#brawn jenson my beloved <3
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I'm still working on my highlights post but this moment is stuck in my head so I had to post it
#JENSON ILYYYYYYYY#brawn jenson my beloved <3#hes so cuteeeeeee#jenson button#f1#formula one#formula 1#we do a little bit of f1#2009 australian gp#posting this on the first day of baku's race wknd sajdkhfk#'hey you guys want these gifs from 14 years ago right? wdym 2023 season?'#jb22#2009 australian grand prix
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🏎️💨 THE FORMULA 1 TAG GAME! 🏎️💨: tagged by @avida-heidia-5, thank you!!
(this has been in my drafts since January and I had completely forgotten to post it, so I'm going to fix that immediately. I am so sorry this took forever!)
1. Who or what got you into F1?
My Dad. The best memories I have of my Dad are watching F1 races together when I was growing up. idk how long he'd been an F1 fan by the time I was born, but I still have a very old Ferrari hat of his.
2. Who was the very first F1 driver you supported? Do you support them now? Have your opinions on them differed or stayed the same since then?
As a kid Michael because of my Dad (according to my Gran when I really really little I used to run around going "vroom vroom Schumacher!"). When I got back into watching F1 in 2013 I supported Jenson and Seb, and I still do! They're very much my beloveds.
3. Who’s your current favourite F1 driver?
Lewis!
4. Is there a driver pairing or pairings you support? What made you attracted to that pairing in the first place?
the dream teams of Seb, Britta and Antti & Lewis and Bono. I am a sucker for colleagues turned besties.
And as for teammates, Lewis and Jenson are my favourites. I frequently go onto YouTube and look up old McLaren promo videos because they're just hilarious in the best way (also shoutout to Series 1 of Tooned, I still have it on DVD!).
5. Do your parents, siblings or relatives have a favourite team and/or favourite driver(s)?
Nope, I'm the only F1 fan in my family. My parents (Mum and Step-Dad) have the odd opinion on some drivers but as a whole they're very unbothered 😅
6. Do you have any favourite races? Are there any that stand out to you the most?
I have so many for various different reasons. Silverstone 2014 & 2018 because I was there. India 2013 and Singapore 2019 for Seb reasons, Hungary 2019 and Turkey 2020 for Lewis reasons. Hungary 2021 for the whole of lap 1 and also for Seb reasons. Bahrain 2014 also sticks out because it was such a good race long battle between Nico and Lewis.
7. Do you have a favourite circuit? Can be from the past or from the current calendar.
Silverstone and Marina Bay (Singapore)
8. Have you ever been to an F1 race in real life? Feel free to tell us your experience going to one if you like.
As mentioned above I have been ridiculously lucky to go to the British GP twice in 2014 and 2018. The first time my parents organised it and the second time was via coach trip (which honestly I would recommend, it took out a lot of the stress in terms of getting to the track).
Obviously it's been a while but both years were absolutely amazing. Silverstone is a brilliant circuit both in terms of spectator facilities and seating options (idk if they still have it, but for our weekend tickets we had roving grandstand seats for the Saturday which meant we could sit in different parts of the track for FP3 and Quali - Luffield and Village are great spots!).
The atmosphere at the track is also just incredible, even during a practice session. They also open the Porsche experience centre and have cars on display (including cars that have won Le Mans!!)
I did post some pictures at the time from both trips under the Silverstone 2014 and Silverstone 2018 tags and I'm happy to post more if people want!
9. Have you ever met an F1 driver in real life?
I have not but I know someone who has 😅
10. Do you have a favourite F1 car? If so, what is it?
I have a colossal soft spot for the Brawn GP BGP001, she will always be famous 🤍💛
11. Do you have a favourite one win wonder?
Esteban Ocon purely for everything that was Hungary 2021.
12. Do you have any favourite quotes from the F1 world? This can either be inspirational or hilarious.
Lewis' post-race radio from Turkey 2020 and a (very) long list of Seb quotes
#tagged#F1 Thoughts#I wanted to hold on to this until pre-season testing!#this was very fun!#(and it was very fun and I'm a muppet for forgetting to post this)
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my baby <3
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If all f1 contracts were to end tomorrow and you could build a new grid for 2022 where money wasn’t an object and there are no constraints on which drivers could go to each team (alpha tauri isn’t junior Red Bull, teams with Ferrari engines don’t need a Ferrari driver etc), what would your grid look like?
anon this is such a great question!!! i don't really know that much about the technical things (which car fits which driver etc) so i'm just gonna slap a fix it fic on this bad boy and give my favs all they ever wanted.
read more bcos as usual, it's an essay:
merc: lewis and jenson. lewis for obvious reasons and jb bcos lewis and jenson interaction :,) and we'd finally find out what would've happened if jenson hadn't left brawn gp after '09.
rbr: alex and seb. I'M GOING TO CREATE AN ENVIORMENT THAT IS SO HEALTHY. horner and seb interaction hmmmm... also you know the brainrot is terminal when you for a second went hm wouldn't it be fun to have mark back? (please put a bullet in my brain)
mclaren: mika and callum. honestly king mika hasn't been a reserve driver for fucking centuries just to never get the seat. also i desperately want callum in a good car. i think it'd be fun, callum who speaks a lot when nervous and mika who takes forever to say the word yes.
ferrari: charles and mick. charles is too funny to retire and i think that if i had put him in any other team besides ferrari it would be like releasing a domestic hamster into the wild (he would die :/) i could write pages on why i want to have mick in ferrari and half of it would be micheal parallels.
aston martin: nyck and nico r. no explanation behind this other than i like them both :) i want nico back so bad so jenson can bully him and so i can force him to have cringe interviews with lewis. also!!! we've never had nico and charles on the grid together, i desperately want to study their interaction. nyck was robbed i'm just giving him what's rightfully his
alpine: guanyu and oscar. i think they'd work really well together and hey! they actually have a connection to the team. however alpine needs to hire cyril again if they don't want to get booted all together (the little gay love story is compelling though)
alpha tauri: pierre and daniel. removing the stigma of this being red bulls b-team i think they could really grow here. pierre is doing well already and i think daniel could do with the reduced pressure. also i know the ask said that there wouldn't be a connection between them but i really like the thought of daniel, pierre, seb and alex doing silly videos together :))
alfa romeo: jüri and alice (powell). this is once again so random i'm sorry but i'm running out of teams so i'm just shoving my favs everywhere. jüri is however MADE for red bull so i might have to reconsider
haas: marcus (ericsson) and dino (beganovic). *chanting* swedish team swedish team swedish team!!! this is based solely on a weird dream i had for some time ago where there was a completely swedish team on the grid called the orange team and, you guessed it, the car was orange. also unrelated but the jonas brothers were there?
williams: jamie and jack. MY BELOVEDS. i love them both so much and they seem to be good pals so i think they would work great together <3
#it's actually so pathetic how bad i want old men to go racing again#wow this made me realise i cat about literally two people on the current grid#*care#anon this was such a fun idea ily#ask
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F1 Re-Watch 2013: Round 8 - Great Britain
I race I did watch live at the time... but had to watch a recording of it bc I fell asleep as I'd gotten back from a school trip the day before.
Anyway, my main memory of this race is all the very bad and very dramatic tyre failures which... big yikes. Seb also retired with some kind of mechanical failure which meant that Rosberg won. But apart from that I don't remember much else, so let's get into it and hope it's not completely awful 😵💫
Ah Silverstone, my forever beloved 💚
Okay starting grid: Merc 1-2 with Lewis on pole (spoiler alert: he's one of the drivers who has a tyre blowout :(), Seb P3, Dan P5 holy shit, Jenson P10 and Jev P12.
Helmet watch: I can't quite tell but it looks like Seb has pictures of all the RBR team on his helmet which is adorable
[Formation Lap]: Mediums and Hards are the tyres for this race.
cut to the stampede of mechanics and engineers trying to get back to the garages.
[Start/Lap 1]: Lewis shooting off at the start and Seb taking P2, I LOVE THIS SONG
Grosjean going round the outside of the of the McLaren's at Luffield holy shit dude
Jenson up to P9 🥰
or not Fernando just got past him :(
[Lap 2]: Lewis with an 8 tenths lead already, that's why they named the start-finish straight after him
[Lap 3]: aaaaand Lewis fastest lap.
Meanwhile Sutil is in P4. Team Silverstone once again be Team Silverstone-ing, at Silverstone
[Lap 5]: Lewis up to 2 seconds ahead of Seb, he's goating folks
The way that I know the tyre failures are coming but I have no idea on which laps they happen, it's like a really aggressive jack in the box.
(iirc Lewis, Jev and Checo were the affected drivers)
[Lap 6]: So yeah I'm just going to enjoy the Sewis 1-2 while it lasts 😭
[Lap 7]: Not Jenson complaining of his tyres overheating already, he's on the hards 😭😭😭
And Perez just got past him
and cut to Webber's busted front wing, man announced his retirement that weekend and someone decided to beat him up at the start as a send off
[Lap 8]: Seb fastest lap 🥰
ah shit there's Lewis' delaminated left rear tyre 😭😭😭
Cut to a v disappointed looking Ross Brawn
I know it's been ten years, but you can meet my fists Pirelli
The fact it happened down the Wellington straight too like.... big fucking yikes man
[Lap 9]: Anyway he's made it into the pits and is back out on track, although in plum last :(
[Lap 10]: So Seb's now P1 with Rosberg P2 and Sutil P3.
Oh jeez it was Massa that was the second left rear failure
[Lap 11]: cut to someone from Pirelli watching Massa's stop in the pit lane dbuhsfubh
[Lap 12]: Unsurprisingly, a load of cars have made their first stops
And a Grosjean fastest lap, because why not
"There's two men trying to stop Sebastian Vettel running away with the championship, and they're not doing a very good job of it" okay Brundle I will give you that one right.
[Lap 13]: Rosberg makes his first stop for hards.
[Lap 14]: and Seb makes his first stop, also for hards
The fact that Sutil is in P3, Team Silverstone baby!!!
[Lap 15]: Jev with tyre failure number 3 😭
The thing literally just exploded as we went through Stowe like... Pirelli I am in your walls
This race is legit the reason why I get anxiety every time I see one tyre failure bc my mind instantly goes back to the mess that was this race
[Lap 16]: And Safety Car. Likely for all the debris.
And honestly this race still pisses me off bc all the drivers were told to stay off the kerbs, but maybe Pirelli should have made better tyres in the first place
[Lap 17]: Adrian Newey with his head in his hands, a colossal mood
Anyway, soapbox away for now. Lewis is up into P14.
[Lap 18]: oooh internal SC cam. Bernd Maylander my forever Driver of the Day.
Cut to another Pirelli man in the Merc garage 👁️👄👁️
the TV director had a lot of fun with that, I can imagine
[Lap 19]: And also big shoutout to the marshals at the time for picking up all the little bits of debris in such record time.
"It's been a bit busy the past few laps" NO SHIT ROCKY
[Lap 20]: and a lap later he's calling out Seb for his fuel usage 😭
I can very easily see why I only remember the tyre failures from this race bc the replays of all the incidents are not fun
oh damn they even sent the track sweepers onto the circuit to clean up the mess
[Lap 21]: SC in this lap
stresssssss
(not bc I fear Seb losing the lead, bc I fear more carnage)
and off Seb goes!
casually just leaving Rosberg for dust
[Lap 22]: oh damn Perez got Webber on the outside of Abbey
...and Webber gets the place back
cut to Lewis driving on the kerbs at Maggots and Becketts, is2g
worth noting that not single driver has listened to their engineers when it comes to avoiding the kerbs. They are all menaces to society.
[Lap 24]: But he did get past Gutierrez going into Copse so... that was sexy I'll allow it
[Lap 27]: Somehow, Sutil is still in P3
the absolute scenes of it all
Seb's gap over Rosberg up to 3.3 seconds, that's my boy!!!
[Lap 28]: Dan passes Grosjean for P6!!
Another piece of debris on the track oh my fucking god
this race is almost causing me physical pain, maybe I had a point when I passed out watching this at the time
Okay apparently Gutierrez just trashed one of the break marker boards everyone's tyres are thankfully fine
[Lap 30]: Alonso makes his second (?) stop
[Lap 31]: oh shit Rosberg is 1.5 seconds faster than Seb???
don't tell me the DNF is coming sooner rather than later
I mean, I know it's coming, but still. This race has been too much.
[Lap 32]: Lewis up to P9... because of cars ahead making stops :(
It's okay bud you win the race a year later and do very iconic things you're all good
[Lap 35]: Rosberg pits again, I have lost track of the number of stops everyone's done ngl
At this point I just want everyone (excluding Seb's incoming DNF) to make it to the end of the race with all four tyres on their cars 😭
[Lap 36]: And Seb pits
while Webber got past Alonso for P4
[Lap 37]: Jenson up into P11
And Lewis into the pits again, he comes out in P11 so he could still get some points
okay this battle with Di Resta is actually really good, annoying that Lewis is down in P12 though
[Lap 38]: aaaaand he takes back P11 going through turn 4 *chef's kiss*
[Lap 39]: pls don't cut to a dejected Jev I am very emotionally fragile bc of this dumb race
[Lap 41]: *Lewis back into the points klaxon*
and there's Seb going slowly 😭
[Lap 42]: sounds like a gearbox failure
and Safety Car bc his car stopped on the main straight
p a i n
I have been personally victimised by the British Grand Prix of 2013
on the plus side at least Seb didn't have a long run to get back to the RBR garage 🥲
[Lap 43]: And Rosberg and Webber make their third (?) stops
[Lap 44]: Cut to Vivian, with some very on brand Petronas teal nail polish.
Okay so mainly recapping the running order for myself bc there has been too much going on: Rosberg leads from Raikkonen, Sutil, Dan, Webber, Perez, Jenson, Alonso, Lewis and Grosjean make up the top 10.
This has been a Motor Race™️
[Lap 45]: And off Nico goes!
[Lap 46]: Webber and Lewis both up a place at the restart
as is Fernando
jesus fucking christ there goes Perez's tyre
Pirelli you owe me emotional damages
[Lap 47]: Meanwhile Webber just shot up into P3
and Lewis is into P7!
[Lap 48]: or make that P6
worth noting that Lotus didn't pit Raikkonen under the SC, as Webber takes P2 going through Copse.
[Lap 49]: Lewis into P5!!!!!
this race has legit been batshit insane
[Lap 50]: Rosberg fastest lap, he has a 1.4 second lead over Webber
I should add we have three laps left
And Alonso takes P3
[Lap 51]: aaand Webber fastest lap
love me some fastest lap ping pong
Lewis P4!!!!!!!!!!
He had pole, dropped to last after his tyre failure, and goated his way back to P4. That's they they named the start-finish straight after him folks
[Lap 52]: Last lap. I am exhausted.
Rosberg has a 9 tenths lead so he's good
[Finish]: And Monaco Man wins the British GP!!!
Webber P2, Alonso P3, Lewis P4, Raikkonen P5, Massa P6, Sutil P7, Dan P8, Di Resta P9 and Hulkenberg P10.
My god, those last 10-ish laps combined with everything that happened beforehand... I need a lie down. Pirelli will be meeting my fists and paying my emotional damages even though it's been 10 years since the race.
Next race - Germany!
#bc what is summer break for than watching old races?#even if this one was quite cursed#f1 re watch#F1 2013 re watch
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