#rupert manwaring

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Rupert gently touching Max’s back before he goes to face the media 😭

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Carlos' biggest fan is Rupert 🥹❤️ (x)

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Max when there is no chaist to grab:

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max's grid bag! (x)

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Aw! He calls Rupert ”Rupy” 🥰

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Formula 1 Drivers TRADE JOBS in Italy 🍕🇮🇹 [x]

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🚨CHEST HAIR🚨

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but i see her, in the back of my mind

two years apart, two different drivers, and a different trainer ☹️

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In honour of his home Grand Prix this weekend, here is an extract from the book I’m reading. Rupert (his former performance coach) describing how Carlos and he met.

“We met at Carluccio's on Fulham Road, he says with a smile of the first time he encountered the man who was to come with fondness to call him 'Ruperto. 'Carlos had a flat round the corner and it was clear he was a lovely guy. We got on very well. We were both juniors' - he is Carlos Sainz Jr, I am Rupert Manwaring Jr. Both our fathers had been in motorsport and we had both grown up with it so we had similarities and got on very well.

He was a really, really nice guy, very thoughtful, very considerate and also very enthusiastic, passionate about motorsport and you could see he had a deep desire to succeed.

When we met over coffee, you could see the desire, but until I started working with him closely I didn't know quite how competitive he was.'

Manwaring acknowledges he too is highly competitive and was then most impressed when they left coffee in Fulham behind and got to work, witnessing a driver he felt would leave no stone unturned in his determination to pursue his ambition of becoming a world champion.

I know every driver says they want to be world champion but it was how he said it, so convincingly; it was like something had switched in his head; it was like the cool, calm, chatty, fun-loving guy switched off, he says. 'His desire, his work ethic was there to back up what he wanted to achieve. I saw it at the first race, seeing how he prepares, seeing how focused he is just before he jumps in the car, and how everything else is locked out. We had gone from that nice, friendly coffee to seeing just how something in him switched and he was a difierent beast altogether and that's when I understood how much of a fighter, how much of a competitive beast he is.”

Source: F1 Racing Confidential by Giles Richards Chapter 8, pg 127

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max and rupert during the red flag | japanese gp 2024

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The PTs meetup!

from Pierluigi Della Bona and Ben Thorne

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This is everything

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vague hazy carcar crumbs

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Max and GP pre-race, GP Zandvoort, 2024