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scotianostra · 9 months

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On July 30th 2003 Multi race winning Motorcyclist, Robert Steven ‘Hizzy’ Hislop died.

Hizzy, as he was affectionately known once said “If I’d never thrown my leg over a bike, I’d never have lived.”

Robert Steven Hislop grew up in the village of Chesters, near Hawick in the borders. His father started the interest of both he and his brother Garry in motorcycle racing. This was short lived at the time as he lost his father and a few years later his brother was killed at Silloth circuit. He ended up with a serious alcohol problem which led into depression.

Hizzy thankfully recovered and began his Isle of Man road racing career in 1983 by finishing second in the newcomers’ race at the Manx Grand Prix.

On short circuits, his first championship success came when he won the 250cc British Championship in 1990. Superbike victory followed with the British Superbike Championship in 1995. Some attributed his success to James Whitham leaving the series mid-season to deal with cancer.

Although he did not take a BSB victory in 1996 or 1997, Hislop was hired by Rob McElnea’s dominant Cadbury’s Boost Yamaha team for 1998. The nature of the fight for the championship between Hislop & team mate, fellow Scot. Niall Mackenzie, was illustrated by a near-collision on the last lap at Snetterton which cost the team a 1-2 finish. Hislop generally matched his countryman before a serious crash took him out of title contention.

His last championship success came in 2002 when he won the British Superbike Championship riding a Ducati. A notable feature of his season resulted from Hislop lapping Donington Park circuit more quickly on a superbike than the fastest Moto GP machine: Hislop’s modified production Ducati was heavier and less powerful than the bespoke Grand Prix bikes.

The 1992 Senior TT was described as an absolute classic. It is often described as one of the best races in TT history.

After their successful 1991 TT on all conquering Honda RVF machines, Hislop and Carl Fogarty had not planned to return in 1992. However, they both lined up on the Glencrutchery Road that year on unfancied machinery: Hislop was ona Norton with Fogarty on a Yamaha. The Norton Hizzy rode had been developed on a shoe string budget when compared with the Japanese competition. John Player had no intention of backing Steve’s TT campaign but after scratching around for some support and with minimal testing time, the team headed for the Isle of Man.

Hislop’s Norton took to the circuit in the unconventional white livery of Steve’s long term sponsor Abus. Hislop and the team defied the bike’s detractors by taking a fine 2nd place in the opening TT F1 race. The bike proved it could complete 6 laps of the gruelling Snaefell Mountain Course in hot weather so the team looked forward to Friday’s Senior TT.

Hislop’s main rival was Foggarty, who started at number 4. Steve started at 19. Not only did this give Hizzy more traffic to contend with but it also gave the crowd an anxious wait as the officials calculated the time difference between them. As the race progressed, the two riders smashed records they set the previous year with Hislop taking a narrow advantage into the final lap. In a last-ditch attempt to catch Hislop, Fogarty recorded a record lap time of more than 123 mph on his Yamaha. It was all in vain however as Hislop guided the fly splattered Norton home to an historic win. This was one of Hislop’s greatest achievements and one of the most popular TT wins. Carl Fogarty’s lap record stood for 7 years.

Hislop and Fogarty went on to become two of Britain’s most successful motorcycle racers, winning many races and championships. It was the 1992 Senior TT that saw them battle together for the last time.

Described by some as a flawed sporting genius, success in the world championships never materialised for Hislop. This was possibly because of a self-destructive aspect to his character. The flaw may have led to a number of well-publicised clashes with other riders and teams in the British championships which hindered progress into international series.

Having lost his brother and many friends in motorcycle accidents, he made a point of never going to the funerals of fellow racers, saying:

“Some people might find that a bit callous. I only ever attend family ones and people find it a bit strange that I won’t go to a friend’s funeral, but it’s just my little way of shutting off.”

Steve Hislop died in a helicopter accident in July 2003, near Teviothead, Roxburghshire and was interred in the village of Chesters near his birthplace of Hawick, Scotland. He had two children.

There is a bronze statue in memory of Hizzy in the grounds of Hawick Museum. at Wilton park and another at Onchan Head, Isle of Man, as seen in order in the pics. The last pic is a cairn near Teviothead, the scene of the helicopter crash, it reads……

‘Hizzy’ This cairn was built by a few friends of Steve Hislop, British Superbike Champion, who was tragically killed in a helicopter accident near this site, on July 30th 2003.

Kind permission was granted by His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch.

#scotland #scottish #sporting history #motorbikes #motor sports

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herohimbowhore · 2 months

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On This Day in F1: March 1st

Present: Bahrain Day 2

History: 1992 Giovanna Amati Attempts to Qualify for the South African GP

On March 1st, Bahrain hosted free practice 3 and qualifying.

We begin the season almost exactly where we left off with the top 3 finishers of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix qualifying for the top 3 in Bahrain — Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, and George Russell

The provisional starting grid is:

March 1st also marks the beginning of Women’s History Month so we go back to 1992 when Italian driver, Giovanna Amati, made the first of her three attempts to qualify for a Formula 1 World Championship race.

Though unsuccessful in qualifying , Amati is the most recent woman to enter an F1 race. She is also the fifth woman to do so.

The 1992 South African Grand Prix was the first race in South Africa following the end of Apartheid and the opener for the season.

Amati made her Formula 1 debut at the race with the Brabham team. She was the first female F1 driver since South African Desiré Wilson entered the 1980 British Grand Prix with Brands Hatch Racing.

Amati was one of five drivers to not qualify for the South African Grand Prix. Of the 30 entrants, Amati was last on the timing sheets and almost 9 seconds behind Nigel Mansell, who got pole position for the race.

Giovanna Amati’s Formula 1 career lasted for two more races after the South African before she was replaced by the team’s test driver, Damon Hill. Damon Hill only qualified for two races during the season and it was widely considered a bad year for the Brabham team.

On her time with Brabham, Amati said:

“I had all the interest on me because I was the only woman in the championship but with that car I couldn’t perform. Brabham at that time had a lack of sponsors and a lack of budget. My engine was leaking oil, water, everything, and when I asked to change it there were no spare parts. So it was difficult, and all the other cars were performing much better than ours. I couldn’t qualify with that car and the problem was that they didn’t give me another chance afterwards.”

Her motorsport career did not end with Formula 1. Amati entered the Porsche SuperCup in 1993 and won the Women’s European Championship. She’s participated in the Ferrari Challenge, 12 Hours of Sebring, and the SportsRacing World Cup.

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The Bahrain Grand Prix is on the 2nd, but so is Qatar 1812 km for WEC. It starts at 2:30am for the US east coast and has a 10 hour time limit. It’s available on Max in the US if you have the live sports subscription. The broadcast information can be found here if anyone wants to see where they can watch: Qatar 1812 km.

The Iron Dames are participating.

#on this day in f1 #formula 1 #f1 #max verstappen #charles leclerc #george russell #f1 history #Giovanna Amati #bahrain grand prix #women in f1 #women in motorsport

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umseb · 9 months

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"'I have two old racing cars here at Goodwood, they are my own cars, and they will be sounding just like they did back in 1992 or 1993. It is thrilling to drive them. Last year during the British Grand Prix I already had the chance to run the FW14B from 1992 on CARBON NEUTRAL FUEL, 30 years after Nigel Mansell won at Silverstone GP. To run the exact same car but with carbon neutral fuel was a great experience and I think the crowd loved it as well. And also 30 years after Ayrton Senna drove the McLaren, I am driving it now up the hill. So yeah, very special cars. I think a lot of memories for a lot of visitors, maybe not so much for the younger audience, but I think they will be thrilled when they see and hear the cars because they’re beautiful and they sound beautiful.'" - july 22, 2023 📷 @.sebastianvettel / instagram

#sebastian vettel #f1 #formula 1 #fic ref #fic ref 2023 #not a race #2023 not a race #between britain and hungary 2023 #goodwood #goodwood 2023 #goodwood fos #goodwood fos 2023

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thewales · 11 months

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Do you know if any of the royals have watched the F1 Grand Prix in Silverstone? Like at any time? If ever?

William attended the British Grand Prix held at Silverstone in 1992, those that count? Henry did too in 1993. Diana did too, according to Google.

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hyacinthsdiamonds · 1 year

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"This podium is bad for feminism" as if this isn't male dominated sport and as if said male dominated sport hasn't only had five official female drivers, the most recent of which entered the championship in 1992... To put that in perspective, the year in which last woman entered an F1 race is also the same year Kevin Magnusson was born. He is the sixth oldest driver currently on the grid. Kevin was born on October 5th 1992, the last race entry from female driver was on April 5th 1992. Majority of the current grid literally did not exist when a female driver last entered a race.

Since we're talking about feminism in motorsport let's talk about those female drivers;

Maria Teresa de Filippis was the first woman to compete in F1, she entered five races in the 1958 & 1959 seasons and started three, her best result being p10 at the 1958 Belgian Grand Prix. At the following race weekend, the race director denied her involvement, saying that "the only helmet that a woman should use is the hairdresser". She is remembered as a pioneer in motor racing.

Lella Lombardi is arguably the most recognizable name in this list. She competed in three seasons from 1974 to 1976, entering seventeen races and starting twelve. Her best result was at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix where she finished sixth. Lombardi is the first and so far only woman to score points in the World Championship.

At the 1976 British Grand Prix, Divina Galica entered but ultimately failed to qualify. This is the only Formula One Grand Prix to date in which multiple female racers (Lombardi and Galica) were entered.

In 1980, Desiré Wilson entered but unfortunately failed to qualify for the British Grand Prix. In the same year she became the only woman to win a Formula One race of any kind when she won at Brands Hatch in the British Aurora F1 championship on 7 April 1980. As a result of her achievement, Wilson has a grandstand at Brands Hatch named after her.

The last woman to attempt to qualify for a Formula One Grand Prix was Giovanna Amati in 1992. She entered three races but failed to qualify in all attempts. She was replaced by Damon Hill, who it should be noted also failed to qualify the same car in the 6 out of 8 following races he entered that season.

#f1 #formula one #formula 1

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eurovision-facts · 1 year

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Eurovision Fact #277:

Norway's 2022 entry Subwoolfer is the only Eurovision entry where the true identities and faces of the contestants were not publicly revealed during the time of participation.

However, after the conclusion of the contest, UK entry, Sam Ryder, was cited as saying that Ben Adams from British-Norwegian pop band A1 was half of the intergalactic duo. Ryder said that he saw Adams on a buffet line, and he concluded that he must be a member of Subwoolfer. Ryder also said that as he was interacting with the duo while they were in costume, he kept thinking that he knew he was talking to “Ben from A1,” but he didn’t want to let on that he knew.

At Melodi Grand Prix 2023, this was confirmed as Subwolfer performed ‘Give that Wolf a Banana’ which slowly mixed with their song ‘Worst Kept Secret.’ During the performance, they stripped away their yellow gloves, turned backstage, and with the help of some backup dancers, removed their wolf heads. On screen, the names Ben Adams and Gaute Ormåsen flashed as they sang “that’s not my name, is it Ben? Is it Gaute?”

[Sources]:

‘Eurovision: Sam Ryder confirms Ben Adams is Subwoolfer after buffet meet-up,’ msn.com.

Subwoolfer - Worst Kept Secret (Official MGP Performance), YouTube.com.

Turin 2022 Participants: Subwoolfer, Eurovision.tv.

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2017 Kyiv Participants, Eurovision.tv.

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Eurovision Song Contest 2002 - Full show - British commentary - BBC - Remastered HD, YouTube.com.

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🔴 1998 Eurovision Song Contest BBC Full Show (Presenter & Commentator: Terry Wogan) FULLY SUBTITLED, YouTube.com.

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#EurovisionAgain - Eurovision Song Contest 1992 - Full Show - No Commentary - Remastered HD, YouTube.com.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1970 - full contest - No Commentary, YouTube.com.

#EurovisionAgain - Eurovision Song Contest 1969 - Full Show - Remastered HD, YouTube.com.

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#esc facts oc #esc #eurovision #eurovision song contest #eurovision facts oc #esc 2022 #subwolfer #ben adams #Gaute Ormåsen #MGP 2023 #melodi grand prix #sam ryder

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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.

#nigel mansell #classic f1 #f1 #formula 1 #retro f1 #f1 1970s #f1 1980s #f1 1990s #f1_bdays

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debbiechanclub · 1 year

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The Official, NEW New TMHWMP Definitive Timeline

I figured it was about time I stopped talking and starting doing, so here it is: the official, final, definitive timeline of the relaunched "Take My Hands, Wreck My Plans" ficverse.

As you may have previously seen, I'm scrapping everything that has heretofore been written as part of TMHWMP (everything) and rewriting it as a series of interconnected one-shots (and probably a few mini-series) spanning the course of Nellie's career and relationships. And because of that, I figured a timeline would be useful to help you lovely people who have stuck with me to make sense of it all―especially since I won't be writing or posting the forthcoming fics in chronological order, but instead as inspiration strikes.

A friendly heads-up before you proceed: There are a few minor spoilers ahead. However, I've left out the major things (*cough* who Nellie ends up with *cough*) and will be updating/adding to this timeline as I write more.

Again, thank you so much to everyone who's stuck with my creative process for Nellie (and Torrance!) over the last two years. It means more to me than you know.

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Nellie Keegan DOB: September 19, 1992 Hometown: Allentown, Pennsylvania

2012–2017: Nellie begins training at the Chikara Wrestle Factory in September 2012, shortly after her twentieth birthday. She subsequently makes her in-ring debut in July 2013 and wrestles for various independent promotions across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S.

August 2017: Nellie debuts for World Wonder Ring Stardom as a participant in the 2017 5STAR Grand Prix. ― Meets Torrance Taylor.

January 2018: Nellie debuts for Revolution Pro Wrestling in the inaugural RevPro British Women’s Championship Tournament. She’s eliminated by Jinny in the semifinals. ― Meets El Phantasmo (Live at the Cockpit 24). They go out after the show and spend the entire night flirting with each other. They kiss, and Nellie considers inviting him back to her hotel just for the hell of it. But she decides against it, not wanting to risk developing a reputation backstage on her very first night working for a new promotion. However, she and Riley make plans to hang out the next day. ― After spending the day with Riley, Nellie meets Zack Sabre Jr. at the RevPro show that same night. They have instant, undeniable chemistry; but Zack doesn’t seem at all interested in any kind of relationship, and because Nellie has already sort of begun something with Riley, she and Zack just leave it at that. But they exchange numbers and keep in touch.

January–August 2018: Nellie continues working for RevPro and other BritWres promotions, and she and Riley develop a tendency to casually hook-up whenever she’s in the UK. Though she tries not to, Nellie also develops feelings for Riley—but he’s too emotionally clueless for a relationship.

August 2018: Nellie signs a contract with Stardom and returns to Japan for the 2018 5STAR Grand Prix. ― Nellie and Zack reconnect. Realizing that they’ll finally be spending a lot of time in the same places (Japan and England), they start dating. This creates some tension with Riley. ― Meets Jay White.

Late 2018–2019: Nellie becomes an official member of Suzuki-gun and begins managing Zack in both NJPW and RevPro while also focusing more on her career in Stardom. At the same time, Nellie begins hanging out more with Bullet Club thanks to Torrance and Riley. She and Zack make plans to move to Tokyo together after the new year.

2020: The pandemic hits. ― January: Nellie and Zack move to Tokyo. ― Late April: Under the stress of living together for the first time in a foreign country during a pandemic, Nellie and Zack break up. It’s a difficult but mutual decision. Nellie moves in with Torrance and Taiji Ishimori until she can get her own place. ― August: "Knights and Kings" ― October: The world slowly starts to open up again and, unexpectedly, Nellie begins a relationship with Jay White when he returns to Japan.

2021: Things get complicated. ― January: Following his loss to Kota Ibushi at Wrestle Kingdom 15, Jay takes a leave of absence from NJPW. The uncertainty of it concerns Nellie as she and Jay are so new into their relationship, but they get through it. ― Nellie is still a member of Suzuki-gun, and she continues to accompany Zack for his bigger matches. She believes they've both put any lingering romantic feelings behind them; but their friends―particularly Torrance―believe otherwise. ― May: After winning the NEVER Openweight Championship, Jay disappears from Japan again. ― August: With Jay unable to return to Japan due to visa issues, his and Nellie's relationship suffers, and they break up after months of uncertainty. ― September: "What Happens in London" → Single in England on her birthday, Nellie has some fun with Kyle Fletcher

More to come... 😉

#I didn't want to bother the tag list with this so I hope y'all see it #jay white fanfiction #zsj fanfiction #zack sabre jr fanfiction #el phantasmo fanfiction #elp fanfiction #tmhwmp ficverse

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mcgnussen · 2 years

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The Lorenzo Bandini Trophy (Italian: Trofeo Lorenzo Bandini) is an annual award honouring the achievements of an individual or team in Formula One motor racing.[3] The award was established by Francesco Asirelli and Tiziano Samorè of the Brisighella commune in 1992,[4] and is named after the Italian driver Lorenzo Bandini, who died three days after suffering severe burns in a major accident at the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix.[5] The accolade's trophy, a ceramic replica of Bandini's Ferrari 312/67 car adorned with the number 18 created by the ceramist Goffredo Gaeta,[6][7] is awarded for "a commendable performance in motorsport".[1] This is based on not the results attained but how the success was achieved,[8] and the recipient's character and approach to racing.[9] Each recipient is honoured for their achievements over the course of the previous year.[4] A panel of 12 judges, composed of motor racing journalists and former Formula One team members, determines the recipient of the award.[10] Previously, the winner was decided by a vote from the residents of Brisighella.[5] The winner is honoured at a ceremony in Bandini's home town of Brisighella in Emilia-Romagna,[a] and the trophy is presented by the Associazione Trofeo Lorenzo Bandini.[10]

The accolade is considered highly prestigious in the world of motor racing.[3][11] The inaugural winner was the Italian driver Ivan Capelli in 1992.[12] No award was given in each of 1993 and 1994 and no-one has won more than once since drivers are only allowed to be a named a recipient just once to give other racers the opportunity to win it.[4][12] Although the award has usually been given to racing drivers for their achievements from the previous season, it has been awarded to two racing team members: the Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (1997),[12] and the marque's vice-chairman Piero Ferrari (2013).[13] The accolade has been won by racing teams on two occasions:[1][7] the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team for winning the World Constructors' Championship with a V6 engine coupled with hybrid technology (2015),[1] and Scuderia Ferrari to commemorate the 70th anniversary of its establishment (2017).[7] It has been presented to Italian drivers and teams on eight occasions, followed by German competitors and constructors with four wins and three for British racers. The 2021 winner was the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc.[2]

#kevin magnussen #WAKE UP BITCHES KEVIN JUST WON AN AWARD!#a highly prestigious one too #i'm so happy for kev 😭#he deserves some recognition for his time in f1

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marioandretti · 1 year

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Motorsports Is Looking for the Next Danica Patrick. And the One After That.

Despite a push for greater diversity, female drivers remain a rarity in top racing series like Formula 1, NASCAR and IndyCar.

Dec. 26, 2022

It has been 14 years since Danica Patrick became the first woman to win a top-class race in a major motorsports series. At the time, pundits predicted her victory in IndyCar would usher in a new era of female racers.

But today’s landscape shows a more complicated picture.

For every success, there have been even more setbacks. There currently are no women driving full time‌ in Formula 1, IndyCar or NASCAR — and, historically, very few have ever competed, even though these series are not exclusive to men. The Indianapolis 500 had featured at least one woman in its field for 20 straight races starting in 2000, but none participated in two of the past three seasons. And the W Series, a women’s racing league that runs as part of Formula 1 grand prix weekends, canceled its 2022 season prematurely because of funding problems.

“It was probably a bit naïve to think that one woman’s success could make an immediate impact,” said Beth Paretta, an automotive entrepreneur and longtime advocate for women in motorsports. “Sure, it was great to see a feel-good story like Danica’s, but something needed to be done back then to sustain that momentum — and we still don’t truly have that.”

Paretta, 48, has made it her mission to correct that. In 2021, her IndyCar team, Paretta Autosport, became the first mostly female team to compete in the Indy 500, featuring a female driver, the Swiss racer Simona de Silvestro, and an all-woman pit crew. The team has since competed in a handful of other IndyCar races, though it is not a full-time participant within the series.

Paretta said her goal runs deeper than just promoting talented female drivers. Racing is still a male-dominated sport, she said, from the administrative roles within teams to the race strategists. “You can often count the number of women in the paddock on one hand,” she added.

Her hope is to shine a spotlight on women working in all facets of racing to inspire the next generation.

“Typically, for women in racing, we’re not used to pointing out that we’re women,” Paretta said. “In fact, we kind of hope you don’t notice — we just want to do our jobs and get on with it. So accentuating women in motorsports is an uncomfortable adjustment for us, but we’ve come to realize that we have to do this if we want our kids, and our kids’ kids, to normalize this.”

Susie Wolff, a British former racecar driver who has worked in various roles within motorsports, agrees that increasing gender diversity in racing behind the scenes is essential to ultimately producing more female racers.

“It’s not just about putting a girl in the car,” Wolff said. “There are generally 20 or 30 drivers on track, but thousands involved in making a race happen. On-track drivers get the most publicity, but it has to be much more than that.”

Wolff knows firsthand what it is like to be one of the few women in a racing garage. In 2012, she signed as a testing and development driver for the Williams Formula 1 team, and two years later she became the first woman since 1992 to participate as a driver in a Formula 1 race weekend. In the summer of 2018, she became the team principal of Venturi Racing, a team in the electric racing series Formula E. She said she has been met with skepticism at every job she’s ever taken.

“I will never forget when I was announced as team principal,” she said. “I was with 16 journalists, and the first question was, ‘What qualifies you for this job?’ The second question was, ‘Did your husband get you this job?’ And the third question: ‘How can you manage the travel involved, since you just had a baby?’” Wolff is married to Toto Wolff, the longstanding team principal of the Mercedes Formula 1 team.

By the end of her tenure, spending one year as chief executive, she had silenced the critics by bringing Venturi from nearly last place in the constructors standings to a championship contender. She is hopeful that women who assume roles in racing in the future will not need to endure the same type of scrutiny she did.

“I was successful, and suddenly everything about my gender and being the only female didn’t matter,” said Wolff, who left Venturi after the 2022 season.

Another obstacle facing women who want to race, Wolff said, is the lack of defined pipelines for them. Breaking into higher levels of racing is difficult, often carrying a steep financial cost, and there are few dedicated programs designed to encourage and support young girls. That is partly what inspired Wolff in 2016 to establish Dare to be Different, a nonprofit organization that promotes motorsports to girls.

“It becomes something of a numbers game,” said Wolff, who estimated that the total number of young women participating in any form of racing remains exceedingly small. “If only 5 percent of all global racing license holders are women, you’re not likely to get one breaking into the highest levels. You need to get more young women entering the sport for the best to rise to the top.”

Those types of pipelines, though, can take time to produce results. NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program, for example, was created in 2004 with the aim of improving racial and gender diversity among drivers and pit crew members. The initiative provides structured training programs, complete with on-track experience, to its participants in the hopes of elevating them through NASCAR’s ranks. But it has only recently begun to see its efforts reflected on the sport’s highest level.

The program’s notable graduates include Kyle Larson, an Asian American driver who won the Cup Series championship in 2021; Bubba Wallace, who last year became the first Black driver to win a top-level race since 1963; and Daniel Suárez, who this year became the first Mexican-born driver to win a Cup Series race.

“I’d say it’s been a coming-out party, of sorts, for that program,” said Brandon Thompson, NASCAR’s vice president of diversity and inclusion. “But a lot of people tend to forget that those seeds were planted way back when we started this effort 20 years ago. It takes time to build that foundation.”

Although Drive for Diversity has yet to promote a female driver to the Cup Series, it has graduated a few women to pit crews. Last month, four women who aspire to drive in the series participated in its most recent racing combine, where participants — many of them teenagers — audition their skills in the hopes of being selected for a developmental racing series that could lead to further promotion through NASCAR’s pipeline.

“We’re certainly keeping an eye on the development of the young women we have in that program, and we feel great about the crop of talent we have in that pipeline,” Thompson said. “We’re just waiting for the day when we can change this conversation and be talking about their success.”

Other motorsports series have recently unveiled similar diversity pipelines. In 2020, IndyCar introduced “Race for Equality and Change,” which supports grass-roots youth motorsports programs. And last month, F1 launched a subsidized racing series specifically for young women that officials say will work in conjunction with the W Series to add more women to the F1 pipeline.

For drivers like Chloe Chambers, 18, who participated in the W Series this year, these are all positive steps toward getting women more vital experience.

“In racing, the biggest disadvantages come from funding rather than physical ability based on gender,” Chambers said. “Statistically, women have gotten less funding and less time behind the wheel of a racecar. So things like F1 Academy are all great steps to hopefully get women more experience.”

Chambers, who was born in China and raised in New York, said her goal was to reach Formula 3, a feeder series for Formula 1. Doing so has historically been difficult for women; for example, Jamie Chadwick, a 24-year-old British racer who won the W Series championship the past three seasons, has never landed a seat in F3.

In spite of the challenges, Chambers believes that she can break through once she gains enough experience.

“In the future, I’m hopeful there will be women on the Formula 1 pipeline,” she said. “That’s the goal of every driver, but for women, it’s that much harder.”

As for Paretta, she currently is looking to secure sponsors to run her team full time in IndyCar next season. And while the progress for women in racing has not come as quickly as she may have hoped after Patrick’s groundbreaking win, she is optimistic that the future can be bright.

“We’re closer than we’ve ever been,” she said. “We just need to keep talking about it.”

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On July 30th 2003 Multi race winning Motorcyclist, Robert Steven ‘Hizzy’ Hislop died.

Hislop was from a close knit, Scottish Borders family. He grew up in the village of Chesters near the town of Hawick with his father Sandy, mother Margaret and younger brother Garry [his best friend]. Sandy encouraged his boys to be enthusiastic about competitive motorcycling and take up racing.

However his father died when Steve was 17, then Garry was killed in a racing accident at Silloth circuit in 1982 aged 19, Steve’s enthusiasm waned and he slumped into an alcohol fuelled depression.

However, a trip to the TT races in 1983 inspired him, and he decided to compete there, with his first win in the 1987 TT Formula 2 Race on a Yamaha.

He went on to become the fourth most successful TT rider of all time with a total of 11 wins, including four victories in the senior race - the TT’s premier event. In total, he took the podium an incredible 19 times. But for many domestic fans, the victory held most dear is his win on the rotary-engined Norton in 1992 - the last time an all-British machine won a TT.

Unlike a lot of TT specialists, Hislop was also extremely good on conventional racing circuits and was tipped by many for world championship success. When he won the British 250cc Supercup for Honda in 1990, everything looked set for a glittering career in grand prix, following his countryman Niall Mackenzie.

But promise was never turned into reality, and he never marketed himself in a way which would secure a GP ride. Later, he expressed regret that he had not contracted a personal manager, who could have directed his talents on the bike into a career off it.

He was twice British superbike champion and also won in world superbike and world endurance racing. Hislop excelled at endurance racing and was world champion in 1993 - but again didn’t capitalise on this success.

Much of the problem lay with his dual personality. With race fans he was often the most charming, accessible and easy-going of all his generation of riders. However, he was often difficult for teams - despite his astonishing skill on the track.

Even after winning the 2002 British superbike championship, Monster Mob Ducati team owner Paul Bird did not renew his contract, and Hislop was fired from the Virgin Mobile Yamaha team in July of this year - and mid-season sackings of a team’s lead rider are rare occurrences.

Injuries did not help his career either. In a miraculous escape, he broke his neck at the 2000 world superbike round at Brands Hatch and then, unaware of the seriousness of his injuries, discharged himself from hospital. In 2002, he suffered horrendous injuries when a safety fence lifted and he hit a solid barrier behind it. Despite this enormous setback, he went on to win the 2002 British superbike championship.

Conscious of the fact that his racing career was coming to a close, Hislop had been taking helicopter flying lessons with the aim of becoming a commercial helicopter pilot.

On July 30th 2003 Hislop crashed his hewlicopter just eight minutes after leaving a friend’s home in Hawick to fly solo back to Buckinghamshire.

The last pic is a cairn near Teviothead, the scene of the helicopter crash, it reads……

'Hizzy’ This cairn was built by a few friends of Steve Hislop, British Superbike Champion, who was tragically killed in a helicopter accident near this site, on July 30th 2003.

Kind permission was granted by His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch.

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On This Day in F1: March 22nd

Present: Australia Day 1

History: 1992 Mexican Grand Prix

March 22nd, 2024 marked the start of the Australian race weekend with the first two practice sessions.

The big story of the day is with Williams and their decision to have Alex Albon run Logan Sargeant’s car for the rest of the weekend after Albon crashed in FP1. Due to not having a 3rd chassis they could make for Albon and his original chassis being too damaged for repair, team principal James Vowles announced that Sargeant will not be racing.

(Statements from Vowles, Albon, and Sargeant)

Considering that Sargeant was not the one to crash, the decision is being widely seen as unfair and damaging to any morale building within the Williams team. A greater issue is why Williams wouldn’t take precautions to have a third chassis in a race that was filled with carnage last year. The ramifications of this decision are certainly something that we could see as the season progresses - not only for how it impacts Sargeant's confidence but also for the parts allotment allowed for Albon.

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On March 22, 1992, Formula One hosted the Mexican Grand Prix at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. It was the second race of the 1992 season and heavily dominated by British driver, Nigel Mansell.

The 1992 Mexican Grand Prix was in turmoil long before its running on March 22nd. Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez's reputation for being a very bumpy circuit and Mexico City's decline with overpopulation and pollution was considered to be a bad look for Formula One.

Approximately a month prior, Mexico City was under a smog alert due to the dangerous levels of air pollution - the level of air pollution was reported as triple the US standard and four times what California permits. Due to this alert, there were restrictions on the usage of heavy motorized equipment which led to the delay in paving troublesome sections of the race track.

On race day, Nigel Mansell led every lap and finished the race 12.971 seconds ahead of his teammate Riccardo Patrese.

21.429 seconds behind Mansell, Michael Schumacher in the Benetton finished in third place. This was the first of Schumacher's 155 podiums in Formula One.

Of the 30 entrants:

4 drivers did not qualify (including Giovanna Amati - the most recent woman to attempt qualifying for an F1 GP)

13 drivers retired without classifying

1 driver finished 4 laps down from the race leader

2 drivers finished 3 laps down from the race leader

2 drivers finished 2 laps down from the race leader

4 drivers finished 1 lap down from the race leader

4 drivers completed all 69 laps

The 1992 Mexican Grand Prix was the last one hosted in Mexico until 2015 after the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez was revised.

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Previous: Mar. 9th - 2003 Australian Grand Prix

Next: Mar. 23rd - Australia Day 2

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#on this day in f1 #formula 1 #f1 #australian gp 2024 #Mexican GP 1992 #michael schumacher #nigel mansell #f1 history #williams racing #logan sargeant #alex albon

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Michelle Yeoh’s Longtime Love, Jean Todt: A Journey of Love and Support

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Let’s discover the adorable story of Michelle Yeoh’s enduring love with Jean Todt. This article throws light on their extraordinary relationship, from their casual meeting in Shanghai to their historic wedding after 19 years of engagement. Let’s take a look at the life of the man who has been Michelle Yeoh’s constant companion in crucial moments of life.

A rendezvous and a whirlwind romance in Shanghai

Famous actress Michelle Yeoh and former Ferrari CEO Jean Todt had a fateful meeting in June 2004 in Shanghai. Their connection was instant, and within a month, they got engaged and the two embarked on a beautiful journey of love.

Witness historical moments together

Throughout their journey, Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt have celebrated many important achievements. One of the most unforgettable moments was Yeoh’s historic Oscar win in 2023, where she created history as the first Asian woman to win the coveted Best Actress award. Jean Todt proudly stood by her side and caught the world’s attention with her love and support.

Tying the knot after a long engagement

After being engaged for 19 years, the couple finally tied the knot on July 27, 2023, in Geneva. The news was happily shared by Ferrari Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa on Instagram along with a photo from their wedding ceremony. The wedding was a heartwarming celebration amidst dear family and friends.

getting to know Jean Todt

Jean Todt is from France, he was born on February 26, 1946, in Pierrefort, Cantal. His educational journey took him to the prestigious École des Cadères School of Economics and Business in Paris before his passion for motorsports surfaced.

A remarkable career in motorsport

Todd’s exciting career in motorsport began as a co-driver in 1966, eventually helping him win the Manufacturers’ World Rally Championship in 1981. He later served as director of racing for Peugeot until 1993. His remarkable expertise attracted Scuderia Ferrari, where he found a new home and eventually rose to the position of CEO from 2004 to 2008.

Unwavering support in career endeavors

In their nearly two-decade-long relationship, Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt have supported each other’s careers. Whether cheering Yoh from the stands at various motor races, including the British Grand Prix or gracing Hollywood events to support him, Todd has been a constant source of encouragement and love.

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michelle yeoh movies

Michelle Yeoh is a talented Malaysian actress known for her roles in various action, drama, and martial arts films. Here are some of her notable movies:

“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000) – In this critically acclaimed martial arts film directed by Ang Lee, Michelle Yeoh portrays Yu Shu Lien, a skilled warrior who embarks on a quest to retrieve a stolen sword.

“Tomorrow Never Dies” (1997) – Yeoh played the role of Wai Lin, a Chinese secret agent, in the James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007.

“Supercop” (1992) – Also known as “Police Story 3: Super Cop,” this Hong Kong action film features Michelle Yeoh as Inspector Jessica Yang, who collaborates with Jackie Chan’s character to take down a drug lord.

“Heroic Trio” (1993) – In this Hong Kong superhero film, Yeoh stars alongside Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung as three female crimefighters with unique abilities.

“Memoirs of a Geisha” (2005) – Although not a lead role, Yeoh’s performance in this film adaptation of Arthur Golden’s novel is memorable as she plays Mameha, a mentor to the protagonist.

“The Lady” (2011) – In this biographical drama, Michelle Yeoh portrays Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar (Burma).

“Police Story 3: Super Cop” (1992) – The third installment in the “Police Story” series, where Yeoh reprises her role as Inspector Jessica Yang alongside Jackie Chan.

“Tai Chi Master” (1993) – Also known as “Twin Warriors,” this martial arts film features Michelle Yeoh alongside Jet Li as two friends who take different paths in life.

“The Touch” (2002) – Yeoh plays a martial arts expert seeking revenge for her sister’s murder in this action film.

The love story of Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt is one of age-old love, commitment, and unwavering support. From their casual meeting in Shanghai to sharing the red carpet at Hollywood’s grandest events, their love has endured and triumphed over the years. With their recent marriage, they have taken their bond to new heights, and have shown the world the strength and beauty of their extraordinary relationship.

Michelle yeoh net worth

Michelle’s net worth is around $40 million.