not bad for a number 2 driver

thinking about mark webber (derogatory) every minute of every day. probably listening to they might be giants at the same time.

[team-orders]

rachel. she/her. 30s. (carrd)

previously mahkwibbah.

lastwaves on ao3.

multifandom blog in my formula 1 era.

lewis hamilton, mark webber, and sebastian vettel are my most favorite boys.

tags: ask tag | my fics | fic recs | my metas | race liveblogging

[l0veyourselfirst]

Oscar and Lando with their LEGO mini figures

[pinsaroulettes]

Bahrain, 2019

(Photo by Zak Mauger)

[tiredadventurer]

[jedi-anakin]

“If we can make it to the ground, we’ll take the next chance… and the next, on and on, until we win… or the chances are spent.” — Jyn Erso (requested by @captainearlcole)

[dyk-this-musical-song]

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Do you know this Musical Song? #280

I know the song and the musical

I know the song but not the musical

I know the musical but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Remaining time: 6 days 18 hours

[deadpoets]

[cristinaricci]

BEFORE SUNRISE (1995) Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke | dir. Richard Linklater

[spikedaily]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 5.13 “Blood Ties”

[team-orders]

f1 race recs: double features edition

One of the most fun things about digging in to old races is the odd juxtapositions and parallels that come up, sometimes years or decades apart. So I wanted to compile a list of some of my favorites! Please enjoy this list of 5 different race pairs with different sorts of parallels.

2002 Austrian Grand Prix & 2002 United States Grand Prix

I learned about Austria 2002 fairly early on as an F1 fan -- the notorious over-the-line drivers swap that led to team orders being banned in Formula 1 for a decade. What I didn't know about was the bizarre accidental inverse of this which happened several races later that same season; at the US Grand Prix, Schumacher attempted to execute a photo finish, but he accidentally gave Barrichello the win instead. It's bizarre, and it's glorious, and it's so much more fun because it happened the same season as Austria.

2003 Brazilian Grand Prix & 2025 Brazil Sprint Race

In wet conditions, the same turn takes out several cars in these two races 22 years apart. The gradual accumulation of the car graveyard in Brazil 2003 is honestly a little comical. I think one of the most interesting things about this juxtaposition is that it highlights potential problems with these older tracks: Interlagos had and continues to have incredibly poor drainage.

2005 San Marino Grand Prix & 2006 Turkish Grand Prix

These two races have thrilling wheel-to-wheel action in the final stages between Fernando Alonso and Michal Schumacher -- in 2005, it's for the win, and in 2006, it's fighting for P2 while Felipe Massa soars to his maiden victory up ahead of them. Both races left me looking at Alonso and saying that he was driving like a champion.

2007 European Grand Prix & 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix

Honestly the similarities are almost eerie with these races -- they start in the wet, and then enormous pile-ups result in red flags, after which the track is drying. The conditions and the chaos amongst the front runners lead to surprising race leaders (unless you already know about this race, I can almost guarantee you've never even heard of the driver who leads several laps in 2007, as it is quite literally his only race start in F1). I am such an emphatic fan of both of these races.

2010 Turkish Grand Prix & 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix

I couldn't make a list of race parallels and not include this one... What if Sebastian Vettel was attempting overtakes on 2 different teammates down the straight on 2 different tracks 9 years apart and both times he caused a race-ending collision? What if in one race his star is rising and in the other he is visibly entering the sunset of his career? It's delicious!

Plus some honorable mentions with smaller details I enjoy:

Silverstone 2003 & Baku 2017: The actual impetus for this list, but not interesting enough to justify including above; David Coulthard and Lewis Hamilton's headrests become dislodged mid-race and they have to pit to fix them. These are the only races I've ever seen this happen in, and I happened to watch them within a week of each other.

Australia 2006 & Spa 2019: Jenson Button and Lando Norris have mechanical failures just by the start line on the final laps of the race.

Monaco 2006 Qualifying & Spain 2025: Controversial moves from Michael Schumacher and Max Verstappen which many point to as specific instances in which they otherwise could have won that year's title.

[team-orders]

well after i finished grad school i swore i never wanted to sit in a classroom again and now 3 years later i'm really like "okay actually i think i might do this"

[monacobby]

“I haven’t seen you in two years— you’re different.” “Am I?” “You feel different, you feel freer, you haven’t stopped smiling.” ... What I’ve learned is there's no point— it's easy to say now and I feel like I’ve worked on that a lot— but there's no point dwelling on those things you cannot change anymore.

Really lovely, long answer from Lando on his evolution and current headspace (via Speed w/ Harvick and Buxton)

[riverlarking]

i love clicking on somebody’s ao3 profile and seeing the most nonsensical collection of fandoms. like yess let's live a thousand lifetimes

[eightyonefour]

landoscar²

[hgedits]

I'm mainly Mestizo, which I already knew. 3.12% Dutch, which is pretty cool. This website basically shows my family tree – there's the Dutch family – and the name's Van Helsing. I have Van Helsing DNA in my blood.

[eightyonefour]

oscar's full cameo in clarkson's farm S5E01!

[sophsun1]

The Muppet Movie (1979) dir. James Frawley