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eurovision-facts · 2 years

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Eurovision Fact #50:

Over the contest’s 66 year history, a total of 61 different languages (62 if you count all of the songs sung in imaginary languages as another language) and dialects have been sung by contestants. This does not include songs that only featured a word or two in another language.

The most common language sung at the contest is English. A total of 754 songs have been sung entirely or partially in English. The second most popular language is French, with 179 entries entirely or partially sung in the language.

Other popular languages that have been sung at least 20 times include:

German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Greek, Hebrew, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish, Danish, Serbo-Croatian, Croatian, and Slovene.

A total of 193 songs have been sung in a language that has been used less than 20 times. These languages are:

Serbian, Icelandic, Russian, Polish, Bosnian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Albanian, Romanian, Estonian, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian, Slovak, Armenian, Georgian, imaginary languages, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Arabic, Breton, Corsican, Maltese, Romani, Antillean Creole, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Czech, “Franglais,” Irish, Latin, Latvian, Mühlviertlerisch, Neapolitan, Romansh, Samogitian, Sranan Tongo, Styrian, Swahili, Tahitian, Udmurt, Viennese, Vorarlbergish, and Võro.

20 languages have only been sung once:

Antillean Creole, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Czech, “Franglais,” Irish, Latin, Latvian, Mühlviertlerisch, Neapolitan, Romansh, Samogitian, Sranan Tongo, Styrian, Swahili, Tahitian, Udmurt, Viennese, Vorarlbergish, and Võro.

5 performances featured sign language on stage, each time a different form of sign language was used:

Latvian, Polish, Lithuanian, Yugoslav, and French.

When collecting this data, if a song was sung in multiple languages, each language was counted as having been sung once. An example would be "In Corpore Sano" by Konstrakta sung at the 2022 contest. Both Latin and Serbian were counted as being sung once.

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Participants of Hilversum 1958, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Cannes 1959, Eurovision.tv.

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Participants of Cannes 1961, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Luxembourg 1962, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of London 1963, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Copenhagen 1964, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Naples 1965, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Luxembourg 1966, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Vienna 1967, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of London 1968, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Madrid 1969, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Amsterdam 1970, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Dublin 1971, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Edinburgh 1972, Eurovision.tv.

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Participants of Brighton 1974, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Stockholm 1975, Eurovision.tv.

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Participants of Paris 1978, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Jerusalem 1979, Eurovision.tv.

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Participants of Dublin 1981, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Harrogate 1982, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Munich 1983, Eurovision.tv.

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Participants of Gothenburg 1985, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Bergen 1986, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Brussels 1987, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Dublin 1988, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Lausanne 1989, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Zagreb 1990, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Rome 1991, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Malmö 1992, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Millstreet 1993, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Dublin 1994, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Dublin 1995, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Oslo 1996, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Dublin 1997, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Birmingham 1998, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Jerusalem 1999, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Stockholm 2000, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Copenhagen 2001, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Tallinn 2002, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Riga 2003, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Istanbul 2004, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Kyiv 2005, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Athens 2006, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Helsinki 2007, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Belgrade 2008, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Moscow 2009, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Oslo 2010, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Düsseldorf 2011, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Baku 2012, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Malmö 2013, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Copenhagen 2014, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Vienna 2015, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Stockholm 2016, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Kyiv 2017, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Lisbon 2018, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Tel Aviv 2019, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Rotterdam 2021, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Turin 2022, Eurovision.tv.

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favourite 2020 race?

omg. okay. so obviously turkey 2020 literally the baddest bitch ever the queen the og the goat of races

tuscany was also a favourite because of how much happened?? lap 9 and we had 7 dnfs it was mad

styrian qualifying was amazing. lewis putting 1.2 seconds on max in the wet and him improving his lap even after max spun so he didn't have any need to go faster?? goat

obviously the last lap of Silverstone lewis winning on 3 tyres and ferrari being like Hamilton got a puncture and then telling Charles we can't catch Hamilton and every other f1 driver with shocked pikachu face on the radio bc lewis won with 3 tyres goat doing goat things

Eiffel and Portugal were also pretty great because of lewis getting 91 and 92 especially the emotional chokehold Portugal has on me is mad I've seen that race so many times bc how is Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes dunking 20s on his teammate in the same!! car!! goat

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Austria: Hypo Tirol win 12th Trophy! Hartberg defeated in decisive Game 4. 5th place for Graz, 7th for Sokol. Final for 3rd place 1-1

🇦🇹| Hypo Tirol win 12th Trophy! Hartberg defeated in decisive Game 4. 5th place for Graz, 7th for Sokol. Final for 3rd place 1-1 April 20, 2024 | Final Game 4: • TSV Raiffeisen Hartberg - Hypo Tirol Volleyballteam 0-3 (21:25, 19:25, 19:25) Series: 0-4 3rd Place: • SK Zadruga Aich/Dob - Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel 3-2 (25:17, 25:20, 22:25, 24:26, 15:10) Series: 1-1 5th Place: • UVC Holding Graz - UVC McDonald’s Ried 3-0 (25:17, 25:21, 25:21) 7th Place: • TJ Sokol V/Post SV Wien - VCA Amstetten NÖ 3-1 (27:25, 22:25, 25:23, 25:21) Relegation Round: • UNIONvolleys Bisamberg-Hollabrunn - VBC TLC Weiz 3-1 (25:15, 26:28, 25:17, 25:23) Read more here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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twig-gy · 4 months

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hey guess when i first realized the innuendo in wilhelmina waltz. it was when i had finally gotten my sister to listen to one of chonny jash’s songs bc i was hyperfocusing on a styrian rhapsody. and i had finally convinced her past the 20 min time mark and was watching her reaction. and i had never paid enough attention to the actual lyrics i guess bc i realized and had to sit there embarrased in a corner with all my Jashification hopes drained away. my darkest hour ngl

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madscientist008 · 10 months

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F1 live stream: Watch the Austrian Grand Prix weekend with F1 TV Pro!

Are you ready for some high-octane racing action from the Red Bull Ring? The Austrian Grand Prix is the ninth round of the 2023 Formula 1 season, and it promises to be a thrilling spectacle for fans around the world. Whether you’re rooting for Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel or any of the other drivers on the grid, you don’t want to miss a single moment of this exciting event.

But how can you watch the Austrian Grand Prix live and in HD quality? The answer is simple: F1 TV Pro!

What is F1 TV Pro?

F1 TV Pro is the ultimate streaming service for Formula 1 fans. It gives you access to every session of every race weekend, live and on demand, with no ad breaks and no interruptions. You can watch from any device, including web, apps, Apple Airplay and Chromecast, Apple TV, Google TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku.

But that’s not all. F1 TV Pro also lets you customize your viewing experience with exclusive features like:

Onboard cameras on all 20 drivers’ cars, so you can see the action from their perspective

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Commentary in six languages, so you can choose your preferred voice

Pre-race and post-race shows, so you can get expert analysis and insights from former drivers and pundits

How to watch the Austrian Grand Prix on F1 TV Pro?

To watch the Austrian Grand Prix on F1 TV Pro, all you need is a subscription and a compatible device. You can subscribe to F1 TV Pro for a monthly or annual fee, depending on your preference. The price varies depending on your location, but you can check the available plans and offers here.

Once you have subscribed, you can log in to F1 TV Pro and start streaming the Austrian Grand Prix weekend. Here’s the schedule for each session (all times are local):

Friday, July 2: Practice 1 at 11:30 a.m., Practice 2 at 3 p.m.

Saturday, July 3: Practice 3 at 12 p.m., Qualifying at 3 p.m.

Sunday, July 4: Race at 3 p.m.

You can also watch replays and highlights of each session on demand anytime after they finish.

What to expect from the Austrian Grand Prix?

The Austrian Grand Prix is one of the most scenic and challenging races on the calendar. The Red Bull Ring is a short but fast circuit, with only 10 corners and four long straights. The track is located in the Styrian Alps, which means it has a lot of elevation changes and unpredictable weather conditions.

The race is also a home event for Red Bull Racing, who have dominated the season so far with eight wins out of eight races. Max Verstappen leads the drivers’ championship by a comfortable margin over his teammate Sergio Perez, who has won two races this year. The Dutch star has also won the Austrian Grand Prix three times before, in 2018, 2019 and 2022.

However, Red Bull will not have an easy ride in Austria. Their rivals Mercedes, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Alpine will be eager to challenge them and end their winning streak. Mercedes have won four times in Austria since 2014, with Lewis Hamilton taking three victories and Valtteri Bottas one. Aston Martin have shown strong pace in recent races, with Sebastian Vettel finishing second in Baku and fourth in Monaco. Ferrari have also improved their performance this year, with Charles Leclerc taking two pole positions and Carlos Sainz scoring two podiums5. Alpine have also scored points in every race so far, with Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon showing consistent form.

The Austrian Grand Prix will also feature the second Sprint weekend of the season, which means that qualifying will take place on Friday instead of Saturday, and a short sprint race will determine the grid for Sunday’s main race. This adds an extra element of excitement and unpredictability to the weekend.

So don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to watch the Austrian Grand Prix live with F1 TV Pro! Subscribe now and enjoy the best Formula 1 coverage available!

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f1 · 10 months

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Lewis Hamilton given 86 FINE for speeding in pit lane as Max Verstappen sets best practice time

Lewis Hamilton is handed a £86 FINE for speeding over pit-lane limits... as Max Verstappen sets the fastest time in practice ahead of this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton was given an £86 fine for exceeding pit-lane limits by 0.12mph The seven-time champion came fourth in practice ahead of the Austrian GP Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll were fined too - but the teams pay! By Jonathan McEvoy for MailOnline Published: 09:11 EDT, 30 June 2023 | Updated: 09:11 EDT, 30 June 2023 Lewis Hamilton was handed a €100 (£86) speeding ticket in the sole practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix. The seven-time world champion was travelling just 0.12mph over the pit-lane limit of 50mph when the FIA radar clocked him. He finished fourth quickest. World champion Max Verstappen predictably led the way, threading his car around his Red Bull team’s eponymous home track, 0.241sec ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz with the other red car, of Charles Leclerc, third best. Qualifying is due to take place at 4pm BST on Friday afternoon, and Verstappen looks impregnable having set his quickest time on medium tyres. With Saturday given over to the sprint race, the grid from qualifying will be held over for Sunday’s grand prix in the verdant Styrian mountains. Lewis Hamilton was handed a €100 (£86) penalty for speeding in the pit lane in practice He set the fourth-best time in practice for the Austrian GP and Mercedes will pay the fine Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll were also fined for the same offence Hamilton had been top of the timing charts for much of the afternoon but the Mercedes man ended up half a second back. His team-mate, George Russell, was only ninth quickest, a further 0.5 in arrears on the calendar’s shortest track. But at least he fared better than the third Englishman on the grid, Lando Norris of McLaren, who finished last, having completed just 20 laps compared to Verstappen’s 30. Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll was fined €200 (£172) for speeding in the pit lane while team-mate Fernando Alonso was given a €100 (£86) penalty for the same offence. The good news for all the multi-millionaire speed merchants is that the sanctions are applied to their teams. Share or comment on this article: Lewis Hamilton given £86 FINE for speeding in pit lane as Max Verstappen sets best practice time via Formula One | Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

#F1 #Lewis Hamilton given £86 FINE for speeding in pit lane as Max Verstappen sets best practice time #Formula 1

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motivationalhu · 1 year

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Inspirational Speech No Plan B | I Hate Plan B | N...

Schwarzenegger was known as the Styrian Oak, or Austrian Oak, in the bodybuilding world, where he dwarfed his competition. He won his first amateur Mr. Universe title in 1967. After moving to California in 1968 to train and compete in bigger events in the United States, he won three more Mr. Universe titles and then the professional Mr. Olympia title six years in a row (1970–75) before retiring. He surprised the bodybuilding world by returning to competition one more time to claim the Mr. Olympia title in 1980. Bodybuilding was the subject of several of his books, including the autobiographical Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder (1977; written with Douglas Kent Hall) and The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding (1998; written with Bill Dobbins).

Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger pursued his childhood dream of acting in movies. In his first film, Hercules in New York (1970), Schwarzenegger played the lead, but another actor was used to dub his dialog. Schwarzenegger’s native charm and wit finally came through in the acclaimed documentary Pumping Iron (1977), which led to his starring role in Conan the Barbarian (1982). He became an international star with The Terminator (1984) and over the next 20 years appeared in two sequels (1991 and 2003). His other films during this time included Predator (1987), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Total Recall (1990), True Lies (1994), and The 6th Day (2000).

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murraywalker · 4 years

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Not saying that I run the Racing Point Twitter, buuuuuut... 😏

#sergio perez #styrian gp 20 #f1 #racing point #im on my own in the gc #help me out here guys

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oetravia · 4 years

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It’s ironic how reliable Renault having reliability issues during races is

#f1 #styrian gp 20

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lewishamiltxn · 4 years

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This Renault battle is brilliant, wow.

#anna watches styrian gp 20

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thetwelfthcrow · 2 years

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racing heartbeats

a 103k rivals to rivals with benefits to lovers fanfic; 4433; a chapter for every race (yes, including Silverstone and Monza and other disasters).

if you want, you can support me on ko-fi for falsely promised faster updates !

this fic is archive-locked because i hate AI. if you want to read it, be sure to have an ao3 account!

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race 01 || 28.03.2021 Sakhir (🇧🇭): racing heartbeats race 02 || 18.04.2021 Imola (🇮🇹): restart race 03 || 02.05.2021 Algarve (🇵🇹): softs race 04 || 09.05.2021 Catalunya (🇪🇸): get some grip race 05 || 23.05.2021 Monte Carlo (🇲🇨): on edge race 06 || 06.06.2021 Baku (🇦🇿): pressing all your buttons race 07 || 20.06.2021 Paul Ricard (🇫🇷): test drive race 08 || 27.06.2021 Styrian (🇦🇹): winner's treatment race 09 || 04.07.2021 Styrian ii (🇦🇹): my trophy race 10 || 18.07.2021 Silverstone (🇬🇧): crashing hearts race 11 || 01.08.2021 Hungaroring (🇭🇺): slippery when wet race 12 || 29.08.2021 Spa-Francorchamps (🇧🇪): slipping and sliding into your heart race 13 || 05.09.2021 Zandvoort (🇳🇱): the race to a man's heart is through his stomach race 14 || 12.09.2021 Monza (🇮🇹): always on top of you race 15 || 26.09.2021 Sochi (🇷🇺): lucky rain race 16 || 10.10.2021 Istanbul Park (🇹🇷): paint it white race 17 || 24.10.2021 Austin (🇺🇸): medical treatment needed race 18 || 31.10.2021 Mexico-City (🇲🇽): red light, green light race 19 || 07.11.2021 Interlagos (🇧🇷): expensive touches race 20 || 21.11.2021 Lusail Qatar (🇧🇭): double yellow; press red race 21 || 05.12.2021 Jeddah (🇸🇦): (mis)communication race 22 || 12.12.2021 Yas Marina (🇦🇪): wrong kind of safety work 23 || epilogue: the end of the beginning

work 24 will be a web weaving, posting that somewhere the next few days <3

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#4433 #max verstappen #lewis hamilton #zhalia's lil fic chat #originally known as the racing verse -- a shyan fanfic #with great help from pop and missha #ask me questions about her*!#*the fanfic

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Austria: Regular season is over - defending champions HYPO TIROL undefeated!

🇦🇹| Regular season is over - defending champions HYPO TIROL undefeated! February 11, 2024 | Round 18: • UVC Holding Graz - TJ Sokol V/Post SV Wien 0-3 (17:25, 19:25, 19:25) • TSV Raiffeisen Hartberg - Hypo Tirol Volleyballteam 1-3 (12:25, 20:25, 25:22, 20:25) Read more here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Defending champions HYPO TIROL volleyball team finished the Powerfusion VL regular season undefeated. The team from Innsbruck won the big match on the field of TSV Raiffeisen Hartberg with the score of 1-3 (12:25, 20:25, 25:22, 20:25), scoring 50 of 54 possible points in 18 rounds. With eight points less, the Styrians are clearly the second force in the competition. In the other game played…

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ilovejevsjeans · 3 years

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How Olympian race engineer Tom Stallard helped coach Daniel Ricciardo to Monza victory

Daniel Ricciardo and the ever-improving McLaren team were seen as a match made in Heaven ahead of the start of the 2021 season. But while it all came good at the Italian Grand Prix, Ricciardo’s win at Monza was a product of hours and hours of unseen work, and some confidence-shaking moments along the way. F1 Staff Writer Greg Stuart sat down with Tom Stallard, the man who’s race engineered Ricciardo throughout 2021, to trace the arc of that breakthrough Monza win.

You could make a strong case that Lap 52 of the Monaco Grand Prix marked the nadir in Daniel Ricciardo’s first season with McLaren. As the Australian exited Sainte Devote and accelerated up the hill, he dutifully jinked left to allow team mate Lando Norris to lap him, Norris acknowledging the gesture with a wave from his cockpit. Norris would go on to finish third. Ricciardo, who’d brilliantly won in Monaco just three years earlier for Red Bull, finished out of the points in 12th.

That was May – and yet just four months later, Ricciardo had taken McLaren back to the winner’s circle for the first time since 2012, capping off a superb Italian Grand Prix weekend with an emotional victory at Monza, and leading Norris home in a McLaren one-two.

How did that happen? Ricciardo’s race engineer Tom Stallard has been the man F1 fans have heard soothing and chivvying Ricciardo over team radio this year, a year in which success has been harder to come by than many had anticipated – and he was naturally delighted when Ricciardo combined all his learnings to take the assured win in Monza, his first victory since that 2018 Monaco triumph.

“I was super proud,” Stallard tells me as we chat in the paddock in Sochi, “because we've worked really hard this year to be honest, and it was nice to see him executing everything that we'd talked about and worked on.

“Obviously he did a fantastic job, but he actually did the job that we'd been talking about and working on together. He's a top driver, obviously, joined our team as a top driver, but we’ve actually had to work at it quite hard and in Monza, he really executed that.”

Why didn’t Ricciardo and McLaren gel immediately? Ricciardo’s stellar second half of 2020 with Renault – during which he took two podiums and finished every race in the points – combined with McLaren’s sharp upward trajectory and the arrival of Mercedes power units at the team for 2021, meant that many earmarked the Ricciardo/McLaren combination as a potential surprise package this season.

But despite claiming points in his first four races for the team – including convincingly leading Norris home in Barcelona – right from the off, Stallard says, there were issues.

“I think the Bahrain race [where Ricciardo finished P7 to Norris’ P4 on his McLaren debut] he did quite well, but that was with a lot of time in the car in the [Bahrain] test – I mean, not a lot of time but a bit of time at the test, and a circuit that suits him well,” says Stallard.

“And then at Imola [where Ricciardo finished P6 as Norris claimed a podium in P3] we kind of exposed the problems, if you like, that he was having with the car, and we understood the struggle that we would have.”

As you might expect from an engineer of Stallard’s experience (he joined McLaren back in 2008) his first reaction to the situation wasn’t to panic, but to put in place processes to help bring Ricciardo on.

“We put in place a plan of what we needed to do differently and how we needed to react. And since then actually, we've been on an upward trajectory from that point, but you don't always necessarily see that from the outside.

“There have been a number of races where after the race, he's been frustrated and I've been reassuring him that actually we are seeing progress, and we don't have the good results yet but they're coming.”

So what was it about the MCL35M that wasn’t suiting Ricciardo and his driving style?

“Ultimately,” says Stallard, “all the drivers would choose the same thing, which is very good rear stability, and front end that increases as you add steer. That is totally universal, but the truth is that having a car that does that is the Holy Grail of Formula 1 design; every team up and down this paddock is trying to do that, and succeeding to a greater or lesser extent.

“We have a car that understeers and that's been something that he's had to adapt to and modify his natural approach to get the best out of.”

One thing Stallard is at pains to point out is that, for all of Ricciardo’s famously insouciant manner, beneath the gigawatt smile there lurks one of the world’s top racing drivers, with a work ethic to match.

“Obviously Daniel seems like the most laidback guy in the world,” says Stallard, “but behind the scenes, under the water, the duck feet are going quite quickly.

“Because we were in lockdown and he was in Los Angeles [over the winter break], we did most of his initial integration virtually, and during that phase, he learnt all the switches, what all the toys do, how to use the steering wheel.

"We spent a lot of time talking through the strategy with Daren [Stanley], our strategist. And actually all the communication side, all of the switches, all the controls, he had completely down by the time he went to winter testing.

“He's been in the factory loads, doing the simulator, partly working on his driving with that, but also giving feedback to the team about what he wants from the car,” adds Stallard.

“And at no point during the phase where he was getting up to speed with our package did he question that there was any kind of, the team backing the other driver, or the engineers didn't know what they were doing, or the car was set-up wrong. He just knuckled down, got on with the work, and I think that the whole team has a lot of respect for him for that.”

Ricciardo endured an up-and-down run of form leading up to the summer break, the lows including a tough Styrian Grand Prix where he finished 13th to Norris’ fifth and a Hungarian Grand Prix where first lap contact with Charles Leclerc hobbled his McLaren, leaving him 11th at the flag.

But Ricciardo appeared rejuvenated after the summer break, nailing his best qualifying of the year at that point with P4 on the grid in Belgium – while after a race to forget for the whole McLaren team in Zandvoort, Ricciardo then put together what would ultimately be his winning weekend in Monza, qualifying P5 on Friday, racing to P3 in Saturday’s F1 Sprint before claiming that sensational victory in the race.

Indeed, it was Ricciardo’s anger at qualifying P5 on Friday at Monza (and just 0.006s off his team mate) that seemed to indicate that a change had come in the Australian’s expectations of the level he should be performing at – with Stallard noting the key difference in Ricciardo since the summer…

“I think the ‘frustration at being P5’ thing was there all along,” says Stallard. “For me, the difference with the break is that it helped him not overthink it, so he's adapted better to the way you have to drive our car without it being completely conscious every corner, what you need to do.

Daniel's easy to work with, because if you give him a problem to solve, he goes away and works at it, so the work ethic's always been good, which makes life easy,” adds Stallard. “He doesn't defer responsibility away from himself; he takes a lot on the chin, which means some of what I've had to do is keeping him, let's say, up, because he's taken a lot of responsibility for things himself.

“But from my side, that means he's great to work with, and that collaboration is very strong. And when we got to Monza, we both had a lot of confidence in each other, so that made the result in Monza feel very natural.”

Going forward

Ricciardo leading McLaren to their first victory since Jenson Button’s 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix triumph, and their first one-two since the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix, was a fantastic moment for all at McLaren, and one that was warmly welcomed by most in the F1 paddock.

But Stallard was under no illusions during our chat in Sochi that Ricciardo is still on a journey to being fully comfortable in McLaren’s MCL35M car this season – a point Ricciardo would then back up himself a few days later when, despite finishing P4 in the Russian Grand Prix, he admitted that “there is still some stuff missing”.

“In Monza, the circuit and our technical package aligned well,” says Stallard, “and actually last year we came second there, so it's a circuit that suits our car and obviously Daniel did a very good job putting it all together, and the strategy was correct.

“He now understands how to drive the car; I think he's felt that himself rather than it just being explained to him, which means we have made another step. But it's a much more linear process than it appears from the outside.”

What Ricciardo does have in his corner, meanwhile – apart from the work ethic and talent that have made him an eight-time Grand Prix winner – is a race engineer in Stallard who has been an elite athlete himself, forming part of Great Britain’s silver medal-winning men’s eight rowing crew at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

And Stallard believes that his own experience as an athlete can help get the best out of Ricciardo, who signed to McLaren on a three-year deal that will take him into Formula 1’s bold new era of regulations with the team.

“In this sport, 20 years ago, the race engineers were very much engineers,” says Stallard. “But now we are coaches, and so we're using the data to guide the drivers in how to get the best out of the car.

“So I see myself now as a coach and I have a lot of experience of being coached, whereas a lot of the other race engineers… don't necessarily have the same experience of being coached. And I think that does give me an insight in terms of the struggles that people have when being coached, especially in a sport where on the way up, drivers often aren't coached that much and it gives me a good ability to manage the pressure and stay calm in what would be a pressured situation as well.

“And I also think that on any journey, although I describe it as a linear process, there's still ups and downs, and there'll be events in the future that are more difficult and that we'll have to respond to and react to. It would be naive to think it's plain sailing from here – but I think that it's a good next step.”(X)

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