Sup I'm Quipsy

Resident super-shy F1 shitposter cruising on the DL and ready to liveblog any race in my path! (BTW: I am actually a short, angry girl and not Henri Toivonen no matter what my avatar might make you think) I play racing sims and make shitty quips about racing nearly non-stop. I draw ridiculous crap sometimes. If you're looking for nonsense, you're in the right place. I know what I'm about Also, a note: I don't have a great memory. I REALLY don't have a great memory. In fact my memory barely works in all honestly I am the single most unreliable person here

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with any luck and some blessings Max Verstappen will fall down some steps and perhaps break something that is not life altering save for removing him from racing permanently (forever) (eternally)

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I did not emerge from the sludge after all these years to see Max Verstappen as an entire adult and winning things. when will the nightmare end

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Amazing!

I go off to play games because I can no longer manage to stay awake for races and learn that Lewis has secured seven world championships, each of them making the sport even more boring than it was before! So nothing changed the entire time I was quietly following races through twitter. It really is incredible! I thought at some point development guidelines would do something about Mercedes, but nope!

Anyway stan W Series

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So! I’ve been gone, and Lewis has secured yet another title sitting at the front of the grid doing absolutely nothing.

It started with being traumatized by what happened to Jules, was exasperated by the potency of my seizure medication preventing me from watching races, now with this procession of boring Mercedes titles I know for sure that the season really wasn’t worth watching. I’m over here going “oh lord. Again? A-fucking-gain? Nothing new, nothing changed, same old shit.”

Aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you wanna go APESHIT?

My eyes are currently on W series because (1. it’s ladies (2. mercedes isn’t tainting it with its foul presence. I probably won’t be able to watch anything live, but it’d be a damn sight better watching a repeat of mercedes leading processions

One day. One day i will liveblog again. But until F1 actually learns to have things happen, they’re not worth my time. Scrubs, the lot of them! A pox on mercedes. May all of Laywis’s superfluous tire complaints come true!

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Most races take place in the middle of the night for me--usually anywhere from two to five in the morning.

I wanted to try and stay awake for Monaco for Niki... and for Jules, but even now I can barely keep my eyes open thanks to my medication. Gone are the days of me liveblogging every race, staying up until four or five and griping, with clarity, about Ferrari.

I can’t make it. But I’d like to say that I want everyone to stay safe--even though Monaco is nothing more than a procession, things can get dicey.

Goodnight, everybody, and enjoy the race.

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Today we lost a legend. Rest in peace Niki. You will stay in our hearts forever.

Niki Lauda *22. 2. 1949 – † 20. 5. 2019

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hard to believe that Niki Lauda isn’t immortal

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I just know that just beyond those gates James Hunt was standing there like this

and was immediately attacked by Niki. There is no other reality for me. This is the only way it could have ended. Now, whenever you hear thunder rumbling--it isn’t racing in heaven, it’s Niki and James having a completely unrestrained bar fight. There are no limits in the beyond but they’re going to try and find them. They die as they lived, as the most legendary frenemies in motorsports history--somehow this is the most comforting image for me. It feels right. Anything else is too damn soft for Niki.

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Nikki’s family have confirmed he’s passed away.I’m devastated, I really thought we’d get to see him trackside again.

RIP Niki. ❤️

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To our favorite shitstirrer, to our favorite ‘elderly fan’, to a motorsport legend that inspired new generations, and to a man that was so unapologetically himself and didn’t let critics, naysayers and even third degree burns stop him…

Rest easy Niki. Thank you

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I unfortunately cannot watch this race live either as the effects of the clonazepam are too strong to fight and I am actively falling asleep as I wite this.

My only hopes are that everyone stays safe and ferrari grows a working brain

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On May 2nd, 1986, Lancia driver Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto passed in a mysterious fatal accident off stage 18 of the Tour de Corse, ending the legendary Group B era. In spite of never becoming champion, Henri is remembered for his fierce driving style and indomitable spirit, having a few trophies named in his honor–including the Henri Toivonen Memorial Trophy, which still presented at the Race of Champions each year.

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It’s a week of remembrance in motorsport and I’m late, as I usually tend to be for most things. We miss Senna, we miss Roland, and further afield we miss Henri and Sergio.

At a time like this the night Jules had his accident plays on repeat in my mind in vivid detail, I remember where I was sitting, I remembered the panicked running back and forth of the presenters, I remember how clearly everything cut through me having just experienced brain trauma of my own. That night will never leave me, and it is the night that changed so many things about how I watch racing, and how I feel about racing. I will always love motorsports, but thinking of the sacrifices that go into such (literally) high-octane entertainment gives you pause.

You keep thinking “at least it was what they loved” but there is a sick feeling that never leaves. Drivers are only fragile humans. Heroic spirits, but in the end just the same as anyone else. Were they afraid? You can’t say “no”, nobody knows but the dead. I think about this a lot--when I look at tight corners, when I see a wet track, when an engine begins to smoke, I can’t help but think about it.

Is there really any way to say “thank you” for facing such an uncertain future...?

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I want to stay awake at least ten laps, nobody better get hecked up when i fall asleep

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WOW! Bernie’s appearance is matching his status as a hell gremlin, nature truly is amazing!

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I still don’t trust this shady-ass track

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Should F1 just rebrand and call itself “Mercedes Parade” at this point because this... Mercedes sitting at the front and doing nothing thing has been going on for a fair bit