#niki lauda 2011

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March 27, 2011 - Melbourne, Australia

Source: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images AsiaPac

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Pick Your Favorite Sad Boi, Daniel Brühl Edition:

Nikolas Koll, Der Pakt - Wenn Kinder Töten (1996)

Checo, Paradise Mall / Schlaraffenland (1999)

Markus Baasweiler, Schule (2000)

Marek, Honolulu (2001)

Daniel, No Regrets / Nichts Bereuen (2001)

Marko Stemper, Elephant Heart / Elefantenherz (2002)

Arbo, Vaya Con Dios (2002)

Alexander Kerner, Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

Paul Krantz, Love in Thoughts / Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken (2004)

Jan, The Edukators / Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (2004)

Andrea Marowski, Ladies in Lavender (2004)

Karl, A Friend of Mine (2006)

Tonda, Krabat (2008)

Dirk, All Together (2011)

Dr. Georg Rosen, John Rabe (2009)

Hans Krämer, The Coming Days / Die kommenden Tage (2010)

Álex Garel, Eva (2011)

Niki Lauda, Rush (2013)

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, The Fifth Estate (2013)

Thomas Lang, The Face of an Angel (2014)

Daniel, Colonia (2015)

Sebastian Zöllner, Me and Kaminski (2015)

Tony Balerdi, Burnt (2015)

Escherich, Alone in Berlin (2016)

Helmut Zemo, Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, The Alienist (2018 - 2020)

Ernst Schmidt, The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Thomas Fischer, My Zoe (2019)

Daniel Weltz, Next Door / Nebenan (2021)

[blorbocedes]

do you really think lewis is going to beat charles next year? idk he'll be 40 and in a new team + new car. i'm obv not going to say he's washed bc p3 in the wdc last year but considering how russell is beating him right now i'm not sure how he'll do.

when the car is bad, lewis depression drives. when the car is good, he outdrives it

he came into the mclaren as a rookie and equalled fernando in points, and won the wdc the next year.

depression drove in 2011 and 12 when it was no longer a championship contender (aka a 100 points behind redbull, and finishing behind button in 11)

he came into the mercedes because niki lauda and ross brawn convinced him the project is a championship winning one, and even though nico was in the team longer, lewis immediately got in the team and beat him thrice. and nico was no pancake

he's been depression drove in the merc in 22, even though last year he beat russell by over a 100 points. this year he's idgafing at merc

lewis is going into ferrari extremely motivated. 400 million means ferrari believes in him too. they've invested 5 years in the leclerc project and last season leclerc only finished 6 points above sainz (who lecfosis will tell you can't drive good). so yes, I do believe in lewis hamilton's ability to get in a new car and outdrive his teammate that's more experienced in the team because he's done it before~ but i think it'll definitely be closer than fernando - stroll.

[torgerandsuzanne]

“It's a privilege to take you on a personal journey and share my views on art, architecture, travel, business and philanthropy, alongside my partner in life and business, my wife Susie. She and I have been Bombardier enthusiasts for a while now, just like my great friend Niki Lauda before me. In any given year, we can spend more than 450 hours in an airplane. These hours can be quiet-some of my favorite moments are those spent reflecting, alone or with Susie, during a peaceful flight...” 

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Wolff, 51, is the definitive Übermensch: He travels the world, speaks five languages, appreciates contemporary art and Brutalist architecture, is a loving husband and father, and is involved in several organizations helping those in need (Save a Child's Heart, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and the Mary Bendet Foundation among them).

Simplicity isn't a word one would typically associate with Wolff, though it's surprisingly apt when it comes to his personal life. In 2011 Wolff married Susie Wolff. Together they have a six-year-old son, Jack, and despite living a nomadic life, he calls home "the place where my wife and children are". These days, they are based in Monaco-a place where he can unwind with his family, perhaps grab a coffee from his favorite spot, Cova, or take in views of the Mediterranean.

Wolffs approach to downtime is equally as uncomplicated. He enjoys reading (anything on philosophy, finance, history), and insists that even the busiest people can find time to do the things they enjoy. "People say that they can't find time to read or they can't find time to reflect -they are not managing their time properly," he says. 

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"As women, we're always trying to juggle it all-which feels impossible. I've got my own dreams and ambitions that I want to follow and at the same time I want to be the best mother and wife I can be."

With such a demanding schedule. Wolff finds time to connect with her husband while flying. "Quite often, I get on board with Toto and if it's just the two of us. I don't want the flight to stop... It's a valuable time to just be together. It feels like our living room, we're so comfortable,” she says of their time on board their Bombardier jet. “It's a place where we are able to recharge our batteries, to find calm."

Toto (Editor-at-Large) and Susie for June 2023 issue of Bombardier Experience Magazine 

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Suzuka in April Feels Wrong

So, this weekend F1 will race at Suzuka. Suzuka is an amazing circuit, the esses at the beginning of the lap, trying to take Degner 1 as fast as possible but knowing the gravel trap is right there at the edge of the circuit, and then hard on the brakes for Degner 2, under the bridge, and up and to the right into the hairpin where Kamui Kobayashi seemed to overtake just about everyone in 2012. Spoon curve, the infamous 130R, and the Casio triangle at the end of the lap, Suzuka really is something special.

The only problem is, Raikkonen's 2005 charge (admittedly I was too young to properly enjoy that but it's literally the back to front challenge meme in real life), Kamui's 2012 podium as a Japanese driver, even Vettel's heartbreaking sparkplug failure in 2017, not to mention the historic Prost and Senna collisions...all of those happened at the end of the season, or close enough to it anyway. This year, Suzuka is in April, the fourth round of the 2024 Formula One season.

Now of course, there's a reason for this - the geography of an increasingly bloated F1 calendar - but first, let's just establish why the Japanese Grand Prix being at the end of the season is so important.

The first Japanese Grand Prix, held in 1976 and 1977, marked the first time a world championship race was held in Asia, and it was the finale too, the place where the championship would be decided. The 1976 race in particular, covered in the excellent 2013 movie Rush, saw Niki Lauda pull into the pits in dangerously wet conditions - this was the same year as his Nürburgring crash - which allowed James Hunt to charge up the field and seal his only world title.

The first Fuji trip would only last two years, but in 1987, F1 would find its home in Suzuka. It was the penultimate race - Adelaide, Australia was now the finale - but nevertheless, Suzuka was still the place where titles were decided. In 1988, Senna came from behind in the wet to beat Prost, in 1989 Prost would close the door on a charging Senna in the Casio triangle on lap 47, taking Prost out. Senna cut the chicane rejoining the track, got disqualified, and handed the title to Prost. In 1990, Prost now in a Ferrari, got a better start than Senna's polesitting McLaren, but Senna's wouldn't give an inch, and they didn't even make it past the first corner this time. Senna would seal the 1990 title. And it continued, Senna over Mansell in 1991, Hill over Villeneuve in 1996, Hakkinen over Schumacher in 1998...it was the track where history was made.

That being said, it's position in the calendar started to change as F1 expanded its Asia-Pacific presence from just Suzuka. From 1987-1995, it was paired with the Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide, in 1999 and 2000, it was paired with Malaysia, and from 2004-2008, it was paired with China. After that, the calendar more or less formed two flyaway blocks, with Australia-Malaysia-China-Bahrain at the beginning of the season, and a Singapore and Suzuka towards the end, paired with an everchanging host of flyaway races that included Abu Dhabi, Brazil, South Korea, and India. In 2009, Suzuka was the third to last race, come 2011, it was fifth to last.

The real blow to Suzuka as an end of season race, however, was the emergence of an American block of races late in the season. It started with Austin in 2012, and by 2015, we had Austin and Mexico back-to-back followed by Brazil, making for three western hemisphere races in a row. Las Vegas in 2023 made a fourth, with Abu Dhabi having long ago bought the season finale slot. All of this means that, in 2023, there were a whole two months of racing after Suzuka.

Thus, figuring that history is dead, F1 has decided to move Suzuka to April, so that, much like 2004-2008, it's back-to-back with the Chinese Grand Prix. Which means F1 will now have Baku and Singapore as a doubleheader in 2024...yeah.

For something meant to cut down on F1's travel related CO2 emissions, they really did just decide to make the entire circus fly over the entirety of the Asian continent in a week. Good job.

What the race does succeed in, however, is reminding us of the last time F1 raced in Japan in April, the 1994 and 1995 Pacific Grand Prix. A rare moment of two races in the same country for F1, when in addition to the end of season trip to Suzuka, there was an early season trip to the T1 Circuit in Okayama. It's a pretty neat track, I've raced it on Ride 4, probably better for bikes than cars though.

So yeah, not much for the environment, but it does remind us of an obscure race nobody has ever heard of, so there is that.

[callmeanxietygirl]

#DanielBrühl💗💖Es conocido por películas como Good Bye, Lenin! 2003 , Los edukadores 2004 , Joyeux Noël 2005 , Inglourious Basterds 2009 , EVA 2011 , Rush 2013 , Colonia 2015 , la serie The Alienist 2018 y en el Universo cinematográfico de Marvel como Helmut Zemo en la película Capitán América: Civil War 2016 y en la miniserie The Falcon and The Winter Soldier 2021.Hijo de la profesora Marisa González Domingo y el director de teatro y televisión alemán Hanno Brühl se conocieron en su estancia en España y se mudaron a Alemania , donde tuvieron a su primer hijo. El 16 de junio de 1978 nació Daniel Brühl, en el barrio de Gracia de Barcelona.Aunque nació en Barcelona , tiene también la nacionalidad alemana , ya que su padre es de origen alemán y en su niñez se trasladó a Alemania , donde creció en la ciudad de Colonia , aunque todos los veranos volvieron a España. Muchos de esos veranos Daniel los pasó en Pratdip , en Tarragona. Desde pequeño es hincha del equipo español F. C. Barcelona y también es aficionado del equipo alemán F. C. Colonia.

De mayor , Daniel se enfrentó a su padre al comunicarle que quería ser actor , profesión que compaginaba con la de cantante de la banda Purge. De esta manera a finales de los años noventa participó en diversos títulos que le abrieron paso en el cine alemán.En 2001 inició el rodaje de Nichts bereuen , cuyo director sugirió el nombre de Jessica Schwarz para el principal papel femenino. Daniel se enfadó con la decisión porque la actriz era conocida por haber sido previamente la presentadora de un programa de televisión. Cuando la vio trabajar , se enamoró de ella y se convirtieron en novios. Rompieron su relación en 2010.

En 2002 incrementó su popularidad al protagonizar Vaya con Dios. Al año siguiente esa fama se incrementó al encabezar la plantilla de actores de la película Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker), una comedia en la que un joven (Alex) oculta a su madre recién despertada de un coma que el Muro de Berlín ha caído y con él todas las ideas en las que ella creía.Daniel ganó el premio al mejor actor de la Academia de Cine de Alemania. Meses más tarde cosechó el premio de la Academia de Cine Europeo, así como el galardón del público. Tras la ceremonia declaró su interés por trabajar con Julio Médem y Fernando León de Aranoa. Meses después acudió a la entrega de los Premios Sant Jordi. Por estas razones Daniel pasó a formar parte de la promoción Shooting Star de 2002, cuyo objetivo es promocionar a nuevos actores europeos.

En 2004 Daniel siguió apuntándose a películas de corte social como Los edukadores, en la que dio vida a un joven rebelde, que de forma coordinada junto con un compañero de piso penetraba en las casas de los ricos para desordenar sus valiosas pertenencias, dejándoles una nota con un mensaje social. La película que lo catapultó a la fama mundial fue 'Goodbye Lenin' en 2003, donde cautivó a todo la crítica y a todo el público europeo y mundial y ganó su primer premio, Premio del Cine Europeo. En 2006 participó en su primera película española, encarnando al anarquista Salvador Puig Antich en 'Salvador', papel que le otorgó varios premios y una nominación a 'Mejor Actor' en los Goya. Además, la película fue nominada en el Festival de Cannes a mejor película.

En 2006 tuvo un papel en la película de espías 'El ultimátum de Bourne' y en 2009, protagonizó 'Malditos Bastardos', estrenada en el festival de Cannes y dirigida por Quentin Tarantino , con la que logró numerosas nominaciones a diferentes premios y ganó 6 premios. Además , todo el elenco ganó el Screen Actors Guild Award a 'Mejor actuación'. En 2012 volvió a España para rodar 'Eva', junto a Marta Etura y Alberto Ammann, película en la que volvió a estar nominado a 'Mejor actor' en los Goya. En 2013 se metió en el papel del piloto de Fórmula 1 Niki Lauda en la película 'Rush', que , junto a Chris Hemsworth , consiguió 17 nominaciones a diferentes premios por su excelente interpretación y que ganó 2. En 2015 trabajó en 'La dama de oro' y en 2016 , participó en la película 'Capitán América: Civil War', introduciéndose en el universo de los cómics Marvel.

En 2017 protagonizó 'La casa de la esperanza' . También protagonizó la serie de televisión 'The Alienist'. Además, rodó 2 películas, 'the cloverfield parados' y '7 días en entebbe'.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.21 (after 1950)

1950 – Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces and North Koreans during the Battle of Yongju. 1956 – The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated. 1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. 1965 – Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun. 1966 – A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren. 1967 – The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon. 1969 – The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration. 1971 – A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland. 1973 – Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. 1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. 1979 – Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs. 1981 – Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces. 1983 – The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. 1984 – Niki Lauda claims his third and final Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by half a point ahead of McLaren team-mate Alain Prost at the Portuguese Grand Prix. 1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991). 1987 – The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian peacekeeping forces in Sri Lanka, killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses. 1989 – In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa. 1994 – North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. 1994 – In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses. 2005 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery. 2011 – Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year. 2019 – Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2019 – In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government 2021 – A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.

[vetteldixon]

I’ve been crying for no reason

ah anon. i understand. i don't know if this will help per se but let me show you pics of japan 2011 that i'm obsessed with

bonus:

[umseb]

sebastian vettel and niki lauda joke around on race day, australia - march 27, 2011 📷 robert cianflone / getty

[neonheart26]

Some of my favourite Daniel Brühl characters and some I see a lot in the daniel Brühl tag. Something (hopefully) for everyone.

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FUCK, MARRY, KILL: Daniel Brühl Cinematic Universe Edition

Just for funsies. Don't have an aneurysm. Leaning towards Zemo, Laszlo, and Böse, in that order, at the moment. At some other point, I might have said Thomas Lang, Niki Lauda, and Erik Jan Hanussen.

Because of the 30-photo limitation, I removed his minor and/or underdeveloped roles and the ones that wouldn't be difficult to "kill". I also didn't include the ones I haven't seen, so you won't see Salvador on this list. p.s. if anyone has a copy/link to that movie with English subs, I'd be forever grateful!

Lukas, The White Sound (2001)

Daniel, No Regrets / Nichts Bereuen (2001)

Alexander Kerner, Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

Paul Krantz, Love in Thoughts / Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken (2004)

Jan, The Edukators / Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (2004)

Andrea Marowski, Ladies in Lavender (2004)

Lieutenant Horstmayer, Merry Christmas / Joyeux Noël (2005)

Tonda, Krabat (2008)

Dr. Georg Rosen, John Rabe (2009)

István Thurzó, The Countess (2009)

Fredrick Zoller, Inglorious Basterds (2009)

David Kern, Lila, Lila (2009)

Hans Krämer, The Coming Days / Die kommenden Tage (2010)

Konrad Koch, Lessons of a Dream / Der ganz große Traum (2011)

Álex Garel, Eva (2011)

Iván Pelayo, Winning Streak / The Pelayos (2012)

Niki Lauda, Rush (2013)

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, The Fifth Estate (2013)

Thomas Lang, The Face of an Angel (2014)

Daniel, Colonia (2015)

Sebastian Zöllner, Me and Kaminski (2015)

Tony Balerdi, Burnt (2015)

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, The Alienist (2018 - 2020)

Ernst Schmidt, The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Wilfried Böse, Entebbe (2018)

Thomas Fischer, My Zoe (2019)

Daniel Weltz, Next Door / Nebenan (2021)

Erik Jan Hanussen, The King's Man (2021)

Baron Helmut Zemo, Captain America: Civil War (2016) / The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

Matthias Erzberger, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

[romeorosso]

Sebastian Vettel and Niki Lauda German Grand Prix 2011 © Getty Images

[bookishdiary]

Most underrated movies of the last decade

1. Filth (2013)

One of the greatest movies of the last decade, maybe McAvoy's best performance ever: A tragic, funny, absolutely unapologetic movie about the downfall of a scottish police officer.

2. Swiss Army Man (2016)

I promise that you have never seen a movie like this before. It is absolutely strange, macabre and loaded with dark humor: a man stranded on a deserted island tries to keep his sanity by talking to a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe).

3. Rush (2013)

Rush is a 2013 biographical sports film centred on rivalry between two Formula One drivers, the British James Hunt and the Austrian Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula 1 motor-racing season. One of the best Sport Dramas out there.

4. Mother! (2017)

I know some people dislike this movie but I think it is one of Aronosfky's masterpieces. A political, philosphical and brutal allegory of the destruction of our planet brilliantly acted by Jennifer Lawrence.

5. The Flowers of War (2011)

Watching this movie was one of the most eye-opening experiences for me: An American (Christian Bale) tries to protect a group of Chinese students and prostitutes from Japanese soldiers in 1937 Nanjing.

6. Sheperds and Butchers (2016)

A different kind of "true crime story": A lawyer takes on the murder case of a prison guard traumatized by the executions he took part in.

7. Slow West (2015)

The cinematography in this is beautiful: A bounty hunter keeps his true motive a secret from the naive Scottish teenager he's offered to serve as bodyguard and guide while the youth searches for his beloved in 1800s Colorado.

8. Enemy (2013)

This movie will mess with your head: A college Professor (Jake Gyllenhaal) discovers a man who looks and talks exactly like him. A strange tale of what is true and what is fictional begins to unravel.

9. La grande bellezza (2013)

This arthouse movie is for the ones who look for deep conversations, philosopical questions and the horrors and beauties of everyday life. A slow paced and hugely moving tale about modern italy.

10. The Lighthouse (2019)

Everything about this movie is top notch: the acting, the story, the visuals. A modern masterpiece that has the chance of becoming a classic: Two lighthouse keepers are stranded on an island as they slowly dive into insanity.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

The Legacy of Michael Schumacher in Formula One

When a young German driver made his Formula One debut at the Belgium Grand Prix in 1991 as a replacement driver for the Irish Jordan-Ford team, little did the paddock around him know the lasting impact that he would have on the sport. When he made his debut in the sport which he would eventually become synonymous with, Michael Schumacher was a relatively unknown driver but he made himself known quickly by qualifying seventh, already matching the team's second highest qualifying performance of the season. Schumacher was then quickly signed by Benetton for the rest of the 1991 season and he would win his first and second drivers' titles consecutively in 1994 and 1995 with the team, before moving to a struggling Ferrari team and returning them to the glory days they had dreamed of since the '70's, when he achieved the momentous five in a row and become the first seven time world champion.

Thirty years on from Schumacher's debut, Max Verstappen has become the first World Champion not to have raced against the great German driver since Niki Lauda.

Lauda, won his third and final World Championship in 1984 and retired from racing in F1 in 1985, was followed by Alan Prost (who won the championship in 1985, 1986 & 1989, and then again in 1993), Nelson Piquet (who won his third and final title in 1987), Aryton Senna (the legendary Brazilian won his three world titles in 1988, 1990 & 1991, respectively), Nigel Mansell (who won his world title in 1992), Damon Hill (who clenched the title in 1996), Jacques Villeneuve (the World Champion of 1997), Mika Häkkinen (who won his two world titles in 1998 & 1999), Fernando Alonso (who claimed the title in 2005 & 2006, respectively), Kimi Räikkönen (who, in 2007, became the first - and so far the only - Ferrari driver since Michael himself to claim the title), Lewis Hamilton (the only other driver to achieve seven world titles, winning in 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020, respectively), Jensen Button (who achieved the title in 2009), Sebastian Vettel (who became the youngest World Champion when he first won in 2010, he therefore is also the youngest driver to achieve four world championships in row as he also won the title again in 2011, 2012 & 2013, respectively) & Nico Rosberg (who achieved his championship in 2016) who all raced against Michael Schumacher at least once during his years in F1 (between 1991 & 2006 and then from 2010 to 2012).

Max's win makes him the first Dutch driver to get his hands on the trophy but the Dutchman's wins is reflective of something more. We are at the dawn of a new era in Formula One. A new generation of drivers are coming to the forefront of the sport, drivers like Alex Albon (who's rejoining the grid with Williams after a year's absence), Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri), Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), Lando Norris (Maclaren), Esteban Ocon (Alpine), George Russell (who's moving from Williams to Mercedes in the new year), Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri) & Guanyu Zhou (who is making his Formula One debut at Alfa Romeo in the new year and is also the first Chinese driver in Formula One's history). Majority of these drivers grew up competing with each other in karting, formula 3, formula 2, etc, and most importantly were all inspired by the legendary German driver.

It's mad to think that 37 years worth of champions all raced with Michael but it's also mad to think the first driver not to have raced against Michael in Formula One has photos like these with the - arguably - greatest formula 1 driver of all time:

There's interviews with Michael & Max's father from the early 2000's where they talk about their kids & if they could see them in f1 (in one such interview, Michael jokes that they have never had any sort of argument in their friendship but this could be the first if "our two" would be racing each other & Jos remarked that they're similar ages (Max is only 2 years older than Mick) so they would probably compete against each other if they decide to go into racing as they grow up, which they've both have now. It's fitting perhaps, that this year, the year Max has become World Champion, Mick is on the grid beside him. In the same interview, Michael added laughing that he thinks horse riding is a much better sport for their kids, which his oldest child Gina does now almost 20 years later.

Some may claim this is the passing of the torch, but I will always argue that Michael already passed the torch in his final race, to his friend and fellow German driver Sebastian Vettel. While Vettel had already clenched the decisive grid position to guarantee he'd have the points to become a world champion once again, Schumacher allowed Vettel to overtake him without any defense and simply waved him through, essentially changing the guard, passing the torch from era of drivers to the next. While Sebastian's story is still being written to this day, Michael's time in F1 drew to a close as he watched the kingdom lights shine on his friend, who he had known as a child, become not only a four time world champion but the youngest four time champion in history. Drivers like Prost, Piquet, Mansell and the legendary Senna, are all connected to Sebastian - and thus the rest of his era and those who followed them into the sport - by Michael. The torch still burns bright.

This is, however, a poignant moment to reflect. Michael remains the only driver to achieve five championships in a row (Juan Manuel Fangio being the only other driver to achieve five world championships, outside of the two seven time world champions; Hamilton & Schumacher), a record he retains for the foreseeable future. He also still holds the record of most fastest laps (77) and still shares the record of seven World titles with Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton, Vettel and Alonso are all signed for at least another year in Formula One and can/will contend for future world titles but the door has been opened for the younger drivers to breakthrough. Today belongs to Max, those young drivers and the legacy of one German driver who debuted thirty years ago.

Said German driver's greatest legacy is still being written. His son has been unanimously praised during his rookie season in the sport, his hard work and dedication reminiscent of his father's. Little did he know when he was giving that interview that his son would follow in his footsteps or that his friend's son would be the first world champion in 37 years not to have raced against him but perhaps it was clear to him even then that his greatest legacy would be firmly written by his son and daughter.

Edit; Bonus Photos I didn't have prior to posting:

Bonus Bonus Photo:

Bonus Bonus Bonus, what Niki Lauda, the last champion who never raced against Michael had to say about Max;

Bonus x4:

[vro0m]

You’ve been watching Lewis’ drives from 2007-2011 right? What do you think is his underrated quality, both on and off track? Sometimes I’m in awe of how good Niki Lauda seemed to understand him in both of those aspects.

Hello Anon! Sorry it took me so long to answer your ask but here I am.

It's not an easy question because Lewis has changed a lot over the years so it wasn't always as obvious to me as it is now but overall in my honest opinion what sets him apart is his desire to learn as much as his willingness to do so. On and off track.

Several people over the years, like Valtteri and George recently, have pointed out that his approach to racing is different to what they had seen before and that they've learned from watching him. We know he watches other people's onboards as well as his own to see what he can do better and he's learned a lot about engineering and mechanics to be able to communicate with his team better and better understand what they do to optimise their overall performance. He gets involved in everything and in several interviews that I've seen he jokes about getting on the nerves of his engineers or the factory workers by asking them tons of questions and suggesting tons of things. I think it shows his great level of involvement and his curiosity about all aspects of what it takes to win in F1 as a way to perform at his best, and at the team's best.

Off track, he's always had a lot of other interests than racing to the point that he's been criticized for it by very stupid people saying he should focus on F1 instead of partaking in so many different things. He knows how to play at least a couple of instruments, he's learning how to make music, he has a passion for fashion, he has a whole range of business endeavours which requires some know-how even though he surely has advisors AND, of course, his activism has grown very important to him. And being an activist takes a LOT of learning as you surely know. You don't just understand systemic oppression and its concrete ramifications in a real industry and sport instantly. He must have done some serious research to understand the problem and how to approach it and then how to act on it in a productive way.

I also believe that his desire to learn is part of what makes him an apparently very emotionally intelligent person, who seems to be genuinely kind and sensitive, as he sincerely wants to learn about the people he talks to. (Maybe not the hoards of fans he meets every weekend because that would be unrealistic but the people he actually gets to sit with and talk to, you know what I mean.) I think it also makes him humble, because being willing to learn necessarily means being willing to admit that you have things to learn and being open-minded, which arrogant people cannot do. (Which is what I meant by the fact that he's changed a lot over the years because in all honesty young Lewis is very arrogant at times lol but he's changed, so that shows he was willing to learn and evolve, right?)

So yep. Maybe it's just because that's a quality I personally value in people, but in my point of view that's his most encompassing, underrated quality as a driver and as a human being. Wanting to learn.

Thank you for the ask, Anon!

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.21 (after 1950)

1950 – Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces and North Koreans during the Battle of Yongju. 1956 – The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated. 1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. 1965 – Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun. 1966 – A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren. 1967 – The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon. 1969 – The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration. 1971 – A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland. 1973 – Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. 1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. 1979 – Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs. 1981 – Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces. 1983 – The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. 1984 – Niki Lauda claims his third and final Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by half a point ahead of McLaren team-mate Alain Prost at the Portuguese Grand Prix. 1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991). 1987 – The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian peacekeeping forces in Sri Lanka, killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses. 1989 – In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa. 1994 – North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. 1994 – In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses. 2005 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery. 2011 – Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year. 2019 – Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2019 – In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government. 2021 – A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.