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[vetteldixon]

kids those day jay...... unbelievable

lemme stream of consciousness a few things about the lead up to multi 21 that make the whole situation uniquely batshit:

2010. round 7, turkey. mark in the lead, seb has lewis breathing down his neck. seb's pace is great so he goes for the overtake on mark. they make contact, seb retires, mark finishes p3 anyway. and yet the one we're supposed to have pity on, according to the media, is...mark. (a debate rages in the media about what engine modes they're both in and mark whines that he was trying to save his engine and seb was recklessly in a higher mode)

2010 round 10, silverstone. some bullshit over who gets an upgrade happens and seb gets pole, mark is pissy about it but wins the race anyway and calls HIMSELF the number 2 driver over the radio.

seb gets the 2010 title by the skin of his teeth mostly by simply...driving better

seb gets the 2011 title fairly easily after driving the best car extremely well amongst constant speculation about unfair treatment, which ofc was a song the media started singing in 2010, and mark himself keeps directly feeding them fodder

mark tries his darndest to keep the 2012 title out of seb's hands after an absolutely buck-wild, anyone's-game season

so when the 2nd race of 2013 rolls around.....sure. the red bull is the best car again so why not arrange for their poor lil meow meow number 2 driver to have a race win as a treat, since the strategy's worked out nicely. just gotta tell em both to turn down their engines and finish the race. right?

if you were sebastian vettel and you just spent 3 years working your ass off to beat fernando alonso and lewis hamilton and earning 3 championships because of it, including proving definitively over and over again that both your quali and your race pace at nearly every track that you are faster than your whiny-ass teammate, all while saying basically nothing in response to everyone constantly throwing shade at you, what would YOU do when your team tells you to just let this one get away?

that's right, you'd say NO, keep your engine turned up, and race mark hard but clean and kick his teeth in.

and to me, that's the bitter irony of multi 21: it was completely unnecessary by seb. anybody who was honest with themselves already knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was the better driver. you don't win 3 titles in a row without an astonishing amount of pure talent, and the numbers already consistently proved it. there was no point to be made. mark had lost the war. but seb refused to let even one race get away from him.

[formulaoneisajoke]

happy birthday!!! hope you had a lovely day 🥳🧡

thanks ana 💓

[vettelewis]

happy birthday!! have a lovely day 💚💜

thank you ana! 💚💜💚💜 you too!

[fangio]

happy birthday!!!! 🥳🥳 have an awesome day ✨ 💜

thank you ana 🥰🥰!!! <3

[sebnameyourcar]

paging tumblr user ana marinasbay

[sebchalex]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! have an amazing day 🤩🥳😻💝

AAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! have an amazing day as well 🥰🌺🌸🥺🎈🎊

[vetteldixon]

the duality of man

who besides sebastian vettel would show up to a fancy lunch with climate change experts looking like he just got laid? he's my favorite person, your honor

[vetteldixon]

mike!!!!! green heart

[vetteldixon]

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[vetteldixon]

how u doing in this fine morning jay :3

i am literally just so happy!!!!!!!!!!! they really said good morning happy monday jay!!!!!!!!

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[vetteldixon]

bestie i dont have much to offer but i do have birbs 🙏🏻

birds are so important and you bring me SO many good ones, you offer more than enough 🐦🦆🕊🦉🦜🦚🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[vetteldixon]

tagged by @creampuffjiggle and @teamgreenheart, thank you!! 🤍🤍

last song: my name is jonas (live in rochester 1994) by weezer, because it is one of my budgie’s favorites

last show: house md! i haven’t finished my rewatch yet but i’ll take the question to mean just ‘last episode of a show’ because i simply cannot remember the last time i finished a show unless it was like, idk, downton abbey or the great british bake off

currently watching: literally currently watching spa 1998, and in general been hopping around the f1tv archives haphazardly for comfort and entertainment—again, partly because the budgie adores car noises and making him happy makes me happy

currently reading: rereading a wizard’s holiday from the young wizards series by diane duane for the zillionth time, fave book from a fave series and something seb said about retirement reminded me of the ending of this book

current obsession: watching the clouds from my window and practicing my handwriting with my fountain pen—i thought my ink was lost in the move last year but the other day i found a couple cartridges for my lamy! hooray! oh and working way too hard on a very specific vettin photoset inspired by something jay said in dms that’s been in my mind rent-free for ages

zero-pressure tags: @cuetheviolins @marinasbay @whaaaaatt @indycar-series @theizzyryder @babysdrivers @jensonsbuttons and anybody who wants to do it

[vetteldixon]

me talking to ana @marinasbay​ about seb: