#monaco 2007

[umlewis]

lewis hamilton, p2, during the post-race press conference, monaco - may 27, 2007

[schumigrace]

I'm not gonna be the one to say it

[umseb]

formula renault 3.5 driver sebastian vettel in the paddock on race day, monaco - may 27, 2007 📷 gareth bumstead / motorsport images

[brawngp2009]

2007 Monaco Grand Prix - Thursday Practice Monte Carlo, Monaco. 24th May 2007. Jenson Button, Honda RA107. Portrait. Ph.: Andrew Ferraro.

[vintagef1]

michael schumacher looks on during the 2007 monaco grand prix

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2007: Qualification

Last year's Eurovision turned out to be immensely popular. Both the lack of scandal and a hugely popular and novel winner not only went down well with the European public, but also the broadcasters of Europe.

It was enough to quell the doubts about the competition that had been increasing. At least for now. Austria and Hungary returned having registered their concerns and reassured that if a bunch of rock demons from Finland could win, then so could they.

Monaco however felt differently. They'd spend three years in the semi-finals since their return in 2004, never really threatening to qualify and given the low budgets and viewership (does anyone resident in Monaco actually watch Eurovision?), they once again pulled out. As of 2024, they still haven't returned.

After last years unpleasantness, both Serbia and Montenegro took part separately. Officially they were debuts, but they kind of weren't. It now meant that every republic that had formerly constituted Yugoslavia were now competing independently. Six countries where there had been one. There was still the question of Kosovo though, and that's a question that remains to this day.

Two other countries had a go at Eurovision for the first time: Georgia and the Czech Republic. That's forty-two countries in total breaching the EBUs forty country limit.

This resulted in the biggest semi-final ever with twenty-eight countries competing in one of the longest Eurovision performance schedules ever and it left the EBU scratching its head as Azerbaijan were asking politely to take part as well.

Of the forty-two entrants, ten went for internal selection, up two from last year. That still means that thirty-two national finals took place, three more than last year. Three of those were song-selections with an artist known in advance, and one (Hungary) was an artist selection show with a song already in mind.

Adding in Sanremo, that leads to a round 500 songs being in the contention for my bracket this year. That's actually a fifty-three song reduction on 2006, mainly because several of the monster selection shows slimmed down somewhat.

2007 is Eurovision achieving it's full size for the first time. There will be a couple of years that match it for number of entrants, but this is the one that grew beyond what the EBU was prepared for. But was exactly what the EBU wanted.

[charles-leclerc-official]

what has been your favorite race that you have watched? or top 5

Brazil 2007

Monza 2019

Spain 2016

Brazil 2016

Monaco 2004/2024

Honorable mentions to: Singapore 2008(iykyk) Austria 2019/2022 and Bahrain 2022

[superstar49]

15 36 and 58 for the f1 asks!!

(also you're so real for saying carlando i like them as friends but just cannot ever get behind the ship 😭)

f1 asks!

15. Is there a driver that you disliked in the beginning but now like?

max definitely comes to mind for this one. i’ve been a lewis hamilton fan all my life so obviously i used to be a hardcore max verstappen hater, but honestly this year he has charmed me! he’s soooo bitchy i love it

36. What were some of your favourite races?

some of my favs this year have been silverstone, baku, austin, and monaco! favs over all is a really long list 😅 but i rewatched fuji 2007 recently so that one’s on my mind, what a crazy race

58. What is your favourite platonic ship?

another long list, but i’ve always been a fan of liam and logan :)

[iceman7raikkonen]

[f1cars]

🏎️ Jenson Button drives Honda Racing F1 Team's RA107 during the Monaco Grand Prix

📍Circuit de Monaco, Monaco

🗓️ 27 May 2007

📸 Jean-Marc Zaorski

[ifreakingloveroyals]

[umlewis]

highlights of the 2007 monaco grand prix

[schumigrace]

fernando alonso | 1st place | monaco 2007 | podium no.41

[umseb]

sebastian vettel, p2, in parc ferme after the formula renault 3.5 race, monaco - may 27, 2007 📷 andreas beil / imago

[brawngp2009]

2007 Monaco Grand Prix - Thursday Practice Monte Carlo, Monaco. 24th May 2007. Jenson Button, Honda RA107. Portrait. Ph.: Lorenzo Bellanca.

[dear-ao3]

hey wait im also new to f1 but i saw the other ask and i was curious abt what you meant when you said no one will ever do it like nico rosberg?? also retiring after your first championship win is insane lmao what a power move

nico rosberg is just. he’s insane. he’s cunty. he’s wonderful. he possesses sass and audacity unlike any other. we unfortunately do not have time to get into his whole story (my lunch break is only so long) but here’s some highlights:

-technically he’s a nepo baby. his dad, keke rosberg, won the world championship in 1982 and they remain one of the Few father son duos to both win a world championship (don’t ask me who the others are idk but i know they exist)

-he and lewis hamilton met when they were kids in the late 90s sometime and were gokarting teammates at some point in i think the early 2000s? (not fact checking i don’t have the time rn) and they were Besties. they’ve talked about this before, mostly in older interviews, but the gist is that both of them were outcasts from the other karting kid in opposite ways (nico was the son of a champion and rich and lewis was from nothing and pretty much the only poc most of the time) and that drew them together and they were Menaces according to legend. everything was a competition and they trashed hotel rooms and ate pizza and ice cream and kellogg frosties and went to greece and dreamed of being in f1 together

-nico signed with williams in 2006. his teammate was mark webber. and nico had long flowing blonde hair (this is important). he crashed at one race and mark webber said “britney’s in the wall” cementing the nickname britney, like britney spears. jenson button (another driver) said later on that they called nico britney because he was “very pretty” (do with that what you will)

-he was just. insane. cunty. constantly looked like a european bond villain. wore god awful shoes. whole bit. once he stayed in his car when it got craned off the track cause he didn’t want his hair to get wet. which is insane cause he’s wearing a helmet it would have gotten equally as not wet had he gotten out.

-anyway, lewis made it to f1 in 2007 and they had their first podium together i think that year (?) and it’s cute and fun and oh boy you’re not ready for what these two have coming

-lewis won the championship in 2008 (but he almost won in 2007, his rookie year) at mclaren.

-nico went to mercedes when they recentered the grid in 2010. his teammate was michael schumacher, who was fresh out of retirement. (yes the michael schumacher, 7x world champion). michael fucked with nico endlessly according to legend, including making him piss in a bucket pre race because he would hog the bathroom until the last possible second. nico still out preformed him most of the time, and the car was mid as hell.

-michael retired part 2 at the end of 2012. and who replaced him but lewis hamilton

-so the two of them were teammates again. the cards were absolute Stacked against them. because yes they were besties yes they’d known eachother forever but the first person you’re judged against is your teammate. and you’re trying to beat your teammate. and lewis already had a championship. nico wanted a championship.

-2013 was relatively chill. the car was kinda mid. they did well but not fantastic and did some fuck ass pr (highly reccomend looking those videos up)

-2014 they had a car that could win. and they started fighting eachother for wins. they played all kinds of mind games against eachother and withheld stats and nico ran illegal engine modes (supposedly) and lewis said they were no longer friends after nico supposedly wrecked his monaco qualifying one year but they claimed they still supported eachother and were friends off track. lewis won in 2014 and in 2015. but nico was right behind him and he wanted to win a championship, he didn’t want to be a number 2 driver

-so in 2016 nico did some insane shit. he stopped sleeping with his wife so that he could get better sleep or something, he did weird things to cut weight, he basically did everything and then some to win. and then he did. he won the championship and then at the prize giving ceremony announced he was retiring. he didn’t tell lewis this.

more after i get off work :)