#jorge ferrari

[zibaldone-di-pensieri]

Sometimes I feel like F1 community is a bit toxic, then I remember I'm a motogp fan too and think "wow, this is even more toxic, F1 community is heaven compared to this"

I can't understand why people feel the need of sharing hate online every single day, I mean we know F1 is full of these dumb hater kids and sometimes pilots themselves argue loudly with each other, maybe some of them still hate each other but the point is: motogp world still seems worse

What I want to see is 20 guys racing on a track, giving their best, making wonderful surpasses and at the end of the race going back home with their own feet, in the meanwhile I hope for Italian drivers and Italian bikes to win.

But nah, the real pleasure is hoping for a driver to crash and hurt himself, his bike exploded? He is bleeding? He lost his head? Wooo🥳 and you know why? Because Marcrash is an idiot who hates Italian. Because Enea will kill everyone to let Pecco win. Because Pecco is a clown and must going down every race. Because Ducati has too many bikes and should go bankrupt. Because Yamaha and Honda ruined all those Spanish and French drivers so fuck them! Send a curse to them! Because Italian are idiots. Because this pilot can only cry. Because that other pilot can only crash into everyone. This should be illegal. That should be forgiven.

Imma go back to F1... 🙄

I mean, there are so many Lando or Charles crybabies around here too.... 👀

But personally I see more sportsmanship in F1's community than in motogp ones....

Maybe it's just me.

Disclaimer: I love both Lando and Charles, in reality I love almost every F1 pilots 🙃 and I like both Pecco and Jorge, I just want to have fun with everyone safe!

[almostarts]

"Butterfly" Chair,

This 1938 B.K.F. chair was created by Spaniard Antonio Bonet and Argentines Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy.

Painted wrought-iron and leather,

34 3/8 x 32 3/4 x 29 3/4" (87.3 x 83.2 x 75.6 cm).

Photo courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

[lanadelrrari]

This week really was a win for the spaniards huh

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Good Morning, I've memes because I'm extremely nervous for the race

[metal-sludge]

TUFF + FASTER PUSSYCAT + HERICANE ALICE + KEEL at the Troubadour, Hollywood CA in March, 1989.

L-R: Michael Lean (TUFF), Brent Muscat (FASTER PUSSYCAT), Stevie Rachelle (TUFF), Bruce Naumann (HERICANE ALICE), Todd Chase (TUFF), Ian Mayo (HERICANE ALICE), Danny Gill (HERICANE ALICE), Jorge Desaint (TUFF), and Marc Ferrari (KEEL).

[leclercskiesahead]

I can’t keep up with this Ferrari merch drop and motogp musical chairs news and Ferrari admin posting moustache Carlos content happening all at once

[clubcordobaslot]

[pier-carlo-universe]

Un sorriso ritrovato: la storia di Jorge e l’innovativa sedazione cosciente all’Ospedale Santo Spirito di Casale Monferrato

Un esempio di eccellenza sanitaria e solidarietà che trasforma la paura del dentista in speranza e sollievo.

Un esempio di eccellenza sanitaria e solidarietà che trasforma la paura del dentista in speranza e sollievo. Un sorriso ritrovato grazie alla sedazione cosciente La paura del dentista, conosciuta come odontofobia, rappresenta un ostacolo significativo per molte persone, impedendo loro di accedere a cure essenziali. È il caso di Jorge, 75 anni, che per decenni ha vissuto con dolori…

[28ms28]

dreams and hopes of a ferrari predestined

Rolling the credits:-

pics taken from pinterest mostly

poetry/quotes: when love arrives by Sarah Keys, Teaching my mother how to give birth by Warsan Shire, Confessional by Sue Zhao, Jorge Luis Borges, and Charles leclerc because sometimes the shit he says is so freaking poetic, and yeah maybe I did some writing too

article links: Vogue Italia, Giles Richard via the guardian, Giles Richard via the guardian again, also these two bbc articles [x], [x], The Ferrari dream by @ferrarisufferer165 (beautiful writing), and some words I stole from Reddit comments, the rest are from the official f1 website:)

go check out pinterest user235323 because oh man what a collection they have

song/lyrics: riptide by vance joy, hostage by billie ellish, it’ll chew you up and spit you out by concrete blonde, my tears ricochet by taylor swift, mess it up by gracie abrams, nothing new by taylor swift and phoebe bridgers

also tagging the lovely @verstpn i hope this has even 1% of the magic your web weaves have ^_^

[coimbrabertone]

Who is the Ferrari of the Motorcycle World?

A bit of a short blogpost this week since this is that time in my writing schedule where I've just posted a chapter of Fastest of the Prancing Horses, have to post this month's chapter of Racing in the Golden Age, and then back to Fastest of the Prancing Horses for that story's biweekly uploads. Self-imposed fanfic upload schedules aside, let's talk motorcycles.

Who is the Ferrari of motorcycles?

Ducati comes to mind first, being Italian and red and heavily associated with racing. The fact that when Ducati entered MotoGP in 2003, it had a very Ferrari like set of sponsors didn't hurt either. Marlboro and Shell at first, then Telecom Italia's Alice brand got involved in the late 2000s, and after diverging a bit in the early 2010s - when Ducati had a sponsorship with Mercedes-AMG of all people - they both wound up with Philip Morris' Mission Winnow as a sponsor.

And around the same time as Mission Winnow, both gained Lenovo sponsorships. Ferrari's Lenovo deal seemed to only last for 2018 and 2019 and has recently been replaced by a title sponsorship from HP, whilst the ties between Ducati and Lenovo have only grown stronger, becoming a title sponsorship from 2021 onwards.

So, the sponsorship is very similar, but it's not the same.

Plus, there's now a pretty big stumbling block to the whole Ducati = Ferrari thing.

That being that Ducati is owned by Lamborghini. Yup, in 2012, Ducati was acquired by Audi - which itself is part of the Volkswagen Group - and Ducati was placed under the control of Lamborghini. So, in a funny little shell game, Ducati was owned by Lamborghini who was owned by Audi who was owned by Volkswagen.

So yes, Ducati may have the superficial resemblance to Ferrari, but being owned by Ferrari's greatest rival kinda breaks the whole comparison.

Another thing that doesn't help is that Ducati's Grand Prix racing history is rather recent. Sure, their history with superbikes and the Isle of Man TT, with famous riders like Mike Hailwood and Carl Fogarty, but they did not have that MotoGP pedigree until 2003 onwards. Even then, Ducati only had a single 2007 championship until their recent (2022-present) success.

So, how about someone who does have GP pedigree?

MV Agusta.

The massive amount of success that MV Agusta had with the likes of John Surtees, Guy Hawking, Mike Hailwood, the great Giacomo Agostini, and Phil Reed gave MV a stranglehold over the 500cc class from 1958 to 1974, a level of domination that Ferrari could only dream of.

The problem is that, since then, MV Agusta hasn't really had the money to race.

They've tried a couple of times, with various Superbike and Supersport efforts, most prominently with Reparto Corse who is still in WSSP, as well as a brief partnership with Forward Racing in Moto2 between 2019 and 2022. None of this compares to MV Agusta's past greatness, and none of it is really comparable to Ferrari either.

That being said, on the road bike side, I think MV Agusta matches Ferrari in terms of being these rare, expensive, incredibly desirable things. Ducati is no slouch either in that regard, but, come on, just look at a MV Agusta F4 or Superveloce and tell me those aren't some of the most beautiful motorcycles ever made.

So MV Agusta and Ducati both meet some criteria, but both fail at some others.

So here is another contender: Aprilia.

Now, Aprilia's racing history started rather recently, but they've done a lot in that time - their 125cc and 250cc bikes dominated the lower classes of GP racing in the 90s and 2000s, with riders like Max Biaggi, Valentino Rossi, Loris Capirossi, Marco Melandri, Alvaro Bautista, Jorge Lorenzo, and Marc Marquez all taking championships on board their bikes and then going on to have massively successful careers.

Even once the two-stroke success dried up, Aprilia took the fight to World Superbikes, winning the 2010 and 2012 titles with Max Biaggi and then the 2014 title with Sylvain Guintoli. The likes of Eugene Laverty and Marco Melandri also took wins on the Aprilia WSBK bikes at this time.

Their factory team efforts ceased in 2015, but that was because Aprilia was entering MotoGP.

First with Gresini, Aprilia began a long preparation period, but come 2022, Aprilia was ready. Gresini went its own way as a Ducati satellite team, while Aprilia entered a full factory effort with Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales.

Aleix would win in the third race of the season at Argentina and finish fourth in the standings while Maverick took three podiums and an eleventh place finish.

In 2023, Aleix would win at Britain and then sweep the weekend at Catalunya to finish sixth in the standings, while Maverick Vinales was just behind him in seventh. That Catalunya race would also mark Aprilia's first 1-2 finish.

2024 wasn't as strong, but Maverick Vinales still swept the weekend at COTA on his way to a seventh-place championship finish, whilst Aleix Espargaro won the sprint race at Catalunya for the second year in a row, a fine feather in the cap for his retirement year, even if he did slip to eleventh in the standings in the process.

Now, with Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin as their riders - and Jorge having the option to put the #1 plate on the Aprilia if he so chooses - Aprilia is certainly on the way up in MotoGP.

Oh, and the team is run by former Ferrari man Massimo Rivola.

If that's still not enough to convince you, then let me take you back to the 90s when, for a brief period of time, it seemed like the Piaggio Group (Aprilia's parent company) and Fiat (then Ferrari's parent company) were on the verge of a merger.

Giovannino Agnelli - the nephew of Fiat supremo GIanni Agnelli and the son of Antonella Becchi Luserna Piaggio, the adopted daughter of Enrico Piaggio - became President of Piaggio in 1993. In 1995, Gianni Agnelli officially named Giovannino his successor...only for Giovannino to pass away from cancer in December 1997.

Gianni Angelli would die in January 2003, with the Ferrari F2003-GA named in his honor.

Had Giovannino not predeceased his grandfather, Aprilia and Ferrari could well now be sister companies.

Another side effect of the whole Piaggio ownership thing is that Aprilia's sister companies include Moto Guzzi, Gilera, and Derbi, and those brands certainly fill out Aprilia's racing history.

Gilera was the first giant of 500cc motorcycle racing, winning six titles between 1950 and 1957. while Moto Guzzi wasn't quite as successful with its 500cc V8, it did win the very first 250cc championship in 1949, as well as five consecutive 350cc titles from 1953 to 1957.

As for Derbi, it had a ton of success in 50cc and 125cc GP racing with Angel Nieto in the 70s, and then later on during the golden age of two-stroke Aprilias, Aprilia had some of their bikes badged as a Gilera or as a Derbi.

Marco Simoncelli won the 2008 250cc title on a Gilera whilst Marc Marquez's aforementioned 2010 125cc title was on a Derbi.

So, when you put it like that, Aprilia does have a pretty consistent history in GP racing after all, huh?

Well, if none of those convinced you, there's a surprise fourth candidate, because the rumor mill is that, with KTM's financial difficulties, Lewis Hamilton is in talks to invest in the KTM MotoGP team. So, there is a possibility that we'll see a MotoGP team owned by a Ferrari Formula One driver in the near future.

Yup, after all these Italian companies, the Ferrari of MotoGP might end up being the road racing arm of an Austrian dirt bike company.

We live in strange times.

[keepthedelta]

Maybe it's because I've been looking at too much PR content recently but everything you've said about Ferrari really reminded me of Ducati as well (in the MotoGP context). Obvious disclaimer that these two teams are basically not alike at all as in one is undoubtedly the most historically significant team in their sport while the other is historically completely insignificant in their sport, but just the whole impatience with their athletes (getting rid of them if they don't won championships after a few seasons) and the thirst to sign multi-time champions (Before Marc there were Jorge and Vale, before Lewis there were Seb and Fernando...) . Also having that one guy they were weirdly loyal to despite their usually commitment issues. Even more so with Ducati because at least Charles was successful from the get-go, known flake Ducati really saw Pecco flop around for a good 2 years and were like yeah we should promote him to the factory team. IK contracts but like you said before they don't really mean much at the end of the day. Anyways gonna start RPF-ing Charles x Pecco sad hookup after they both get fired from their dream teams after getting their asses kicked this season 😔😔😔

they can have play dates with their little sausage dogs while looking longingly at max and marc having their own red bull reunion play date with their sausage dogs and championships

[kamas-corner]

"Unos quinientos años antes de la era cristiana se dio en la Magna Grecia la mejor cosa que regirá la historia universal: el descubrimiento del diálogo. La fe, la certidumbre, los dogmas, los anatemas, las plegarias, las prohibiciones, las órdenes, los tabúes, las tiranías, las guerras y las glorias abrumaban el orbe; algunos griegos contrajeron, no sabemos cómo, la singular costumbre de conversar. Dudaron, persuadieron, disintieron, cambiaron de opinión, aplazaron. Acaso los ayudó su mitología, que era un conjunto de fábulas imprecisas y de cosmologías variables. Esas primeras conjeturas fueron la primera raíz de lo que llamamos hoy, no sin pompa, la metafísica. Sin esos pocos griegos conversadores la cultura occidental es inconcebible."

-Jorge Luis Borges, "Prólogo", Diálogos con Ferrari.

[santoschristos]

Moon-Diana, Goddess of Poetry from Astrological=Periodicity by Lyman E. Stowe (1909)

Last week … two people asked me the same question – what’s the use of poetry? And I answered them with: What’s the use of death? What’s the use of the taste of coffee? What the use of me? What’s the use of us? Jorge Luis Borges to Osvaldo Ferrari, Conversations, Volume 1

[unhinged-motogp-confessions]

"Why is Jorge Martin so hated" why is the sky blue. Why is the grass green. Why is valentino rossi so sexy. Why has Ferrari been flopping since 2007.

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[ivebeenfoundout]

Just had another migraine how so I’m laying down

But my brain can’t stand just resting without doing anything

So I collected a bunch of my favourite works from when I went to MALBA in Dec 2022:

Mujer desnuda leyendo (Nude woman reading), Armando Reverón, 1932, 78 x 116 cm;

This piece is great in person. When you get close to the canvas the delicate marks scramble and are difficult to make out. Standing further back, however, you can begin to make out the woman’s form. Feels like you are peering through a net curtain.

El oso (The bear), Vicente do Rego Monteiro, 1925, 86 x 97 cm;

Something about this is very cute, reminds me of Botero but with animals. Although the curves make the work appear soft and mellow at first glance, the grainy effect of the paint and a dark neutral colour palette give the painting a sombre after-tone.

Cuadro escrito (Written painting), León Ferrari, 1964, 66 x 48 cm;

I haven’t read his text all the way (I should), but the beginning of the very first sentence is what immediately caught my attention: “Si yo supiera pintar…” (If I knew how to paint…) The link between different mediums of art such as sculpture, painting, poetry and film has always been very interesting to me, so seeing a visual artist blur the lines between writing and design is captivating. The winding, swirling orthography reflects Ferrari’s introspective reflection in this piece.

El hueso (The bone), Miguel Covarrubias, 1940, 35,6 x 26 cm;

What a polite looking man. The size of this piece, and the placid expression on the subjects face, are both unassuming yet arresting. Alone on a corner wall in the gallery, the bright colours save it from getting lost in a sea of negative space. Yet something about the man’s expression, his eyes, seems distant and resigned.

Sin título (Untitled), Jorge de La Vega, 1971, 230 x 280 cm;

This, on the other hand, is an enormous, attention-grabbing piece. It seems logical that it is a product of the late 60s/early 70s with its almost psychedelic visual effect. Initially I didn’t look twice at the piece, largely indifferent, but the eyes of the apple-eating woman seemed to follow me around the corners of the exhibition room, so that I was forced to reconsider it. There is a childlike sense of wonder here, but her slightly crazed expression makes me wonder if there is a more sinister undertone.

Doing this actually kind of helped my headache! I haven’t been able to paint much lately because of the pain, so it’s nice to be able to still access art in this way.