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DAN WHELDON - 6.22.1978 - 10.16.2011

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THE PROS AND CONS OF BEING RESCUED

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sometimes i wonder how it must feel to be logan sargeant. you grow up across europe and make friends with one of the only other kids there who understands how it feels to be oceans away from home. you fight each other for championships. you lose. you get to the highest category of motorsport in the same year. you're stuck in a losing car while you watch him get his first podiums. his first win. you crash and it's not a blaze of glory, it's not anything but the sinking knowledge your time is up. you have to leave.

then he wins a world championship. and you test an indycar in your home country and you do so so well, but it's never good enough, is it? and your fellow floridian is there in indycar, too. you fish together underneath the blazing florida sun. it's the only time you get to compete on his level.

and the next season starts, and you pull out of the series you were supposed to race in. you don't really ever say why. and the kid you were foreigners alongside is now foreign to you and far from you. he's leading championships, he's fighting for wins and for glory and for everything you've dreamed of. and your friend from back home is winning, too--only one of two winners in his season so far. he's got three wins and third place in the championship.

how long ago was it that you were doing that too? do you even remember how it feels?

and you're happy for them, you are. but it's june and you're in florida and the ache stings like your weary skin left under the sun too long. you're probably tired.

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good lord

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A thing I think about a lot is how this is what Lando looked like when he and Martin met and "had an instant connection"

Anyway happy Saturday

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the mustache was holding him back

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horrible news

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LINUS LUNDQVIST reflects on Rookie of the Year campaign

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📸 xavier.pereyron

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this is mean. but sometimes i do wish that f1blr and hockeyblr realized that f1 and hockey aren’t the only sports on the planet

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things they should teach baseball players as soon as they go pro:

how to manage your money so you aren't broke at 40

sometimes your soulmate is a man

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would it have killed them to at least look a little bit coordinated