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Oh yeah before I forget. I will now post a shit ton about f1 so prepare:)
I decided to practice my drawing skills so here’s Niki lauda.
prosenna evangelion intro
An Article about Lella Lombardi - Nobody makes jokes about women drivers around Lella Lombardi
The sleek Lola T-332 racing car crossed the starting line at the river side, Calif, Grand Prix, hurtled ahead of three cars, and swooped back inside with split-second timings.
"You mean that's really a girl?" Muttered three times indianapolis 500 winner A. J. Foyt, looking on in incredulously from the side liners.
For Lella Lombardi, the first woman in 17 years (and the second ever) to compete on high performance Formula One circut - the big leagues of professionals auto racing - the question is all but invetable. What in the world is a nice Italian girl like Lella doing in overalls and a crash helmet, risking her life at speeds close to 200 miles an hour?
"That's what mama keeps asking me," says the tomboyish 31-year-old Lella, "I guess she thinks I should be home with a good husband and a houseful of bambini."
It was obvious from the beginning, to Lella at least, that she was cut from different cloth compared to most girls. Born in the little Piedmontese village of Furgarolo, she was hooked on auto racing before she was out of diapers.
"The first I remember, I am perhaps 4 or 5 years old," she recalls, "I was making little cars from things I found in my mum's sewing box. When I was 8 I decided I shall be a racing driver. I didn't say anything but I made up my mind."
As a teenager Lella raced motorcycles with boys in her village. The boys were scandalized she beat them - their mothers that she was racing at all. Eventually the village priest came to call.
"He explained why I should be like a girl and what a girl must do," she remembers. "So I told him, 'yes father' but all the time I am thinking why am I not allowed to do as I want."
Nothing if not persistent, Lella saw her first race at 18. Five years later she brought a car of her own, secondhand, Formula Monza 500 that she tinkered with and drove in races herself. Last year, nearly after a decade of coming up through the ranks, she was approached by March Racing Ltd, of England which was looking for a driver for its two-man Grand Prix team.
"Formula 2, Formula 3, Formula 5000 - I raced in them all," says Lella, "I win a lot in Italy - six times women's champion. So when March comes to ask me to try out for them, I say to myself, 'Why not?'"
March's decision to hire her was hardly made lightly. A single Grand Prix car costs $100,000 and putting it through a season of racing costs several hundred thousand dollars more.
"Putting a woman into a Grand Prix cockpit means shattering a lot of tradition," acknowledges March team manager, Max Mosley. "Of course, my wild told me, the only reason I was hesitating was because of Lella's sex, no doubt about her skill, in the end, I guess my wife was right."
Now prepping for this Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix, Lella is given little chance of winning a race this season (although she finished a respectable sixth in last week's accident-shorter Spanish Grand Prix) since March is designing its cars. Some drivers perhaps disturbed by Lella's invasion of their male peserve, doubt the chunky, 5"2, Lombardi has the stamina for long-distance racing. But March chief Roy Wardell, was watching her during a gruelling test of the company's racers, disagrees.
"Thrasing a car about it bloody hard work," he says, "most male drivers would have been bitching and complaining but she drove more than 300 miles flat out without a whimper." Her main fault, says Wardell, is a rookie's understandable caution. "Lella is still a bit afraid that if she spins out everyone will say, 'see a woman driver'" he says, "but her confidence is building. Pretty soon she'll be mixing it up with the best of them."
i saw this edit on tik tok on “moth to flame” by the weeknd and i want to write a fic about it.
but i have no idea which driver to write about.
have a great day loves💋
Niki Lauda. 1977 Austrian Grand Prix by Oleg Konin
Wake up guys new Mika (and McLaren)lore just dropped.
(And it’s as unhinged as the rest) Apparently the bastard had a haunted car?????
1998 Mika Häkkinen's road doc
Stumbled onto some old Finnish Mika documentaries, and I felt like translating some parts I found interesting for you guys. I'll definitely translate more if there's interest!
Kari O. Sohlberg on Mika Häkkinen ; ”I tried to influence Keke [Rosberg] that he’d take Mika under his wings and that he’d take him further,”
Erkki Mustakari ; ”I recall the late James Hunt saying that there’s something exceptional about that boy [Mika Häkkinen],”
”I’d quote my friend Keke [Rosberg] on this, he was watching the first Formula Opel Lotus competition and he called and said, ’ Well, he’s [Mika] great at driving but he’s crazy. ’ ”
Mika Häkkinen on his first time driving a F1 car ; ”I was expecting a little more kick, but it was a little bit of a surprise that it wasn’t that much of a cannon.”
Mika Häkkinen ; ” If there’s a break during a season, like a chance to take a few days off, I definitely don’t feel like going to some vacation destination in the south, but my summer cottage is the only place where I wanna come.”
Ron Dennis on Mika ; ” He’s a professional, of course there’s a bit of immaturity there, and that’s because he’s young. I find it refreshing, you know? There’s a bit of naivety there, it’s a good value, it’s not a bad one.“
Mika Häkkinen on his 1995 crash; ”Of course I had my family and girlfriend around, along with Ron Dennis and his wife and other people constantly giving me support. You hurt constantly, your head ached constantly, and some place ached all the time, and the pain was so high that you’d bang your fist on the table and yell, ’God damn it, that’s enough.’ ”
Also, something I found really cute; Mika Häkkinen's Formula 1 debut being announced in a press conference with Santa
mika talking about his and michael's relationship
Interviewer; So, Michael Schumacher was your biggest racing rival. Tell me about your relationship...
Your relationship as racing drivers, I mean.
Mika; Yeah I was about to say "What relationship?".
Interviewer; *laughing* Let's not go into that. Let's stay on the topic of racing.
LMFAOOOO the way the interviewer just says "yeah lets not talk about that"
Samatha Collins, daughter of Lotus F1 boss Peter Collins on Mika Häkkinen living in their house, because of the low budget.
i love shots of the helmets like this like yes let me a) appriaciate the cool helmets and b) look at your pretty eyes
BE SO FR. MIKA GOT MICHAEL A TORTOISE
Finnish drivers and their baby photo bowlcuts
I think as a society we are ready for this conversation
Never related so much to a marshal who didn't want Mika's hair to touch the tarmac and provided him with a "pillow" 😭
classic f1 drivers as vines, inspired by @k-ky
Germans and the Finns they adopted
i posted the gif with the ayrton and mika part but so much happens in this video is unbelievable
