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merry crisis christmas babes 🤎

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I’m so sorry, but I’m sick of people saying Prost was more boring or bland than Senna. My man straight-up called the Ferrari—yes, FERRARI—a tractor no one could make work, dragged Maranello through the mud during a crisis, got himself fired before the last races, and then decided to treat it as an early vacation;)

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congrats so liam i suppose

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photos from the 1988 season :)) i’d never seen these before i found them yesterday, thought i’d share

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"In France, at Le Castellet, Prost returned to pole for the first time in two years. "Both Senna and Prost were extremely confident in their means," says Jo Ramirez. "And prone to psychological tricks. I remember that time at Paul Ricard, Prost does his qualifying lap immediately proving to be the fastest on the track. He comes back to the pits and puts on his jeans and T-shirt. I yell at him, "What the hell are you doing, you still have three more sets of tires!" His response? "If Ayrton does a better time than me, well, then he deserves the pole. That's the best I can do."

Imagine at that point how much competitive anger Ayrton had inside. What a desire to prove his greater speed...". Which, however, he failed to do that day."

"In the black book of the great duel between Senna and Prost, September 25, 1988 is one of those days underlined in red. It is the first crack in the wall of what had never really become a true friendship. In qualifying Prost surprises his partner with a perfect lap. So perfect that after setting the stopwatches at 1'17"411, with a quarter of an hour to go in qualifying, taking advantage of a red flag, Alain gets out of his McLaren and goes into plain clothes. A provocation in perfect Prost style, but also the conviction that he had done something special. "Alain wandered around the pits in jeans to be seen by Senna," Ramirez recalls, "and I think it affected that because then Ayrton the more he tried to go fast, the less he could." Senna on the track in traffic could not improve and could do nothing but sit next to his partner on the front row."

— Senna E Prost: La Sfida Infinita

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I'll never get over the picture of teenage seb watching michael drive for ferrari... and teenage charles watching seb for ferrari... and teenage ollie watching charles drive for ferrari.... the ferrari dream never dies no matter how many hearts it breaks.

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we need to acknowledge miami charles more

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These make me freak out like okay

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A Prosenna edit I made thanks to the good quality of the Prost documentary and some special scenes from the Senna movie. I love them

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brothers 🤝 teammates

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haasbands | 3.4k oneshot

It is quiet when Nico holds up his phone and flips to the front camera. The sound of cheering is muffled in his ears — he shifts, rotates the phone for a landscape view, and puts his arm around Kevin’s shoulder. His phone screen mirrors what it captures: Nico, putting the best cheerful beam he can, Kevin pressed against him, lips pulled into a small smile that barely reaches his eyes, and the sea of fans raising their hands up high, cheering for the last, final selfie of the Haas teammates.

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Charles is five years old when he first sets foot on the ice. He is seven years old when he first steps onto an actual rink. There are moments where he teeters and flails and almost tips over but either Esteban or Pierre catch him every time, hands clasped tightly in each other’s as they shriek in delight.

Twenty years later, Charles is on the verge of winning his first Grand Prix Final. Pierre, ever by his side, is now a renowned musician and composer; there is no one in the world whose scores Charles would rather skate to.

or; a story of love to the point of invention.

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lie down. sit still.

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this diva

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Prost and Senna’s positions in their rivalry are reaally interesting to me. For most of their rivalry, Prost was the older, more experienced driver, who’s quick, clever, he was in title fights by the time Senna joined the sport and he was a 2-time world champion when Senna joined McLaren. A couple times, Senna said that he considers Prost the best pilot in F1. Example: Germany 1988 post-race Senna said, “Alain has nothing to be taught, he’s for sure one of the best, I think he’s the best, actually, in the business.” Like. He literally had photos of Prost up in his room in Brazil in his karting years. which is crazy. I mean, I guess everyone has to have their favourite driver, right? Not sure everyone spends the rest of their career chasing their favourite around and around with such obsessive intensity but yeah. As Prost has said many times: he was Senna’s goal. This makes Senna’s position in the rivalry the younger, up-and-coming storm of a driver, clearly very talented, Very fast and ready to take on the best and become the best. And who did Senna think was the best? So this is the defender versus the challenger. And Senna preferred it this way, he liked having someone to chase and to fight. But by the end of their rivalry, things have changed. a lot. Prost retired, and already that’s Senna’s goal, vanished. Senna is a 3-time world champion now, he’s standing on top of the world and he’s also matured a lot more, and become increasingly concerned with safety. below him is the new generation coming in. Schumacher, Hill, Hakkinen etc. and they’re hungry, of course they’re hungry, but Senna finds himself in an unfamiliar, uncomfortable position now because it’s his time to defend himself against the younger drivers. He’s in Prost’s position.

While Senna wanted Prost to un-retire bc he needed someone to challenge and he wanted that someone to be Prost, I think at the same time Senna was understanding Prost as a driver and a man more and more and what his side of the rivalry must have been like, and to be understood means a lot. A reason perhaps why Senna might’ve felt so comfortable discussing his place within Williams and the sport and his opinions on safety with Prost during their phone calls.