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Ayrton and his troublemaker doggo Kinda in Angra dos Reis

AYRTON SENNA, 1986

Rio AU Let me take u to São Paulo

Lewis Hamilton performing donuts as he crosses the line in his final race for Mercedes, finishing in P4 - Abu Dhabi, 2024

Nigel Mansell riding Eddie Cheever('s Arrows) like a horse. 1988 Detroit.

Photographers love Alain <3

When you run out of gas and get picked up by someone that then runs out of gas themself, then get picked up by someone else and THEY run out of gas, and finally the three of you get picked up by yet another car. Except it's Formula 1.

Stefan Johannson, Philippe Alliot, Nelson Pissantmcshitface, and René Arnoux. Mexico 1986

a waving AYRTON SENNA before the start of the 1986 GERMAN GRAND PRIX

When you run out of gas and get picked up by someone that then runs out of gas themself, then get picked up by someone else and THEY run out of gas, and finally the three of you get picked up by yet another car. Except it's Formula 1.

Stefan Johannson, Philippe Alliot, Nelson Pissantmcshitface, and René Arnoux. Mexico 1986

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I look back on those days now and think to myself, ❛Why did we put ourselves through all that? Why did it have to get so venomous?❜ If we had to do it all again, I'd say to Ayrton, ❝Listen, we're the best. Between us, we can screw all the others!❞

Still, though, it was a fantastic story, wasn't it?

tell me about grosjean

grosjean's crash is something that occupies my mind constantly. it's almost entirely because of engineering that grosjean is still capable of walking around, talking about his crash. after clipping kvyat's car at just over 150 miles per hour, he collided head-on with the track barrier on a fast straight. at 53G grosjean could've suffered fatal whiplash if not for his HANS- his halo also prevented injury, deflecting a large sheet of metal which otherwise could've decapitated/seriously injured him. most vital of all was likely the carbon fibre safety cell the drivers sit in- a luxury ronnie peterson did not have during his crash, evidenced by his broken legs, which became the primary shock absorber after the destruction of his car's nosecone (the safety cell was invented in 1981). technology purpose-built for incidents like this saved romain grosjean's life (ironic, as he was one of the drivers who lobbied against the introduction of the halo!). it's an interesting crash to discuss, and all the better because grosjean is still alive to discuss it too.

Hes so cute

1984 x 1993

IMOLA, ITALY: Ayrton Senna with Niki Lauda during the San Marino GP on May 01, 1994. (Photo by Rainer Schlegelmilch & Ercole Colombo/Getty Images)

nigel mansell & keke rosberg | 1984 f1 season

GILLES VILLENEUVE lounging around during the 1978 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX

ALAIN PROST being interviewed after winning the 1985 FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Introducing: 1986's the gang of four

Ah yes nearly forgot: some funny things with Alain and Gerhard that I did

But like it was a month ago or so. Anywayy

NIKI LAUDA & JAMES HUNT, 1982

HIS HAIR ARE FINALLY FREE AGAIN😭🩵

learning about the prost-senna rivalry is ultimately realising most of it was senna being kind of crazy versus prost trying (and often failing) to keep things as normal as possible. Because the thing is I’ve always believed in order to be a top athlete you have to be somewhat obsessed and for Prost he was, for the most part, the regular amount of that. whereas Senna very famously Exceeded the usual level of being consumed by his sport.

NIGEL MANSELL at the 1984 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX

Niki and Alain, 1984.

a very emotional ALAIN PROST after winning the 1990 BRAZILAN GRAND PRIX

90s drivers and the animals they remind me of ↳ Dogs: Mika Häkkinen, Alain Prost

ALAIN PROST tits out after winning the 1983 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX

Maria Teresa de Filippis, Belgium, 1958.