, in was established that, with the exception of Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass, they were all in favor of holding out. It was decided that the drivers would call a strike and boycott practice on Thursday. In the words of Lauda, “Driver solidarity had never been all that impressive in Formula 1, not even in the days of Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart … In this instance … driver solidarity was extremely important because we couldn’t afford to let the united front crumble. 

Niki then thought of the plan TO RENT A BUS. YEAH. At seven in the morning on Thursday, a bus drew up to the track and parked at the entrance of the paddock. Inside it was a chafferer, Pironi and the undersigned. As each other drivers arrived, they were asked to park their cars and “get into the bus. They were going for a ride.” Ickx and Mass wouldn’t go along but all the others took their places on the bus instead of the grid. Everyone “seemed happy and there was a sense of strength through unity.” They took the bus the long way to a beautiful hotel in Johannesburg. Pironi then found out that there was news that all the drivers would be banned for life if they participated in this. All the drivers, of course, ignored this and instead chilled out at the pool and had a “really splendid day.” Bernie Ecclestone gave an ultimatum to Piquet and Patrese and both of them had effectively been “sacked.”

The younger drivers gave issue because they were more afraid of getting banned or fined for broken contracts. The good mood persisted through dinner and there was a lot of laughter when they had to ask the hotel manager for a room. ONE ROOM. ONE ROOM FOR ALL THE DRIVERS. They were given a “small banquet suite” and there was a piano but the bathroom was down the hall. They called up some sheets and spread them on the floor along with some mattresses. Roberto Guerrero manager came to the room with his girlfriend and tried to coax him out of it. Guerrero and his girlfriend broke down into tears but then they kicked the manager out and allowed the girlfriend to some inside instead. Gilles Villeneuve and Elio de Angelis began playing the piano and the atmosphere “picked up again.” Arrows team chief Jacky Oliver came and tried to force himself into the room and even brought the POLICE along. They managed to get the door halfway open before all the diets pushed it shut and used the piano to block the door. The younger drivers began to panic and most of them went to Lauda for reassurance. Throughout it all, Pironi and Nelson Piquet were lightening the mood through strength and jokes.

Eventually, they had to get some sleep. Since the bathroom was down the hall, there was one room key they all had to use. They put it on a plate in the middle of the room and crossed their hearts (Niki’s words) that they would use the bathroom and come straight back with the key. However, Teo Fabi chickened out and left with the key and never returned. Then proceeds to take a vote to see if they could continue and the vote was unanimous. In the end, Pironi came to terms with Balestre and they ended up wining the battle.