#monza 2004

[schumigrace]

jenson button | 3rd place | monza 2004 | podium no.8

[p1darren]

P11 and P17 for Aston Martin.

[kwisatzworld]

Uccio Salucci: the good life

December 2008 by Mat Oxley

Uccio Salucci’s good life is living life with the world’s greatest motorcycle racer, handing him his helmet and gloves on the grid, topping up his energy drink in the pit, hanging out with him in Ibiza. In fact, everywhere Valentino Rossi goes, Uccio goes with him. It’s a bit like being God’s butler. There’s no doubt that Uccio lives the good life – travelling the world in first-class style with the hugely popular Rossi, who just happens to be his best mate as well as his employer. Uccio has been Rossi’s right-hand man since his earliest days on the GP trail, he’s like an extra pair of hands for the seven-time world champion. The old school friends have known each other most of their lives and are pretty much inseparable whether they’re in the paddock, partying in Ibiza or chilling out back home in Tavullia.

How old are you? I’m 29, same as Valentino.

How did you get here? We have been dear friends since we were four or five years old. We used to go to school together and after school we used to go minimoto racing together. Of course, Valentino was always faster. When he started travelling around and doing well in GPs he needed someone he could really trust to be with him, as all racers do. Valentino asked me to be his ‘main of faith’ and I said yes.

What do you do? My real job is to drive the motorhome to all the European races. I am also Valentino’s assistant, so he calls me bad names when things go badly and when things go well we share the happiness. I look after everything for him, all his kit, his leathers, helmets, gloves and boots, anything he hasn’t got time to do, I do.

What is the highlight of your job? Travelling, seeing new things, learning new cultures and, of course, being with an amazing character like Valentino. He’s a lot of fun to be with, in and out of the paddock. Of course, we do argue, we argue a lot, like women! The best moment of our time together was South Africa 2004, his first win with Yamaha.

What makes you tick? The engine of my job is wanting to win the race on Sunday, this is my main motivation, just like Valentino’s. You cannot do this job if you’re not hungry for victory.

Is it the easy life? It’s easy and it’s difficult. For sure it’s easier than a proper job, I don’t consider this to be a real job. It’s difficult to be with Valentino because he’s very famous, so he gets a lot of criticism, so you always have to stay calm about this kind of thing. But you get used to the lifestyle, it’s not a crazy life but an emotional life.

What’s your best-ever trip? I always enjoy driving the motorhome on long journeys, like to Jerez in southern Spain. The motorhome is always very crowded, there’s always four or five of us from Tavullia, with me doing all the driving.

What’s the best bike you’ve ever ridden? The Yamaha 990cc M1! I rode it twice in 2006, first at Monza, then at Valencia. Valentino let a few of us ride his bike. It was fantastic, the power and the braking were incredible, and the handling was so light and easy, like a bicycle. But I didn’t go very fast. For sure if I crash, I die!

What’s the secret of the good life? The secret of the good life in the paddock is to take everything lightly, not to take it too seriously. There’s a lot of pressures and if you focus too much on the pressures you don’t have a good time.

What would you swap about your good life? I don’t like it when Valentino gets criticised. The paddock is like a barber’s shop, everyone talks a lot, there’s a lot of bullshit, I don’t like that aspect of this world.

How often do you ride? I have an XT660 Supermotard, I go to the seaside from Tavullia. In the summer I never drive a car. Maybe I’m a little crazy on the street, especially on roundabouts: foot down, wheelies. But please don’t write that.

Who else has the good life? Rock stars!

You and Valentino like a party don’t you? Yes, of course, we love parties, but we’re getting older so we don’t party as much as we used to. We like to be with friends, eat a pizza…

So no more DC10? [A legendary Ibiza pill-popping club] We don’t like it anymore, the people are different now, Ibiza has changed.

What’s the best party you’ve been to? DC10 in 2000, before Vale bought a house in Ibiza. That was crazy!

What about girls? Some people think I’m a filter for Valentino’s girls but I’m not, maybe it would be nice. The problem of being with Valentino is that when a nice girl comes to meet us, she soon goes off with Valentino. He’s better looking, thinner, richer… and faster too.

Was the good life better in 1997 or is it better now? Those early days in GPs were unforgettable, the world championship was a dream come true for us but it was kind of like a game back then. We used to play, we were more natural in the way we carried on. Then we got older, racing got more serious and now it’s becoming more like a normal job.

What happens away from races? I’m with Valentino wherever he goes, like two normal friends, well, maybe not normal friends, but we are very good friends who get along well in all kind of circumstances.

And what good life after this good life? Recently I’ve started thinking about this but at the moment I have no idea. I will worry about this problem when I have to worry about it…

[feraltwinkseb]

Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello attack the photographers with Samurai swords at a sponsor event September 10, 2004 - Monza, Italy Source: Clive Rose/Getty Images

[life-time-f1-ferrari]

2024 Monza stats

In the third fastest Formula 1 race in history, Monza becomes the first track at which Leclerc has won twice and Sainz records the best result for a driver on their birthday in 20 years. Here are the facts and statistics from the 2024 Italian Grand Prix.

LECLERC WINS 2024 ITALIAN GRAND PRIX

Five years to the day since his first Formula 1 victory, Charles Leclerc secured the seventh win of his career at the 2024 Italian Grand Prix. Leclerc is the 42nd driver to secure as many as seven Grand Prix victories in his career.

Monza is the first track at which Leclerc has taken multiple Formula 1 victories, having last won here in 2019. Leclerc is the 21st driver to have taken more than one win at Monza.

Having won the Monaco Grand Prix, Leclerc became the fourth driver – after Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris – to secure multiple victories in 2024.

This was Ferrari’s 20th victory at Monza. They are the first team to secure as many as 20 wins at a single circuit.

Leclerc is the first driver to win at Monza having started fourth on the grid since Rubens Barrichello in 2002. This is the fourth time in the last seven years that a driver who did not start on the front row has won at Monza.

The 2024 Italian Grand Prix was won in a time of one hour, 14 minutes and 40.727 seconds, making it the 12th shortest Formula 1 race in history – and the third shortest to reach full distance, after the 2003 and 2005 Italian Grands Prix. It is also the third fastest F1 race in history – won at an average speed of 246.431km/h.

This was Leclerc’s third podium in a row. He has had two streaks of three consecutive podiums so far in 2024, each being two third places followed by a win.

ON THE PODIUM

McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris joined race winner Charles Leclerc on the 2024 Italian Grand Prix podium.

This is only the fourth time in McLaren’s history that the team has finished on the podium at 12 races in a row. This is the first time they have done so since scoring podiums at 13 races in a row between the 2011 German Grand Prix and the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix

Piastri finished in the top two for the third time in the last four races. This was his sixth consecutive top four result.

Having finished 12th last year, this was the first time that Piastri scored points at the Italian Grand Prix.

Norris finished on the podium for the ninth time in the last 12 races.

For the second consecutive race, Norris set the fastest lap of the race. Norris’ fastest lap was 0.386 seconds away from the Lap Record at Monza, set by Rubens Barrichello in the 2004 Italian Grand Prix.

Norris was the first McLaren driver to finish third at the Italian Grand Prix since Mika Hakkinen in 1996.

Norris maintained his record of having never led at the end of the first lap any time he has taken pole position.

This was the fifth consecutive season in which the polesitter did not win the Italian Grand Prix.

IN THE POINTS

Carlos Sainz raced in the 2024 Italian Grand Prix on his 30th birthday, finishing fourth. It’s the best result that a driver has recorded on their birthday since Rubens Barrichello finished on the podium on his 32nd birthday at the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix.

Sainz’s fourth place was his best result since his last podium, at the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix.

This is the third year in a row in which a Ferrari driver has finished fourth at the Italian Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton finished fifth in the 2024 Italian Grand Prix. In the closing stages of the race, he became the second driver – after Fernando Alonso – to have raced 100,000km of Grand Prix laps in his Formula 1 career.

Hamilton finished fifth in the Italian Grand Prix for the third consecutive season.

With sixth place, Max Verstappen recorded his first result outside of the top five positions since the Monaco Grand Prix, where he also finished sixth.

George Russell finished seventh for a second consecutive race. He is yet to finish in the top six since his victory at the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix.

Finishing eighth in the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, Sergio Perez finished outside of the top five for a tenth consecutive race.

Hamilton scored points at Monza for the 15th time, making him the first driver to do so. He also equalled Michael Schumacher’s record of 15 top ten finishes at the track.

Finishing ninth in the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, Alex Albon scored points for the third time this year. Albon has finished ninth on all three of his points-scoring appearances this year, having also finished ninth at the Monaco and British Grands Prix.

This was Albon’s third points finish from his four appearances at the Italian Grand Prix.

2024 is the fourth consecutive season in which Williams have scored a point at the Italian Grand Prix.

With tenth place, Kevin Magnussen scored a point for the first time since the Austrian Grand Prix. This was his third points-scoring appearance of the 2024 season.

Magnussen’s tenth place marks the first time that Haas have ever scored a point at the Italian Grand Prix. Their previous best result here is 11th, last recorded in 2017.

This was Magnussen’s second points-scoring race at Monza – and his first at the track in ten years. He also finished tenth in the 2014 Italian Grand Prix.

Magnussen received two penalty points for a collision with Pierre Gasly, putting him on 12 penalty points over the last 12 months – resulting in an automatic race ban. Magnussen is the first driver to be banned under the current penalty points system and is the first driver to be banned from a Grand Prix since Romain Grosjean was banned from the 2012 Italian Grand Prix.

THE OTHER FINISHERS

On debut, Franco Colapinto was the only driver to make up more than three positions in the 2024 Italian Grand Prix. He gained six places to finish 12th. The result saw him overtake Valtteri Bottas in the Drivers’ Championship.

With Esteban Ocon 14th and Pierre Gasly 15th, Alpine failed to score at the Italian Grand Prix for the third year in a row.

Neither Sauber driver scored in the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, meaning that the team’s points total remains at zero this season. However, both Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu gained positions in the race – the first time that both of the team’s drivers have done so in a single race since the Austrian Grand Prix.

Lance Stroll finished 19th for the first time in his career. He has now recorded at least one finish in every position between 3rd and 20th during his F1 career.

THE RETIREES

Yuki Tsunoda was the only driver who failed to finish the 2024 Italian Grand Prix. This was his second retirement of the year, having last retired at the Chinese Grand Prix.

Tsunoda’s 14th place in the 2022 Italian Grand Prix remains the only time that he has crossed the finish line in his four appearances at Monza. His other two visits to the track resulted in Did Not Starts.

[zandvoort23]

ROUND 1/24 ⸺ bahrain grand prix ✩ 02.03.2024

maple's rating: ★★★★ (8.3/10)

☁︎ click read more facts, highlights & experiences ☁︎

✩ facts

red bull ties with williams for fourth on the all-time win table with 114 race wins!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🍾🍾🍾🍾

max today won his eighth consecutive race 😁✨🌷☀️☀️🍾🍾💌💌💌

max now has two of the four longest winning streaks in history in the past 10 months (10 races, eight races)

this is max's fifth grand slam, tying alberto ascari and michael schumacher’s career totals, third of all-time‼️‼️‼️💥💥💥

max is the first driver to score a grand slam in the opening race of the season since michael schumacher in 2004 🥺🥺🥺🥺

today was max’s 42nd consecutive classified finish (the second longest streak in history behind lewis’ 48)

red bull finished one-two in the opening race for the second consecutive season (max beat checo by 11.987s in 2023)

checo’s p2 today was his best finish since monza 23

carlos’ p3 was only his fourth podium finish since the start of 2023

charles’ p4 gave him 12 points – he only scored six points in the opening three races of 2023 combined

with george in p5 and lewis p7, mercedes scored an identical result to bahrain 2023, but with their drivers swapped over

fernando was p9 – he finished on the podium in the opening three races last year

there were no retirements in the opening race of a season for the first time in f1 history 🥺🥺🥰🥰🥰🌷🌷✨✨

✩ raceweek highlights

✩ free practice

max NOT slaying 🙅🙅🙅

dam that ferrari looks a bit fast

DAMN WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO MERC 😵😵😵😵😵

max not sounding stressed though 👍

✩ qualifying

FIRST QUALIFYING OF THE SEASON 😵😵😵😵💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

qualifying being SO close

lewis kinda not impressing :/ oh okay

no incidents in quali! woah!!!

ALPINE. MASTERCLASS. 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 (disasterclass): p19 & p20

GEORGE not following the delta (he did not get a penalty. of course)

charles' q2 lap ✨✨✨✨

thank you oscar piastri for that tow. i will remember 💕💕💕💕

MAX POLE MAX POLE MAX POLE MAX POLE‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️💕💕💕💕💕💕💕☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

"ha ha sorry gp!" (gp and helmut bet on whether max got pole or not.)

33 poles for maxy!!!

✩ race

me having trouble breathing during the formation lap (normal occurrence. but still funny) 💥💥💥

OKAY. 🚨🚨🚨🚨 LETS FUCKING GOOOO

max IMMEDIATELY fucking off. who cares about the new drs rule if he can make a 1+ second gap within a lap 💀💀💀💀💀

NICE START FROM CHECOOO WOOOOO

contact between nico and lance 😨👎

charles. poor meow. what is happening to u 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫💔💔

fernando dropping 💔💔💔💔

FERRARI INFIGHTING LETS GOOO‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️💥💥💥💥💥

max building the fuck out of that gap 💘💕💓💖💗‼️‼️‼️🙏🙏🙏

50+ second pit stop for valtteri 💀 why does this always happen to him bro 😭😭😭😭

lewis not having a good time. like. at all 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 ‘MY SEAT IS BROKEN’ AHHSHAHAHAH 😭😭😭😭😭

carlos 👀👀👀

williams overheating / wheel failure 😨😨😨 bc of their new screen 😭😭😭‼️‼️‼️

MAX LAPPING👀👀👀🪽🪽🪽

fuck you vcarb for doing that to my man yuki. fuck you. fuck youuuu oh my god fuck youuuu‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️👎👎👎👎💥💥💥💥💥💥

max weaving on the way to the finish line 😭😭😭😭😭

MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS THE FIRST RACE OF THE SEASON WITH A FUCKING GRAND SLAM‼️‼️‼️🏆🏆🏆☀️☀️☀️🌷🌷🌷🌷🪽🪽🪽💕💕💖💓💖💓💖🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

checo p2! first p2 since monza 😭😭

✩ miscellaneous

lestappen + george after quali 💀 bye

max laughing at george for thinking he's 0.5 behind per lap 🗣️

new intro screen! max looks cutieful! but its a downgrade for the intro in general 💔💔💔

ALAIN PROST IN THE PRERACE SHOW??? BONJOUR SIR!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰💥💥💥💥💥

versainz kindaa 👀👀👀😏😏😏

✩ maple's diary

[maranello]

MONZA, 2004 — Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello with Samurai swords at a sponsor event ahead of the Italian Grand Prix. No photographer was harmed in the making of these photos......as far as we know. (Photo by Clive Rose)

[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

[starafar]

The Schumacher Dragon: Michael

In August 2009, when Michael was working towards a comeback, it was reported in a Chinese newspaper that he had ordered 3 "Chinese style" helmets. The article reported that Michael had said, "When I first went to China, a newspaper drew a dragon as my symbol." Later that year, he also spoke about this helmet in the lead up to ROC, which was held in Beijing that year.

However, the first glimpse of the dragon logo appears to have been in July 2004. At the German GP, Michael was seen with a temporary tattoo on his right forearm with the logo.

He would win the 2004 WDC two races later, at Spa. Following that at the Italian GP in Monza, the dragon would appear as a logo for the first time, on the back of his baseball cap.

The week after that marked the occasion of the first Chinese GP in Shanghai. It was here that the dragon logo would appear on his helmet for the first time. It appeared on the top of the helmet, temporarily replacing his seven stars, as well as on either side of the helmet.

This initial iteration of the dragon logo had, in addition to the large “力”, the character for “strength”, four characters - "迈舒马赫", which roughly translates to "Mike Schumacher". This would later be removed.

The dragon would not be seen on his helmet throughout 2005, but Michael continued using it on his personal merchandise. It featured both on the back of his cap, and also on his drivers shoes.

This continued into 2006, where it again featured on his caps.

However, Michael also opted to subtly incorporate the dragon back into his helmet design for 2006. This new design featured two large dragons, as well as the names of his family in Chinese (Mick “米克” and Michael “米克尔” on the right, and Gina “吉娜” and Corinna “科琳娜” on the left).

A special version of this helmet was commissioned for his final race for Ferrari, and to mark his first retirement, this time with the dragon and his family’s names featured in gold. It also included a list of his race victories around the top of the helmet.

During his retirement in 2007-2008, Michael was still frequently seen around the track in his new capacity as an adviser to Ferrari. He continued featuring the dragon as part of his personal branding.

Michael also tested for Ferrari during both seasons to help with development. During at least one of these testing sessions, Ferrari had it placed on the engine cover.

As mentioned earlier, Michael was planning a return to F1 in 2009 to replace the injured Felipe Massa, though that was ultimately called off due to a neck injury suffered earlier that year. However, pictures from when he was karting in August 2009 showed the “Chinese style” helmet he had planned to use. It was very similar to the helmet design he last used in 2006, but with details in white instead.

Michael made a return to F1 with Mercedes, driving with them from 2010 to 2012. He used pretty much the same helmet design throughout this time, with 2010 featuring the more subtle red version of the helmet:

And 2011 featuring more or less the same design in silver:

2011 was also Michael’s 20th year in F1. For this, a specially designed gold-plated helmet was commissioned and used at the Belgian GP.

He returned to the silver dragon for the rest of his time in F1, with the exception of one more custom helmet made to commemorate his 300th F1 race at the Belgian GP in 2012:

Michael also continued to feature the dragon on both his shoes and gloves, seen here in 2010 and 2011:

You’ll notice that for a brief period of time, Michael went back to the original iteration of the logo featuring the additional four Chinese characters, "迈舒马赫", translating to his name.

Although Michael retired at the end of the 2012 season, that was not yet the end of the dragon in motorsport. Michael used it one last time on his race suit at the Race of Champions in 2012, which he and Sebastian Vettel won for Team Germany.

Apparently a post is limited to 30 images, so on to Part 2: Mick!

Part 1: Michael | Part 2: Mick

[mickstart]

Hi! You seem to be the resident Michael expert on my dash so if it's alright I wanted to ask for someone who's new to the sport which are some iconic races of his you'd recommend for me to watch?

OOOOOOH anon thank you so so much this is my favourite kind of question to answer. So for the last few months I've been going feral going stupid about Spa 1995 because it involves him proving you can recovery drive at spa in the rain. It does involve him being enough of a dick to Damon that the FIA got mad at him for it but he's driving such an iconic race that I think he should be allowed to do it. From the Ferrari era literally anything from 00-04 probably suzuka 00 (his first Ferrari title) or Spa 00 (him and Mika reinvent the overtake) or Monza 2004 (him and Rubens do a recovery drive whilst tifosi Michael fever is at its height). Also Spain 1996 is hysterical and one of his best drives he's making them all look like fucking idiots who goes 3 seconds faster than the next man on the track and a second quicker on the next lap IN THE RAIN (note the Ferrari was not a competitive car this year or even in the championship fight so this literally really truly is ALL Michael)

From his comeback era Canada 2011 he's serving cunt, Europe / Valencia 2012 he's serving cunt, and his Monaco "pole" lap from 2012 is one of my favourite F1 laps ever.

[charlenasaxen]

Favorite Quotes - Total Competition by Ross Brawn

“come up against the powerful new Ferrari organization which includes Michael Schumacher and a new technical team led by Brawn”

“theoretically that, at that speed, they could drive along upside down and stick to the ceiling”

“an F1 driver who lifts his foot off the throttle will decelerate as quickly as a Porsche 911 driver doing an emergency brake”

“If anyone can claim to have created and mastered ‘Total Formula One’, it is Ross Brawn”

“Imagine if you are the fifth fastest runner in the world and someone comes up with the idea of cloning Usain Bolt a few times”

“the first race win for Williams since 2004 and coinciding with Frank Williams’ 70th birthday.”

“then at Benetton in the mid-1990s, Ferrari through the early 2000s and finally with his own team, Brawn GP, in 2009. So, Ross has won 24 Drivers’ and Constructors’ titles”

“sure enough, the team he put together has been untouchable since”

“With the notable exception of Adrian Newey, other technical directors and Team Principals have not been able to keep up as well”

“I thought I would do a year in motor racing and see how it goes.”

“and I said, ‘Well, it’s more professional than putting the ratios in wrong.”

“It was a great year, Monaco, Austria, Monza, plus the British championship. It was pretty busy”

“we got married in that year. She came to some of the races. Great fun.”

“I went back, saw Jean and calmed down and then ended up staying for seven years.”

“A Not bad. Has anyone done better?

R I don’t know. I never added them up.”

“rode a horse and cart through the rules and came up with a car that was three or four seconds quicker”

“In ’91 we’d been very aware of this hot little German driver who we were battling with”

“he was the only one who ever gave us any trouble. So Tom and I knew Michael Schumacher very well.”

“because Michael was our boy.”

“We had this complete commitment to Michael winning the championship. We considered him to be our best opportunity and that proved to be the case.”

“Luca, Ross’s poodle, who is of course named after Luca di Montezemolo”

“Michael was extremely well rewarded because he was the best at what he did, but I’m convinced he would have done it for a fraction of what he was being paid”

“I remember when Jos Verstappen, Max’s dad, was the hot number in Formula One”

“We told Flavio that we were not going to accept his deal. So Flavio backed off and we went into battle”

“Michael had a blind spot, he was so competitive he didn’t see things the way you or I would”

“And I said, ‘Calm down Michael and have a look at the TV.’ And he calmed down and had a look”

“If you were racing Michael Schumacher, you knew you’ve got no quarter. If he saw a gap, if you left an inch, he would take a foot”

“And he said, ‘No, it wasn’t too close because he got through.”

“’95 was the year Michael announced he was leaving. That was a pretty bitter blow to me. I had been very close to Michael”

“I didn’t speak to Tom for quite a long time after that. It wasn’t until he was very ill, before he died”

“they had had some quality issues so they had taken the head of quality control from Fiat and put him in”

“We really established what could be done with a Formula One car. We had, I think, 53 consecutive podiums.”

“Years ago, if Ferrari won, I would be out on the town, celebrating with my friends. Now you’ve made it normal.”

“For five years we won every race and it was predictable”

“Michael charged up the field, because he was so much faster than anyone else…he set off from the pits, and unlapped himself from everyone, and he finished fourth”

“they included the 2007 car, because they said very graciously that it was mine.”

“our mindset was not to have much sympathy when the perpetrators of the one-race tyre had a problem”

“There are three religions in Italy, of which football and Ferrari are two”

“When I went back in 2014, Luca put on a royal tour for all my friends. There were tears flowing and fabulous memories.”

“And I said, ‘Richard, our relationship has just taken a step back.’ ‘Who’s that?’ he said. ‘It’s Ross, I’m here.”

“they are the ones for whom the battle was so easy that no one even remembers them”

“I would ring Michael up and say, ��Can you be here tomorrow?’ ‘Yep. What time?’ Never any hesitation”

“And Michael was in the lead and he was setting the fastest times, lap after lap”

“it was like the two of you were in a couple of armchairs in front of the fire just chatting. Meanwhile, he is driving at a level that most people couldn’t imagine. Purple, purple, purple.”

“It didn’t really physically strain him. We would be having a conversation the same way that we are now”

“they would be very breathless, trying to get the words out in between pants of breath. He never did that. He also never seemed to sweat that much”

“you would go on the podium and there would be two drivers there almost unable to stand up and Michael would be jumping around”

“God, what on earth is this creature we’re competing with?”

“two fingers up to the other drivers. ‘Not only am I testing, I am going in the gym at night and working out.”

“I would be lucky if Ralf and Juan Pablo spend together as much time in a gym in a week as Michael does in a day.’”

“very few of them actually push it to the level that Schumacher did”

“eventually all the holes line up somewhere and the arrow shoots through them”

“the intention of the regulation and the application of the regulation may be different things”

“I would think, ‘Great, how are we going to take advantage of this?”

“The perception from the outside is that with Jean, Rory, Michael, you had a bulletproof team”

“It is not your name on the tin because you aren’t there – which is very galling”

“I met them together to have it out with them. And they both pointed to each other . . .”

“Now they are suing each other.”

“Yes. At least we didn’t get to that!”

“if you want to be ultimately successful you have to build trusting relationships”

“however everyone felt, people would have known that you were the architect”

“Going for a meal with Niki and Toto was good fun. Then knowing that you couldn’t trust them, you couldn’t lean on them, was a problem.”

“But one is the alliances that you described. I had a reputation for being close to the FIA”

“Was it intelligence or instinct? I was stunned that anyone has the capacity to decide that they are going to park their car during qualifying in Monaco”

“we were pretty straight up with him: ‘Bernie, we don’t want to work for you.’”

“Dead simple to get round it. Instead, Dieter got Niki Lauda involved because Bernie suggested Niki.”

“But neither Niki nor Bodo had much of an idea what to do. So they would keep leaving the meeting and ringing me.”

“Bernie never imagined in a million years that Mercedes would earn it – but they achieved it”

“He will go and meet his maker one day, but no one has managed to depose him. There is no higher authority.”

“I couldn’t feel comfortable not to at least raise it. When it was raised everyone said, ‘Up yours.’ I thought, ‘Thank God for that.”

“you have a track record of getting out there and quietly doing it.”

“if we’d all said, ‘Right, you can have half an hour in my garage’, it would be a lot more efficient”

“Toyota had the double diffuser. Would they have won that case if they were fighting it by themselves?”

“You want a highly paid technical guy working on the car, not trying to figure out how to get his furniture from Italy”

“just that process of sitting down with everyone on a regular basis helped to drive things along.”

“one of the greatest gifts I could give someone was to ask them to represent the team on the podium”

“The only one I ever wanted to definitely do for myself in latter years was Monaco in my last year”

“I knew I was leaving by then. It was a special race with Nico. I’d been there when his dad had won it with Williams”

“To enjoy success with people. To enjoy it as a team meant much more to me than individual success”

“Michael Schumacher was very much the same. He wanted to enjoy that victory as a group.”

“even extended to him organizing football matches on a Thursday night, a five-a-side game with all the team”

“you all know Matt, we’ve all relied on him for years. He’s made one mistake. Support him while he gets over it”

“Pat wouldn’t have done that just for the sake of winning a race. It’s not worth it. So there must have been other circumstances”

“after Michael and I won our first race together”

“He was very good with the drivers. He was very close to Michael.”

“Tom and I had a serious fallout, but we made up in the end. Jean Todt would never have spoken to Tom for the rest of his life.”

“I wouldn’t use a calculator, I would just ask Jean what XYZ × B was, and he would give me an answer”

“Jean was very successful at Ferrari, because he was determined to get the best people. He got Michael for a start.”

“He would come to me and say, ‘You know, Michael’s a little bit upset about this”

“And I would think at first, ‘Why didn’t Michael tell me?’ But then you realize that sometimes people find it difficult”

“the various elements, all the subterfuge in the teams – it’s just a great cocktail.”

“The men choose their machines. They have put themselves in a position to win”

“Put it into Formula One and five months later they have got an answer.”

“or (on one occasion) a helicopter flight from Nice airport to Monte Carlo. Ross just made the effort to be friendly and good company.”

“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death”

“not to pursue quantity at the expense of quality. Scale creates additional challenges.”

“Intelligence is the ability to shape the world around us and strategy is how we go about it”

“Total competition requires a complete, integrated and inclusive process”

“Michael Schumacher is a very special person to me on a professional and human level. We pray for his recovery.”

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V10 F1 Guitar Monza 2004. Barrichello Pole Lap Record

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September 8, 2004 - Monza, Italy Source: Christian Fischer/Bongarts/Getty Images

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jeeeesus fucking christ, monza 2004 and the minardi team accidentally spill gas directly into the cockpit, where it catches fire. tf were the early 2000s for f1. (bruni was laid out on the garage floor and tended to by medics, but was ultimately fine as were all team members.)

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Roma. L’attività del Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale nel 2023: recuperati 105.474 beni d’arte per un valore complessivo stimato di circa € 264 milioni

Roma. L’attività del Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale nel 2023: recuperati 105.474 beni d’arte per un valore complessivo stimato di circa € 264 milioni. Nel 2023 i Carabinieri del Comando Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, posti a diretta collaborazione del Ministero della cultura e distribuiti su sedici Nuclei e una Sezione nelle varie Regioni italiane, dipendenti dai Gruppi di Roma e Monza, un Reparto Operativo nazionale con Sezioni specializzate per materia e un Ufficio Comando che gestisce la Banca dati di opere da ricercare più antica ed estesa al mondo (oltre 1.300.000 files), hanno recuperato 105.474 beni d’arte per un valore complessivo stimato di € 264.055.727. Questo è il dato complessivo del documento “Attività Operativa 2023” dell’Unità Specializzata dell’Arma, istituita nel 1969 per onorare l’articolo 9 della Costituzione italiana (“la Repubblica tutela il paesaggio e il patrimonio storico e artistico della Nazione”) e che, in oltre mezzo secolo di vita, ha restituito ai legittimi proprietari, pubblici e privati, più di tre milioni di beni culturali. L'attività operativa evidenzia nel 2023 una graduale diminuzione dei reati contro il patrimonio culturale. In particolare, a distanza di poco più di un anno dall’entrata in vigore della Legge n. 22 del 22 marzo 2022 – con modifiche alle disposizioni penali in materia di tutela del patrimonio culturale attualmente contenute prevalentemente nel Codice dei Beni Culturali (D.lgs. 42/2004) e integrando il Codice Penale con 17 nuovi articoli (da 518-bis a 518-undevicies) - si registrano i primi segnali positivi, come si evince dall’analisi comparativa dei dati rispetto al 2022: - lieve riduzione dei furti (da 333 a 267) e degli oggetti trafugati (da 4.144 a 3.483); - incremento dei beni recuperati (da 48.522 a 105.474) di cui: • reperti archeologici (da 17.275 a 67.963); • librari/archivistici (da 8.653 a 24.445); • beni numismatici (da 48 a 286); • oggetti di natura grafico/pittorico e musivo (da 328 a 1.102); - intensificazione dell’attività di controlli di aree e siti archeologici (da 1.538 a 1.874); - incremento dei risultati dell’attività repressiva: • arresto disposto dall’A.G. (da 6 a 20); • denunciati per associazione a delinquere (da 39 a 47); • deferiti per scavo clandestino (da 66 a 130). Andando nel dettaglio, l’attività di contrasto condotta nel 2023 ha permesso di recuperare, nei rispettivi settori di specialità, 67.963 reperti archeologici e 10.273 reperti paleontologici e il deferimento di 130 persone per scavo clandestino. Nel settore dell’antiquariato si registra un sensibile calo dei furti, soprattutto in abitazioni private (da 91 a 79) e luoghi di culto (da 135 a 92). Nel periodo in esame, sono stati altresì effettuati 1.957 controlli ad esercizi antiquariali, 624 controlli a mercati e fiere, con il recupero di 105.474 beni, di cui 24.445 documenti archivistici e bibliografici, 1.102 dipinti e 369 sculture. L’attività repressiva ha consentito di deferire 477 soggetti per ricettazione e 37 per esportazione illecita di beni di interesse culturale. Nell’ambito del contrasto alla contraffazione, sono state deferite 109 soggetti, (+ 29% in più rispetto al 2022); sequestrare 1.936 opere contraffatte (+ 56% rispetto al 2022), di cui 61 del settore antiquariale, archivistico e librario, 535 del settore archeologico e paleontologico e 1.340 di arte contemporanea. Il valore del suindicato falso d’arte, qualora immesso sul mercato, è stato stimato in circa € 45.399.150. Nel corso del 2023, per le attività di tutela del paesaggio e monumenti, il Comando TPC ha predisposto 1.991 servizi di controllo delle aree paesaggistiche terresti e marine, deferendo 78 soggetti per danneggiamento e 202 per reati in danno del paesaggio. Correlato all’attività di controllo sul web, in ragione del crescente utilizzo dei canali telematici anche per il commercio illecito e l'esportazione di beni culturali, si è posta la necessità per il Comando TPC di aggiornare i propri sistemi informatici di ricerca e controllo, attraverso il progetto S.W.O.A.D.S. (Stolen Works Of Art Detection System), che costituisce un sistema informatico di Intelligenza Artificiale che consente la raccolta automatica di dati e immagini provenienti da web, deep web e social media, per confrontarle con le foto delle opere da ricercare: nel 2023 sono stati monitorati oltre 984 siti web ed esaminati 6.674 beni. Detta attività di controllo ha consentito di recuperare dai siti web 31.689 beni (rispetto ai 4.935 dell’anno precedente) di cui: • 18.734 beni archivistici e librari; • 536 reperti archeologici; • 9.337 beni numismatici; • 291 opere false; • 60 sculture; • 147 dipinti; oltre al deferimento all’Autorità Giudiziaria di 101 persone. Risultati immediati nell’azione di contrasto alla criminalità organizzata operante nel settore dei beni culturali si sono registrati con: - l’operazione “Cales”, condotta dal Nucleo CC TPC di Napoli, che ha consentito l’arresto in flagranza di reato di due persone, sorprese nell’atto di eseguire scavi clandestini e fermate dopo l’illecito impossessamento di beni archeologici, nonché l’arresto di un ulteriore soggetto al confine con la Svizzera per esportazione illecita di beni culturali. L’attività ha consentito di recuperare molteplici reperti archeologici, tra cui oltre 1.700 monete, e sequestrare 15 metal detector per la ricerca di antichi manufatti in metallo. - l’operazione “Canusium” del Nucleo TPC di Bari, coordinata dalla Procura della Repubblica di Trani, che ha permesso di disarticolare un’associazione per delinquere finalizzata allo scavo clandestino, al furto, alla ricettazione e all’esportazione illecita di reperti archeologici e numismatici. Nel corso dell’indagine sono stati rinvenuti e sequestrati complessivamente 3.586 beni archeologici, numismatici e ceramici in diverse regioni d’Italia, di inestimabile valore storico artistico e commerciale ingente, indagati 51 soggetti ed emessi 21 provvedimenti restrittivi. Nell’ambito della collaborazione con altri Comandi e Enti, si segnala l’Operation PANDORA VIII a leadership spagnola, in cui l’Itala partecipa col ruolo di co-leader, nel corso della quale sono stati effettuati controlli mirati al contrasto del traffico illecito di beni culturali con i seguenti risultati operativi: - 107 oggetti sequestrati, tra cui n. 87 ceramiche, 5 monete/medaglie, 2 documenti/libri, 13 dipinti; - 1.462 oggetti dubbi, ma non sottoposti a sequestro: 11 tappeti/ricami/arazzi, 34 ceramiche, 2 documenti/libri, 100 disegni, 120 mobili, 65 icone, 3 mosaici, 940 dipinti, 4 stampe, 55 oggetti religiosi, 115 statue/sculture, 13 altri oggetti di varia natura. Tra le principali azioni svolte in ambito internazionale, il recupero di beni culturali appartenenti al patrimonio indisponibile dello Stato italiano, particolare rilievo ricopre la collaborazione consolidatasi tra il personale TPC e il Manhattan District Attorney's Office di New York (DAO), l’Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ed il Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Tale sinergia ha permesso di individuare, sequestrare e rimpatriare 1.093 opere d’arte di pregevole valore, provento di furti e/o scavi clandestini, esportazioni illecite e ricettazioni per un valore complessivo di centinaia di milioni di euro, oltre all’inestimabile valore storico-culturale. Tra i citati rimpatri, si distingue una testa in marmo raffigurante l’imperatore Settimio Severo, datata II secolo d.C., provento di rapina a mano armata perpetrata da ignoti il 18 novembre 1985 ai danni dell’Antiquarium dell’anfiteatro campano di Santa Maria Capua Vetere (CE), localizzata in asta a New York con un prezzo di partenza di $ 600.000. Il 2023 ha visto, altresì, l’intervento della Task Force “Caschi Blu della Cultura” con azioni di emergenza a seguito delle alluvioni in Emilia Romagna e in Toscana nel corso delle quali attività sono stati recuperati, nelle rispettive regioni: - 48.646 libri antichi, 6.305 metri lineari di documentazione archivistica, 75 dipinti e disegni, 22 statue e busti, 265 sculture di vari materiali, 147 armi antiche e relative munizioni, 1.114 cimeli di guerra e svariati reperti archeologici e antropologici; - 632 metri lineari di beni archivistici, 9000 negativi fotografici e 2 beni ecclesiastici. La pubblicazione “Attività Operativa 2023” è disponibile sui siti https://cultura.gov.it/carabinieritpc e www.carabinieri.it... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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