weekend ojp dump 😔

there is so much to unpack here…

Anyone else notice this graffiti at Spa ‘95?

This is my first time watching the race on a decent sized screen and the first time I’ve noticed that they’ve tried but not succeeded in obscuring an interesting piece of graffiti: if you can’t spot it, someone has written in huge capital letters “MANSELL COME BACK”.

I reckon it’s the work of that cheeky whippersnapper Gerhard Berger. It’s the sort of thing he’d do just for shits and giggles.🤭

Well that's just not fair! How dare Monsieur Leclerc let you down so horribly?!

I know it's little compensation but this is a favourite photo of mine and quite sickeningly adorable so I hope it's a least a wee bit of a smidge of compensation:

Cary Grant reading his lines on set with a puppy popping its head out of the pocket of his military costume.

livid that i have been walking around Monaco all day and did not find Charles with a puppy sleeping in his pocket?? (did walk past Lorenzo though)

a flock of sheep, ireland

Todays warm up charcoal doodle

Good art deserves a well-made frame, carefully chosen mount, and top-quality non-reflective glass.

Now all I need is someone taller than me to bang a nail in the wall and hang it up. Meanwhile, Magnus Moose and Karl Stag are dutifully standing guard over my gorgeous picture (they like to feel useful and adore pretty young men so they’re very happy right now 😏).

Thanks again to @ilikecarsandlike4people for creating such a beautiful piece of art for me.🥰

I remember back in 2018 wishing for a God's gift to Mick. Then he became European F3 champion. Two years later in 2020, I also wished for a God's gift to Mick and he became F2 champion. Good times.

It’s unfortunate that Schumacher ended up at a team that treated him so badly, where there was no senior driver to mentor him, and where way too much was expected of him in a truly terrible car. Sadly, he’s a long way from being the only promising young driver who never got the chance he deserved because wealthy teams had a full complement of talented drivers and cash-strapped teams had no choice but to opt for pay drivers. That’s the nature of Formula One and, while it sucks monumentally, ‘twas ever thus.🤷😔

Opinion on Logan and Zhou?

I don’t really have an opinion about either of them. When I watch races they’re among the drivers who just happen to be there too; I don’t pay them any attention unless they mess up in a way that impacts on one of the drivers I am paying attention to. 🤷

Last time I was at the Crawford in Cork City the beautiful sketches Clarke created for The Eve of Saint Agnes weren’t there anymore. I hope their absence is only temporary because they (and a spot of something yummy in the gallery’s café) are always a highlight whenever I visit that wonderful city. For now though, I need to look up Colleen Doran; if she’s inspired by Clarke I’m sure I’ll love her work

Colleen Doran’s artwork in Snow, Glass, Apples is just stunning and I know she cites the Irish stained glass artist, Harry Clarke, as an inspiration. Just wondering if you’ve ever seen his work in person? If not, I highly recommend a visit to the Honan Chapel in University College Cork or the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork city.

I have, although my favourite Clarke windows are in the Ashdown House Hotel in Wych Cross, Sussex. (Which, when it was Banking corporate training offices, was part of my inspiration for Fawney Rig in Sandman.)

'Irish star Andrew Scott has made history after becoming the first to win the best actor gong from both the film and theatre Critics’ Circle in the same year.

His one-man performance in Vanya, an adaption of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s family drama Uncle Vanya, secured him the theatre prize on Monday at Soho Place in London.

It comes after he was named actor of the year at the London Film Critics’ Circle for his lead role in Andrew Haigh’s moving drama All Of Us Strangers last month.

Collecting the prize at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, Scott said about the arts: “A lot of people need it, I need it and we all do so the arts should be protected and they should be celebrated and they should be funded.

“So I just want to say thank you to the artists.”...'

More and more races are added every year... I hope they pay their employees good money

All that’s going through my mushy l’il brain right now is Lando Norris squeaking: “Oh, Fewawi fwends.”

Look at the babies 🤏🥹

Familia❤️

❤️❤️❤️

Has anything ever aged as badly as this? I mean, ffs Ferrari, did you listen to a single damn word McLaren said?! They even went to the trouble of saying it in Italian, you bunch of utter twunts!🤬🤬🤬

Legends don’t grow old; all that comfy clothing is causing our eyes to play tricks on us. Anyway, it’s not possible for eternal (very naughty) child Gerhard Berger to grow old; it just isn’t.

🚨 Old Men Alert 🚨 [x]

So this weekend we have learnt that

Nico Rosberg waited 112 races for his first win - World Champion

Jenson Button waited 114 races and 7 and a half season for his first win - World Champion

Mika Hakkinen took 15 podiums before his first win - double World Champion

Lando is in good company. Why are people shitting on him because he hasn’t taken his fluke first win yet.

I’d rather building up to a run of wins than one and done.