Wait, this reminds me of the 2003 NĆ¼rburgring. This is Nico cheering when Kimi got his first pole position.
I always thought the cap Nico was wearing was his own merch, because back then he was still racing under the Finnish flag (correct me if I'm wrong), and number 6 was Keke's car number when he won the championship. I only just realized when I saw this photo: isn't that Kimi cap?
PS: I looked it up on a secondhand website, and it looks a lot like the cap Nico was wearing.
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"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is
Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.
Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.
You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.
Sex is not what makes someone an adult.
Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.
Sex is not equally important to everyone.
You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.
You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.
Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.
The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.
Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.
wait would you u want to explain the context of multi 21?
MULTI-21: A HISTORY LESSON
MODERN ASSUMPTIONS:
it has been over a decade since the 2013 malaysian grand prix. as the years have gone on, people have forgotten, or smoothed out, the minutiae of it.
when people talk about multi-21 nowadays, it tends to fall under three headings:
ā¢ evil supervillain seb was addicted to winning and didnāt care about his team. selfish emotionless robot. got booed for a year and deserved it
ā¢ cunty brat seb was a disobedient child and refused to listen to his team and faced no consequences ever because he was red bulls special little boytoy
ā¢ poor mark webber was betrayed by his team as he had been for five years. the win was his and seb stole it
but of course, nothing is ever so simple
BACKGROUND
by 2013, sebastian and mark had been teammates for 5 years, and part of the extended red bull āfamilyā for 7.
when they became teammates in 2009, mark was the older, more experienced head. seb was the young wunderkind who already had a race win under his belt, more than mark had.
(ironically, mark won his first race in germany in 2009. seb wouldnāt win his home GP until 2013. seb has since called markās 2009 german gp win as one of the most impressive drives heās ever seen.)
anyway. letās go back in time. itās japan. itās 2007. and it is raining. itās lap 45, under the safety car after alonso crashed out. the rain is TORRENTIAL, and mark (red bull) is running in 2nd. heās so sick that heās vomiting in his helmet. seb (toro rosso baby. 20 years old) was 3rd. hamilton was leading, and braked quite dangerously. seb was caught out by this, and crashed into the back of mark. both of them had been running in the podium places, and both had to retire. mark called seb a kid without experience fucking it up. seb cried in his garage. this is the first time they crash. mark later referred to it as the first time they made love on track because heās a freak
fast forward to turkey 2010. they are teammates now, and have been for over a year. fuji 2007 had largely been forgotten. water under the bridge. they are fighting for the championship against ferrari and mclaren. mark got pole, but around lap 40 seb had caught up to him as mark had to save fuel. they āmerged towards each otherā (generous). mark didnāt give seb enough space, seb was too over-eager. people will have different opinions. unless youāre helmut marko, who will always back seb, since seb is a product of the red bull academy whereas mark wasnāt. mark went on to finish on the podium, seb had to retire. seb was PISSED! (sexy). this is seen as the start of the ārivalryā by many.
britain 2010. aka the mark-webber-slams-water-on-desk moment. seb was given the new front wing from marks car for qualifying because he was a better qualifier because his had broken in fp3. he would ultimately get a puncture in the race, whilst webber with the old wing came first, and graced us with the ānot bad for a no.2 driverā radio message.
so, where are we by summer 2010 and spring 2011? fuji was no oneās fault really, turkey was six of one half a dozen of the other, but mark felt the team favoured seb. britain made that feeling CONCRETE in marks mind. then seb won the title in 2010 after not leading until the final race of the season. in the press conference before abu dhabi 2010, seb kept getting asked if heād let mark past it if would win mark the championship, and he kept evading the answer. see, mark had been ahead in the championship, but he qualified 7th while seb got pole and won. so, come 2011, webber was convinced the team favoured seb. however, seb was by far and away the better driver.
so. britain 2011. an underrated moment of the vettel webber rivalry. mark qualified on pole, with seb p2. seb quickly took the lead in the race. later on in the race after some botched pit stops and drama, mark was close to seb. red bull told mark NOT to pass seb.
mark ignored this team order. he tried to pass his teammate, but ultimately failed to do so. itās often forgetting in vettel/webber rivalry lore that mark was the first of them to ignore a direct team order. the difference was he just wasnāt able to make the overtake. here are two interesting quotes from just after the race:
and now. brazil 2012. another forgotten multi-21 backstory. it was the last race of the season, and seb was fighting for his third straight championship, only alonso could possibly beat him. mark qualified 3rd, seb 4th, and alonso 8th. seb had a rocky start to the race, which resulted in him being hit from the back & spun around. he pulled off the mother of all recovery drives to win the championship. alls well that ends well right? wrong. horner admitted a few years ago that seb felt that mark was to blame for the rocky start by forcing seb into the wall. horner even went as far as to say that this lack of teamwork was directly in sebs mind when malaysia 2013 came around. that that was sebās revenge.
conspiracy theorists will say that mark forced seb towards the wall because he wanted his mate alonso to win the championship over his teammate. definitely possible but not confirmed.
so. here we are. malaysia 2013. itās been 5 years of crashes, ignored team orders (mark), favouritism (seb) and finally an almost championship-ruining shove towards a wall.
seb qualified on pole, mark 5th. but mark took the lead after the first round of pitstops. around lap 46, seb was gaining on mark, who was on old hard tyres. team orders came through for seb not to fight mark. multi 21 literally means that car no 2 should stay in position ahead of car no 1. just as mark ignored team orders in britain 2011, seb ignored them here. the only difference was seb actually got past. mark was furious (āyep thatās good teamwork!ā) seb, a bad liar, was hilarious (āi was really scaredā¦ all of a sudden he was movingā¦ i had toā¦ā) horner was regretting most of his life choices (āthis is silly seb come on.ā)
seb won the race. the most awkward of all cool down rooms ensued (āmulti 21 seb. yeah? multi 21ā) seb chugged an entire bottle of water. poor lewis hamilton just trying to disappear into thin air. underrated moment is you can see a clip of seb trying to explain something to mark and neither of them are having a good time. on the podium interviews after mark said āseb will have protection from the team as alwaysā - harkening back to his long-felt belief that the team favoured seb, yet ignoring his own history of ignoring team orders, and ignoring brazil 2012.
seb would later apologise.
ā¦
three days later seb would rescind that apology.
(āi was racing i was faster i passed him i won.ā)
at this stage, seb had been the dominant driver for four years running and some crowds had grown annoyed at him, so used this as an excuse to boo him at basically every race for the summer swing of the season. seb spoke at the end of 2013 about how hard this was for him, and how he was thankful for the support of his family and girlfriend during the hard times. itās important to remember that seb was only in his mid 20s when all this booing and controversy was happening. itās a lot to shoulder, especially when youāre only doing what youāve always done, what youāre being paid to do: winning.
mark would retire at the end of the 2013 season, though apparently he had already made up his mind before malaysia.
seb would stay at red bull for one more year before moving to ferrari.
when asked in 2022, seb said he wouldnāt change what he did in malaysia 2013. and in my opinion, heās right.
unlike the mclaren clusterfuck of hungary 24, there was YEARS of history between vettel and webber before multi-21. grudges, crashes, hurts, pride, friendship, rivalry, championships lost and won. this was the cumulation of their entire careers to date, all of their mistakes and their motivations for better or for worse.
basically, it was never so simple as āseb ignored team orders because he was an arrogant bratā or āpoor mark the team never liked himā itāsā¦ well itās all of the above. cheers for reading. fuck me i went on a bit
Thinking about Kimi greeting a rookie Seb with respect and what a huge impact that had on Seb, to the point he never forgot it. Thinking about the others trying to get Seb drunk and Kimi just taking his drinks for him and generally looking out for him. Thinking about Kimi offering Seb lifts early on in his career. Thinking about everyone noticing their unlikely friendship and asking them about it. Thinking about them wearing the same ugly plaid shorts and being joined at the hip around the paddock.
Thinking about Seb attending Kimiās 2009 rally debut in Finland. Thinking about Kimi saying that he wanted Sebastian to win the 2010 F1 championship because he liked him best. Thinking about Seb saying he didnāt have any friends in F1 now that Kimi was gone. Thinking about Kimi being asked about Loeb and talking about Vettel instead. Thinking about Seb saying that Kimiās 2007 championship inspired him to win his own. Thinking about Sebās āI love -- Kimi is a very nice guyā slip up.
Thinking about Kimi returning in 2012 and the two of them being joined at the hip around the paddock again. Thinking about them giggling and whispering to each other during press conferences. Thinking about Seb proudly saying that he and Kimi get along well, immediately after Kimiās own teammate said that he didnāt really know Kimi outside of work. Thinking about Seb admitting he doesnāt know what he does differently for Kimi to like him.
roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck.
anyways theyāre fucking dead itās not like youāre enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that
the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people
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