#ferrari PLEASE IN THE NAME OF ENZO FERRARI DO NOT FUCK THIS UP

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i was reallyyyy hoping for the monza miracle and i can't believe I've got ferrari ON POLE IN MONZA LIKE WTF????? THEY DID IT!!! THE WAY I SCREAMED ONCE I SAW THAT CHARLES WAS ON PROVISIONAL POLE, AND THEN MAX, AND THAN SAINZ WENT AND HE WAS LIKE "WAIT A MINUTE, THAT POLE YOU'RE SITTING RIGHT NOW MISTER VERSTAPPEN IS MINE AND FERRARI" AND THAT LAP???? IT WAS >INSANE< jesus i'm still euphoric

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karma - part eight

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a very special guest here at imola 🐾🐶 baby leo meeting auntie lily and auntie kika for the first time 📸 - francesca.cgomes

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charles_leclerc QUICK SOMEONE SCREENSHOT THIS SHOWING SUKI LIKES ME BEFORE SHE UNLIKES IT!!

sukiwaterhouse it was a slip of the finger lechair charles_leclerc 🫵 caught lacking in 4k!!!

maxverstappen1 where's my version??

redbullracing slow your bulls mr. verstappen, it's coming charles_leclerc you just can't compete with my pretty face. maxverstappen1 they're using you for likes klootzak redbullracing what can we say, the italians love charles leclerc charles_leclerc WOW!! I'M TELLING KIMI! redbullracing boss-man said, 'i don't care. stop bothering me.'

user1 they way the stands were decked in ferrari red but they were chanting and screaming for charles will forever be engraved in my brain

user2 as an italian myself, we may not support red bull but we will 100% throw hands for charles user3 amen sister

user4 the italians once again proven that they will never not be normal about charles leclerc.

olliebearman to quote arthur, 'he's on that king shit’ ❤︎ by redbullracing, natalia_leclerc, sebastianvettel and other

user5 not seb liking that 😂 user6 that's his surrogate son. he'll support when he can.

landonorris i think this might be the first time i've stood on the italian podium and they've cheered so loud for a non-ferrari driver

georgerussell63 haven't you heard? he's their princess diana. alex_albon the italians are feral for charles leclerc charles_leclerc what can i say, i'm just that likeable. carlossainz55 that's debatable landonorris no, please don't do this. i can't be involved in this. natalia_leclerc I KNOW YOUR JOBLESS ASS ISN'T TALKING BITCH!! sukiwaterhouse only i can bully charles! bensantos_ruiz so now that you've lost your seat this is the tactic you're going to use? very mature carlos. carlossainz55 when your brother-in-law can stop hiding behind your 'father' and his little guard dog, i'll be mature. bensantos_ruiz i know the man who constantly hides behind his father and family name isn't fucking talking. it would just be a shame if someone (me) spilled all the gossip on your family, like that pr girlfriend of yours. i know you also didn't insinuate my sister was a bitch, when you're the biggest one of them all.

natalia leclerc added four people

natalia leclerc welcome my children

natalia leclerc + charles

oscar piastri-leclerc oh so he was serious about the adoption thing?

ollie bearman-leclerc they never joke about anything. i told them i didn't want to stay in my hotel for the monaco grand prix weekend and suddenly i'm staying the week with them. charles leclerc you said, 'the bed is going to fuck up my back. it sucks.' charles leclerc and so like the responsible parents we are, we invited you to stay with us.

logan sargeant-leclerc oscar picked the most unserious couple to be his grid parents.

natalia leclerc you're apart of this too florida boy

logan sargeant-leclerc i have grid parents now?? what about jenson??

ollie bearman-leclerc this also means you've gained grid grandpas (nat's dad and a secret second one iykyk) and grid uncles (nat's brother, enzo, and arthur) charles leclerc jenson doesn't count because he's not on the grid anymore. he's like your adopted dad.

ollie bearman-leclerc like seb is with you?

charles leclerc OLIVER!

natalia leclerc no, no, let him speak!! he's right, even my dad think so too!!

oscar piastri-leclerc yeah, even logan and i know that charles

logan sargeant-leclerc this is like oscar denying that mark is his grid dad, or does that not count because mark's not on the grid?

ollie bearman-leclerc see, oscar can't even deny that, we ALL know it's true. ollie bearman-leclerc we've been over this logan, mark is his adopted dad. like jenson is with you. duh.

charles leclerc sebastian is not my grid dad

natalia leclerc charlie, you do not want to start this argument

charles leclerc NAME ONE TIME!!

ollie bearman-leclerc yesterday when sebastian reminded you to have breakfast because you ALWAYS forget natalia leclerc today when sebastian came over with lunch because we didn't have any groceries. natalia leclerc which, for the record we did, but you told me, 'no amour, stay in bed. we can cuddle and order in food.' oscar piastri-leclerc during bahrain when you complained how thirsty you were and seb handed you like three water bottles. logan sargeant-leclerc in australia when you said in an interview that you could go for some tim-tams after the race and seb came back with like 5 packages. oscar piastri-leclerc SEBASTIAN WAS THE ONE WHO STOLE MY TIM-TAMS? FOR CHARLES?

natalia leclerc shall we continue??

charles leclerc non, i get your point.

logan sargeant-leclerc next time make sure we don't have receipts.

oscar piastri-leclerc your other grid parent is lewis, no i will not elaborate.

ollie bearman-leclerc i will. i saw the tweets. kimi giggled when people said he was the brocedes divorce child. so technically you have a half-brother charles leclerc ollie, what on earth are you going on about now?

natalia leclerc obviously the f1 family tree? that we helped start after suki started the rumor that we had a secret child aka oscar

oscar piastri-leclerc so why the heck was i not adopted sooner? i was already being called your child charles leclerc that's because nat kept talking about you to suki and riley when you two met back in 2020.

logan sargeant-leclerc so by association edward cullen knows who oscar is?

ollie bearman-leclerc oh my god, that is so not fair

oscar piastri-leclerc i can't believe you guys care so much about twilight

natalia leclerc it's peak cinema oscar!!

oscar piastri-leclerc that's debatable ollie bearman-leclerc it is not! name another movie soundtrack that hits like crack just like twilight does

charles leclerc were you even born when the first twilight movie came out?

ollie bearman-leclerc i was 3 but that doesn't matter charles! logan sargeant-leclerc i just googled it, and i would've been a month away from turning 8. so how the fuck do you know the release date off the top of your head oliver? ollie bearman-leclerc that's not important logan!

natalia leclerc i will not stand for this twilight slander oscar. i'm calling a movie night. and we're watching twilight

oscar piastri-leclerc can't we watch harry potter instead? i prefer that over twilight.

charles leclerc ME TOO!!

ollie bearman-leclerc this is why suki hates you charles... and nothing will ever top the twilight soundtrack

logan sargeant-leclerc dare i say the hunger games?

ollie bearman-leclerc OH MY GOD! HOW COULD I FORGET??

natalia leclerc and now he's going to talk about how gale should've died instead of finnick for the next 45 minutes. sam had the riveting experience of through a ollie yap session about the hunger games.

logan sargeant-leclerc he's not wrong!! charles leclerc what??

ollie bearman-leclerc FATHER HASN'T SEEN THE HUNGER GAMES??

ollie bearman-leclerc this is embarrassing, we can no longer be related.

charles leclerc I'M SORRY I WAS BUSY RACING AS A TEENAGER OLIVER!!

natalia leclerc booo 🍅🍅!!!

oscar piastri-leclerc something tells me charles lives in a harry potter bubble

natalia leclerc you'd be correct. he was OBSESSED growing up.

charles leclerc lies. i was not obsessed.

logan sargeant-leclerc based on the fact that i can google you and harry potter and find multiple videos of you talking about harry potter and multiple pictures of you in harry potter costumes or poses. i would say, yes, you were obsessed.

natalia leclerc does george still have the picture??

charles leclerc DO NOT SPEAK OF THAT PICTURE!!

ollie bearman-leclerc well no the curiosity is killing me, what is this picture we are speaking of?

charles leclerc mon cœur, please don't do this. natalia leclerc ollie it's the greatest picture ever. i swear you'll love it. i just have to convince george to send it to me. oscar piastri-leclerc i, too, am now curious as to what this picture even is logan sargeant-leclerc my curiosity has also been peaked.

charles leclerc i've been betrayed by my own wife and kids

liam lawson changed ollie bearman's name to ollie bearman-leclerc

ollie bearman-leclerc LMAOOOOOO!!! LEO JUST BIT CHARLES FOR BEING NEAR NAT!!

ollie bearman-leclerc IJBOL!!!

sebastian vettel what the heck do those letters even mean?

liam lawson laughing my ass off and i just bust out laughing

sebastian vettel kids these days will be the death of me.

max verstappen leo is making me proud.

charles leclerc you're just mad that the admins love me more than you.

daniel ricciardo that's because one of you loves media and the other doesn't.

natalia leclerc i don't even know why leo even bit charles.

arthur leclerc ah, this reminds me of the time charles threatened to bite nat's ex-boyfriend.

charles leclerc literally shut up?

yuki tsunoda like father like son

ollie bearman-leclerc i would never bite someone yuki!

ollie bearman-leclerc my brothers logan and oscar would also never do this. i think.

max verstappen you were serious about that?!

charles leclerc of course, they are my sons.

natalia leclerc congrats seb, you're a grandpa of 4!

ollie bearman-leclerc and step-dad of 1 if we count kimi!

ollie bearman-leclerc antonelli not our team principle.

sebastian vettel i really don't want to know

daniel ricciardo trust me, as someone who went down the f1 twitter rabbit hole, you really don't want to know.

liam lawson don't worry seb, we'll ask george to make a presentation so you can understand.

sebastian vettel please don't.

ollie bearman-leclerc too late grandpa.

kimi räikkönen HA!

natalia leclerc added 5+ people

natalia leclerc welcome people. i'm pregnant. goodbye.

mark webber why the hell am i here? and how did she get my number?

oscar piastri-leclerc jeez i wonder who could've possibly given her your number.

ben santos-ruiz please tell me charles already knew and this isn't how he found out.

max verstappen based on the way he looks i'm going to say no.

ollie bearman-leclerc I'M GOING TO BE A BROTHER?!

mark webber who's going to tell him? santiago ruiz don't you fucking dare webber. sebastian vettel leave him alone mark.

jenson button congrats?? i'm so confused.

charles leclerc WHERE IS MY WIFE??

oscar piastri-leclerc depends do i get to pass you into turn one tomorrow?? charles leclerc OSCAR JACK PIASTRI-LECLERC!! WHERE IS MY WIFE?

jenson button oh my god. this is the most drama i've been involved in recent years. i love this

ollie bearman-leclerc that's a lie because according to twitter you hate danica patrick. jenson button hate is such a strong word, it's more like dispise.

oscar piastri-leclerc i, hypothetically, saw her run past mclaren and into the mercedes garage.

charles leclerc LEWIS!

lewis hamilton i'm not a snitch.

max verstappen we are now down a driver. i repeat we are down a driver. he just disappeared.

oscar piastri-leclerc maybe i can win tomorrow now.

charles leclerc i hope carlos rams into you tomorrow logan sargeant-leclerc that's not very live, laugh, love of you charles. ollie bearman-leclerc 😧😧

jenson button wait, did she just find out that's she's pregnant?

natalia leclerc well, leo bit charles the other day which i was telling pascale, suki, and riley about and then i started talking about how i was really craving some stroopwafels and my plans to sneak into max's drivers room to steal some, which is weird.

mark webber why is that weird? santiago ruiz she hates stroopwafels... max verstappen which i think is blasphemy, but whatever.

natalia leclerc THEN! i started talking about how emotional i've been lately and how i hate the way fish smells, which is a bummer because i love eating fish.

charles leclerc WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GO?

natalia leclerc AND! according to suki, who just had a baby a few months ago, i was experiencing pregnancy symptoms, so we sent someone out to get a couple pregnancy tests, i took them, and voila!

charles leclerc WOMAN! WHERE ARE YOU?! THIS ISN'T FUNNY!!

logan sargeant-leclerc as apart of my mission of dethroning leo as the favorite child, i come to report she is with lily in alex's driver room, carmen is also with them.

benjamin santos-ruiz natalia, i swear to god if you move from where you're at

natalia leclerc 🫡 staying put, got it.

santiago ruiz i swear i did a better job at raising them.

sebastian vettel we know, they just met charles and went off the walls.

charles leclerc THIS ISN'T MY FAULT.

lewis hamilton kill me now.

ollie bearman no can do grandpa

lewis hamilton i don't think i like you very much bearman. ollie bearman 😧😧

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redbullracing people of the internet, we present to you, your 2024 monaco grand prix winner. CHARLES LECLERC DOES IT!! oh, and did we mention it was a leclerc double podium?

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bensantos_ruiz before someone, the sainz family, says that my dad hates charles or something, please let it be known that my dad hasn't stopped crying since charles won.

maxverstappen1 favoritism, yet again.

redbullracing listen sir, you've got multiple wins in monaco charles_leclerc yeah max, let me shine! maxverstappen1 no ❤️ people will accuse me of going soft. oscarpiastri this coming from the man who cried last night when he realized charles was going to win monaco? liamlawson40 i can't defend you anymore max. danielricciardo YOU WERE THE FIRST ONE TO MAKE FUN OF HIM!!! liamlawson40 eh potato, potahto!

sukiwaterhouse i guess i'm proud of you or whatever

natalia_leclerc you literally cried with me. charles_leclerc admit it, you actually like me! sukiwaterhouse you're growing on me like mold charles_leclerc i'll take it!!

fernandoalo_oficial felicitaciones charles!!

user7 and i guess this is all the conformation we needed to know fernando was team charles and not team carlos user8 please, this old man has been on charles side since he said, 'it is frustrating to give your everything to a team only for you to get nothing in return.' user9 fernando was a lecfosi confirmed.

user10 ABOUT FUCKING TIME THEY GAVE HIM THE WIN HE DESERVED!!

natalia_leclerc words don't even begin to describe how proud i am of you 💙

charles_leclerc je t'aime tellement 💙💙 bensantos_ruiz believe me, he's well aware. the fact that he kissed you with tears running down your face and snot on your nose amazes me. natalia_leclerc the snot part is not fucking true! oscarpiastri slander on mother will not be tolerated olliebearman dishonor on you! dishonor on your cow! logansargeant what they said! bensantos_ruiz oh my god

mrsamclaflin congrats charles!

charles_leclerc thank you sam! olliebearman JUSTICE FOR FINNICK! logansargeant ollie no!

user11 RED BULL MANAGED TO DO WHAT B*NOTTO FAILED TO DO!!

user12 s*inz family found screaming in a ditch somewhere. ♥ by ben_santosruiz, natalia_leclerc, olliebearman and others

user13 the family that likes shady comments stays together user12 currently screaming because they liked my comment but also so true bestie.

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post monaco win duties ❣️ mon amour is a monaco grand prix winner brother is going to regret this tomorrow so much 😂 enjoy it charlie, you only win monaco for the first time once this is not appropriate behavior to have in front of your children!

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¡leclerc-s speaks! i actually don’t know what i’m doing with this story but i’m having so much fun with it either way. the plot of the fic was lost long ago. fun fact: originally i was going to go with a post monaco pregnancy but that was too corny so i decided, what if she just finds out on quali day instead to add to the humor. logan, oscar, and pato are my pookies and i will find a way to include them in any story.

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Hyperfixation Corner | The 1982 Formula One World Championship, Part 1 | Background: The FISA-FOCA war

there are wacky seasons in formula one. some have 5, 6 drivers fighting for the championship right until the end. there are mid-season changes. but then there is one who separated weak boys from repressed men and created the collective generational trauma for those who went through the absolute fucking hell that was 1982 formula one world championship. fittingly enough, the person who won it wasn't the greatest winner, but almost literally the one left standing. this time on hyperfixation corner, we take a long, hard look at the events that shaped the season and what exactly happened. as the schedule goes:

background: the fisa-foca war

physics for psychopaths: the killer regulations of the 70s-80s

heating the tires: the drivers strike in kyalami

the 1982 formula one world championship, or, the triumph of keke rosberg and the grief of ferrari

this is the first part of a series i'm doing this week, fruit of a month of investigation and bingewatching. please consider giving me any sort of sign of life once you read it! liking and reblogging is great, but comments and asks are just fine too! even just a letter saying "dumb" will suffice. we also touch some heavy topics - even though i don't go into detail - so please be careful as you read it! thanks a lot and see you soon :D

So, we're usually used to Big Characters in F1 having their rivalries, like drivers in different teams, drivers in the same team, teams against teams, teams against themselves, Ferrari against everything, you know how it goes. So you'd expect we kick things off with drivers in each others throats or team beef right? Yes, this isn't Formula 1's Worlds Best Friend Championship, but the scenes were mostly provided before the season even started - and to be more precise, freaking 3 years prior - by the head honchos at FISA and FOCA (I bet you know what we're talking about but I just boiled the jug and got some Lipton I had in the pantry here).

It all starts with this guy called Bernald, Bernie for short. He had tried to become a driver but he retired after seeing a number of car accidents. Then, he managed two drivers, but they both passed away after racing incidents (one of these dudes was Jochen Rindt btw, the only posthumous F1 WDC). At this point he should have been like "fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me" to the god of races, but he put his clown make-up on and it actually worked. He bought a lil team in 1972 called Brabham and finally started making his way to the toppermost of the poppermost.

You see, Bernald Ecclestone the Third, as fucked up in the head as he is, actually had a galaxy brain idea: what if we fucked around and unionised? He proceeded to propose this to several teams and in 1974 they formed the Formula One Constructors Association (miss FOCA if you're nasty). Bernie's triumph was that he got people like Colin Chapman (from Lotus, then a Behemoth of racing) and Frank Williams (Claire Williams' dad)  by his side and managed to get all chassis builders effectively behind him. With time, the manufacturer teams (Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Renault, responsible for their own engine construction) were like "hm. perhaps… these guys want to have rights?? but we are already here? fucked up!" further opening a rift motivated by the technological tussle between these two factions of F1.

Miss FOCA in 1974 - amongst these lads there is Max Mosley The Lawyer (and future FIA president) kneeling down in the middle, dude with the Elf shirt is Ken Tyrrell, Willy Wonka by his side is Colin Chapman (Lotus) together with Frank WIlliams. the little head on Frank's right is Luca Di Montezemolo (then Ferrari's official "spokesperson" - Enzo was in Maranello as always) and right at the top inside the motorhome, smiling like a bitch is Bernie. Lazy to name everyone, I'm sorry for the historical disrespect. 

On the other side of the paddock we had the FIA, who were also kinda like "fucked up!" For them, Bernie and co. had become a nuisance since they were openly talking about how all the money in Formula 1 shouldn't go just to the FIA and the manufacturer teams, but the constructors should see a larger chunk of it as well. To counteract FOCA, the FIA turned the sub-sector responsible for F1 into an autonomous committee called FISA - Federation Internationale du Sport Automotive - which was presided by the same man that ran the FIA, that bitch Jean-Marie Balestre. By 1978, the split in Formula 1 was pretty clear between FISA and the manufacturers v. Bernie (and his lawyer, that bitch Max Mosley) and FOCA. Of course, Bernie always had his sights on something and this time, it was one thing and one thing only: the television rights.

cinematic parallels: 'persona' (1966) dir. ingmar bergman / jean-marie balestre and bernie ecclestone talking / 'chungking express' (1994) dir. wong kar-wai

For the public, this only became known back in 80s and it was the perfect moment for Bernie because the drivers started getting properly involved as well. They had already started to really wonder if the shit barriers, weak cars and overall lack of medical care helped them at all, but with the hiring of Prof. Sid Watkins (only done by insistence of Bernie) two years prior and the implementation of new safety measures, action was taken in the shape of a drivers' protest right at the start of the season, demanding improvements on tracks. Of course, FISA would take the stand of "there is a race to be had here" and FOCA would seemingly take the more humane stand (and i'm not gonna claim they weren't sincere about it since the bizarre amount of deaths up until then must have taken its toll to the people who were there to live it). Either way, for Bernie, things were all coming together.

Right at the start of the decade the situation was bad, real bad, Michael Jackson. It kinda still looks like a picnic in the spring compared to 82, but the mess… Before the Spanish Grand Prix we had: 2 drivers protests for safety measures (in Argentina and Brazil, race weeks 1 and 2), 1 FOCA dick boasting session where the manufacturer cars did way better (South Africa, race week 3), a LOT of accidents, one of them involving Clay Regazzoni. He had an accident so bad that everything below his waist was paralysed for the rest of his life and that was genuinely a good ending as he could have died) (United States, race 4), 1 cancelled GP (Mexico, almost race 5). When it was time to get back to it after all of this, the FOCA drivers show up, but they fail to appear to the drivers briefings. But maybe they got the wrong time table right? Nah, same thing happens at the sixth race. The FISA teams are full hoes mad at the lack of Respect they think they're being given and Jean-Marie, taking very seriously his role as the president of the governing body responsible for all things F1 and taking a very neutral stand, decides to 

Exclude the Spanish grand prix from official records, which means people could race if they wanted to, it just wouldn't mean anything and no points would be granted to the championship, irrelevant because:

All FOCA drivers that took part in the boycotts would also get their racing licenses stripped, so it's not like they would be ever allowed to compete in any FIA sanctioned championships, eh? Grande Jean-Marie, his mind ugh! 

Yep, that went well. The FISA teams just headed back home because they still had licenses and weren't going to risk their cars in a non-championship race when they actually could still fight for one, while FOCA and their gang went ahead anyway out of pure contempt and spite. It was a lovely sight to the people who stayed to watch, since most of the attendees didn't turn up once they found out the race was null and teams like Scuderia Ferrari Mission WinNextTime were headed back to their headquarters - this footage from Spanish media shows a bit of what was the mood there, you can see the "abandoned" Renaults and Alfas and the rest of the staff still working while the audience was around.

Shit hit the fan hard, another GP got cancelled and after tons of death threats, constructors on his neck and a little bit of jazz, Jean-Marie granted the drivers their licenses back. It was the end for 1980s bickering on track, but off it there was still a major discussion about the 1981 calendar as Certain People *glares at Bernie Ecclestone* were starting to attempt to throw a coup on the FIA and create their own championship as retaliation for FISA's ban on "ground effects" - more on that in section 2. Discussions were so heated that the Argentina GP had to be cancelled since it were supposed to kickstart the season in January and by December they were still trying to deal with the whole situation.

Bernie held on to the idea of a side championship just enough that it fucked up the calendar dates and then dipped back to F1, leaving Balestre with no other choice than delay the South African race to April. However, the organisers were like "listen, buddy, you don't grow grand prix on trees. you can't just ask us to postpone a grand prix like that, we have a huge infrastructure all set, tickets and promo and sponsors and we still have a contract with FOCA..." The result? Juan-Maria tried to bluff and said that if they wanted to they could go on with the February race, but if they wanted the FIA seal of approval, then it had to be April. Since there wasn't a single soul in the 80s that wasn't petty, Kyalami took the bluff and the opening round of the championship was actually a non-championship race that, once again, only featured FOCA cars, as the FISA backers decided to just stay home. Cindy, this is scenes, and the perfect time for a Bern Attack.

Bernie had created drama and it came the time for him to be as cold as my therapist. He first lured Balestre and FISA in like "oh, this is nonsense, we have been fighting and for what. the fans are suffering and we just got to television broadcasts! we had races cancelled and our tyre suppliers are about to quit! we're grown men, god dammit, we should do as gentile men do and settle this with an… Agreement? maybe we should meet in FISA's address, place de la…. Concorde?". John-Mary took the bait and when the FISA representatives opened the door, there were Bernie and that nazi bitch Max Mosley. I even bet they got glitter ink pens and scented paper for this because I know I would have. Anyway, apparently they spent over 13 hours talking it out and after much deliberation, they whipped out the first Concorde Agreement™, a big top secret contract that no one knows exactly what it says - and honestly idk why, it's been 40 years FIA, release the Ecclestone cut - but it mainly stated two things:

From that point onwards all teams that signed it (therefore signing up for the championship) had the obligation of turning up and racing - no more strikes, babeh! This also ensured that FISA wouldn't look that bad for the audience, because, check this out

Commercial rights are owned from now on by FOCA, who would lease them to tv broadcast stations and, in return, split the money between the teams and themselves, with a chunk left for FISA.

It's not a bad agreement per se, but when Jean-Marie left the room he was like "wait a minute…who are you?". Turns out the agreement didn't please FISA that much and they would remain engaging in petty conflicts for another two whole years, thus making the 1981 season the prelude to the absolute hell of 1982. Feature key points of 1981 besides the calendars?

Nelson Piquet won the WDC for Brabham (lol) and Williams the WCC

Lotus's OG chassis was banned and they had to go with a modified version of the previous season;

Goodyear dipped right before the season started so they had to improvise w Michelin until Pirelli came through;

tbh every single car at one point was accused of being illegal for one reason or the other and specially the Brabham, that used something called a hydropneumatic suspension to make it legal during scrutineering - more on this later;

Belgium GP was at Zolder and it was horrible start to finish. Due to the overcrowded grid, a mechanic was ran over and later succumbed to the injuries, leading to a drivers protest. The show still went on, only for the same thing to happen to a marshal while he attempted to help a stalling car. 

(next up: "physics for psychopaths: the killer regulations of the 70s and 80s")

[formulinos]

tagged by @hurricanewindattack @jedivszombie and @powertrains! thanks everyone and sorry for the delay!! here's the 20 question thing everyone's been doing

1) why did you choose your URL? first of all, interlagos wasn't available. then you have formulino, the legendary imola cat. since the autodrome is called enzo and dino ferrari, i thought it would be a nice shoe-in. but since formulino wasn't available as well, i got the plural version.

2) any side blogs? yes. @formulinos (my main is @maggiechevng and i seldom post there unless it's screencaps of stuff i've watched recently)

3) how long have you been on tumblr? 2009? 2010? idk man it was really early. sometimes i got v tired of my blogs and deleted them (shame bc i wish i had kept those) but it's just a lil reset!

4) do you have a queue tag? not really ! should i?

5) why did you start this blog in the first place? well, i had to spend 6 months off-uni and i had a lot of free time, so i got it as a place to keep myself out of idleness

6) why did you choose your icon/pfp? i absolutely loved the trend amongst the funk community here in brazil (where i'm from) of wearing formula 1 merch. the ferrari/santander windbreaker (or jacó as we call it here) is still a staple. it shows that i'm fun, and breezy, and brazilian and also a tifosi

7) why did you choose your header? i don't have one here! (not yet, i'm trying to negociate smth cool with a friend)

8) what is your post with the most notes? kimi's war correspondent nickname with 721 notes and counting. nico's despair over shirtless michael schumacher is a close second with 713!

9) how many mutuals do you have? i've no clue... 10 tops?

10) how many followers do you have? 300 and celebrating!

11) how many people do you follow? 88. i actually don't follow many ppl from f1blr [awks]

12) have you ever made a shit post? every single one of them

13) how often do you use tumblr a day? at least once a day but lately it has been very spare because of the hectic rhythm in uni

14) did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog? no! and i want to! if you guys want to start an argument please hit me up <3

15) how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog’ posts? i absolutely don't feel like i need to reblog anything i don't want to.

16) do you like Tag Games? i do! makes me come out of my cave!!

17) do you like Ask Games? yes, in general i love asks and interacting with people, i don't feel like i have been very successful in emphasising i would love to talk to people more around here and make friends which is on me, i barely reblog stuff and i usually just use this blog as a central for the stuff i do myself. anyway. feel free to interact!

18) which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? on f1blr i think everyone? it's a small community, you might not know names but you probably have seen people in your dash once. tbh i feel lucky that my moots even found me let alone talk to me every day!

19) do you have a crush on a mutual? yes and no! like platonic crushes, sure, on everyone because they inspire me. romantic ones? nah

20. Tags! i was late! everyone got tagged! fuck!