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milflewis · 9 months
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me, you and god
transcription of fleabag, season two episode six / chinese gp 2012 / fleabag, season two episode six / turkish gp 2010 / transcription of a pre race interview, abu dhabi gp 2021 / the beast in the space by w s graham / australian gp 2008 / @ponyoisms / austrian gp 2016 / fleabag, season two episode six
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nobrakes · 2 years
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Hii! I have a question; why are Nico R and Lewis H fighting? Their beef is so funny to me as a person that is a casual f1 fan
uhhh, how to begin explaining?
i'll give you a quick and very incomplete rundown, but first, it must be said that currently, things aren't much of a two-sided "fight" per se but more of "Nico being desperate to be noticed by Lewis who is just living his life, has moved on and doesn't care" or as we call it affectionately "Nico Go To Therapy Challenge"
Obviously, there's the whole "best friends since childhood, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were inseparable on both hotel rooms and karting tracks. Rosberg is the only one to ever beat Hamilton in equal machinery for the F1 championship".
They were friends, despite all circumstances and differences, from their backgrounds, families, finances, etc etc. Lewis always brilliant carrying the weight of the world and the dream of F1, Nico also brilliant and looking to prove himself and live up to his dad's legacy.
When eventually they both joined F1, Nico in Williams (2006) and Lewis with McLaren (2007), they were still pretty good friends.
Lewis went on to have one of the most insane first seasons ever seen in F1, almost becoming champion right out of gate.
Nico also found success, getting podiums in 2008 and on their first double podium, this very famous scene of them jumping and hugging happened.
Nico moved to Merc in 2010.
Eventually after the sick and twisted move from Lewis that all the F1 """reporters""" said was a career ender, Lewis went to Mercedes, joining as Nico's teammate.
And as history tells us, as their success on-track became more and more evident, their relationship went down the drain.
With Merc's turbo-hybrid era dominance, the competition for the tittle was basically a inner team affair and that created a perfect storm for the destruction of a friendship between two very competitive people.
Their friendship officially ended publicly in 2014, after the infamous incident when Nico parked the car at the end of qualifying to be on pole position on Monaco, robbing Lewis of the chance of a slam dunk win on Sunday (he denied at the time doing this on purpose, but since then has indicated he wasn't so innocent after all) (chaotic evil) and Lewis said on an interview "We're Not Friends" (oof).
There were soooo many incidents between them since then, it's impossible for me to list all of them. Some of the ones that to me are more memorable are:
2014 SPA incident, on which Niki Lauda himself was furious at what happened;
Hungary 2014, Lewis - ICONICALY may I say - refuses to move aside to let Nico through "I'm not slowing down for Nico."
USA 2015, Lewis clinches the championship early at COTA and then proceeds to throw the P2 cap at Nico who throws it back at him
2016 Spanish GP, when they had a double DNF going into turn 1
2016 Austrian GP, they clashed on the last lap
2016 Abu Dhabi when Lewis, who was leading the race started backing up the cars in hopes of other ppl overtaking Nico and helping him win the championship, which didn't work cause Nico ended up finally winning. Lewis post-race saying: "What am I supposed to do? Just sit there and let the dude come and win the championship? [...] I had to try and help myself because no one else was going to."
Anyways, all of these were very controversial and divided Merc fans. Still, to this day there are differing opinions on each incident, who was to blame, etc etc. The main thing is that it became a VERY toxic environment between them, Nico was king of trying mind games and saying batshit insane things to the media, while also playing into r*cist microaggressions at times. Lewis was very much focused and wanted to win at all costs as well, he did shitty things too, low-key floated the conspiracy theory that his car was the only Merc engine that kept breaking (Malasya 2016 how u doing).
IMO both of them were insane and shitty at different moments, and it's a more complex situation than who's right/who's wrong, good/bad, also I AM biased towards Lewis. I love him.
lmao I'm honestly not qualified to give a full timeline of every incident as I wasn't watching f1 then (i was free from this madness, I miss being free).
However, when it comes to the current state of their relationship, Nico since his 2016 championship win and sudden retirement from F1 (that way Lewis couldn't beat him again) has tried and tried on the media to sing Lewis' praises? and he thinks that way he might recapture some sort of friendship with him?
In fact, at what would be their LAST press conference as teammates in Abu Dabhi, Lewis started reminiscing about their relationship and Nico was LEGIT nearly crying????
They are, apparently, according to gossip girl (Max), still till this day: neighbors.
But Nico has said on the media that Lewis doesn't have his number anymore after being asked if Lewis was going to call him to congratulate his Extreme E team on winning the Extreme E championship over Lewis' own team.
Last year Lewis ducked away from Nico, as Nico was presenting on SkySports before a race leaving Nico to be like "here comes Hamilton and here goes Hamilton".
OKay now a list of things that i think are funny but I don't have time to explain:
Crofty's commentary during the 2021 Hungarian GP "“this man knows lewis hamilton friend, teammate, childhood buddy, rival, everything bar lover quite frankly” and most importantly Nico's absolute dead silence afterward.
The Time Nico Used a Sponsor Event As A Therapy Session And Talked About Him And Lewis
Awkwardly Meeting
This Old Picture Of Them
Yacht Gate. Yeah.
This Meme
This Gifset
Again, this is NOT a complete timeline of events.
Anyways hope this helped even though I think it maybe didn't.
Nico if you're reading this, please...go to therapy...we support you...it's time to let go.
Lewis if you're reading this #godbless #amen
Edit: sorry I got some things wrong at first, such as the timeline of Nico going 2 Merc/forgot completely that he had been at Williams first
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killa-trav · 1 year
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smash or pass every seb era. i want a breakdown
okay here we go:
pass on seb pre toro rosso/bmw days bc he was a teenager/barely legal n even tho i’m 19, it’s a no
also pass on that horrific buzz cut he had in like 2008/9 that was not a vibe
2010-13 seb, smash smash smash smash. shout out to turkish gp 2010 seb n blonde seb ofc (i would let blonde seb do haram things to me) but also like that whole era n especially multi 21 seb
2014/15 he’s too baby girl n really just needs a hug but also smash same w 2016 seb
2017/18 seb again haram things he were a right bastard at times. but no smashy hairodynamics
2019 moustache seb n 2022 moustache seb im smashing so fucking hard
2020 seb pass bro just needs big hug
2021 austrian gp w the nice fade seb is a smash
n id use his long 2022 hair to do things that are not very sfw so also smash
smash or pass f1 drivers
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garethbouch · 2 years
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Bagnaia takes third consecutive win of 2022 at the #AustrianGP, Miller joins him on podium in 3rd
Bagnaia takes third consecutive win of 2022 at the #AustrianGP, Miller joins him on podium in 3rd
Pecco Bagnaia climbed onto the top step of the podium for the third consecutive time this season as he took victory in the Austrian GP held this afternoon at the Red Bull Ring, near Zeltweg. The last time a Ducati rider had reached this milestone was in 2008, when Casey Stoner scored the last consecutive hat-trick for the Borgo Panigale manufacturer. Starting with the second fastest time, Pecco…
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kucherovv · 3 years
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2008 vs 2021
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talksaboutracing · 3 years
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Putting things into perspective - the table above shows 2021 drivers in a grid by their birth year (top) and debut year (left)
We will have three rookies - The youngest driver on the grid Yuki will be 20 years, 10 months, 10 days (or 20 years, 314 days) old + Mick with one day shy of 22 years and Nikita, 22 years and 19 days. Lando will actually be younger than Mick and Nikita at the Australian GP 2021 at 21 years, 129 days (4 months, 8 days).
The oldest driver on the grid will be Kimi. He will be 41 years, 5 months and 4 days at the Australian GP start. Fernando will be 39 years, 7 months, 20 days; he is actually 1 year, 9 months younger than Kimi and is 3 years, 5 months older than Lewis.
The difference between the oldest (Kimi) and youngest (Yuki) driver is 20 years, 207 days (6 months, 24 days).
Interesting note that back in 2001 when Kimi and Fernando debuted, there were also Mick’s father Michael and Max’s father Jos on the grid.
*I know Lewis is still not confirmed, but does anyone really expect him not to be on the grid?
More playing with numbers/records stats for 2021 drivers after the jump...
The youngest driver at their debut from the current grid is Max. He was 17 years, 166 days (or 5 months, 13 days) at the start of Australian GP in 2015. Contrary to popular belief, Lando wasn’t the second youngest one, but it was Lance, who was 18 years, 148 days (4 months, 25 days). Lando comes next with 19 years, 125 days (4 months, 4 days). To be noted, from the current grid, the next one would be Fernando with 19 years, 218 days (7 months, 3 days). You might be surprised Sebastian is not on this list, but he didn’t debut on the first race of 2007, so he was 19 years, 350 days on his debut at US GP 2007 (but he’d still be older than Fernando if he debuted in Australia, he’d be 19 years, 259 days)
The oldest driver at their debut was Nicholas. He was 25 years and 6 days at the start of Austrian (no, that’s not a typo) GP in 2020. If the season started properly in Australian GP, he’d had been 24 years, 260 days (or 8 months, 15 days) at his debut. Runner ups here are Valtteri who was 23 years, 201 days (6 months, 17 days) and Gio who was 23 years, 102 days (3 months, 12 days).
The youngest winner was also Max - he achieved this at Spanish GP in 2016, he was 18 years, 227 days (7 months, 15 days) old. Runner-ups here are Sebastian with 21 years, 73 days (2 months, 11 days) at Italian GP in 2008 and Charles with 21 years, 320 days (10 months, 16 days) in Belgian GP in 2019.
Max doesn’t hold the record of having pole position as a youngest driver though. This one is Sebastian’s who’s achieved it at Italian GP in 2008 at 21 years, 72 days (see above) and followed by Charles at Bahrain GP in 2019 at 21 years 166 days (5 months, 15 days). The third one is Fernando who was 21 years, 237 days (7 months, 22 days) when he’s got pole at Malaysian GP in 2003.
The oldest pole-sitter from the current grid is Kimi, who’s got his last pole at Italian GP in 2018 at the age of 38 years, 321 days (10 months, 16 days).
When it comes to youngest podium finishers in general, it’s interesting to note that Max’s first win was also his first podium finish. The second youngest one was Lance at Azerbaijan GP in 2017 at third place when he was 18 years 239 days and third was Lando at Austrian GP in 2020 also at third place when he was 20 years 235 days.
Max, Lance and Lando also hold records of youngest driver to score points. Max got his first point for 7th place at Malaysian GP in 2015 at 17 years, 180 days, Lance for 9th place in Canadian GP in 2017 at 18 years, 225 days and Lando for 6th place in Bahrain GP in 2019 at 19 years, 138 days.
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brookstonalmanac · 3 years
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Events 5.2
1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. 1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle. 1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. 1625 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa. 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America. 1808 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808. 1812 – The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under José María Morelos y Pavón abandon the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under Félix María Calleja. 1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia. 1863 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later. 1866 – Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao. 1876 – The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria. 1885 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion. 1889 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea. 1906 – Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. 1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis. 1933 – Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front. 1941 – Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power. 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin. 1945 – World War II: The surrender of Caserta comes into effect, by which German troops in Italy cease fighting. 1945 – World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death. 1945 – World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners. 1952 – A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg. 1963 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany. 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USNS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Two Viet Cong combat swimmers had placed explosives on the ship's hull. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later. 1964 – First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders. 1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City. 1972 – In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers. 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. 1986 – Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster. 1989 – Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect. 1995 – During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians. 1998 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy. 1999 – Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. 2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. 2004 – The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd. 2008 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. 2008 – Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people. 2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 2011 – An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sickened. 2012 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction. 2014 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.
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crystalracing · 4 years
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Quiz
1) What do Jenson Button & Mark Webber share in common?
a) Raced w/Honda engine
b) Never won home GP
c) 2+ poles at Barcelona
d) Won Italian GP
2) Which of these teams never achieved a podium at US GP between 2000-2007 when it was held at Indianapolis?
a) Jordan
b) Sauber
c) Williams 
d) Renault
3) What driver had been running third at 2006 Monaco GP before his hydraullcs failed with six laps remaining?
a) Kimi Raikkonen
b) Christian Klien
c) Mark Webber
d) Jarno Trulli
4) At 2007 Canadian GP, which driver was forced to pit for repairs after hitting a groundhog whilst running in 3rd place?
a) Anthony Davidson
b) Giancarlo Fisichella
c) Christian Klien
d) Mark Webber
5) Which driver was overtaken on the final lap by Michael Schumacher at both Malaysian GPs held in 2002 & 2003?
a) Jarno Trulli
b) Jenson Button
c) Jacques Villeneuve
d) David Coulthard
6) Which race did BAR (British American Racing) clinch their maiden podium?
a) 2000 Canada
b) 2001 Spain
c) 2004 Malaysia
d) 2004 Bahrain
7) How many races did a BMW-powered car win between 2000-2009?
a) 10
b) 8
c) 13
d) 11
8) In 2004, which unemployed driver was considered a possible mid-season replacement for Giorgio Pantano at Jordan before Timo Glock was chosen?
a) Jos Verstappen
b) Jacques Villeneuve
c) Anthony Davidson
d) Heinz-Harald Frentzen
9) What was Bjorn Wirdheim’s role during 2004 #F1 season?
a) Minardi race driver
b) Williams test driver
c) Jaguar third driver
d) Jaguar race driver
10) How many race wins did Vitantonio Liuzzi clinch in International Formula 3000 during 2004?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 7
d) 10
11) Except Ferrari & Minardi, which other team used an Italian national racing licence during 2000 #F1 season? BENETTON
a) PLEASE ANSWER  
b) BELOW IN COMMENTS
12) Which driver became the then-youngest ever driver to race in F1 when he debuted during 2009?
a) Sebastien Buemi
b) Kamui Kobayashi
c) Adrian Sutil
d) Jaime Alguersuari
13) Who was BMW Sauber’s team principal between 2006-2009 when the German manufacturer took over the Swiss team?
a) Gerhard Berger
b) Willy Rampf
c) Mario Theissen
d) Peter Sauber
14) Name at least 7 drivers who scored points on their Grand Prix debut between 2000-2009. Go!
Kimi Raikkonen, Mark Webber, Timo Glock, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Sebastien Bourdais, Sebastien Buemi
15) What do Felipe Massa and Jacques Villeneuve share in common?
a) Both raced in Indycar
b) Best 2005 result: 4th
c) Both podiums at Italy
d) Won in France
16) What did Arrows and Spyker share in common?
a) Orange liveries
b) Both used A23 chassis
c) Monteiro raced for both
d) Scored points in Australia
17) Which of the drivers listed below competed in the fewest #F1 races between 2000-2009? (excluding Badoer, Winkelhock etc.)
a) Nicolas Kiesa
b) Tomas Enge
c) Robert Doornbos
d) Franck Montagny
18) Which national racing licence did Red Bull use during 2006 #F1?
a) Austrian
b) Thai
c) American
d) British
19) Which driver suffered the most number of retirements between 2000-2009?
a) Kimi Raikkonen 41
b) Giancarlo Fisichella 44
c) Mark Webber 45
d) Jarno Trulli 51
20) Which driver originally finished in the top 8 before having 25 seconds added to his race time (for overtaking under yellow flags) at 2006 Australian GP?
a) Christijan Albers
b) Scott Speed
c) Jarno Trulli
d) Nico Rosberg
21) After 2000, Peugeot sold their #F1 engine department to Dr. John Gano and Enrique Scalabroni. They supplied rebranded power units to Minardi & Arrows in subsequent seasons, but what were they called?
a) European
b) Supertec
c) Asiatech
d) Fondmetal
22) From which nation does Bridgestone originate from?
a) Thailand
b) South Korea
c) Japan
d) Malaysia
23) Name at least 7 drivers who NEVER raced at Australian GP between 2000-2009 (but competed in other races during this time period). Go!
Tomas Enge, Nicolas Kiesa, Robert Doornbos, Franck Montagny, Sakon Yamamoto, Markus Winkelhock, Luca Badoer, Jaime Alguersuari, Kamui Kobayashi, Romain Grosjean
24) How many times did Michael Schumacher clinch pole at a season-opening race during his #F1 career? #KeepFightingMichael
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7
25) OPINION POLL: Which of these drivers do you believe to be the worst to have raced in #F1 between 2000-2009?
a) Alex Yoong
b) Yuji Ide
c) Giorgio Pantano
d) Gaston Mazzacane
26) Which driver would complete all of his career #F1 races during 2005 only?
a) Tiago Monteiro
b) Patrick Friesacher
c) Robert Doornbos
d) Christijan Albers
27) Between 2000-2009, how many times did McLaren win the Hungarian Grand Prix?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 3
28) Which national racing licence did Midland F1 use during 2006 #F1 season?
a) Russian
b) Canadian
c) British
d) Romanian
29) Excluding 2005 USA, which race had the fewest cars running (i.e. not stopped on track) at the chequered flag?
a) 2004 Monaco
b) 2003 Brazil
c) 2008 Australia
d) 2004 USA
30) Which of these #WRC drivers have tested a #F1 car?
a) Richard Burns
b) Petter Solberg
c) Marcus Gronholm
d) Markko Martin
31) During 2007 #F1, Ferrari, McLaren, BMW Sauber, Renault, Spyker & Red Bull led at least one lap during a race. Name the other team to have led at least one lap during this season.
a) Toro Rosso
b) Williams
c) Honda
d) Toyota
32) Name all the tyre brands Rubens Barrichello has raced with during his whole #F1 career
Goodyear, Bridgestone, Pirelli, Michelin
33) Who finished 3rd at 2008 French Grand Prix?
a) Robert Kubica
b) Jarno Trulli
c) Heikki Kovalainen
d) Lewis Hamilton
34) Which of these drivers has actually stood on the podium (in person) every time he’s finished there (i.e. not requiring a disqualification of another driver post-race nor missing the ceremony due to requiring medical attention)?
a) Jenson Button
b) Fernando Alonso
c) Rubens Barrichello
d) Heinz-Harald Frentzen
35) Which these of GP2 drivers raced in #F1 between 2000-2009?
a) Vitaly Petrov
b) Neel Jani
c) Bruno Senna
d) Gianmaria Bruni
36) At which Canadian Grand Prix did Jarno Trulli & Nico Rosberg “perform” a synchronized spin at the same corner?
a) 2008
b) 2007
c) 2006
d) Never happened
37) Who was the managing director of Super Aguri during their stay in #F1?
a) Daniele Audetto
b) Robert Fernley
c) Mark Preston
d) Aguri Suzuki
38) Which season between 2000-2009 had the most different drivers claiming pole position?
a) 2004 (7)
b) 2005 (9- Fisichella, Alonso, Raikkonen, Heidfeld, Button, Trulli, Michael Schumacher, Montoya & Ralf)
c) 2008 (6)
d) 2009 (8)
39) At the exit of which corner did Michael Schumacher park his Ferrari during qualifying for 2006 Monaco GP?
a) Sainte Devote
b) Portier
c) Tabac
d) La Rascasse
40) Name at least 8 drivers who NEVER raced at Japanese GP between 2000-2009 (but competed in other races during this time period). Go!
Luciano Burti, Tarso Marques, Allan McNish, Yuji Ide, Patrick Friesacher, Giorgio Pantano, Franck Montagny, Markus Winkelhock, Luca Badoer, Kamui Kobayashi
41) How old was Cristiano da Matta when he made his #F1 debut in 2003?
a) 26
b) 29
c) 28
d) 31
42) At which corner did Kimi Raikkonen crash at 2001 San Marino GP race?
a) Acque Minerali
b) Rivazza
c) Tosa
d) Variante Alta
43) Which country had the most number of drivers qualify for at least one race (not necessarily at the same race together) during 2005 #F1 season?
a) Brazil
b) Italy
c) Germany
d) Britain
44) Which of these countries had a driver participate in #F1 between 2000-2009 using their national licence (despite descending from a different country)?
a) United Arab Emirates
b) San Marino
c) Belgium
d) Monaco
45) Which team helped Nico Rosberg win the inaugural 2005 GP2 title? (Bonus: Who was his team principal? Answer in comments)
a) DAMS
b) ART
c) BCN
d) Arden
46) What do Felipe Massa & Rubens Barrichello share in common (other than hailing from Sao Paulo, Brazil & racing for Ferrari)?
a) The same mother
b) Same no. of F1 wins
c) Won Brazil GP
d) Raced for Sauber
47) Which of these teams FAILED to score points on their Grand Prix debut?
a) Red Bull (2005 AUS)
b) BMW Sauber (2006 BAH)
c) Toyota (2002 AUS)
d) Prost (1997 AUS)
48) Name 6 drivers who scored a podium, but never won a race, between 2000-2009 (includes drivers who won races in other decades & WDCs). Go!
Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Jacques Villeneuve, Eddie Irvine, Nick Heidfeld, Takuma Sato, Alex Wurz, Pedro de la Rosa, Tiago Monteiro, Timo Glock, Nelson Piquet Jr, Nico Rosberg
49) Which driver led the 2nd most number of laps during 2007?
a) Lewis Hamilton (321)
b) Felipe Massa (300)
c) Fernando Alonso (203)
d) Kimi Raikkonen (212)
50) 2003 #F1 season had a new points-scoring system. Which team would’ve finished 5th in the WCC under the old points system of 10-6-4-3-2-1?
a) Jordan
b) Sauber
c) BAR
d) Toyota
51) Michael Schumacher’s costly engine failure at 2006 Japanese GP was his first engine-related retirement since...
a) 2001 Germany
b) 2000 Monaco
c) 2000 France
d) 2001 San Marino
52) Who said these famous words “Hamilton’s 7th, Hamilton 7th- by my calculations we win the championship by one point.”
a) Rob Smedley
b) Chris Dyer
c) Ross Brawn
d) Jean Todt
53) Which of these venues did Antonio Pizzonia never race at during his #F1 career?
a) Indianapolis
b) Silverstone
c) Hockenheim
d) A1 Ring
54) How many podiums did Jaguar claim in their time in #F1?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
55) Which of these companies was a title sponsor of Williams at some point between 2000-2009?
a) DHL
b) ING
c) AT&T
d) Etihad
56) Name 4 drivers who NEVER raced at US GP between 2000-2007 (but competed in other races during this time period). 
This excludes new drivers who appeared during 2008-09 (So no Badoer, Bourdais etc.) Go!
Luciano Burti, Tarso Marques, Antonio Pizzonia, Robert Kubica, Markus Winkelhock, Robert Doornbos, Sakon Yamamoto
57) Which race did Jenson Button score his & BAR’s first points of 2005 #F1 season?
a) Europe
b) San Marino
c) Britain
d) France
58) Who picked up the most fastest laps between 2000-2009?
a) Michael Schumacher (37)
b) Kimi Raikkonen (35)
c) Fernando Alonso (13)
d) Rubens Barrichello (17)
59) Who finished 10th at 2002 German Grand Prix?
a) Takuma Sato 
b) Mika Salo
c) Jacques Villeneuve
d) No one
60) Which of these venues has Robert Kubica raced at during his #F1 career?
a) Indianapolis
b) Buddh
c) Fuji
d) Imola
61) Who holds the record for most consecutive podium finishes?
a) Lewis Hamilton (16)
b) Michael Schumacher (19)
c) Fernando Alonso (15)
d) Sebastian Vettel (11)
62) Which season had the most different winners?
a) 2001 (5)
b) 2003 (8)
c) 2008 (7)
d) 2009 (6)
63) Name 7 Brazilian drivers who raced in #F1 during 2000-2009. Go!
Barrichello, Diniz, Zonta, Burti, Bernoldi, Marques, Massa, Pizzonia, da Matta, Piquet
64) Which driver won from the furthest back on the grid between 2000-2009?
a) Jenson Button (14th)
b) Fernando Alonso (15th)
c) Kimi Raikkonen (17th)
d) Rubens Barrichello (18th)
65) At which race did Robert Kubica make his #F1 debut?
a) 2007 Australia
b) 2006 Britain
c) 2006 Hungary
d) 2005 USA
66) In which season did Michael Schumacher score the most number of poles within a year for his #f1 career?
a) 2000
b) 2001
c) 2002
d) 2004
67) Which of these Grands Prix did Alex Yoong (Minardi) fail to qualify for?
a) 2001 Italy
b) 2002 Malaysia
c) 2002 Britain
d) 2002 Hungary
68) How many seconds did Sebastian Vettel take to pick up a fine on his 1st Friday practice outing with BMW-Sauber at 2006 Turkey? #F1
a) 3
b) 5
c) 6
d) 8
69) When Fernando Alonso finished 3rd at 2005 Brazil, he became #F1's then-youngest ever world champion. Who was the previous holder of the youngest F1 WDC record before him?
a) Michael Schumacher
b) Niki Lauda
c) Jim Clark
d) Emerson Fittipaldi
70) Name the teams who won #F1 races during 2000-2009, but failed to score a podium at 2008 & 2009 Singapore GPs (excluding Jordan). Go!
Ferrari, BMW Sauber, Toro Rosso, Honda, Brawn, Red Bull
71) Which nation has held a #F1 race during the sport’s history, but NOT during 2000-2009?
a) Morocco
b) Colombia
c) Malaysia
d) Thailand
72) At which race did Christian Klien score his maiden #F1 point(s)?
a) 2005 Europe
b) 2006 San Marino
c) 2004 Belgium
d) 2004 Japan
73) Which of these drivers had been considered for one of the Williams-BMW seats in 2000, but was rejected for Jenson Button?
a) Dario Franchitti
b) Bruno Junquiera
c) Fernando Alonso
d) Pedro de la Rosa
74) How many drivers earned their maiden #F1 win between 2000-2009?
a) 12
b) 13
c) 14
d) 15
75) Which of these countries have hosted an UEFA European championship for football/soccer, but have not yet hosted a #F1 race?
a) Sweden
b) Switzerland
c) Norway
d) Poland
76) Name ALL the teams Giancarlo Fisichella raced for during his #F1 career
Minardi, Jordan, Benetton, Sauber, Renault, Force India, Ferrari
77) Which of these countries have hosted a FIFA World Cup for football/soccer, but have not yet hosted a #F1 race?
a) United States
b) Chile
c) South Korea
d) Argentina
78) Name 6 International Formula 3000 champions who raced in #F1 between 2000-2009 (Felipe Massa does NOT count as he won “Euro F3000″ series)
Jean Alesi, Olivier Panis, Ricardo Zonta, Juan Pablo Montoya, Nick Heidfeld, Justin Wilson, Sebastien Bourdais, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Luca Badoer
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Formula One 2019 Primer
posted 29 March 2019
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So. This is going to be an overview of the teams and drivers and it’s meant as a starting point for you to venture out on your own as it is by no means a comprehensive overview! Fair warning: this is about to be long, it’s gonna include a ton of links, and I encourage you to find your faves and go down the rabbit hole on YouTube and watch highlights and press conferences. Highly recommend the official channel, it has lots of gems. Also watch the documentary about last season on Netflix! Lots of drama, great for context.
The season has just started, we’re about to go into race weekend number two, so dive in, more under the cut. Lights out and away we go.
Mercedes
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Team Principal: Toto Wolff. Always expressive when watching races. There’s a meme about him flipping a desk once (I think that happened when his drivers crashed into each other). Austrian, looks and sounds like Schwartzenegger, which is why everyone always tries to get him to say „I’ll be backinsert link here“. Friend/colleague of Niki Lauda.
1954- today. Very German, very efficient.
#44 Lewis Hamilton(34):
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5 time world champion. Vegan, wants to get Mercedes to become as zero waste as possible. Loves his dogs. Very British. Doesn’t take his piercings out for racing. Also does music in his spare time. Works hard, likes shiny things. Used to be friends with Nico Rosberg as a kid, but then they became teammates and things got a lil ugly. Nico being the more antagonistic of the two, tbh. This interview is a good (tho tame) example. Ah, those times. Nico retired at the end of 2016 immediately after he won. Lewis had his moments, but for the most part is very civil (now), likes to always point out the work and effort of the whole team. Will probably retire after 2020 and focus on his music or fashion or sth. Has “still I rise” (his mantra) tattooed on his back and also his helmet. #blessed Can’t do donuts.
#77 Valtteri Bottas(29): 
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Finnish. Therefore was in the army for a while, like all Finns have to. Flyboy, still likes to fly planes. Other hobbies: cycling, running, walking his dog, watching his Olympic swimmer wife compete in horse jumping. Best quote: “if you don’t say anything, you can’t lie“. Has had terrible luck last year with getting a first place, including a punctured tyre a lap before the end, etc etc. Valtteri it’s James. Tends to be calm until he gets annoyed.  If you ever see a Mercedes car and don’t know who’s driving, check for the blue gloves/helmet. Is ready to make 2019 his bitch, won the first race!!
Scuderia Ferrari
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Mattia Binotto.
1950- today. So Italian. Like team orders. Former driver Felipe Massa used to famously have an open radio instead of push to talk with his race engineer Rob Smedley, excerpts of which got popular as ring tones. Seriously, it’s adorable (great interview, btw.) Don’t know geography.
#5 Sebastian Vettel(31):
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Been friends with Kimi since he visited the track for the first time when he was 16. Likes to win, can get a bit whiny when he doesn’t get what he wants. His catch phrase is “honestly“, has wondered whether they’re doing ping pong, bumper cars, or a few other things, instead of racing. Had something loose between his legs in Brazil last year. No, not the obvious. Used to be the young hot shot from Red Bull who didn’t like listening to his engineer about saving tires or fuel, kinda like Max now. Had the youngest GP win until Max. In his free time, he plays badminton and is generally a dad to his kids. Really likes Finnish people. (All of his three physios have been Finnish. There’s lots of articles about this that are in German, unfortunately. Heikki was the big bromance) Always very vocal when he wins, congratulating the team in Italian. Once said “we won” in Morse code. Doesn’t like sandpits anymore. Also, There’s seagulls on the track. Met Teemu Selänne once. I guess it’s inevitable, when you’re friends with a Finn.
#16 Charles Leclerc (21):
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Monégasque. Actual puppy, last year was his rookie season and his first ever F1 races. Great talent, outperformed his car by a lot. About to be Ferrari’s next star. So positive, been through a lot. His family was tight with the Bianchi’s, dads best friends, kids best friends. Jules was his mentor, friend, brother and godfather. Looks a little too much like him. His dad died about two years ago, he went on to win a race 4 days later. Just wants to make them proud. Likes to dive, to do lots of sports so he can eat whatever he wants, is polite and friendly on team radio. Good kid. Social media drunk. Won GP2 in 2017 with Prema. Got 39 points last year, in a bad car (his teammate got 9). Had a DNF in Monaco because of the curse last season that meant basically everyone had to retire in their home race. Once did a whole 360 spin in the rain and just kept racing( actually, he did it twice.) Doesn’t like snakes. He’s a floofy boy and I love him. Actual model
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing-Honda
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Christian Horner: (Also Helmut Marko, mad doctor who’s in charge and also a lunatic). Doesn’t like Cyril. They have Renault engines right now, and they tend to be shit. Alonso can tell you all about that. Loves to be analytical on calls with Sky.
2005- today (but sponsored Sauber from 95-04)
#33 Max Verstappen(21): 
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New wunderkind. Dutch, grew up in Belgium but races under the Dutch flag. Broke the youngest GP winner record. There’s a running joke that Kimi could be his dad (who actually raced against Kimi), which has been mentioned by, amongst others, Christian Horner and Max himself. He would probably be better off, because Jos Verstappen is a terrible person who likes to hang around the Red Bull garage, stonefaced, whisper into people’s ears, and tell lovely anecdotes such as when he didn’t talk to Max for three weeks when he was 12 because he didn’t win a race. Should be banned from the garage forever. Max himself is fun, doesn’t care about preserving energy when he can put up records. Once called his engineer „son“ on the radio. So done with the engine. So done, in fact, that they had to do a lot of bleeps during his retirement in Hungary. (Let’s see how he fares with the Renault engine this year) Once met Godzilla on the track. Has calmed down a lot tried to actually fistfight Ocon after Brazil last year. Still a lil shit. Big fan of free practice.
#10 Pierre Gasly(23):
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French. Talented kid, won GP2 in 2016 with Prema. vastly outperformed his teammate whom he crashed into once because of a miscommunication last season. Once drove a race for formula E. Childhood friend of Charles (“mon petit” or “Charlot”, depending on the day). His hair seems to be getting bigger and blonder every day (got cut since). Looks completely different shaved. If you want to hear about his childhood (b)romance with Ocon that turned sour, listen to his beyond the grid episode.
Sport Pesa Racing.- Mercedes
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Otmar Szafnauer. Used to be owned by a dude who is on the run for tax fraud, now bought by a group of investors, including Stroll’s dad. 
2008-2018 under the name Force India. Used to be Jordan Grand Prix (91-05), then Midland (05-07)
#11 Sergio Pérez(29):
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Uhhhh. Gets called Checo. Is Mexican. Was really good once? Can’t really tell now, it’s Force India (it will always be Force India to me, Racing Point, honestly) Has a kid. bit of an aggressive driving style, which is why after an incident a few years ago Button called him dirty and in need of a chill pill before someone gets hurt, and Kimi said he should be punched in the face. Has calmed down (not really) and otherwise been unremarkable lately. Didn‘t get along with Ocon, his old teammate.
#10 Lance Stroll (20):
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 O Canada. Kid of a billionaire businessman and a fashion designer. Dad bought him a race team, kinda. Epitome of silver spoon, seems to actually have some talent, which isn’t always the case for pay drivers. Crashed with Hartley in Canada as part of the 2018 home race curse.
Haas-Ferrari
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Guenther Steiner.  
2016-today. Murrica. Used to only be a Nascar team. Works with Ferrari a lot, which is controversial. Their new title sponsor is Rich Energy, an energy drink company that’s basically Red Bull light and no-one is quite sure actually exists.
#8 Romain Grosjean(32): 
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Rlly French. Born in Switzerland. Has kids, a cookbook (Cuisine et Confidences), and crashes a lot. Was the first driver since ‘94 to get a race ban for causing a multi-car pile up at Spa 2012. (One race plus 50k €, “extremely serious breach of regulations which had potential to cause injury to others”) they said he had learnt a lesson. A couple races later, he crashed into Webber who called him a “first lap nutcase”. Also tends to crash in practice and qualifying sometimes. Also once crashed during a safety car. This all happened within like 2 years. Has been crashing less, comparatively. Was teammates with Pastor “always crashes all of the time, seriously, look up some highlights” Maldonado for a couple years. Left F1 for a few years after not getting a seat, but came back. Seems to be nice? Apart from all the crashes.
#20 Kevin Magnussen(26):
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Danish. Used to be with McLaren. Got fired via email. Worked as a factory welder for a year when he couldn’t get sponsorship early in his career. While being interviewed by Danish TV after a race, Hulk came by to give him a bro hug after they had an ugly crash in Hungary ‘17. Turned around and told him to “suck my balls, honey”.  He seems to not be nice. Probably a fuckboy. Friends with hockey peeps.
McLaren-Renault
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Don’t really have one. Zak Brown (CEO), Gil de Ferran (sporting director), Andrea Stella (performance Director, used to be Alonso’s race engineer with Ferrari).
1966-today. Has a Honda engine for a while, now under contract with Renault (18-20). Bad luck lately. Car used to be good, now it’s terrible. Lots of “highlights” available. Engine is the worst. Used to employ Jenson Button, one of Alsonso’s husbands and fellow McDad to Stoffel who is now in FE.
#4 Lando Norris(19): 
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English. Played tea boy last year when practice at the USA GP wasn’t happening because of rain. Won F4 in 2015 and European F3 in 2017. Seems to be a lil kitty cat. Makes you feel old.
#55 Carlos Sainz Jr. (24): 
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Spanish. Alonso is his childhood hero and good friend (also dad). Has made some bad fashion choices.( this isn’t bad it’s just a good picture). Likes football, especially Real Madrid. Kid of a racing driver. Was with Toro Rosso for a few years. Really likes meerkats. Likes the Spanish flag a bit too much.
Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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Franz Trost
2006- today, Independent from Red Bull (kinda) since 2010. Used to be Minardi (85-05), still in Italy, name change mostly for marketing reasons. Have won exactly one race. Feeder team for Red Bull. Technically separate, actually the guinea pig for the Honda engine RBR switched to this season. They like to promote from within, not afraid to drop a guy just for fun. (Srsly, they did Dany dirty) Also under the thumb of the mad doctor. Insert videos from karaoke here. And now they brought Danny back? Listen, the whole saga of Red Bull and their driver lineup is too long for this
#23 Alexander Albon(23): 
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Thai-British. Was supposed to be in FE this season but the Danny Ric move impacted the whole Red Bull line.
#26 Daniil Kvyat(24): 
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Russian. Where do I start. Was with Toro Rosso, got promoted to Red Bull, got demoted again, got thrown out, got brought back. Just watch this.
Williams-Mercedes
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Sir Frank Williams, but really, his daughter, Claire Williams, technically deputy. 
1977- today. So bad, and they have no clue why, exactly. Did they get any better and less catastrophic this season? Well…they missed half of testing and the car is shit but also they have a Mercedes engine so they’re not gonna DNF aka they’re gonna languish at the back again for all eternity until they figure themselves out. Didn’t go all out in race one because they didn’t have enough spare parts for repairs. They lost a lot of personnel over the summer, this team is a mess. The new livery looks like toothpaste.
#88 Robert Kubica(34): 
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Polish. Made a comeback 8 years after a big accident where he almost lost an arm. Does he still have what it takes? Who knows, the car is terrible, the only person he’s really racing this season is his teammate.
#63 George Russell(21): 
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English. I....don’t really know much else about him.
Alfa Romeo -Ferrari
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Frédéric Vasseur. Looks like he’s from a French comedy in the 70s. Imagine Louis de Funès, with about the same range of facial expressions and jokes. 
1993-today. (Only with Alfa since this season). Also work with Ferrari a lot (both owned by Fiat). Oh hey, look, a female test driver. Also were the first team to have a female team principal in 2014.
#99 Antonio Giovinazzi(25): 
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Part of the GP2 crew with Pierre and Stoffel and half the FE grid.
#7 Kimi Räikkönen(39): 
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Things he likes about Motorsport: racing. Things he doesn’t like about Motorsport: everything else. Also likes ice cream, naps, not giving a shit, his family, Seb. Called the Iceman, lives up to the name. Always great radio transmissions. Ferrari won’t let him have a win, coz Seb. King of Spa (won 4 times), has been increasingly hinting that he doesn’t need racing to be happy. Once he retires, he would only get back into the business behind the scenes. Would support both his kids if they wanted to get into racing, doesn’t relish the idea of being back here in 18 years. Was even more stoic last season than he usually is. Left F1 for a while to go into Nascar and Rally, came back. Went back to his roots with Sauber for the next couple years (who aren’t called Sauber anymore, boo). Seems like he’s having fun being in a smaller team.
Renault
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Cyril Abiteboul. Doesn’t like Horner, who calls him Squirrel Irritable. Will probably get into a fistfight with him, and win. 
1977-1985, 2002-2010 (which was when they bought Benetton. Near the end of that run there was a whole race fixing scandal ft some people being banned for a few years), 2016-today (which was Lotus, before they bought it at the end of 2015). Vasseur was with them before he left in 2017 because of some disagreements, now he’s with Sauber. Team fuckboy (should be interesting to see if those two get along as the season progresses)
#27 Nico Hülkenberg (31): 
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German. Smug. Seems like a douche. Not too bad. Called Magnussen “nasty” and the “most unsporting driver on the grid”. Best of the rest for a while. Quite blunt.
#3 Daniel Ricciardio(29):
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Always smiling. Very Australian, big fan of shoeys. Also called the honey badger. Went to Renault, because I guess if the engine is terrible you go straight to the manufacturer?? probably thinks he’s smooth. When he called Christian about the contract on the phone, the answer was 5 minutes of laughter before Christian realized it wasn’t a joke. Had about 8 DNFs last season, it was tragic to watch, so of course, things must be looking up with Renault, right? Well. He had a DNF in Australia, so. Make of that what you will. Also here‘s an insight into the whole Red Bull debacle.
More resources:
Shift F1 Podcast (they also did a primer episode for noobs for this season, which gets into rules as well
Back Of The Grid Podcast
Official F1 Youtube channel, they have all the press conferences and highlights and do Paddock Pass before and after every race where they break things down and talk to all the drivers
P.S. there‘s great pics of everyone on their instas but I couldn’t resist. Sry not sry.
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Portuguese GP Promises Lots Of Fun, Having Last Hosted A FORMULA 1 Race In 1996
The Portuguese Grand Prix, first held in 1958, is making the much-talked-about comeback in the next few hours, having last hosted a FORMULA 1 race in 1996.
All eyes are fixated upon the upcoming race weekend, starting October 23. Many might have already placed their bets and looking recent or should one say usual fantastic form, the odds are with- not stacked against- Mercedes.
With not too many races remaining anyway, another cracker of a race here at Portimao, akin to say what one witnessed at Monza or Mugello could add yet more fun. More fun to a season that’s truly been phenomenal despite finding itself truncated by the pandemic.
But a lot of water has flown under the bridge in the last two and a half decades.
The simplest observation, nonetheless, is the complete change of guard. Not just in the top three who ruled the roost back then, but also where it comes to the venue.
While we saw an amazing Portuguese GP back in 1996 at the irreplaceable Estoril, in 2020, the action shall unravel at Portimao,  A new, powerful line-up habitual of dominating out in the front could replace the 1996 troika that stood on the podium.
The then podium faces- the legendary Michael Schumacher, the much-respected Damon Hill, and the 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve- are icons you’d visit anyday with sepia-tinted glasses of respect.
But cut to the 2020 grid, you’d sense, having noted the trio’s penchant for consistency, that Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, along with Max Verstappen could well play a key part in determining the approaching weekend’s action.
Given neither Lewis Hamilton nor Sebastian Vettel– two names with most world titles against their name (a grand total of 10 world championships)- have never raced at Portugal’s Algarve International Circuit in the turbo-hybrid era itself lends palpable excitement at the prospect of seeing two great drivers on what could be called a ‘new’ venue for the 20 men on the grid.
Though, from Vettel’s perspective, P13 with 17 points, the term competition would seem rather banal and perhaps too onerous to achieve. Maybe a point’s finish would tend some irate nerves?
Though, it must be admitted, having seen his massacring consistency, the impending action at Portimao could well yield another win for Lewis.
Should the iconic multiple world champion do that at this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix, it would be Lewis’ 92nd FORMULA 1 win, a record that’ll see him overtake Michael Schumacher, who stood third for Ferrari in the 1996 action.
Having said that, what’ll be equally interesting to note would be whether the winner of Austrian and Russian Grand Prix races this season- Valtteri Bottas- can defy the prevalence of ‘Hammertime,’ such a big nadir of the Finn, at round twelve of FORMULA 1?
Meanwhile, can Max, who wasn’t even born when FORMULA 1 last appeared at the football-obsessed Portugal, deny the Mercedes duo to win at Portimao?
For now, there’s zero clarity and conjecture seems the only way to make some sense of an enthralling venue that first opened in the autumn of 2008.
This is a track that has its heart, an elevation change (infused into its layout) much like the famous COTA (Circuit of the Americas). But to many current drivers, Portimao may appear either an unfamiliar friend or an unavoidable folly  this weekend, also since while many youngsters haven’t raced here in their FORMULA 1 careers, many have experienced the venue in their junior careers.
A quick word on the track that last featured on FORMULA 1’s globetrotting calendar (around a quarter of a century ago) should suffice the following:
While Portimao is new to the sport, Portugal itself is steeped in F1 history. There have been 16 official world championship races in the country, the first three switching between circuits in Boavista and Monsanto, before the much-loved Estoril took its place on the calendar between 1984 and 1996. There have been plenty of legendary winners, and plenty of memorable moments.
All of that said, Sunday’s race could well boil down to how quickly do drivers adapt to a track amid the onerous challenge and mental responsibilities of racing at a venue one’s not all too familiar with.
Though to up the ante of one’s mood surrounding the much-talked-about event, an earlier piece of news said the venue had sold around 46,000 tickets by mid-2020. Though, how many might actually turn up amid a time that’s still risky and fraught with unexpectedness (owing to the Pandemic) is yet to be seen.
Only time knows the answer!
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Marc Marquez: Marc Marquez chases seventh MotoGP title as Valentino Rossi hopes to prolong career | Racing News
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PARIS: The MotoGP world championship finally gets underway at Jerez on Sunday, behind closed doors and more than four months late, with Marc Marquez going for a seventh top-class title to match Valentino Rossi who is “99 percent” certain this will not be his farewell season. Marquez, the 27-year-old Spaniard who won MotoGP world titles in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, is determined to continue demolishing the competition on his Honda, with his younger brother Alex, who won last year’s Moto2 title, as his team-mate for just one season. Jerez in Spain hosts the first two races a week apart. The championship will then move to the Czech Republic for one race, and then to Austria for the next two, probably still without spectators. Eight months have passed since the last Grand Prix, five since the last practice and climbing back on a MotoGP saddle may not be easy. After a long period of lockdown, Marc and Alex Marquez only resumed motocross training in the past few weeks. For Rossi, at 41, the future is uncertain. The Italian dominated MotoGP in the first decade of the century, taking the world title in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009, but has not won a race since 2017. The Doctor already knows this is his last season for the factory Yamaha team which has announced that he will be replaced next season by young Frenchman Fabio Quartararo. Rossi will have to choose between dropping to a less prestigious bike, probably Yamaha’s satellite team or ending his illustrious career. “I want to continue racing and it is almost certain that I’ll be with Yamaha-Petronas in 2021,” he assured Sky Italia on Wednesday. The first races will give an idea of his ability to fight for the top spots, or even one final victory, which would be his 90th at the highest level. He already holds the record, with 21 more wins than Giacomo Agostini. Marquez is third on 56. In the meantime, the 21-year-old Quartararo will continue to develop at Yamaha-SRT where he finished fifth in the standings last season, his first at the highest level, after a string of podium finishes. Despite four second places, all behind Marquez, the rider from Nice is still chasing his first victory in MotoGP, which would also be a first for a French rider at this level since Regis Laconi gained his solitary win in 1999. Ducati, who have not won a title since 2007, keep the Italian duo of Andrea Dovizioso, a distant second to Marquez last season, and Danilo Petrucci. Suzuki again seem to be underdogs after just two podium finishes last year, a pair of victories by Spaniard Alex Rins. The blue and white riders need to be more consistent if they are to fulfil the promise the bikes showed in February testing. Austrian team KTM had a tough time last year with a skittish machine, and are lining up for the last time with Spaniard Pol Espargaro, who will replace Alex Marquez at Honda next year. Alongside him is South African rookie Brad Binder, second in the Moto2 championship in 2019. The sixth and final factory team, Aprilia, will start the season without Italian rider Andrea Iannone, who is appealing an 18-month ban after testing positive for anabolic steroids at the Malaysian Grand Prix in November. He will be replaced, for now, by British rider Bradley Smith. With the delayed season-opener just days away Yamaha team director Massimo Meregalli echoed the thoughts of all on the MotoGP grid when he said: “Maverick (Vinales) and Vale are both fired up and ready to hop onto their bikes, and also the rest of the team is impatient to get started and do what we love the most, so let’s go!”
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part three: sorry i was a dick to you when we were fifteen — and nineteen — and twenty three — and twenty six — do you still think i’m hot?
part one: a love language misunderstood
part two: i think you’re pretty — what? — i said i think you’re shitty! ft. several unintentional snubs
intro of matt stover’s novelisation of revenge of the sith // baku gp 2017 // unknown // mclaren’s instagram // transcript of daniel's answer in this interview // daniel’s twitter from 2013 // unknown // the time daniel ricciardo played the ultimate mind game by alanis king // unknown // belgian gp 2014 // same article by alanis king // unknown // austrian gp 2017 // anonymous // crush by richard silken // autosport article by adam cooper // austrian gp 2017 // yt series: formula one does secret santa circa // ode to an apple by pablo neruda // yt series: formula one does secret santa circa // // anonymous // // post monza gp 2021 // same article by adam cooper // the sports rush by subham jindal // @hungerpunch // same article by alanis king // silverstone eurocup 2008 // @eleyhsa // road to hell by anaïs mitchell, andré de shields and hadestown
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The Austrian GP was absent from the F1 calendar between 2004 and 2013, during which time the Spielberg-based A1-Ring was taken over and renovated by Red Bull, then subsequently renamed as Red Bull Ring. - In 2014, the circuit played host to the Austrian GP once more and this event gave us a highly eventful qualifying session, particularly Q3. - Both Mercedes and Williams cars appeared to be in contention for pole position. In the closing stages of Q3, the top 3 was: Bottas, Rosberg, Massa, with Hamilton having had his time deleted for exceeding track limits. - Hamilton dramatically spun on his final attempt at a lap, which briefly brought out the yellow flags. Rosberg was following and had to abandon his lap, but this played into Massa's hands. - The Brazilian driver completed his lap and put in a strong time of 1:08.759, to take his first pole position since the 2008 Brazilian GP and Williams' first pole position since the 2005 European GP. - The race was a slightly less exciting affair, but still an interesting spectacle. Hamilton made up 5 places on Lap 1, whilst the Williams drivers led for the first 15 laps. - Rosberg managed to undercut both Williams drivers during the first round of pitstops, with Hamilton following suit when the field stopped again. Sergio Perez drove a great race, rising from P16 on the grid to P6 at the flag. - Both Mercedes cars dealt with brake issues as the race wore on, with Hamilton closing the gap to his team-mate as the race entered its closing stages. However, Rosberg was able to hold firm and come through to win by 1.9 seconds in a Mercedes 1-2. - Bottas and Massa made it a Williams 3-4, with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso finishing 5th. 🏁🏁 | CREDITS: MOTORSPORT IMAGES | #F1 #FormulaOne #F12020 #F1News #F1Pics #F1Memes #F1History #ClassicF1 #MercedesAMGPetronas #TeamLH #LH44 #MV33 #HondaF1 #CL16 #KR7 #DR3 #SV5 #AG99 #EO31 #PG10 #ScuderiaFerrari #RG8 #RenaultF1Team #ScuderiaFerrari #FerrariF1 #NicoRosberg #WilliamsRacing #FelipeMassa #GR63 #MichaelSchumacher #KeepFightingMichael https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGNfioBQGX/?igshid=1e8x69ewpadtb
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What If Technology Belonged to the People?
Since the pandemic began, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft have seen their values increase by well over $1.7 trillion. Is it because these companies are offering technologies we all need or is it because they enjoy a series of monopolies that ensure greater wealth and control during a period of great uncertainty?
With so many people stuck at home, these internet-first companies were of course well-positioned to provide critical services during a pandemic. But they all got there by leveraging the labor of some of the most vulnerable populations in the world, extracting and selling the data of their customers, getting massive tax breaks, and otherwise taking advantage of huge weaknesses in our economic and political systems. With the economy and society falling apart, these massive companies—already monopolies during “normal” times—are becoming monolithic.
What, then, is to be done about these companies and their technologies which, on the one hand, facilitate unprecedented communication and address once intractable logistics challenges, but, on the other hand, contribute to widespread suffering everyday? Can we subordinate these technologies, whether they be algorithms or their data sets, to the ends of making a more fair social order? Put simply: Can we create technology that is owned by the people who use it, and whose main purpose is to help humanity rather than extract wealth for a small class of individuals?
Digitization and Privatization
The digitization of our society is an aggressive form of privatization.
Early on in his book on digital capitalism, Jathan Sadowski defines smart technology as tech that “is embedded with digital technology for data collection, network connectivity, and enhanced control.” Sadowski uses the example of smart toothbrushes. These products record detailed data about how you brush your teeth, send that data to some cloud server maintained by some manufacturer or third party, which can then be accessed by you and your dentist through some app to not only guide and monitor your brushing, but score it. It’s not hard to imagine a world where that data is also sold to companies, or are analyzed by a dental insurer and used to calculate your monthly premiums—it’s already here.
If we look at the digitization of insurance more broadly, we quickly find a prime example of how the use of data extraction and surveillance technologies is becoming problematic. Here, digital systems not only amplify the industry’s record as "one of the greatest sources of regulatory authority over private life" but are deployed to transform the logic of insurance and its effects on society. Instead of pooling risk by aggregate levels that inform policy options and provide a sort of mutual aid to those in need, companies hope to individually assess risk based on a continuous stream of data on every action an individual does.
Digitization allows those with huge sums of capital to replace old systems of oppression with ones based on surveillance, control, and algorithms.
The operating principles at work here are clear, as Sadowski lays out: “Any risk that insurers must bear is potential loss and any claim insurers have to pay is lost profit. Preventing such losses means controlling the source of risks and claims: customers."
There are startups like The Floow which assign a driver’s "safety score" based on data collected from your phone (GPS, accelerometer, screen time, etc.) to predict accident risk. There are insurers like Progressive that install devices in cars to record, in granular detail, how and when you speed and brake, whether you drive through "dangerous" neighborhoods or at weird times, and ensure your premium matches your "risky" behavior. And there are major corporations like Microsoft that partner with major insurance companies like American Family Insurance to create startup accelerators that aim to turn your home into another networked computer filled with other networked devices that constantly send data flows back to insurers eager to minimize losses.
Insurers may maintain that such a system will be "fairer" because prices will more accurately reflect individualized risk, but they’re actually just redefining the term. Instead of "spreading risks across a population to hedge against the vagaries of life" we are called on to believe "no one should bear any expense or risk for the benefit of the collective." It is a form of surveillance and control, pitched to us as being good for the individual as long as the individual sticks to very strict rules determined by corporations and algorithms. It’s ”if you don’t have anything to hide, you don’t have anything to worry about,” applied to every single facet of our lives, every product we own, everything that we do.
This line of thought justifies and demands discrimination in the name of fairness—and makes perverse and unequal consequences desirable because they are "fair” under this new logic. This represents a huge failure of imagination, with insurance technologies being deployed to reinforce the status quo of unequal coverage instead of "extending better coverage to broader populations and reducing the collective insecurity that impedes a flourishing society.”
None of this should come as a surprise, however, because capitalism is, as Astra Taylor writes, “an insecurity machine.” Our system "destabilizes by design: market forces capsize communities and disintegrate old ways of life." Taylor explains that precarity and insecurity are not new by any stretch of imagination—“security” was "an ancient concept and aspirational ideal"—but digital technologies allow even greater destabilization and dispossession so that even greater levels of private ownership and investment can happen. Capitalism’s insecurity machine has far and wide reaching consequences. To illustrate this, Taylor explains how surveillance and control are used in housing:
“Opaque systems of information collection and predictive analytics facilitate new forms of discrimination and redlining, marking certain populations as criminal threats or directing them into subprime financial services, predatory mortgages, and exploitative rental markets, increasing housing insecurity,” Taylor writes.
Big business capitalized on mass evictions and foreclosures, which disproportionately affected Black and brown borrowers and homeowners in 2008. These foreclosures "opened space for new algorithmically enabled land grabs" to let institutional investors buy up property repossessed during the crisis. A new wave of digital technologies were then created to not only mediate and streamline this process for investors, but deepen the old discriminatory hierarchies that created the original mortgage crisis to begin with.
Algorithms decide which properties to buy based on "neighborhood desirability, proximity to employment centers, transportation corridors, community amenities, construction type, and required ongoing capital needs." Others decide to lock out certain populations entirely—or to include them so as to better exploit them and realize an outsized return. Tying all of these algorithms together is how finely tuned they are to secure investments (and privileged resident populations) by ensuring the insecurity and dispossession of certain populations deemed too risky.
Digitization allows those with huge sums of capital to replace old systems of oppression with ones based on surveillance, control, and algorithms. A series of networked platforms mediate daily life for a mass of atomized individuals who are treated as consumers in a market bidding for commodities like housing and healthcare, not citizens with certain rights and privileges. It has also allowed companies to “disrupt” public goods designed to help the masses with privatized ones that have no motive other than scale and market dominance.
Consider the ride-hailing company Uber. Its platform allowed it to grow best when competing with existing transit options (subways, buses) and when ignoring regulations (and competing with taxi services that had to jump through regulatory hoops that Uber decided to simply ignore). Uber’s data extraction yields insights about how drivers and riders use its platform give the company more leverage to undermine competitors and encourage driver and customer retention, in direct contrast to public transit’s goal: ensuring universal access and maximum coverage.
It is within cities we will have the best luck in building viable alternatives that use digital technologies to take transportation (and other services) out of the hands of the market.
This move toward surveillance and control is happening across all industries. It features firms that may style themselves as the epitome of capitalist enterprise, but operate in ways that fly in the face of capitalist logic: they are anti-competitive, enjoy immense subsidies, and actively seek to rewrite regulations in ways that further entrench their power. This means that few startups have any intention of actually making money and are more focused on scale, control, market dominance, and regulatory capture. They are heavily subsidized by venture capitalists who are happy to take millions or billions of dollars in losses with the hope that, once they achieve a monopoly, they can eventually jack up prices or otherwise monetize consumers in a way that will rapidly earn them back all the money they spent destroying competitors by undercutting them with artificially low prices.
Some may view this development favorably. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, an Austrian legal scholar who wrote the influential book Big Data, argued "the massive amounts of data now being harvested and analysed by a few far-sighted firms would produce new business models and destroy existing ones; disruption was imminent, profits assured." A second book, Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data, was much more ambitious: "once [Big Data] is efficiently utilized throughout the economy, Big Data will not just reinvent capitalism…but end it” namely by supplanting the price system.
And yet, what we see is that when Big Data undermines the price system, it ends up furthering the interests of a narrow class of capitalists not reinventing the system. If anything, the proliferation of digital technology in the marketplace has created a system where the true cost cannot be ascertained—ours is more a successor to the Soviet Union’s Gosplan central planning system than anything else.
A Public Uber?
The important question for the future is whether we can design a better system. Technology, broadly speaking, has the ability to improve life for huge swaths of the population. But Silicon Valley has thus far deployed it in a method designed to extract wealth from the vulnerable, to crush other businesses by undercutting them using endless VC funding, and to control, surveil, and monetize the behaviors of the masses. We need non-market, publicly-owned alternatives to big tech.
Rather than having a ride-hail company like Uber that makes traffic worse, loses endless amounts of money by underpricing its product, and pays its workers poverty-level wages, we should aspire for a transit system that is free and accessible to all that maximizes coverage for passengers while ensuring fair working conditions for drivers and operators. If you need to get somewhere, you should not worry about whether you can afford it. And if you want a job in transportation, you should not worry about whether you can make ends meet while you have it.
We should also aspire to adopt forms of transportation that radically reduce urban pollution, traffic congestion and accidents, while minimizing those that don’t. Our over-reliance on cars and private transportation literally shapes how our communities and cities are planned. Federal highways, to take one example, have helped keep communities segregated to this day thanks to how easily racist views mixed with the social engineering project urban planners took up decades ago to "keep their cities healthy" with massive road systems.
It is hard to imagine any city that can seriously match the deep pockets—or access to computing resources—of major corporations, whether they are Google, Amazon, or Uber. In fact, Amazon's HQ2 spectacle—when dozens of cities tripped over themselves to convince the world’s richest man to set up shop in their backyard—should leave us doubtful that even a coalition of cities would be able to challenge one company.
And yet, it is within cities we will have the best luck in building viable alternatives that use digital technologies to take transportation (and other services) out of the hands of the market.
The first place to begin would be to seize the data generated on Uber’s platform by passengers and drivers. European drivers are already suing for access to data on them generated by Uber’s algorithms, but that won’t be enough. Such data would need to be seized by a local, state, or federal authority or its sharing made a condition of gaining a license to operate. In some of Uber’s largest markets, incredible opportunities to do just this are emerging. In California, where Uber and Lyft are threatening to exit if their drivers are reclassified as employees, and in London, where Uber is on track to lose its license to operate, regulatory authorities could make handing over Uber’s data contingent on returning—Uber itself has admitted in its IPO filing documents that it likely cannot survive without these cities.
Such experiments have been underway in Barcelona, where Francesca Bria, a professor at UCL and a long-time technology advisor for the Spanish government, has helped spearhead such efforts for years. There, digital technologies have not only been used to expand participatory democracy by allowing citizens to actively create the government agenda, but to prevent the typical tendency of "smart cities" to become playgrounds for corporations to enjoy total control over harvested data that could then be analyzed for insight into what could be public good or service should be privatized next.
On one front, this means contracts with technology companies that come with clauses that demand data either be owned by the public or a government entity. On another, Bria argues it involves creating a digital infrastructure that allows people to understand what data they are generating and "what data they want to share, with whom, on what basis, and to do what.” This also means we need to contest whether private companies get to say they own the instruments that collect and interpret data (not just generate it)—meaning the sensors and algorithms in question. After all, what good is this data seized from Uber or forcibly handed over if we cannot use it, let alone make sense of it? Cities will need to find some way to obtain the computational resources necessary to analyze the data (or the "proprietary" algorithms developed by Uber), in order to properly regulate or imitate its services.
The immediate instinct might be to simply seize Uber's platform and operate it in the public interest. But Uber's platform and its algorithms are thoroughly designed to achieve outcomes we are not interested in: increasing demand for private transit, increasing the number of drivers to reduce wait-times, increasing the number passengers to increase revenues, and thus increasing pollution and traffic.
A final question is how much needs to be managed in the first place. Should we use digital technologies to enforce a strict uniformity or encourage a diversity of experiments and solutions to problems both universal and specific? Different cities have different gaps in their transportation systems, different demographics that guide traffic patterns, different urban compositions that dictate where traffic may or may not flow, and different geographies altogether. Reducing vehicle ownership and traffic in a city suffering from urban sprawl might demand a different type of public option than a city where a significant amount of the population are commuters. Cities and urban spaces should be unique, as much makes sense, and so should the data they decide or refuse to collect.
Ultimately, governments and public groups can’t seek to simply imitate Uber or Amazon or Facebook or Google, because these services were designed from the start to extract wealth and monetize users. And in the case of Uber specifically, it was created to displace mass transit with private transit. We must build something entirely different.
Digital technologies need not be tied to corporations or even markets—they can be subordinated to the task of creating explicitly non-market forms of social coordination.
We must free ourselves of the narratives that paint these technologies and accompanying institutions as the providence of markets and capitalist activity. We do not have to choose between a central planning system and a market system. We can choose something else, even if we are not sure what it will look like. In fact, if we are serious about reducing the level of discrimination and insecurity in this world—which is currently a feature, not a bug, of what happens our digital technologies are deployed on the marketplace—we must actively experiment to find it.
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BUELL
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It all started when engineer and racing driver Erik Buell, who had worked for four years in traditional Harley-Davidson, decided to leave the company in 1983 to realize a great dream: to build a racing motorcycle that could duel with imported bikes , especially Japanese and Italian. He then founded the Buell Motorcycle Company in East Troy, Wisconsin. The first motorcycle produced by the company, the BUELL RW 750, with two-stroke four-cylinder and 750cc engine, was specially developed to compete in the AMA (American Motorcycle Association) Formula 1 class. It was a motorcycle with exceptional cornering performance, a feature that has become one of the brand's strengths to this day. - - However, with the extinction of this category and the regulation of the Superbike Championship for 1986, he started to develop a new model, the RR 1000, which used a Harley XR 1000 engine. He produced 50 units until the engines were finished ; then went on to use the Harley 1200, producing an additional 65 bikes. Following the RR 1200 came the two-seater RS ​​1200 in 1989 and the RSS 1200 in 1992. At this point BUELL bikes attracted fans' attention to performance and speed. - - Started a successful partnership with Harley-Davidson in 1993 when the company bought 49% of its shares; being incorporated definitively in 1998. In this period BUELL can benefit from all technology and knowledge of the centennial brand. The vocation to innovate of all BUELL models was built around a philosophy: the Trilogy of Technology. The precept consists of three rules for the manufacture of the bikes: frame stiffness, mass centralization and low weight. In other words, the rigid chassis reduces the flexibility of the motorcycle and increases its stability, especially on uneven floors. Another point is to limit the weight of all components not supported by springs as far as possible. This allows the tires to maintain constant contact with the floor. The lower non-suspended mass also results in greater agility, ensures traction all the time, which translates into performance, stability and safety. - - BUELL is also known for developing innovative solutions such as the Zero Torsion Load (ZTL) brake, a system in which the brake disc is fixed to the outside of the front wheel in the rim rather than the central hub as in existing bikes in the market. This process prevents twisting from twisting the disc and thus provides safer braking. The result is a three-kilogram reduction on the front of the motorcycle. Aimed at the young public aged between 25 and 35 years, the brand arrived in Brazil at the hands of the Izzo Group. The company chose the location where the first exclusive dealership (Buell Concept Store) was installed in the country in October 2005: Oscar Freire Street. It is not only in motorized two-wheelers that BUELL spreads its name. The automaker is also engaged in the accessories sector and recently brought to Brazil a new line of helmets. In November 2006, BUELL built the 100,000th motorcycle since its foundation. On October 30, 2009, BUELL, which was characterized by innovative solutions, such as the tank integrated into the frame and large perimeter brake discs, ended its activities. Not even the high quality of its products saved the brand. This is because its owner, Harley-Davidson, is experiencing a delicate moment with a huge drop in sales. The dealership network will be maintained at a first moment, as will the manufacture of spare parts. It remains to be seen whether the closure is final, as Harley-Davidson continues to own the brand. - - The machines All BUELL motorcycles have mass centering (low center of gravity, even with exhaust directed to the underside of the motorcycle); fuel tank integrated into the chassis and oil tank integrated into the rear balance (that is, gasoline is stored and circulates inside the frame of the motorcycle and oil in the cavities of the rear suspension); front brake with 6 piston caliper (in addition to the brake disc being inverted and accompanying the wheel rim); and Showa front suspension type Upside Down. Its line is composed by models like: ● BUELL 1125 R: Launched in 2008 to commemorate the company's 25th anniversary, it has come up to break some standards: unprecedented engine made by the Austrian Rotax, with liquid cooling, replacing the already traditional Harley-Davidson propellers that were equipping the whole line BUELL over the years. The super-sport bike is the most powerful bike ever developed by the company.
● BUELL City Cross: a motorcycle that stands out for the reduced wheelbase, which is only 132 centimeters, equipped with 984 cc engine, which yields 92 cc of power. The look translates the name of the bike, which through the riding position privileges the driveability and comfort. There is no croup. ● BUELL Lightning XB12S: Compact motorcycle equipped with 1,200cc electronic injection Thunderstorm engine, which combines brute force with minimalist design providing excellent drivability, especially in corners. On this motorcycle, what strikes the same is the rectangular section frame that "hugs" the fake tank and engine. In addition to the tank cover, elaborated on some models with translucent material. The bike features vivid colors that convey air of joviality (Translucent Orange, Black or Translucent Red). The unusual look of this BUELL is completed by the dual headlamp (one for low light and one for high light) and six-spoke alloy wheels. The exhaust under the engine is another highlight, not only aesthetic, but also helps in mass concentration. ● BUELL Lightning XB9XSX: motorcycle with two-cylinder V-engine, 984cm³ displacement, weighing only 177kg dry and with a wheelbase of 1,320mm, is an extremely agile and fun driver to ride. This characteristic yielded to the model the title of streetfighter, or urban warrior, since it is able to dribble the traffic and to give good starts. - - ● BUELL Lightning Super XB12STT: The kilometer-long extension of the name, an endless mix of denominations, letters and numbers, is to designate that the newest member of the Lightning family incorporates sporting characteristics into a street bike. A fusion of styles, between the off-road, the supermotard and the street fighter (urban warrior). Off the road, Super TT inherited the crossbar bar, which is a reinforcing bar, in addition to the wrist guards. On the sides, sports characteristics, with adoption of finish numbers port, as in competition bikes. Even visual adopted in the mini-fairing on the lighthouse. The tall, flat 798mm high bench allows for off-road driving, but also makes it easier to ride supermotard or street fighter on the asphalt. ● BUELL Ulysses XB12X: motorcycle that stands out from the rest of the BUELL line for the muscular big trail look, with a dash of supermotard - 17 "rim wheels and more sporty profile tires. Sturdy, it impresses with its aesthetics, especially the set formed by the wide frame and scale, which "embrace" the mechanical and cycling parts. The bike also has a long suspension, wide seat, hand guards, exhaust under the engine and a functional triple tail, which serves as backrest for the rump or luggage rack. Despite its visual characteristics, this sport adventure was not made for large displacements on earth. ● BUELL Ulysses XB12XT: big adventure motorcycle, classified as Adventure, to face great trips more focused on tourism and asphalt. This model gained aerodynamic refinement, with the adoption of a larger and detachable windscreen, in addition to heated handles, to rotate at night, or in winter, with two temperature settings. In order to carry all the necessary luggage in the trips, a kit (standard equipment) was developed, consisting of side pockets and a central bauleto, which also serves as support for the passenger's back. The bauleto and bags are rigid, removable, keyed and waterproof. The bike also features 12V power outlets for connecting external devices such as GPS navigation system, cell phone charger or other necessities.
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PORSCHE
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A myth that materializes in every motor snoring (which the competition tries to copy, but can not), in every bold line in the drawing, every detail of performance and safety. This is PORSCHE, the most successful brand in the global automotive industry today. All the energy that exists in the brand is revealed in the form of fascination and passion. Only a true PORSCHE can be so attractive as to display this symbol.
The story
PORSCHE's trajectory does not begin with the first sports car built in 1948. Its roots date back to 1898 when young Austrian engineer and test pilot Ferdinand Porsche presented his first design projects, among them a hybrid car (driven by gasoline and electricity) , christened the Egger-Lohner Electric Vehicle C.2 Phaeton Model and exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. The wheel axle invented by the young engineer then began to make the surname PORSCHE famous worldwide. In 1928 Ferdinand was already part of the team of engineers responsible for the development of the legendary Mercedes-Benz SS and SSK. Finally, on April 25, 1931, he founded the engineering office PORSCHE (Porsche Engineering) in the German city of Stuttgart. He developed important projects for the Volkswagen percusser in the 1930s. In 1938, under his direction, the first assembly line for Volkswagen, which was responsible for the Type 32 project, was built in Wolfsburg, Germany, to become known as the popular Fusca or Käfer in German. In addition, two war machines were born from his drawing boards: the tanks Tiger and Elefant.
With the advent of World War II the projects were suspended and the car only began to be produced in series in the year of 1946 by Volkswagen. By his connection with the Nazis, Ferdinand Porsche was arrested in France at the end of the war. In 1948, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (son of Ferdinand), and affectionately known as Ferry, built from the Volkswagen a sports car in Gmünd in Austria, which was christened the name of Cisitalia. This was the birth of the world's first sports car, the 356, an extremely lightweight aluminum-produced roadster. The number alluded to the fact that this was the 356th project of PORSCHE design office. Finally, on June 8, the first car bearing the surname PORSCHE, called model 356/1 and developed by Ferry Porsche and his team, received official approval.
In 1949 the PORSCHE CISITALIA 360 race car was presented at the Turin Motor Show, with 1,493cc, four-wheel drive and impressive top speed of 300km / h. PORSCHE moved its offices to the German city of Zuffenhausen, near the city of Stuttgart, only in 1950, when it officially became an independent automobile factory. Thus began a new chapter in the history of the German mark. In the leased sheds of Reutter, a car body manufacturer, production has been improved. The year 1951 was marked by sorrows and joys: first, with the death of Ferdinand Porsche at age 75 due to complications of a stroke on January 30 and second with the victory of PORSCHE 356 in the traditional 24 Hours of Le Mans, the brand's first international victory in auto racing.
This decade would confirm the evolution of the PORSCHE brand with the launch in 1953 of the Fuhrmann engine, which equipped the model 550 Spyder, with 1.5 liters, 4 cylinders and 110hp; with the debut of the first German car with rolled and curved windshield, the 356 Speedster; the first appearance of the automaker on the F-1, at the German GP of 1957, using the 550 RS model, with Italian Umberto Maglioli and German Edgard Barth in the direction; as well as the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the brand, when the PORSCHE 356 number 10,000 was produced and presented in the factory lobby. PORSCHE had already won 400 international races, gained international fame, and one of its most celebrated fans, American actor James Dean, was piloting a PORSCHE 550 Spyder when he died in an accident in 1955 in California. A decade after the launch of the 356 model, more than 25,000 units were produced. By the end of the series, in 1965, it is estimated that 77,361 units of this model were manufactured, which has become a trademark icon. The history of the automaker began to change in 1963 when it was presenting the PORSCHE 911, which would become a myth of the automotive sector and icon maximum of the design of the brand. Conceived by the grandson of the founder of the company, this model would make PORSCHE known all over the world.
In 1969 there was the presentation at the Frankfurt Motor Show of the models 914-4 and 914-6, two competition cars with central engine. At this time, PORSCHE won for the second time the world championship of factory cars and, for the second consecutive year, PORSCHE 911 won the Monte Carlo rally. In 1971 the Development and Production Center was inaugurated in Weissach, which was to become the nervous heart of the German company. In this decade the German brand presented several innovations: magnesium rims as standard items in model 914 (1970); magnesium friezes and adjustable anti-cap bar in competition model 917 (1971); three-point seat belts placed as standard (1973); in addition to becoming the first car factory in the world to use standard galvanized steel bodies (1975).
In the middle of the next decade, in the year 1986, the PORSCHE 944 became the first European car with series airbags for driver and passenger to be sold in the United States. Soon after, in 1989, PORSCHE introduced a revolutionary technology in the automotive sector: the Tiptronic four-speed manual-operated or automatic transmission system launched on the CARRERA 2 911 model. And it was not long before another innovative concept emerged: concept car BOXSTER, presented at the Detroit Motor Show. In 1992 when everyone thought that the automaker would be bought by a large group of the sector, Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking became president of PORSCHE. The picture was worrying: the production had become unprofitable and the products weak and not very appealing to the consumer. The biggest example of ineffectiveness of the automaker: in January 1991 only three cars were sold in the United States, reaching the lowest point of the brand's sales in the country.
It was then that he brought to the headquarters of Zuffenhausen Japanese advisors from Kaizen who reorganized the production; whole phases of work were eliminated, the six hierarchical levels were reduced to four; the number of executives fell by 38%; and flexible working days were adopted. A part of the sanitation plans was the introduction of flexible structures and the reduction of costs. On the other hand, the unscrupulous models 928 and 968 were no longer produced, starting the development of a new car. In just four years came the new Boxster. The prototype was enthusiastically received at the Detroit Motor Show in January 1997. Dr. Wiedeking, a "workaholic", gave new impetus to the German automaker.
One had the impression that the goal was always the same: to increase production, revenue, profits and share prices on the Stock Exchange. The result was that PORSCHE has never built and sold as many vehicles as it has in recent years. Recently, PORSCHE became the main shareholder (30% of the shares) of the Volkswagen Group, and analysts predicted that it would not be too long before the German automaker bought the German giant. And they got it right, on March 3, 2008, the nanica, but profitable, PORSCHE took control of 51% of the Volkswagen Group. However, it did not resist the effects of the international financial crisis that began at the end of that year, which worsened the financial problems of the automaker, when its largest market, the United States, reduced the import volume of German sports cars by 50%. It should also be remembered that the German economy, the fourth in the world, has formally entered a recession. Breathless to pay the debt assumed with the purchase of the shares, it returned the majority control to Volkswagen. The two companies, whose presidents are cousins, then devised a plan that made PORSCHE a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG. The carmaker benefited greatly from the agreement to join Volkswagen.
After Matthias Müller, the former head of Audi products, took over PORSCHE, the German brand announced its new projects, the 918 SPYDER, a super hybrid sportscar and the MACAN, a small sports utility officially launched in 2014 and has further expanded PORSCHE's most successful global segment. In addition to the new Cayenne (with even sharper styling, precise lines and eaves that reflect the strategically positioned light), which has already clearly consolidated its position in the market as the most successful sport utility in the luxury category. The automaker also invested heavily in hybrid cars. The Cayenne S E-Hybrid, Panamera S E-Hybrid and 918 Spyder make PORSCHE the only car manufacturer in the world to offer three hybrid models.
It was in this way that the brand PORSCHE became synonymous with daring, sportiness and luxury, positioning its main product as a car full of exclusivity. Innovations in the manufacture of sports cars and remarkable developments achieved by PORSCHE have always had a marked effect in the automotive industry, even in competing automakers. An example of this is the obsession with quality: the roof of a convertible PORSCHE has to be opened and closed a total of six thousand times inside an air-conditioning chamber at extreme heats, oscillating with temperatures of minus 10 degrees. Or that the side windows should be opened and closed about 40 thousand times. The doors are closed 100 thousand times. This testing methodology is the result of years of experience and guarantees the highest quality for a vehicle that carries the traditional PORSCHE brand coat.
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