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a-la-rascasse · 2 years

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Happy birthday NIGEL MANSELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! (08/08/1953) 🦁⚡

“I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.”

Nigel Ernest James Mansell was born in Baughton near Upton-upon-Severn, but grew up in Hall Green, Birmingham. He was the third of four children: Michael, Gail and Sandra. His first approach to driving came early when, at the age of 7, he drove an Austin in a field nearby; but something that fed Nigel's need for speed and curiosity towards motorsport was definetely witnessing Lotus driver, Jim Clark, win at the 1962 British Grand Prix. Subsequently Nigel started driving karts, where wheel-to-wheel battles were the ordinary, young Nigel started crafting and developing his driving skills.

After gaining a good amount of succsess, he then moved to race in the Formula Ford series, which turned out to be very challenging: his father disapproved his son's choice to race, he had to sold a lot of his personal belongings to be able to finance his career, he resigned from his job as aerospace engineer and suffered a broken neck in a accident during a qualyfing session. After being hospitalized, the doctors told him that he had come perilously close to quadriplegia (condition that after an injury can cause the loss of use of the four limbs) and that he would be confined for six months and would never drive again, but Nigel had other plans: he sneaked out of the hospital by telling the nurses he was going to the bathroom, and later returned to racing; despite the injuries and financial issues, he became the 1977 Formula Ford champion. From 1978 to 1980, Nigel raced in Formula Three, but in 1979 he had a seriuos accident that left him with broken vertebrae. But that did't prevent him to attend some tryouts with the Lotus team, hiding the extent of his injury with painkillers.

Being so impressed with Nigel's skills, Colin Chapman decided to give him a trio of F1 starts. Nigel made his official F1 debut at the 1980 Austrian GP, but a fuel leak in the cockpit that developed shortly before the start of the race, left him with painful first and second degree burns on his buttocks. Despite being unlucky on his other two races too, Colin Chapman suprisingly signed the young British driver, after Mario Andretti announced he would move to Alfa Romeo, making Nigel an official Lotus driver, joining the Italian driver Elio De Angelis in the team. After Colin Chapman's sudden passing in 1982, Peter Warr took over in the team, but he and Nigel never really got on, so this lead Nigel to sign with Williams for the '85 season. In the first year with the British team, he would go and score his first win at the '85 European GP. Through difficulties Nigel scored many other wins with the team, but when in 1988 Williams had a terribly unreliable car, an opportunity arose when Ferrari offered him a seat for the '89 season. Nigel became the last driver to be personally chosen by Enzo Ferrari before his passing. There were a lot of mechanichal changes in the sport that year, so Nigel was hopeful to have a competitive car by 1990, but unfortunately it revealed to be the opposite: the car was extremely unreliable and furthermore, his relationship with his french teammate Alain Prost, got worse and led to the Bristish driver to leave the Scuderia, only to return to Williams for two whole seasons. 1992 would be a very special year for Nigel since he would go a win the much coveted World Championship title. The following year, after a public disagreement with Williams, Nigel retired from F1 and moved to the US to race in the CART series, but would later make a come back, driving once again for Williams in 1994 and the following year he moved to McLaren, only to retire definitely from F1 after a series of disagreements with the team.

Despite leaving Formula 1, Nigel competed in many other motorsports; still to this day he makes appereaces at various motorsport events, like it happened recently at Goodwood.

For eleven years Nigel was a Special Constable on the Isle of Man, and later in Devon after retiring from Formula 1.

Nigel was a keen golfer and reveald a desire to compete in the British Open. In 1988, he briefly took part in the Australian Open.

His innocent-looking appearence, calm voice and nice sounding accent are all in pure contrast with his fierce, daring and aggressive driving style and determined nature. Inspired by these characteristics, the Italian Tifosi nicknamed him as "Il leone" ("the lion"), underlining even more Nigel's fearless driving style.

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racingliners · 10 months

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Life In The Fast Lane - Prologue

Rating: Teen & Up

Warnings: None apply

Pairings: Original Female Character(s)/Original Male Character(s); OFCs & OMCs

Work Tags: Re-write of a previous work; Mentions of IRL current and past F1 figures; Eventual romance; friends to lovers; found family/work family; actual family; racing drivers and their various shenanigans; how to handle pressure (and how not to); with a sprinkling of the power of friendship; tags will be updated as work progresses

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The Guardian – 8th January 2016

Motorsport pioneer Maria Teresa de Filipps, the first female Formula One driver, has died aged 89.

The Italian driver, from Lombardy, participated in five Grand Prix across 1958 and 1959, making her debut at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix in a privateer Maserati. Across her three Grand Prix starts, her highest placing was tenth at the Belgian Grand Prix that same year, though she failed to score any points.

de Filipps was appointed Vice President of the Club of Former Grand Prix Drivers in 1997, and in 2004 founded the Maserati Club, later becoming its Chairperson.

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F1 Weekly Newsletter

This week on our dive into the F1 archives, we’re putting the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix under the microscope.

Contested at the Montjuïc Street Circuit in Barcelona, you may know that it was won by Jochen Mass, with Jacky Ickx and Carlos Reutemann rounding out the top three… but today we’re focusing on the driver who finished in sixth place.

Italian driver, and more notably the second female driver to compete in Formula 1, Lella Lombardi.

Lombardi is still to this day the most successful female driver in Grand Prix history, having scored just half a point at the 1975 Spanish GP, as the race was red flagged after 29 laps. Her career spanned 12 races across 17 entries, driving for March, RAM, and Williams. Her last race was the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix, where she finished twelfth.

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17th October 1989 – The Sword and Lion, Oxford

“Okay and last question for the sports round,” A hushed washed over the pub, as the groups sat round almost every table leaned back in their seats to try and hear better. “Who is the only British female Formula One driver?”

The hush was replaced by a sea of confused murmurs.

“A female F1 driver?” One patron exclaimed in complete disbelief.

“There’s never been a woman in F1 it’s a trick question!” Another huffed with their arms folded across their chest.

“The answer, was Divina Galica. She took part in three race weekends, the 1976 British Grand Prix and the Argentine and Brazilian Grand Prix in 1978, though she never qualified for those races. She also competed in four Winter Olympics as a skier”

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7th April 2010 – Brands Hatch Circuit

Rain came pouring down at the race track on a very cold, grey Spring day. It was the middle of the week, so the circuit sat empty, bar a handful of people in offices in the main pit building doing paperwork.

The Desiré Wilson grandstand sat right at the end of the start/finish straight, looking across Paddock Hill. As it got pelted with rain some looked out of their windows at the grandstand, and let out a small sigh before continuing on with their work.

Better known for her career in sportscar racing than her one race entry at the 1980 British Grand Prix, Desiré Wilson had won the race at Brands Hatch in the 1980 British Formula One championship. While completely separate from the series it was named after, it was still an astounding enough achievement that merited a grandstand being named in her honour.

Rain continued to fall for the rest of the day, and as the last of the office staff left, the grandstand stayed where it always had been, looking out over the circuit.

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BBC Sport F1 Column

The fifth and still final female driver to compete in Formula 1 was Italian racer Giovanna Amati. She signed with Brabham for the 1992 season, alongside Eric van der Poele from Belgium.

She first drove an F1 car the year prior, driving 30 laps in a Benetton at a private test, prior to signing with Brabham. Amati became the first female driver in twelve years to take part in a Grand Prix weekend at the first race of the season in South Africa.

Her career was sadly short lived, as she failed to qualify in the first three races of the 1992 season, which resulted in Brabham replacing her with Damon Hill, who also failed to qualify in the next five races.

Amati had a brief spell in sportscar racing, before her retirement. She briefly worked as a television commentator and wrote columns for various Italian motorsport publications.

It would be another 24 years before Formula 1 would see another female driver compete in a Grand Prix weekend, when British driver Susie Wolff drove in first practice for Williams at the 2014 British Grand Prix (she went on to drive in three more practice sessions before announcing her retirement from racing).

This weekend sees the driver-less streak broken again as Amy McDonald will drive for Renault in the first practice session at this week’s Spanish Grand Prix in Valencia.

It is unclear if or even when Formula One will see a female driver permanently racing in the sport. Attitudes towards female drivers have come a long way thanks to the likes of W Series, and Formula 1’s own feeder series F1 Academy, though many questions still remain at just how competitive a female Formula 1 driver could be, if one was ever given the chance.

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Verstappen pays tribute to Mateschitz after US Grand Prix qualifying without him I wouldnt be sitting here today

Max Verstappen secured a front-row start in qualifying for the 2022 United States Grand Prix, but the reigning champion’s attention was on the passing of late Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz who, on Saturday, passed away at the age of 78. The 25-year-old, who made his F1 debut with Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso in 2015 and won his first Grand Prix having been called up to Red Bull in 2016, paid his respects to Mateschitz after qualifying in Austin. OBITUARY: Remembering Dietrich Mateschitz, Red Bull and AlphaTauri’s quiet patriarch “Yeah of course, for us it was I think a tough entry to qualifying and then you don’t really care about the result as well – it doesn’t matter – because we’re more about what happened today and also what he has meant to everyone within the team, the whole team, what he has built up, the company itself, Red Bull and personally to me. “Because, without him, I wouldn’t be sitting here today, and I wouldn’t have had the success I’ve had, so it’s incredibly tough for everyone in the team. Luckily, I got to see him a couple of weeks back so we could spend a little bit of time together. But it’s still a tough day.” Mateschitz launched Red Bull in Austria in the late 1980s The Dutchman added that Mateschitz was “always super kind and caring” and praised the Austrian’s commitment to Formula 1. “To believe in me from such a young age and also see that relationship grow year after year was very special – and I will forever remember the final visit I had with him, what we talked about, and just the time we spent during that day. For me it was at the time already very special, but it’s definitely even more special now,” added Verstappen. Max Verstappen: Passing of Dietrich Mateschitz 'very tough' for Red Bull Team mate Sergio Perez, who joined Red Bull for the 2021 season, is set to start ninth for Sunday’s Grand Prix. The Mexican also offered words of condolence. Perez said of Mateschitz: “Unfortunately I didn’t get to spend much time with him. I met him or twice and he was a great human being – super happy, really excited – and what he created, the brand that he has created and not only that, his passion for the sport, I think he has really made a massive difference to the world. “I really hope that tomorrow we can do everything to be crowned champions because it will be a nice day to do that.” Red Bull must leave Austin with a 147-point lead over Ferrari – who have Carlos Sainz on pole position – to be crowned constructors’ champions for the first time since 2013. via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

#F1 #Verstappen pays tribute to Mateschitz after US Grand Prix qualifying – ‘without him I wouldn’t be sitting here today’#Formula 1

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F1 2020 results

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It was the second time in four races that Ferrari have suffered a double retirement due to their drivers hitting one another. Vettel and Leclerc collided on the first lap of the race and both retired as a result.

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It was the second time that the Monegasque driver has failed to reach Q3 at Ferrari, having previously been eliminated in Q1 at the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix.With Sebastian Vettel out in Q2 at the Austrian Grand Prix and Leclerc out in Q2 at the Styrian Grand Prix, this was the first time only one Ferrari driver has reached Q3 at consecutive races since the 2015 Canadian and Austrian Grands Prix. Styria: Charles Leclerc was eliminated in Q2 for the first time since the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix. While Ferrari’s lack of pace was immediately obvious, Charles Leclerc managed to finish as runner-up for a second consecutive season at the Austrian Grand Prix. Average Gap to Ultimate Pace: 1.85% ( 2019: 0.55%, 2018: 0.37%)Īustria: Sebastian Vettel became the first Ferrari driver to be eliminated in Q2 since Kimi Riakkonen at the 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix.Worst Qualifying Position: 17th (Vettel, Italy).2021 is likely to be another difficult year for the team. There’s change at the top too, as CEO Louis Camilleri recently announced his immediate retirement. Neither driver qualified in the top three this season, and the pair recorded only six top five qualifications and fourteen Q3 appearances.įerrari head into next season with a new driver line-up, as Sebastian Vettel departs and is replaced by Carlos Sainz. The team recorded no wins this year, and three somewhat unexpected podium finishes – two for Charles Leclerc, and one for Sebastian Vettel. Questions will be asked about Ferrari’s downturn in performance, not least given the FIA’s investigation of the team’s 2019 power unit, and their undisclosed resolution to findings over the engine’s legality. Having had arguably the fastest car in 2019, they slipped to sixth in the Constructors’ Championship in 2020 – their worst result since 1980. Here are the facts and statistics from Ferrari’s 2020 F1 season.Ģ020 was nothing short of a disaster for Ferrari. Ferrari recorded their 1,000th Grand Prix start in 2020, but it was not a year to remember for the Scuderia, who recorded their worst championship result in 40 years.

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mrdirtybear · 3 years

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Harald Ertl (1948 – 1982) was an Austrian racing driver and motor-sport journalist. Ertl attended the same school as Grand Prix drivers Jochen Rindt and Helmut Marko. Basically a journalist, he worked his way through the German Formula Five and Super Five, and then on to Formula Three, before a successful switch to Touring Cars. During this period, he gained sufficient sponsorship to enter Formula One, where he drove with various outfits between 1975 and 1980. Ertl is probably best remembered as one of the four drivers who helped to get Niki Lauda out of his burning Ferrari in the 1976 German Grand Prix.

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bennyboy1223 · 5 years

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About Barry

Barry Sheene, Motorcycling's first superstar

Earlier Life

Born in London, Barry was the second child of parents Frank (resident engineer at the Royal College of Surgeons, himself a former competitive rider who retired in 1956 and an experienced motorcycle mechanic) and Iris. He grew up in Queen Square, Holborn, London. Before entering road racing Sheene found work as a messenger and delivery driver.

Racing Career

Barry first started to race in 1968, winning his first races at Brands Hatch riding father Frank's 125 cc and 250 cc Bultacos. He became the British 125cc champion at age 20 in 1970. In 1971 riding an ex-works 1966 10-speed Suzuki twin, previously ridden by Stuart Graham he finished second in the 125 cc World Championship. His first Grand Prix win coming on that bike at Spa in Belgium, soon followed by a win on a 50 cc Van Veen Kreidler at Brno in Czechoslovakia, where he finished over two and a half minutes ahead.

For 1972 Barry was signed to the works Yamaha team for the 250 cc World Championship. However, at the third round in Austria, after losing a sprint to the finish line to the Australian John Dodds for third place, he voiced his displeasure to team management about the performance of the bike and was dropped from the team with immediate effect. His works Yamaha YZ635 was then given to the Finnish rider, Jarno Saarinen who went on to use the bike to win the World Championship that year.

Barry was signed by Suzuki during the off season 1972–1973 and won the newly formed Formula 750 European championship for them in 1973. As a works Suzuki rider Sheene had two contracts, with the World Championship events taking precedence over his Suzuki GB contract for home and International events, if any race dates clashed.

For 1974 Suzuki introduced the RG500 which Sheene rode to a second, third and a fourth scoring 30 points and finishing sixth in the World Championship.

A spectacular crash at the Daytona 200 in the 1975 season threatened to end his career, breaking his left thigh, right arm, collarbone and two ribs, yet he recovered and was racing again seven weeks afterwards. Again riding the RG500 he scored a memorable first 500 cc win at the Dutch TT.

In the 1976 season, he won five 500cc Grands Prix, bringing him the World Championship. He took the Championship again in the 1977 season with six victories. For the 1977 season Sheene was partnered by Steve Parrish, who rode Barry's 1976 Suzuki 500 cc machine.

Barry's battle with Roberts at the 1979 British Grand Prix at Silverstone has been cited as one of the greatest motorcycle Grand Prix races of the 1970s. After the 1979 season, he left the Heron-Suzuki factory team, believing that he was receiving inferior equipment to his team-mates. He switched to a privateer on a Yamaha machine, but soon started receiving works equipment. In 1981, Kenny Roberts the reigning World 500cc Champion for the third time in succession. Sheene, by now on a competitive Yamaha, was determined to take the championship from him. Ironically, Sheene and Roberts battled all season and let Suzuki riders Marco Lucchinelli of Italy and American Randy Mamola beat them for the top two spots. Roberts finished third and Sheene fourth in the final World Championship standings.

A crash at Silverstone where Sheene, riding his Yamaha, hit the obscured fallen machine of Frenchman Patrick Igoa during practice for the 1982 British Grand Prix largely ended his potential as a title threat, and he retired in 1984. He remains the only rider to win Grand Prix races in the 50cc and 500cc categories.

Barry was known for being outspoken in his criticism for what he considered to be dangerous race tracks, most notably, the Isle of Man TT course, which he considered too dangerous for world championship competition. He was a colourful, exuberant character who used his good looks, grin and London accent to good effect in self-promotion, and combined with an interest in business was one of the first riders to make a lot of money from endorsements. He is credited with boosting the appeal of motorcycle racing into the realm of the mass marketing media. He also tried his hand as a TV show host, including the ITV series Just Amazing!, where he interviewed people who had, through accident or design, achieved feats of daring and survival (including the former RAF air gunner, Nicholas Alkemade, who survived a fall of 18,000 feet without a parachute from a blazing Avro Lancaster bomber over Germany in March 1944). Sheene and his wife Stephanie also starred in the low-budget film Space Riders.

Personal Life

In 1975 while on crutches, Barry met model Stephanie McLean, the couple married in 1984, having a son Freddie and daughter Sidonie.

Emigration to Australia

The Sheene family moved to Australia in the late 1980s, in the hope that the warmer climate would help relieve some of the pain of Barry's injury-induced arthritis, settling in a property near the Gold Coast. He combined a property development business with a role as a commentator on motor sport. He began on SBS TV then moved to the Nine Network with Darrell Eastlake, and finally followed the TV broadcast rights of the Grand Prix motorcycle series to Network Ten. Further to this, on Network Ten Barry co-hosted the weekly motor sport television show RPM from 1997 to 2002 with journalist Bill Woods, and was involved in Ten's coverage of other motor sport including V8 Supercars for several years.

In the 1990s, Barry appeared in a series of well known and popular television advertisements for Shell, with Australian motor sport icon Dick Johnson. In later years, Barry became involved in historic motorcycle racing, often returning to England to race at Donington Park. He was also chosen to run with the Queen's Baton in the run-up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in Manchester, England.

Death

In July 2002, at the age of 52, Barry was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus and stomach. Refusing conventional treatments involving chemotherapy, Barry instead opted for a holistic approach involving a strict diet devised by Austrian healer Rudolf Breuss, intended to starve the cancer of nourishment. He died peacefully surrounded by his family at a hospital on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2003, aged 52, having suffered from the condition for eight months.

Honours and Awards

Following reconstruction of the Brands Hatch Circuit in England for safety concerns after requests by the F.I.M., the Dingle Dell section was changed for safety, and shortly after Barry's death the new section was renamed Sheene's Corner in his honour. The FIM named him a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2001. For the 2003 season, V8 Supercars introduced a medal in honour of Barry, the Barry Sheene Medal, for the 'best and fairest' driver of the season. A memorial ride from Bairnsdale, Victoria to Phillip Island is held by Australian motorcyclists annually, before the MotoGP held at the island.

In Popular Culture

On a side note, the obscure Eric Idle song "Mr. Sheene" which describes "Mr. Sheene's riding machine" appears to be about Barry Sheene. It was released as a B-side of the 1978 single "Ging Gang Goolie" and is credited as released by Rutles-offshoot duo "Dirk and Stig." He is also featured on one of Artist Grayson Perry's Vases My Heroes (1994). Barry also featured in a number of Brut adverts alongside boxer Henry Cooper.

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30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis. 527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily. 1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Byzantine Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade. 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter. 1469 – Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise. 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela. 1571 – The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta. 1620 – Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England. 1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár. 1714 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history. 1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments. 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action. 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya. 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843. 1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 1849 – Joven Daniel wrecks at the coast of Araucanía, Chile, leading to allegations that local Mapuche tribes murdered survivors and kidnapped Elisa Bravo. 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps. 1863 – At the suggestion of Senator J. V. Snellman and the order of Emperor Alexander II, full rights were promised to the Finnish language by a language regulation in the Grand Duchy of Finland. 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. 1893 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat. 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement. 1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate. 1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I. 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. 1933 – Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona. 1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor. 1943 – World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields. 1944 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. 1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason. 1950 – Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act. 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France. 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. 1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization. 1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1965 – Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003. 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police. 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. 1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei. 1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones. 1976 – Niki Lauda has a severe accident that almost claims his life at the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring. 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state. 1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland. 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England. 1988 – A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England. 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay. 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145. 2008 – The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world. 2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering. 2017 – A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.

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rookie nigel mansell shows his goosebumps ahead of his first f1 race | 1980 austrian grand prix.

"the money to me is a secondary thing... obviously you can make a nice living at it, but first and foremost i want to be britain's next world champion"

#somebody drew a moustache on an infant child #and then let him drive in an f1 race #anyway i need to bake him in a pie and eat him #f1 #formula 1 #classic f1 #f1 1980s #nigel mansell

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columnm · 7 years

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#throwbackthursday to Nigel Mansell's Formula One debut, 37-years ago on this day. - Mansell, who was then a reserve Lotus driver made his debut at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix at the Osterreichring in the Lotus 81B where the future world champion retired after 40 laps due to a broken engine. . . . . . #Columnm #motorculture #racing #motorsport #formula1 #f1 #formulaone #formulauno #lotus #lotusf1 #nigelmansell #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #austriangp #lotus81

#formulauno #throwbackthursday #motorculture #motorsport #onthisday #formula1 #onthisdayinhistory #lotus81 #lotus #nigelmansell #austriangp #racing #formulaone #f1 #lotusf1 #columnm

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For Sale: The Last Surviving 1982 Ferrari 126 C2 Formula 1 Car

The Ferrari 126 C2 was developed for the 1982 Formula 1 season to turn Ferrari’s fortunes around and get the team back to the pointy end of the grid.

After a mostly successful period throughout the mid to late 1970s Ferrari had suffered a collapse in form as the 1980s began, largely as a result of their 312T-derived 126CK chassis which had started life back in 1975 and as a result of their new turbocharged engine which needed significant development time.

Tragedy and Triumph – The Ferrari 126 C2

Enzo Ferrari personally hired English engineer Harvey “Doc” Postlethwaite in 1981 to develop an all-new chassis for the team. Postlethwaite Had previously worked at March before being convinced to join the eccentric Hesketh Formula 1 Team when Lord Hesketh and James Hunt got him drunk one evening, a story famously told in Gerald Donaldson’s James Hunt biography.

Despite the Hesketh team’s unusual habits, which included drinking champagne before, during, and after races regardless of the results, Postlethwaite managed to design them a race winning car. By the time Enzo hired Postlethwaite the Englishman had designed race winning cars for two Formula 1 teams despite limited budgets.

The Ferrari 126 C2 was developed in 1981 and into 1982 to replace the 126CK, it featured an all-new aluminum alloy honeycomb monocoque chassis, vastly improved aerodynamics and suspension, and a huge improvement in handling.

1982 would prove to be one of the most difficult years in the history of Scuderia Ferrari despite the fact the team went on to win the Constructor’s Championship with their new car. Beloved Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve was killed in an accident at Zolder in Belgium, his teammate Didier Pironi suffered career ending injuries at the German Grand Prix later that same season.

Ferrari brought in Frenchman Patrick Tambay to replace Villeneuve, and former Ferrari driver Mario Andretti to replace Pironi. It was a somber time for the team but despite the exceedingly difficult circumstances both Tambay and the Tifosi-favourite Andretti managed remarkably good results including a win and three podiums for Tambay and a pole position for Andretti at the Austrian Grand Prix that had the crowds on their feet.

The Ferrari 126 C2 (including the 126C2B and 126C3 variants) would go on to win the Constructors’ Championship twice for Ferrari in the years 1982 and 1983, returning the team to winning form and vindicating Enzo Ferrari’s decision to hire Postlethwaite.

The 1982 Ferrari 126 C2 Shown Here

The 1982 Ferrari 126 C2 you see here is the last surviving example of the 126 C2 in existence. This is the car that was driven to victory in the 1982 German Grand Prix by Patrick Tambay as well as 3rd place in the British Grand Prix and 4th in France and Austria. It was also driven by Mario Andretti to his famous pole position in Austria and a 3rd place finish in the Italian Grand Prix.

The car was then owned by the prominent Ferrari collectors (sequentially) Jacques Setton and Michael Willms, and it received a full restoration by Uwe Meissner’s Modena Motorsport approximately 15 years ago and ran in official Ferrari F1 Corse Clienti events.

It’s now due to cross the auction block with RM Sotheby’s with an estimated value of between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000 USD. As the only surviving Ferrari 126 C2 this vehicle’s historic importance is hard to overstate, if you’d like to read more about it or register to bid you can click here to visit the listing.

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About Barry

Barry Sheene, Motorcycling's first superstar

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For 1974 Suzuki introduced the RG500 which Sheene rode to a second, third and a fourth scoring 30 points and finishing sixth in the World Championship.

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Back flip, True Lies & DRM

Here we go with another episode from Nerds Amalgamated. This week is packed full of fun stuff to look forward to. First up is it a robot or is it a dog? It is Boston Dynamics student competitors with Standford Doggo. This fabulous little robot is awesome and does tricks, listen in to find out what they are. Also did you want your very own robot doggo? Well you are in luck as we tell you about how to get one. Also check our website for the show notes with hyperlinks, you need the article to get what you need.

Next up we have DJ telling us about a proposed new series coming out based on a movie. Yep, another movie is being adapted for your viewing pleasure. It will once again not have the same actors in it that were the main stars in the movie, like so many others out there. But hopefully it will be enjoyable all the same. We won’t hold our breathe but surely they will have learned something over there by now… Who the heck are we kidding, those idiots never listen to anyone else, let alone the proposed viewing public.

Next up we look at the blooper that is worthy of a standing ovation. Someone involved with the release of a game from Bethesda studios forgot the DRM. We know, how unlike Bethesda to stuff up something right? BWAHAHA!!! This amazing bit of luck is available on Steam and quite probably numerous other websites that deal in nefarious shadowy dealings. We personally are unaware of the names of such sites and therefore are unable to confirm or deny such suggestions. But come on, just think about it, a brand new game released without the DRM and no one is going to chase that down the rabbit hole of pirating it? Yeah, like Game of Thrones was never pirated ever.

We have the usual shout outs, remembrances, birthdays and events from history. Plus games we are playing at the moment. All combined into one big mess that we call the show. We hope you enjoy and as always, stay safe, look after each other and stay hydrated.

EPISODE NOTES:

Back flipping robot - https://www.futurity.org/doggo-robot-2067152/

True Lies TV series reboot - https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/true-lies-tv-adaptation-heading-disney/

DRM - https://steamcommunity.com/games/548570/announcements/detail/2565275416672419265

Games currently playing

Buck

– The Crew 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/646910/The_Crew_2/

Professor

– Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - https://cataclysmdda.org/

– Steep - https://store.steampowered.com/app/460920/Steep/(edited)

Other topics discussed

Hold my Beer Comedy

- http://westender.com.au/circus-coming-hold-beer-end-westend/

Flipsy the dog (Simpsons reference)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_nGJvqHcV8

LEGO Mindstorms

- https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms

Hulu might take Marvel shows such as Daredevil

- https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2466812/hulu-is-down-to-revive-daredevil-and-other-cancelled-marvel-tv-shows

Denuvo

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo

- https://www.howtogeek.com/400126/what-is-denuvo-and-why-do-gamers-hate-it/

Red Bull Air Championships

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Air_Race_World_Championship

6ix9ine (rapper)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6ix9ine

Cutscene saga (That’s Not Canon Production Podcast)

- https://thatsnotcanon.com/cutscenesagapodcast

Shoutouts

20 May 1736 - Westminster Bridge Defies a King and the Church - The Archbishop of Canterbury – head of the Church in England – probably prayed there would never be a bridge across the River Thames at Westminster. But he was not alone. Up to the end of the 17th Century most traffic moved up and down on the river rather than by road. River transport was big business and the men who plied their trade on boats and ferries had a lot to lose from the construction of new bridges. They were backed by the Corporation of London which did not want trade moving to the fringes of London, but claimed its main objections were the loss of custom to the watermen and to the City markets and the danger of the navigation of the river being impeded. One of the claims was that if the watermen lost their jobs there would be fewer readily available seamen for the navy if England went to war. The arguments raged on until in 1664 a major proposal for a bridge was made to the King's Privy Council and to the Lord Mayor. City businesses then played their ace card and bribed King Charles II to scrap the proposal. Officially, it was an interest-free loan, but however the transaction was described the effect was that the building of Westminster Bridge would not take place for nearly 100 years. However, over time various people continued to press for such a bridge until in 1721 petitions went to Parliament. There was the same opposition as before but in the end the case was won and permission to build the bridge finally received Royal Approval on 20 May 1736, when George II was on the throne. Work began in 1738 and the bridge was opened on 18 November 1750. - https://www.onthisday.com/articles/westminster-bridge-defies-a-king-and-the-church

21 May 1792 - Mount Unzen on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula, erupts creating a tsunami, killing about 15,000; Japan's deadliest volcanic eruption. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792_Unzen_earthquake_and_tsunami

21 May 1980 - "Star Wars Episode V - Empire Strikes Back", produced by George Lucas opens in cinemas in UK and North America -https://www.onthisday.com/people/george-lucas

21 May 2004 - Stanislav Petrov awarded World Citizen Award for averting a potential nuclear war in 1983 after correctly guessing Russian early warning system at fault - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

22 May 2019 - Illawarra scientist and inventor Macinley Butson has been featured by the world's biggest video sharing website YouTube for her SMART Armour copper cancer shield fabric. Macinley Butson's SMART (Scale Maille Armour for Radiation Therapy) invention is a device that shields the contralateral breast (the breast not being treated) from excess radiation. As well as being made from high density copper, the shields are handmade. - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/youtube-profiles-teenage-scientist-macinley-butson/11134004

Remembrances

20 May 2019 – Nikki Lauda, Austrian Formula One driver, a three-time F1 World Drivers' Champion, winning in 1975, 1977 and 1984, and an aviation entrepreneur. He was the only driver in F1 history to have been champion for both Ferrari and McLaren, the sport's two most successful constructors. He is widely considered one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time. As an aviation entrepreneur, he founded and ran three airlines: Lauda Air, Niki, and Lauda. He was a Bombardier Business Aircraft brand ambassador. He was also a consultant for Scuderia Ferrari and team manager of the Jaguar Formula One racing team for two years. Afterwards, he worked as a pundit for German TV during Grand Prix weekends and acted as non-executive chairman of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, of which Lauda owned 10%. Having emerged as Formula One's star driver amid a 1975 title win and leading the 1976 championship battle, Lauda was seriously injured in a crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring during which his Ferrari 312T2 burst into flames, and he came close to death after inhaling hot toxic fumes and suffering severe burns. However, he survived and recovered sufficiently to race again just six weeks later at the Italian Grand Prix. Although he narrowly lost the title to James Hunt that year, he won his second Ferrari crown the year after during his final season at the team. After a couple of years at Brabham and two years' hiatus, Lauda returned and raced four seasons for McLaren between 1982 and 1985 – during which he won the 1984 title by 0.5 points over his teammate Alain Prost. He died of natural causes at 70 in Zurich. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Lauda

21 May 1935 - Jane Addams, known as the mother of social work, a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protester, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses. In 1920, she was a co-founder for the ACLU. In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States. She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy and is known by many as the first woman "public philosopher in the history of the United States". In the Progressive Era, when presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers. She helped America address and focus on issues that were of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, local public health, and world peace. In her essay "Utilization of Women in City Government," Addams noted the connection between the workings of government and the household, stating that many departments of government, such as sanitation and the schooling of children, could be traced back to traditional women's roles in the private sphere. Thus, these were matters of which women would have more knowledge than men, so women needed the vote to best voice their opinions. She said that if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live, they needed to be able to vote to do so effectively. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She died of cancer at 74 in Chicago, Illinois.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams

- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1931/addams/biographical/

23 May 1701 - William Kidd, Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians, for example Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton, deem his piratical reputation unjust. He was hanged for his crimes at 47 in Execution Dock,Wapping, London. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kidd

Famous birthdays

21 May 1948 – Leo Sayer, English-Australian singer-songwriter musician and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. He is now an Australian citizen and resident. Sayer launched his career in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, and became a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the United Kingdom all reached the Top 10 – a feat first registered by his first manager, Adam Faith. His songs have been sung by other notable artists, including Cliff Richard ("Dreaming"). He was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Sayer

21 May 1960 - Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender. Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder,schizotypal personality disorder, and a psychotic disorder, Dahmer was found to be legally sane at his trial. He was convicted of 15 of the 16 murders he had committed in Wisconsin, and was sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment on February 15, 1992. He was later sentenced to a 16th term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978. On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer

22 May 1905 - Bodo von Borries, Germanphysicist. He was the co-inventor of the electron microscope. After World War II , he founded the "Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Electron Microscopy" in Düsseldorf in 1948. In 1949, he was involved in the foundation of the German Society for Electron Microscopy. He was born in Herford,North Rhine-Westphalia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_von_Borries

Events of Interest

21 May 1881 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton, an organization established to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International Red Cross. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-red-cross-founded

21 May 1927 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lindbergh-lands-in-paris

21 May 1932 - After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, becoming the 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earhart-completes-transatlantic-flight

22 May 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".

- Patent - http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Wrights/WrightUSPatent/WrightPatent.html

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US821393A/en

- Patent War - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war

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Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)

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