#keke rosberg

[aaronminyardthebettertwin]

Wasn’t he the cutest

[blorbocedes]

On: different parenting approaches

so keke rosberg has a world championship, and a newborn son. he retires the sport a year after, the shadow of tragedy following him -- the fatal crash of his friend and f1 driver elio de angelis being the reason.

now keke has a blonde baby that looks like its mother and babbles in german. he bonds with his son in the language he knows best — no, not his mother tongue rusty with disuse — racing.

so he builds a track in their garden in ibiza and sticks his son in the two person kart beside him before he is old enough for the helmet to even fit properly.

keke takes nico to the last race of his career in DTM, in a smaller replica of his exact uniform. keke tells him to wave. the roar of the crowd terrifies nico. he can't. he wants to be a racing driver when he grows up.

and you know this part of the story. the boy follows in his father's footsteps. in the sport of nepotism, keke rosberg is the only world champion father who lives to see his son become a champion.

so nico rosberg has a world championship and a newborn daughter. he retires the sport a year after she is born. he knows the same fatality of the sport his father does, has experienced and lost firsthand.

now nico has a blonde baby that looks like its mother and babbles in german. nico wants to bond with her in every way he can. he wants to be hands on in every way.

he speaks 5 languages, went to an international school and both she and her sister are enrolled in the same one. he reads parenting books, has tea parties with them, and drops them to school.

the thought of his daughters following in his footsteps terrifies him, and he understands now why his mother could never stomach to watch a single race of his. this glorious unforgiving sport of his, and his father's, that doesn't care who it takes. and it seems unthinkable to put a child in a racecar, even though that was his childhood.

but if she really wanted, like he really wanted -- he would not deny it.

so he takes her to a indoor go kart track in monaco, in a helmet that's bigger than her. he's tucked right behind her, safe. they share so many languages in common, french growing up in monaco, german at home, english at school, some spanish from going to ibiza. and this -- although it's been a while since he's really spoken it, his father's language-- is one of them.

[korolrezni-nikolai]

no because it’s about how when nico was fighting for the championship, he stopped cycling to lose half a kg of muscle from his legs that made him just a little bit faster and let him win the wdc. it’s about how kellog frosties are discontinued as a flavor. it’s about how nico and lewis are vegan now so they can’t eat pizza or ice cream.

not in the same way again.

yes, they can eat a vegan substitute but they’ll never be racing through italy with their best friend eating vanilla ice cream in hotel rooms they wreck together. they can have other flavours of cereal but they’ll never be 14 and in greece at 3 am eating frosties straight out of the box. they’ll unicycle again but never together. and they can be neighbours and share small talk and the same space but it’ll never be the same as go karting in prema with keke.

that time has gone and those kids with it and we can never have it back, not in that way again. they’ll never be kids again.

[flatoutin-eaurouge]

An impatient little Nico Rosberg with Keke Rosberg, during ITC GP2 in Helsinki, 1995.

[didierpironi]

I wish I could make it more than a minute, but the audio length says no

[keepthedelta]

they put a baby in a kart and let him steer straight into the bushes

[argentinagp]

Keke Rosberg - 1982 F1 Champion

[englishboylover]

the best thing keke did wasn't winning the championship, it WAS NICO.

[kaunismies]

how to serve cunt in yellow

[mirrabeau]

I constantly think about how at one point in time, the entire rosberg family had the same haircut

[nclauderdale]

Baby brocedes + Keke

[blorbocedes]

That photo of baby nico and his mom is so cute! Sina actually kind of looks like princess diana there, i had no idea that nico looked so much like her. As tumblr's resident nicologist is there any lore about Sina, with or without Keke?

ooo sina is actually a very cool lady, and yeah nico does quite look like her.

in the 80's she was a total baddie, working as a German translator and keke, normal seen as cold finnish gruff, was HEAD OVER HEELS for her. in fact the rosbergs speak German at home because Sina is German and to quote Keke he lost his identity completely because he got "sexually hooked on Sina"

this interview by premier nicologist distantlaughter (big big recommend the whole thing)

so when they got married keke was like i do and sina was like eh 🤷‍♀️ why not. you can see keke's 😍 like heyyy good looking. sir that is your wife. this current unromantic ass non simp grid could never 🙄

this is crucial sina lore, where keke was invited to the finnish independence ball and she wore a suit which women weren't approved to do. the bowtie on a bare neck is such a look

while nico was karting, and later racing sina would always vacuum during grand prixs on the telly cause she'd be too nervous watching nico race.

more of sina being a baddie

in abu dhabi 16, she was telling niki lauda how it was her golden egg cells + keke's sperm that made nico (aka her genes that did the work). and yes that is a drink in her hand

😎😎😎😎

[eliotheeangelis]

classic f1 + text posts, part 37/?

previous

[photoarvhiofone]

a little bit more of them

[readingbythestreetlights]

li-young lee / raymond luczak / betsy reed / pete gill / michael dumanis

the generational death of language & saluting a flag

[keepthedelta]

he grew into it