#schumy

[f1archives]

[grogumaximus]

Three drivers from '95 and from '77 up to nowadays. If you had to put them in order, what would be your pick? Not your favorite, the ones that in your opinion the three best guys? | Pelas Pistas podcast

Clarkson: I'm sort of reminded of Michael when I look at Max Verstappen now. The sort of ruthless streak, the way that it seems the Redbull now only one guy can drive it. It reminds me of the Benetton in the mid '90s, in sort of '94 and '95. None of Michael's teammates could drive that thing anything like as well as he could.

(...) You have to put Max in it if we are going for the best three drivers since then. Do you know, I had a really interesting chat with Gerhard Berger about Max? I was interviewing Gerhard at his house in Austria. He's got one room in his house which has all of his racing memorabilia—nothing else. Any other room? There's no reference to motorsport. There's one room where all his trophies are, his old helmets, and the only helmet of any driver that he has in his house other than his own is Max Verstappen. So, that caught my eye, so I asked, 'Why Max?' And he said, 'I think Max is unbelievable.' And I said, 'How good is Max?' And he said, 'Actually, I think he might be better than Ayrton.' I said, 'That's a big statement coming from you Gerhard', given that they were teammates and friends.

[aphrostiel]

happy birthday to my favorite driver of all time, a racing legend, the king of Ferrari. a loving father, husband and friend ♥

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”- Oscar Wilde.

[mickstart]

Max would not have survived the 00s where every GPDA meeting David Coulthard would stand up and say "the only way we can resolve this problem, is if we euthanise Michael immediately."

[yyenky]

F1 DRIVERS x TENNIS

Mika Häkkinen, Michael Schumacher, Stefan Johansson, Riccardo Patrese, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna.

[starz81sainz]

what genre of F1 photo is this?

[28ms28]

dreams and hopes of a ferrari predestined

Rolling the credits:-

pics taken from pinterest mostly

poetry/quotes: when love arrives by Sarah Keys, Teaching my mother how to give birth by Warsan Shire, Confessional by Sue Zhao, Jorge Luis Borges, and Charles leclerc because sometimes the shit he says is so freaking poetic, and yeah maybe I did some writing too

article links: Vogue Italia, Giles Richard via the guardian, Giles Richard via the guardian again, also these two bbc articles [x], [x], The Ferrari dream by @ferrarisufferer165 (beautiful writing), and some words I stole from Reddit comments, the rest are from the official f1 website:)

go check out pinterest user235323 because oh man what a collection they have

song/lyrics: riptide by vance joy, hostage by billie ellish, it’ll chew you up and spit you out by concrete blonde, my tears ricochet by taylor swift, mess it up by gracie abrams, nothing new by taylor swift and phoebe bridgers

also tagging the lovely @verstpn i hope this has even 1% of the magic your web weaves have ^_^

[gordonstanheight]

continuous series of drivers in ads: michael schumacher, nico rosberg, & mika häkkinen for mercedes-benz!

[dear-ao3]

i cannot forza anymore ferraris im gonna fail the worst midterm of my life in abt 15 minutes 🙏😔

[f1archives]

[grogumaximus]

[aphrostiel]

The Red Baron ♦

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Sorry, I've got "he knew him as Uncle Michael before he saw and understood his place in F1 history, and now he just broke his Uncle Michael's record of most consecutive days leading the F1 championship" in my eye -

[25points]

2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schuamcher. Photo: Charles Coates.

[bbyschumi]

he’s about to cross the abbey road