#adrian sutil

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Sir Lewis Hamilton at the Amber Fashion Show (2009-2010)

[peppermintsugarcookie]

My!!!!!

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Hockenheim 2008

Rainer W. Schlegelmilch

[alwayslewis]

guys i actually need pictures of them

let us not forget this duo because it goes DEEP !!!!!!

[skitskatdacat63]

I feel weirdly compelled by this

[umlewis]

lewis hamilton and michael schumacher during the press conference, china - april 15, 2010 📷 yan yande / apimages.com

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And there's more 😭😭

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July 9, 2009 - Nurburg, Germany

Source: Mark Thompson/Getty Images Europe

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Street Circuit of Valencia, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.

Sebastien Bourdais, Sebastian Vettel, Giancarlo Fisichella, Adrian Sutil,Mark Webber, David Coulthard, Nico Rosberg, Kazuki Nakajima, Timo Glock, Jarno Trulli, Fernando Alonso, Nelsinho Piquet, Rubens Barrichello, Jenson Button, Nick Heidfeld, Robert Kubica, Felipe Massa, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen (Class of 2008) Posing with Bridgestone tyres director Hiroshi Yasukawa and Hirohide Hamashima.

[trashbnuuy]

This is yaoi

this is kind of my favorite genre of image ever. like THIS is what the internet is for

[lewisarchive]

Sir Lewis Hamilton sharing podium with Sebastian Vettel and Adrian Sutil in the F3 Euro Series (2005)

[keepthedelta]

okay it's kinda specific but is there any brocedes fact that is often overlooked but you think that is essential (or perhaps gives a new approach) to the lore?

that's such a good question. i have several, i hope you don't mind

the first one is the "he'll always be my best friend in my heart" quote. i've seen a lot of people use it as a very earnest declaration etc. (or if they believe in the nico is obsessed with lewis shit as a sign of that) but it was actually nico making a joke when he was doing commentary (on the italian comms i think). he was asked a question about lewis and jokingly/sarcastically said "in my heart he'll always be my best friend", and then immediately clarified that it was a joke (maybe recognising the narrative that would be spun around it). i know this seems kind of anti-brocedes but i do think it is essential to the lore that people recognise nico is not a weird as fandom likes to make out. he's absolutely weird, and he's definitely not normal about lewis, but he's not obsessive, and he feels comfortable enough making jokes about them. when you contrast that with lewis who either refuses to say nico's name in conversations where he is the most relevant person (the better teammates than max interview) or brings him up unnecessarily and then panics about it (grill the grid), i think it changes the dynamic of who is yearning, who is "over it", who is winning the idgaf war (it's neither of them but the difference is lewis lost by playing and nico is open enough about giving a fuck that he's not pretending to play). i am biased, but i also think that if you look back at them during their careers, lewis was always weirder about nico than nico was about him, although again, neither of them can truly be described as normal about each other.

then there's nico beating lewis in the 2004 f3 series that they shared. the narrative of brocedes describes it as lewis always beating nico, lewis being the one to win and nico always being slightly behind. and largely this is true. but in 2004 they were both competing in the 2004 f3 european series, albeit for different teams. neither of them won, but nico narrowly beat lewis. now they were in different teams and nico himself has said that some teams had better cars and equipment than others and that made a difference in the end result. but, nico still beat lewis. he had nearly double the number of dnfs/dns (6 to lewis's 3) and triple the number of wins (3 to lewis's 1), finishing highest of all the entrants who eventually made it to f1 (nico himself, lewis, adrian sutil and robert kubica). but nico himself barely seems to remember this. the narrative of lewis always being better, always beating him, is something he seems to have internalised, even though it isn't quite true, or at least, not as true as people make out.

my third bit of lore is that mclaren wanted to sign nico for the 2008 season. following the drama of fernando alonso (affectionate) and spygate, mclaren had an open seat and ron dennis wanted to fill it with nico. he even offered to buy out nico's contract from williams, but frank williams viewed nico as their best hope and refused. the driver that eventually ended up replacing fernando was heikki kovaleinen, nico's gp2 rival and 100% finnish to his 50% (yes nico's national identity crisis does come into this). lewis ended up winning the championship that year. heikki took only 1 victory, and while i think lewis would have beaten nico, i think nico wouldn't have been a doormat for him like heikki, and would have won at least a couple of races, which would have allowed felipe massa and ferrari to succeed. in many ways i think an argument can be made that nico not getting that mclaren seat really helped lewis to win his first championship, in the same way that if lewis hadn't gone to mercedes, nico would have won three, or if nico had stayed, there is a very real possibility that sebastian vettel would have won 2017. their presence and their success dooms the other, and it always has.

my final thing is that they are the most successful teammate pairing in f1 history. it kind of links back to the last one, where the fact that they are each as good as they are hurts the other one, unlike a lewis and valtteri line up or a michael and rubens line up where there is a distinct number one driver and the other one is to be sacrificed for him. but, even though both of those pairs were together for longer (nico and lewis aren't even in the top 5 longest teammate pairings), it takes more than a number 1 number 2 driver lineup to be the most successful. it takes nico and lewis, who are both number 1 drivers (don't come for me on this, nico would have flattened the likes of valtteri, rubens, or mark webber and you know it). although they were only teammates for four years (and one of those was a sebastian vettel/red bull dominance year) they achieved more pole positions, front row lockouts, wins, podiums, and 1-2 finishes than any other pairing in f1 history. they were utterly, utterly dominant, and that's why they hurt each other so badly. they were the dream team, the absolute best f1 could come up with, but they weren't just competing as a team, they were competing against each other, and only one of them could win

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As you can see, this race is off to a good start

[alianoralacanta]

When they were team-mates at Force India, Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella somehow managed to collide at the 2009 British Grand Prix. In Free Practise 2. In the pitlane. (Fisichella was being pulled into the pit garage by his mechanics, Sutil slightly missed his braking point and nudged it just hard enough to break both newly-upgraded front wings).

I think it built more embarrassment than character.

i think all teammates should crash atleast once. it builds a lot of character. daniel and max did it. charles and seb did it. and of course, the pinnacle of teammate crashes, lewis and nico did it.

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lewis hamilton and michael schumacher during the press conference, china - april 15, 2010 📷 motorsport images