#2001 not a race

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"Only one Karting World Championship is organised, with the aim of increasing further the value of this title. It is exclusively reserved for Formula Super A, and 21 Teams with two Drivers each are entered. The competition consists in a series of five events, which are held in Canada, in Belgium, in France, in Italy and, after the cancellation of the Japanese round, in Germany. This last round, held on the Kerpen circuit, sees the participation of Michael Schumacher (DEU), who finishes second. The title is grasped by Vitantonio Liuzzi (ITA). Carlo Van Dam (NLD) quite clearly dominates the European Formula A Championship. Sebastian Vettel (DEU) carries off the European Juniors’ Championship and the Monaco Kart Cup." - 2001

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Rat Race (2001) dir. Jerry Zucker

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Michelle Rodriguez as Letty

2001’s “The Fast & The Furious”

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[leclerking]

Ok now when is it Leclerc's turn??!!!

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Daijiro Kato Vs. Tohru Ukawa Suzuka 8 Hours // 2001

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Not Every Film I Watch In 2024

16. Bones (2001)

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Interview with Liz Wardley, 2 December 2023

This was really such an incredible experience, I'm mutuals with offshore sailor Liz Wardley on LinkedIn and we'd talked in DMs a few times and met IRL at the Ocean Race Newport stopover in 2018 and accidentally when Maiden was at Mystic Seaport last year. I worked up the courage to ask her if she'd be interested in being interviewed for this blog while I'm home on sabbatical this winter and she said yes! We had some trouble working out the time difference because Liz is currently in the Canary Islands getting ready to leave for the World's Toughest Row, a 3000-mile transatlantic rowing race to Antigua, on 12 December. But she took almost an hour to chat with me about childhood jungle adventures, the lucky moment that got her into the Ocean Race, pesto, rubber duckies, and what she has over Jimmy Spithill.

Timestamps:

0:54: Early Days

5:10: The Sydney-Hobart Race

15:32: The Volvo Ocean Race 2001, Amer Sports Two

20:07: Offshore sailing in France

26:03: VOR 2014, Team SCA

29:40: VOR 2017, Turn the Tide on Plastic

32:25: Liz in lockdown

34:44: The Maiden Project

36:30: The Ocean Race 2023, WindWhisper

41:37: The World's Toughest Row

47:06: (Not) Getting Philosophical

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I miss that 2000s movie genre where they would put some of the most random actors together for a screwball comedy fever dream.

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number of sunday race wins per title winner this century (wins/number of races)

2001: 11/16

2002: 11/16

2003: 9/16

2004: 9/16

2005: 11/17

2006: 2/17

2007: 10/18

2008: 9/18

2009: 6/17

2010: 9/18

2011: 10/17

2012: 6/18

2013: 6/18

2014: 13/18

2015: 7/18

2016: 5/18

2017: 6/18

2018: 9/18

2019: 12/19

2020: 1/14

2021: 5/18

2022: 7/20

2023: 7/20

current wins of title contenders this season (out of 9 races, another 10-11 to go): bagnaia - 6; martin - 2

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Vale talking about Suzuka 2001. Biaggi pushed him out of the track with his elbow, Vale passes him on the next lap and gives him the middle finger

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2001 Ferrari 550 Maranello Prodrive

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Millencolin - No Cigar

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ROUND 1B, MATCH 16 OUT OF 16!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Enrico Pollini:

always fun to watch Rowan Atkinson be a complete doofus, and it's hard to get much sleepier than this narcoleptic Italian guy who -- spoilers for a 20 year old movie -- would have won the race if he hadn't passed out right at the locker.

Unconscious Argentinean:

He sings the El tango de Roxanne

[queenlua]

this story is so fucking wild omg???

it’s got everything—commandeering southern matriarch, a daughter marrying a hot rod-drivin’ ne’er-do-well, horse racing community bein weird and insular and scandalous, massive bank fraud in texas, relentless prosecutor tracking down an 11th hour forensic investigator to blow the whole case open, etc

like wow.

sad story though.  poor alydar :(