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Daniel does a little dance to entertain himself and Simon was Not Impressed™️
FP2, 2014 German Grand Prix 🇩🇪 | link via @annebd
#daniel ricciardo#simon rennie#f1#*#**#german gp 2014#simon did not entertain him or his silly lil dance AT ALL. AT ALLLLLLLLL. EVEN IN THE FACE OF THAT BUUB SHIMMY#what a man. im fucking obsessed.#daniel obviously feels so secure in front of him 😭❤️#this is the base layer of daniel's personality that you need to understand. this might be my new favorite this is everything#@annebd is the literal best#favorites
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chomp
#join me in my favourite rare....pair....trio#f1#formula 1#sebastian vettel#nico rosberg#kimi räikkönen#ferrari#mercedes#red bull racing#german gp 2014
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sebastian vettel’s helmet for the 2014 german grand prix, in honor of germany’s world cup victory
📷 mark thompson / getty
#sebastian vettel#f1#formula 1#german gp 2014#flashback fic ref#flashback fic ref 2014#germany#germany 2014#germany 14#germany2014#germany14
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the way he just kept going 😭 with a smile on his face
"Race Winner ☝️Lewis 🥰 amazing job, he did phenomenal. [...] and Vettel, my god, what a dark day for him. 😃 surely one of the darkest in his whole career, to put it in the wall here at his legendary home track, where he's never won before."
#fun fact nico won his 'home' race at hockenheim at 2014. seb never did :)#although lbr Nico's home race is monaco and he's won it thrice 😁#nico rosberg#german gp 2018
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#2014 german gp#pc 2014 germany#acc: sebastian vettel#category: formula 1#team: ferrari#pic-speed magazin#my edit
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vro0m’s rewatch - 139/310
2014 German GP
It's the mid season of 2014. Unfortunately, I don't have any pre or post race content this time.
Wikipedia tells me Lewis had a brake failure in Q1 and lost control of his car. He starts 20th on the grid and he said he was "OK but sore".
Meanwhile, Nico got married, got a contract extension and got the pole, at his home gp. Extremely annoying if you ask me. He shares the front row with no else than Valtteri, ahead of Massa and Magnussen, both Redbulls with Daniel out qualifying Seb again, Alonso and Kvyat, and Hulkenberg and Perez for the top 10.
Formation lap.
And they're racing!
OH IT'S A FIRST CORNER CRASH HOLY SHIT. Massa and Magnussen I believe? Took each other out. That's a heavy crash, one of them did a full barrel roll. I think i saw a Redbull get impacted as well? Safety car out. Yep. The top 10 now goes Rosberg, Bottas, Vettel, Alonso, Hulkenberg, Kvyat, Button, Perez, Raikkonen and Sutil. Lewis up in 17 but well, two cars at least have DNF so that checks out. Massa is getting out fine. Wait actually Magnussen is still on track, down in 20th. On the restart we see one car missed the start and left several seconds after the others at the back, that's odd. Daniel didn't get hit but had to go very wide and lost many many places. The safety car is already coming back in.
Here we go. Lewis overtakes Chilton. Daniel is 13th. Lewis overtakes Maldonado for P15. Jenson is attacking Hulkenberg for P5. Lewis up in P14. Lewis up in P13. He's closing on Daniel now, but Daniel is also fighting Sutil for P11, and he does the trick first while Lewis makes contact with Sutil as he also goes past. Mmmh. The stewards concluded the first lap incident didn't warrant any penalty. Valtteri is closing on Rosberg. Lewis says he has understeering. Now Kvyat and Perez come together as well and Kvyat is sent spinning. Brundle believes it was Kvyat's fault. I personally do not care. Daniel and Lewis overtake JEV for P9 and P10. He's in the points! It's lap 10.
He attacks Daniel! Oh god wait! It's actually Perez, Raikkonen, Daniel and Lewis basically wheel to wheel into the corner and thankfully no one crashes out of that...
But Lewis is still behind while Daniel overtakes Raikkonen a few corners later! And here comes Lewis they're wheel to wheel but Raikkonen stays ahead! I inhaled through my teeth, it was close. Bono says it seems some people on the options are getting front left graining (Lewis is on the supersofts I think?), "stops are gonna start happening soon". Indeed Alonso pits. Lewis overtakes Raikkonen but again, they make contact. That's a lot of contact in this race. And he's ahead of Daniel too! What the hell. Let me see a replay, what happened? How did he do that?! A bunch of people pit. Now Seb is in a Ferrari sandwich, the three of them are wheel to wheel with Seb on the inside of the next corner and they all touched what's happening in Germany, they're all over each other! In the end, it's Seb ahead of Alonso ahead of Raikkonen. In the meantime that puts Lewis up in P2 and he's told he's good on fuel. He hasn't pitted yet though and is 7.7 seconds behind. Daniel is having issues possibly? He's told steering wheel modes and things like that.
It's lap 20. Valtteri is less than a second behind Lewis. He's told it's not critical to keep the position but rather to do the right stint length. He lets Bottas ahead. Bono tells Lewis to go to menu magic position one for the pit stop. Lewis moodily answers "I've never heard of that switch" and Bono says "okay don't worry about it mate, don't worry about it, just leave it." He gets called in. Another set of softs. He's out in 8th. Grosjean DNFs. Lewis overtakes Daniel for P7.
It's lap 30. Lewis attacks Jenson but makes contact once again and there's serious damage to his front wing. It's not a good race for him 🥴 he then overtakes him easily. As he goes by, he holds his hand up in apology. Jenson pits. Lewis is now chasing Hulkenberg for P5. He's on the radio. "Is there anything we can do…? We can't afford to change the front wing, right?" He sounds resigned. Bono says they're gonna look at the strategy, see what his pace is, "we're gonna calculate something and see what we can do for you". Lewis seems very fast though. He's closing on Hulkenberg. He'll be okay. He overtakes him. That's P5 then. Alonso and Seb pit which puts him into P3. Lewis sets the fastest lap of the race. Alonso overtakes Hulkenberg for P4 and Seb overtakes Hulkenberg for P5.
It's lap 40. Lewis says his front left is not gonna last. Valtteri pits and is out behind Lewis in P3. Nico pits. He's still in the lead. Seb is told to save fuel. Lewis is 4.3 seconds behind Rosberg now but he's called in of course. He's out in fifth. They didn't change his frontwing, they just adjusted it. Jenson overtakes Daniel for P6. Lewis' pace is outstanding! But he has to go to the end on these tyres so… OH MY GOD KVYAT'S CAR IS ON FIRE! He's stopped in a run off area. Get out, get out ! There's thick black smoke entirely engulfing him. Oh he's out thank god. He's pissed. Jesus. It burnt so fast! Daniel pits. It's a very fast stop. Lewis is P4, gaining a second and a half a lap on Alonso. He's only 2 seconds behind now. Lewis asks "is my pace good enough?" and Bono says "yes Lewis, pace is good, pace is good" with the tiniest hint of amusement in his voice. Green flags again, Lewis overtakes Alonso for P3. Seb overtakes Jenson for P5. Sutil spins.
It's lap 50. The yellow flags are back out. Sutil says there's something wrong with the car. He can’t restart it, he just jumps out and leaves it in the dead middle of the track. LEWIS PITS a third time?! He's out in 4th. Sutil's car is being pushed away. Alonso pits, that's Lewis back in P3, 25 seconds behind Nico and 7 seconds behind Valtteri. Daniel overtakes Jenson for P5. Alonso overtakes Jenson for P6. Lewis is gaining extremely quickly on Bottas but how long are his tyres gonna last? The gap is already down to 3.9. 3.7. 3. 2.7… Alonso overtakes Ricciardo for P5 but Ricciardo fights back in the next corner, but Alonso is faster in the next straight, but Daniel has the inside line into the next corner. It's lap 60!
Lewis is only a second behind Bottas now. 0.9. 0.7. Alonso attacks Daniel again, but still can't do it. It's amazing, it's been laps, they're racing very, very well. 0.4. Lewis is almost there. Williams says Bottas can use the overtake to defend but they need these tyres to the end. Kinda contradictory. 0.3. And Alonso is ahead of Ricciardo, who comes back at him in the next corner but can't get back in front. 5 laps to go! Lewis can't seem to attack Bottas. 3 laps…
And it's the end of the race.
Nico wins, Valtteri P2, Lewis P3. (remember he started P20 🙃). That's Nico 14 points ahead in the WDC.
I read on Wikipedia that Lewis, Nico and Alonso all said they were surprised there wasn't a safety car to get Sutil's car, Lewis saying he was scared for the marshals.
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@fortheloveofaussiegrit 's deep dive into Mark and his love of twinks...
Sebastian Vettel
Where does one even start when trying to explain this... that's his twink of the past, present, and future— his forever. [first: debatable but the beginning of martian at the Fuji GP 2007 when Seb crashed into the back of Mark ruining both of their races, they were running 2nd and third. second: the day i lost my sanity, Abu Dhabi 2022]
Oscar Piastri
His twink of the present [i don't think i need to say anything... but photos above are from Mark's website from his blog post about Oscar winning the F2 championship and how Mark stayed in Abu Dhabi with Oscar after the GP for the young driver f1 test...]
Mitch Evans
Without Mitch we wouldn’t have got Oscar/Mark... (this is what oscarmark could’ve been but not sure i would’ve been able to handle oscar posting mark the way mitch did) Started in 2010, Mark then went on to manage him and Mitch even moved into Mark’s home in England, down the drive but point still stands [first: Mark Webber takes protege on birthday tour, 2010 (speedcafe.com) second: Mark embracing Mitch after he took maiden victory in Formula E, 2019 (📷Sam Bloxham) bottom two: from Mitch’s IG circa 2014]
Daniel Ricciardo
i like that belt buckle mate [first/second: F1 Paddock 2013 (📷skysports.com) third: Mark & Daniel’s BBQ on the beach ahead of the Aus GP 2011 (📷flickr) fourth/fifth: Dutch GP 2022.]
Fernando Alonso
again do i need to say anything? i think this sums it up (thank you to @seafoampearlygirl for the screen shot and your help too, much appreciated!!
and this... [Jenson Button, Giancarlo Fisichella, Fernando Alonso & Mark Webber for Benetton Renault 2001 F1 launch]
Lewis Hamilton
If there's one thing about Mark that you need to know its his love of twinks with world championships... @mwebber has a post here on these two! Mark always loves talking about Lewis and the way they look at each other.. [first: Mark and Lewis during the post-qualy presser at the Spanish GP, 2010 (📷Sutton Images) second: during the pre-race presser at the Aus GP, 2013 (📷Hoch Zwei) third: Abu Dhabi GP, 2017 (📷James Moy)]
Nico Rosberg
from teammates at Williams to Mark snapping pics of the back of Nico in 2023… [first: Mark talking to test driver Nico Rosberg during the German GP, 2005 (📷Pakusch) second: Monaco ePrix 2023]
Max Verstappen
like i said... twinks with championships [first: ‘bumped into these two over easter and managed a few k on the trails’ Apr, 2018 (Mark’s FB) second: Hangar-7, 2019]
Felipe Massa
yeah... [first: Brazil 2012, i think (📷sky-sports.com) second: Brazil 2013 (📷xpb images)]
Brendon Hartley
he’s already featured a few times, but from rbr junior driver to teammate... yeah.. is there a pattern? [first: Spanish GP 2009 (📷DPPI Images) second: Brendon, Mark & Timo after winning the 6 hours of Bahrain and the WEC Drivers Championship 2015 (📷fiawec.com)]
Jenson Button
and finally we get to Jenson Button, who, yes, is younger than Mark so makes it onto the list... the ultimate twink on twink... you cannot tell me this wasnt a couples holidays covered up as ‘training’. you cannot tell me they were not fumbling around in their bedsheets at night. you cannot tell me— [redacted redacted redacted] — [pre-season training session in Lanzarote, Spain. 4 Jan 2001 📷Mark Thompson]
#i had this idea and had to run with it#this is just a bit of fun#please please take this with a side of delulu#if ive missed anyone let me know cos ive got another 4 ppl i wanted to add so i’ll do a part 2#mark/brendon#mark/lewis#mark/nico#mark/mitch#mark/max#mark/jense#mark/dan#mark/nando#seb/mark#oscarmark
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In the last decade, cacti have exploded in popularity, becoming a mainstay of hipster decor around the world – from the homes of China’s growing middle class and the meticulous cactus gardens in Japan to the fashionable cafes of Europe.
In the US alone, sales of cacti and succulents surged 64% between 2012 and 2017; a market that is now estimated to be worth tens of millions. But rising demand has met a thorny problem: cacti are extremely slow-growing, with some species taking decades to grow from seed to full maturity. Hence, many opt for the shortcut: pulling them right out of the ground.
For land managers and scientists who work with cacti, the problem appears to be on the rise. While the precise scale is difficult to measure, and catching thieves red-handed in remote deserts is nearly impossible, major busts offer clues. In 2014, more than 2,600 stolen cacti were seized at US borders – up from 411 just a year before. But law enforcement officials and field scientists say that data represents only a tiny fraction of cactus actually being stolen.
“When I first started we rarely investigated cactus theft,” said one US Fish and Wildlife Service detective, who asked not to be named due to the undercover nature of his work. He has covered the south-west region for more than a decade and says the problem is increasing. “Now we are prosecuting cases involving thousands of plants at a time. The demand is so high that I fear we can’t stop the illegal trade going on.”
While many plants fall victim to underground cactus cartels, a seemingly more benign form of theft has become part of the problem, too. International visitors who come to the south-west specifically to view rare cactus in the wild sometimes take a souvenir home, and social media is exacerbating the problem.
“We’ve had Austrian, German and Italian collectors express strong interest on social media for these plants and they share GPS coordinates,” said Wendell “Woody” Minnich, the former president of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America. “Some of these people come to steal, especially when a new species is identified. They hide the plants in their suitcase and take them back to their greenhouse in Europe.”
Minnich, 71, has been a cactus grower and nursery operator in New Mexico for 50 years. He said the internet had significantly accelerated theft of rare, slow-growing cactus species over the last decade. A case in point: Sclerocactus havasupaiensis, which is native to one drainage at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, was being auctioned on eBay in early January by a seller in Ukraine. It was just one of more than 365 internationally protected plant species that are openly traded on Amazon and eBay.
“Do a Google search on Sclerocactus and you can find people in Russia selling them,” said Minnich. “I have been on public lands in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado where years ago Sclerocactus were everywhere, and recently I found just a bunch of little holes in the ground.”
#environmentalism#ecology#botany#plants#cacti#national parks#crime#theft#smuggling#usa#saguaro#sclerocactus havasupaiensis
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Sebastian Vettel- Love Report
summary: sebastian vettel? notorious flirt. what happens when his future wife is a reporter?
warnings: none, just tooth aching fluff and a mention of the pandemic :)
wc: 1.2k
The first time Sarah had stepped out as a member of the Sky Sports team in 2011, she had been terrified. She would be working alongside Natalie Pinkham and many others, but in 2011 at the first GP of the season, the team had given her the choice to pick one driver to interview to start off the season.
Sarah’s father was from Germany, and a huge F1 fan, so her choice of Vettel was made very quickly on her side. It also helped that the woman had heard so many great things about the driver and his kindness.
So there Sarah was, wearing black pants and a Sky Sports branded polo, waiting for Sebastian Vettel to join her for an interview. Sarah was pulled from a conversation with cameraman when a producer let her know that Sebastian was heading their way with his PR manager. The woman slowed her breathing as she saw the blonde approach in his own Red Bull polo.
“Hi Sebastian,” Sarah smiled and held out her hand as he joined her behind the Sky Sports counter. “Sarah De Ville, pleasure.”
“Ah, the pleasure is all mine,” the man grinned as they shook hands before being seated and beginning the interview.
“Here we are with Sebastian Vettel,” Sarah spoke to the camera before turning to her guest. “Sebastian, here you are, first race of the season with you looking to defend your World Championship. How are you feeling?”
“Well, I am here with a beautiful girl, so can I really complain?” Sarah giggled before moving the interview on to speak about Sebastian’s goals for the upcoming season.
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The next time Sarah interviewed Seb, she knew him a little better. At the end of the 2011 season, Sarah had been around the track constantly, meeting drivers, shadowing interviews, and everything in between. She often found herself in casual settings with Sebastian, either while leaving press briefings, walking in the paddock or other times. And every time, the man was just as much of a flirt as the first time they met.
One interview that he had been doing, he literally bailed in the middle to run and tell Sarah she looked beautiful, before running back. When the interviewer asked what Seb had been doing? He told them point blank.
Sarah had been worried his actions would effect the outlook of her peers, but Natalie had comforted her. “We shouldn’t have to change the way we act when it’s innocent just to make other people feel better.”
Even Sarah’s male colleagues had said it was funny. It wasn’t like Sarah was getting special treatment from the driver, she actually tried not to interview him to make it less of a deal. But that did not get her away from the Red Bull driver.
At the end of that season, Seb had been asked what his off season plans were by another interviewer. “Well, hold on,” the blonde smiled. “Sarah from Sky Sports, question from Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull.”
Sarah’s eyes bugged out, and she looked at her boss who shrugged in the back of the room. “Go ahead?” she said into a microphone questioningly.
“What are your plans for the off season?” the German driver beamed as Sarah blushed and the room burst into laughter.
The ironic thing was, is that off season was when Sarah and her father had run into Sebastian at an event in Frankfurt, and she had given in and let the man take her on a date.
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In the 2014 season, Sarah was taking a bigger role on the F1 coverage team. She was helping to propose content ideas to film with the drivers, taking on more interviews, covering media briefings and more. At the India Grand Prix, Sarah was beaming as Sebastian came up for his interview.
“Sebastian, how do you feel today? If you win, that will be another Championship for you.”
The man tried his best to treat it like any other interview. Not staring at Sarah, looking at this surroundings, trying not to flirt too much. The two had a quick conversation before he was off for more media duties.
At the end of the weekend, Sarah was standing with a smile on her face with her camera man, filming the moment Sebastian came out of his car as the World Champion. The blonde leaped into the awaiting line of Red Bull team members, before shocking everyone and heading towards the media section. Everyone waited with bated breath as the man removed his helmet and baclava, setting it on the ground before striding with purpose to the barrier.
Sarah’s eyes widened in surprise as he stopped in front of her, leaned over the fence, and pulled her into a deep and loving kiss. That next day, Sarah and Seb announced their 2-year old relationship that they had kept from the public.
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Seb was in a press conference at the end of 2015, when he was asked once again what his plans were for the off season.
“Making a baby?” Lewis joked, having been at Sebastian and Sarah’s wedding over the Summer break.
“Already done that,” Seb smirked as the drivers he was sitting with sat in shock and the media group burst. “Sorry Sarah,” he apologized to his wife that was sitting in the back row with her head in her hands.
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“Charles, who would you say is a mentor to you in the paddock right now?” Natalie asked the Monegasque man who she and Sarah were interviewing during the 2019 season, his first with Ferrari.
“I would definitley say Sebastian,” he avoided looking at Sarah and focused on Natalie. “He and his wife are like the parents of the younger drivers on the grid. They always are organizing group dinners after races, and in the off season. And Seb just has so much experience and tips, I really try to learn from him.”
“Well, Sarah, how does it feel to be the mother of the track?” Natalie teased her friend.
“I wish I could say they are easier to parent than two toddlers, but that would be a lie,” Sarah winked at Natalie as Charles erupted in complaints. Following that quote, Lando, Daniel, Pierre and others would chime and agree with Charles’ take and started calling Seb ‘Dad’ as a joke during interviews.
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“How do you feel about the delay of the opening of the season?” Natalie asked Seb on zoom, speaking of the cancellation of the season opener due to Covid.
“On one hand it is sad,” Seb shrugged. “But at the end of the day I have three kids, one of them being a new born. I want to keep my family and friends safe and I think this is a way to do it.”
“We have heard from other drivers-”
Natalie was cut off by babbling on Seb’s end of the call. “Sorry about that,” he chuckled, muting his microphone. Everyone noticed his mouth moving, probably speaking with one of his kids.
“Is the lovely Sarah planning to join us?” Natalie joked as Sebastian turned his mic back on.
“No, she just came in to get Shannon,” he grinned before a bang was heard.
“Shannon,” Sarah hissed at the girl who had just slammed the office door open. She leaned down to pick up the pouting toddler who was ready to cry because she just wanted her papa. “Sorry Nat.”
#sebastian vettel#sebastian vettel imagine#f1#f1 driver#f1 driver imagine#formula one#formula one imagine#formula one driver#formula one driver imagine#formula 1 driver#formula 1 driver imagine#formula 1#driver#f1 driver imagines#driver imagine
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12 Questions about F1 through the years
I was tagged by @twinkodium Thank you sm girl! This one's my fave so far <3
I tag whoever wants to do this in F1blr <3
1. Who or what got you into F1?
My dad. He grew up in a racing/car family and automatically transfered that love to me when I was just five days old and he held me up in the hospital to show me the German GP of 1999 on TV. We always joke I've watched F1 since I was born, which is no lie. Since then, we've seen almost every race together. We've also gone to 15 F1 GPs together.
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?
Michael Schumacher. My dad is a Jenson Button fan and he's convinced I started supporting Schumi just to annoy him. I don't fully remember why I chose Michael, but my best guess is I fell in love with the red car that kept winning. I love him still and still hope he gets better someday.
3. Who’s your current favourite F1 driver?
After 16 years of supporting Sebastian Vettel, I ended up supporting Max Verstappen in 2023. My dad's been supporting him ever since his debut, and made him his main since Jenson retired. However, I didn't get there that quickly. I adored Max when he began F1. Got annoyed with him a lot in 2018 and 2019 when he kept having run ins with Seb (fave bias I guess), but once 2020 I grew to adore him and in 2021 I fell in love. He'll never reach the same level for me as Seb did in my heart (he's my hero after all, since I was 6), but I love him sm already.
4. Is there a driver pairing or pairings you support? What made you attracted to that pairing in the first place?
I love so many F1 duo's, but my two faves are Sebastidan and Lestappen.
Sebastidan got me out of my high school depression phase in 2017. I remember feeling extra down when Seb lost his chance at the title that year in Japan. I was so frustrated and watched video's of them as teammates the whole day. I've adored them since and while they aren't a fanfavorite, I can't help but enjoy the bits and pieces we still get from them.
Lestappen. I got into them last year during their - sadly short - title fight. The history they have, the connection, is something so unique. They also seem to become better friends with each passing month. I'd love to see them as teammates someday.
5. Do your parents, siblings or relatives have a favourite team and/or favourite driver(s)?
Dad's a Max and RB fan. He hates Mercedes and especially Toto. His past faves are Senna, Hill and Jenson. Mom has watched F1 since she's been with dad (1985), but never got into it. She always liked Nico Rosberg though!
6. Do you have any favourite races? Are there any that stand out to you the most?
Belgium 2014 as it was my first live GP.
Belgium 2018 as it was the first time I saw Seb win live.
Abu Dhabi 2012, which was epic
Abu Dhabi 2021, I'll never forget that day
Brazil 2008, it was mind blowing.
And probably many more!
7. Do you have a favourite circuit? Can be from the past or from the current calendar.
Spa. It's my home track which I've been visiting since I was a toddler. And Zolder, for the same reasons.
I also adore the Red Bull Ring, Yas Marina circuit and Monza.
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.
15 in total! 14 times the Belgian GP (would've been 15 if it weren't for 2020) and 1 time the Austrain GP. It's always amazing! The organisation of Spa has changed for the better as well!
9. Have you ever met an F1 driver in real life?
Several times the whole grid before 2020, because it wasn't as difficult to get close to them. In Spa they organized hours long signing sessions at la Source for everyone with a weekend ticket. Since then I've seen them mostly from a distance. The closest I've come to talking a while to someone was Charles in 2018, Seb several times and Daniel also a few times. I still get butterflies thinking about it <3
10. Do you have a favourite F1 car? If so, what is it?
RB19 (2023), it's such a precious car <3
Seb's 2010 RB.
The Ferrari from 2004.
Brawn GP car from 2009.
11. Do you have a favourite one win wonder?
Not really. Unless, you count Oscar's sprint win from last year.
12. Do you have any favourite quotes from the F1 world? This can either be inspirational or hilarious.
‘If you no longer go for a gap which exists you are no longer a racing driver’ - Aryton Senna -
'Enjoy these moments. We know they won't last forever.' - Sebastian Vettel -
'Enjoy the butterflies' - Daniel Ricciardo -
'If I get a few more, I think I'll headbut someone' - Max Verstappen -
'God might be with him, but he's no God' - Max Verstappen -
Thank you so much for this tag, hun <3
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do you have any footage of valtteri interacting with nico rosberg? especially from when valtteri was at williams? i’ve been looking for some but can’t find it now.
Hello!
Thank you for your ask!
There's really not a lot out there with them, I tried to find something but it's mostly really short parts or podiums.
Malaysian GP 2014 - Press Conference (not really interacting but Valtteri is showing he was listening to Nico)
Austrian GP 2014 - Podium (also here)
Russian GP 2014 - Podium
Belgian GP 2014 - Podium (fair warning: Nico is getting booed)
Canadian GP 2015 - Podium (from 40:21)
Mexican GP 2015 - Podium
Mexican GP 2015 - Post Race Press Conference (most interesting point at 6:35)
German GP 2019 from Nico YT Channel (literally 2 seconds)
UK GP 2019 from Nico YT Channel (literally 2 seconds)
Nico analysis of Japanese GP 2019 (no interaction but interesting insight on what Nico thought of Valtteri at the time)
(If anyone has any other videos, please send them to the page. We'd love to add more content to this list.)
---Garnet
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For Engineers Week 2023, we're honoring Hedy Lamarr - the glamorous movie star from the black-and-white era of film who co-invented a device that helped make possible the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology!
Born in Austria in 1914, the mathematically talented Lamarr moved to the US in 1937 to start a Hollywood career. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, she was considered one of cinema's leading ladies and made numerous films; however, her passion for engineering is far less known today. Her interest in inventing was such that she set up an engineering room in her house complete with a drafting table and wall of engineering reference books. With the outbreak of World War II, Lamarr wanted to apply her skills to helping the war effort and, motivated by reports of German U-boats sinking ships in the Atlantic, she began investigating ways to improve torpedo technology.
After Lamar met composer George Antheil, who had been experimenting with automated control of musical instruments, together they hit on the idea of "frequency hopping." At the time, radio-controlled torpedoes could easily be detected and jammed by broadcasting interference at the frequency of the control signal, thereby causing the torpedo to go off course. Frequency hopping essentially served to encrypt the control signal because it was impossible for a target to scan and jam all of the frequencies.
Lamarr and Antheil were granted a patent for their invention on August 11, 1942, but the US Navy wasn't interested in applying their groundbreaking technology until twenty years later when it was used on military ships during a blockade of Cuba in 1962. Lamarr and Antheil's frequency-hopping concept serves as a basis for the spread-spectrum communication technology used in GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices. Unfortunately, Lamarr's part in its development has been largely overlooked and her efforts weren't recognized until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave her an award for her technological contributions. Hedy Lamarr passed away in 2000 at the age of 85 and, in 2014, she was as long last inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her invention of a "Secret Communication System" many years ago.
A Mighty Girl
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Something extraordinary happened in Moscow on May 30: In broad daylight, the city was attacked by a swarm of drones—anywhere from five to 25 or more, depending on the Russian source. It was not a symbolic gesture, like the single, small drone that hit the flagpole on top of the Kremlin palace containing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s office, but several strikes in different parts of the capital. None of the drones exploded—as Kommersant reported, they were meant for unspecified targets but fell on residential buildings after being either shot down or electronically jammed. It was the first time Moscow had been hit by an aerial attack since it was bombed by the German Luftwaffe in 1941.
Unfortunately for Russians, it was only the first humiliating incident in a long week filled with many more. By the next day, the attack all but disappeared from the Russian state media’s headlines, and Moscow carried on as if nothing had happened. Residents grumbled about malfunctioning taxi apps because GPS services had been switched off in an attempt to disorient any further drone swarms. Local news outlets quickly moved on to reviews of the latest rooftop restaurant openings, with a few acerbic commentators asking if congregating on a top-floor deck makes you an even easier target.
Then it got even more disturbing from the Russian perspective—and downright bizarre. Two groups calling themselves the Russian Freedom Legion and Russian Volunteer Corps—and claiming to consist of Russians fighting to liberate Russia from the Putin regime—crossed the border from northern Ukraine into Russia’s Belgorod region. At several spots along the border, the fighters encountered weak resistance and took over villages, as most Russian army units long ago abandoned the northern border areas for eastern and southern Ukraine. There, the bulk of the Russian army—or what’s left of it—now awaits the main thrust of Ukraine’s expected counteroffensive.
One of the ostensibly Russian militias briefly took over a border village, captured some Russian conscripts, and invited Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov to a prisoner exchange. Surprisingly, he agreed—but then failed to comply. Shebekino, a Russian town about 5 miles from the border with a prewar population of almost 40,000, has been cordoned off and is being hastily evacuated, with locals complaining bitterly about Moscow’s indifference to their plight.
Kyiv is cheekily claiming it has no control over the Russian guerillas, mirroring the claims that Russia itself made about the groups of armed men who took over Ukraine’s Donbas region in the spring of 2014. To add insult to injury, Ukrainian Twitter users promptly proclaimed the “Bilhorod People’s Republic”—using the Ukrainian spelling for Belgorod. Some of them joked that more than 100 percent of the region’s Russian residents had already voted in a referendum for the republic’s creation, parodying Russia’s establishment of its two illegal puppet states in the Donbas. Ukrainian hackers broke into several local networks and broadcast a fake announcement by a poorly imitated Putin, announcing an evacuation, a military mobilization, and the imposition of martial law in Belgorod and other Russian border regions. Meanwhile, the two groups of fighters released a stream of videos showing them inside Russia and promising Russians they would be liberated from the Putinists.
Combined with the Moscow drone attack, it’s now clear that Russia’s war has come home to roost, with Russian forces seemingly unable to occupy Ukraine and defend Russia at the same time. The incidents come at a time of heightened anxiety for Russia, as its offensive in the Donbas has stalled and Ukraine has begun a series of probing attacks in the east and south while shelling Russian targets behind the lines using new, longer-range Western missiles. The Ukrainians have also been stepping up their drone attacks on oil refineries, airfields, and other critical sites deep inside Russia.
And the Russians seem to be unraveling. Exhibit A is the stunning escalation of the bitter conflict between Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian Defense Ministry. On Sunday, Prigozhin published a video showing a Russian army lieutenant colonel—commander of the 72nd mechanized brigade in eastern Ukraine—who had been captured and interrogated by Wagner mercenaries. On camera, the commander confesses to having ordered his troops to fire on a Wagner unit. Russians firing on each other, private mercenaries capturing a high-ranking officer of their own country’s army—it all begins to feel a bit like a disintegrating state.
Even if the Moscow drone attacks and cross-border incursions do not have much of an impact on the general course of the war, their psychological effect on Russia has been devastating. The mood on the propaganda talk shows on state television, which usually veers between cheerily patriotic and fully genocidal, has lately been tilting toward defeatism. On One’s Own Truth, a daily talk show on Kremlin-controlled NTV, RT Editor in Chief Margarita Simonyan invoked the specter of 1917, when the Imperial Russian Army was routed by the Germans and Austrians in World War I, soldiers rebelled, and the regime collapsed. At a public forum on June 1, a high-profile parliament member of Putin’s United Russia party, Konstantin Zatulin, cast doubts on the war’s progress with unusual candor, calling its goals “unrealistic.” His party promptly announced it was investigating his remarks for possible censure.
Amid the panic, some members of Russia’s extreme nationalist right are no longer content heaping vicious abuse on Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov, and other top brass. Now, they have begun to directly attack Putin for his supposed indecision. Igor “Strelkov” Girkin, a former mercenary linked to the Russian security services, who was convicted in absentia for war crimes by a Dutch court, has been mocking Putin for his lack of leadership on a daily basis to his audience of more than 800,000 Telegram channel subscribers. The Angry Patriots Club, a militant ultranationalist group co-founded by Girkin, is reportedly under investigation for “discrediting the military” under a law introduced in March 2022 to silence and outlaw any remaining independent voices. The Russian authorities are in a bind: If they don’t prosecute the most vocal critics of the Russian leadership, it will be seen as weakness and could pave the way for more unfiltered discontent. But if they do, they risk sparking further anger from the right-wing nationalists, who are even more invested in the war than the Kremlin itself. This comes at a time when paramilitaries such as Wagner are already in protracted conflict with other military factions and openly defying Russia’s top command.
Where is Putin as Russians unravel? On the day of the Moscow drone attack, he first went silent. He gave no emergency address to the nation, and only mentioned the attack much later in the day in a hastily staged interview on the sidelines of a creative industries convention he was attending. True to form, he spent almost seven minutes ranting distractedly about civilizational clashes, NATO encroachment, and his usual pet peeves, only briefly mentioning the actual drone attack by praising the efforts by Moscow’s air defense to repel it. The next day, as Belgorod district residents waited in vain for the nation’s leader to soothe their panic, Putin rambled incoherently in response to questions about his sleep patterns and the Russian Santa Claus at a virtual meeting with families. Neither he nor Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov—hated by the pro-war zealots for his evasiveness—has commented with substance on any of the week’s most notable developments on the front lines.
In Putin’s narrative of the war that Russians are not allowed to call a war, there is no room for setbacks. That narrative never included the possibilities of the war lasting this long, Ukraine returning to the offensive, drones attacking Moscow, and Russian fighters claiming to liberate Russian territory. In an unprecedented crisis of Putin’s own creation, his grip appears to be unraveling.
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The last time a driver of Italian origins won with Ferrari was Michele Alboreto in 1985 at the German Grand Prix, and no Australian has finished on the podium at Aus GP since the race joined the F1 championship in 1985 and Daniel was born in 1989.
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