Fly | 26 | he/him. French blond man (hopefully not evil). Daily posts of some of the interesting things I find relating to F1 in my old magazines. As you can tell by my profile picture I'm very fun at parties relating to late 70s-early 80s F1.
NIGEL MANSELL d r a m a t i c a l l y retiring from the 1994 INDIANAPOLIS 500 || [x]
“[Dennis] Vitolo’s car ended up on top of Nigel’s, on the infield stationary. And Nigel started getting out, and then a marshal arrived and pulled him out. And Nigel was never one to under-dramatise such events. He sort of collapsed into… [has to stop to wheeze laugh] … into the arms of the marshal, and they [still laughing] rolled around on the grass. And Nigel eventually lay prone, and they had to send a stretcher for him. Very, very, very dramatic. Made up for a very undramatic race, I guess. But he was fine.” - Richard Williams, talking in the And Colosally That's HIstory podcast episode Indy 500: Europe's impact on the great American race
Riccardo Paletti getting interviewed alongside Enzo Osella, somewhere in 1982.
R: Well, it's a show. It's all a show, and we live in it.
I: And you have a place in the spotlight.
R: I'm not looking for a place in the spotlight, I'm looking for my own world.
I: And you think your world is here?
R: I want to create it here.
“When he [McLaren] built a new car as soon as it was on the jig, he would get into it, and pretend to drive it, and make engine noises, and steer it and go “woOoOoOoOoOoAH boys, this is going to be quick!” And then we’d go, “Yeah, yeah, yes.” Really good fun.” - ALASTAIR CALDWELL, McLaren mechanic and later team manager
2026, Year of the Daily Doodle - May SFW(-ish) Edition
Lots of SFW doodles I don't feel bad about for this month! Which makes for quite a long post compared to April I feel like. Among them, a couple ideas from friends (like the nighttime seaside one), the obligatory MerMay doodle (if you're curious, I tried modelling Désiré's merman form after a grey shark, the ones I'd see the most at my old workplace), some lore I need to write down (Le Mans 78 bizarro dimension edition), and soup. I already posted soup but you can't get enough of soup.
Some of these are a bit saucier and one of them has clearly NSFW dialogue in French but we're all puberty'd enough around these grounds I feel like.
That last drawing is one I want to highlight for a reason only related to it. It's inspired by a song named とても痛い痛がりたい (Totemo Itai Itagaritai, usually translated to "Hurting for a Very Hurtful Pain"). See, if you're my exact generation, you may've grown up listening to a lot of songs that used Vocaloid voicebanks for the vocals. My favourite artist from these years, whose work I've continued to enjoy to this day, my favourite producer, is EZFG. Totemoitai is only one of the songs from him I've absolutely loved, among other classics like Cyber Thunder Cider and less known ones like Glucagon.
Unfortunately, EZFG passed away earlier this month - and it's the first time an artist's death has affected me as much as EZFG's passing has. I invite you to listen to his work at least once in your life - his official Youtube channel has most if not all of his work, including his different arranges for some of his songs like Cyber Thunder Cider or Igniter. (Also, his visual work on the clips for these songs is insanely creative, there's a reason why the stick figure has become an icon of the Vocaloid community). Rest in peace, EZFG, you'll sorely be missed.
Oh, also, for the tiny anecdote, four of these were drawn in Italy!
And as has become tradition from me, the trans preg content under the cut:
One of them is based on personal anecdotes (who gave it to me will recognize themselves, hehe), two of them from my May-written story, and one of them is an obvious meme.
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