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Had an amazing time down in San Jose at the SAP Center for the 7th annual Sharks prospect scrimmage. There is a lot of potential and of course LETS GO SHARKS. Summer time is always better when you have hockey. #SanJoseSharks
Carlos es la mamá de Los pollitos. 🐣🐥
Land Norris just wants some milk, mommy!
Some Dani Ricciardo gifs, for the birthday of this astronomical one of a kind Unicorn legend. 🥳🎂🥂
Never change Dani Ric. Never change! 👏👏👏
🤣🤣👏🤭🦄🦄🦄
I wrote this article on my Formula One Blog. I hope you take it into consideration.
We know who won.
YOur day will come, Charles.
Daghe, Charles.
Avante
This isn't the F1 we love
History in the making, Unfair Rulings, and Big Disappointments
Formula One is a sport that many define as the closest thing to riding a rocket into outer space because of the downforce generated inside the 800 kg car, which is more than the weight of the vehicle itself.
Every time the drivers get behind the wheel, they defy gravity, which is very much compared to being inside a Space Shuttle.
This week, Falcon Heavy carried an extraordinary payload, a rocket full of satellites and between them, a Solar Sail, known as LightSail 2, the size of a loaf of bread which is the first spacecraft for the Scientific Community with nothing, not one engine, but the energy of the sun to propel it and promote space exploration.
Then, NASA on July 27th announced that we are going back to Saturn’s biggest Moon, Titan, to send a helicopter drone named “Dragonfly,” to uncover the fundamental blocks that gave way life to our planet.
That race is no easy feat.
The last time NASA accomplished this was during the Cassini-Huygens Mission, and until this day it remains the farthest aircraft to ever land in the outer Solar System.
Just like Cassini and Huygens, Formula One has a lot of things in common;
A lot of preparation and teams of two, but sometimes not both make it till the end.
This week we saw the youngest podium ever to win in Formula One history at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Amidst back grid positions, penalties for impending drivers and a theatrical ending, and why yes— even a fake document from a pesky fan, because you have to have it all in Formula One, FIA could not taken long to call on their investigation for this year’s winner.
Max Verstappen wheeled banged himself into Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc on lap 69 which cost the Monégasque his first win. The Dutchman had earlier overtaken on Bottas from Mercedes right after saying his hybrid engine was losing power and as if a miracle, recovered.
The Finnish and teammate to Lewis Hamilton for Mercedes was having overheating issues, but kept the pace with the 21-year-old, said “made the most out of it. It was a bit more difficult than we expected, especially with the overheating of the engine, so couldn’t race properly – had to manage all those temperatures. That’s why defending was difficult and also attacking. But, yeah, got some good points. It was one of those weekends, but it’s not bad.” he added.
The FIA Regulations clearly state:
Article 27.4. : "At no time may a car be driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically, or in a manner which could be deemed potentially dangerous to another driver or any other person.”
It almost seems as if they were quick enough to deliver a penalty against Sebastian Vettel who had nowhere to go when Lewis Hamilton kicked him out of track in Canada, and it showed. “I had nowhere to go,” Vettel said, as he broadcasted by Sky Sports. “Seriously, I had nowhere to go.”
Sebastian Vettel, superpositioned the FINISH order of the signs once he caught up to the two drivers, Leclerc, and Hamilton in Canada.
Yes, stewards, you can fool yourselves but not a man behind the wheel!
The rules stand clear on this one.
And although this year's rules were changed to allow overtaking to increase by 50%, it caused Vettel the race by 5 seconds which subsequently won Hamilton First Place. That same discrepancy and too much power in the stewards allowed the Monégasque to lose the track not because he could not win it but because of incompetence from the governing body.
A dramatic end indeed which translates it to another week in Formula One, even if Verstappen was able to break the 1-2 Mercedes partnership, FIA, you had one job, just one, and you messed it up.
What does that mean for the greatest single seat racing sport in the world? It means that even if Honda Racing waited nearly 13 years, for their big break by Verstappen, and Congratulations— for it must feel excellent that you got something handed to you unfairly well, the real winners here are the Fédération.
It means there is a big problem going on with Formula One.
Their penalty process or lack thereof has become a substantiated mess.
FIA forwent their own rulebook when it comes to the violations that are followed but happily look away when it pleases their stewards.
No wonder why Fans have taken it upon themselves into forging fake documents. They no longer have the ability to trust them or the credibility they used to have in this organization, and can you blame them?
The whole system is wrong. Do they know how it works? It is their system after all, but it is broken, and it needs a complete overhaul.
Two hundred three thousand attendees today turned up in Spielberg to celebrate legend, Niki Lauda, where they saw a Turn named after him. Were he still with us today would he be proud?
This is a massive sport, with millions of fans visiting the circuits and audiences tuning in tandem online and through cable TV, cheering for their favorite teams, from Ferrari to McLaren, Red Bull, and Mercedes to name a few of the top favorites.
There are currently 20 male drivers in the series.
It isn't an easy feat to get licensed for Formula One; many think that the name helps, that it may be a ticket to get into Ferrari Driver Academy, but that is not true. You have to have talent.
And this year's alumni prove it; it isn't like any other group of drivers in the history of the Federation.
Without a shadow of a doubt, they are the youngest group Formula One has ever put behind the wheel and inside a helmet.
We saw Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen, and Lando Norris set some impressive records in Austria this week.
Ferrari driver, Charles Leclerc, 21, winning pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday, while Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton 5 time World Champion, was given a three-place grid penalty which forced start him in the fifth position on the grid for impending Alfa Romeo's Kimi Raikkonen.
He went as far as saying “We’ve been chipping away at it, but right from the get-go we noticed a bit of a deficit to the Ferraris,” Hamilton said.
“We thought it would be a bit closer than it was, but they eked out some more time in P3 and then going into qualifying.”
“We definitely underestimated how fast they would be, I would say, and I think ultimately on the straights.”
“They really kill us on the straights.” because the Monégasque was leaving him in the dust by a quarter of a second.
Raikkonen gave a middle finger salute at the five-time world champion as Lewis overtook him. About the incident. "He blocked me, simple as that," Raikkonen said.
It is known that Hamilton can get tricky on those laps and get off the hook with penalties, FIA notwithstanding has looked the other way and handed them to other drivers like Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari's teammate to Charles Leclerc, who after the Canadian Grand Prix was given a five-second penalty, which ultimately cost him the race to Lewis Hamilton.
During the Austrian Grand Prix, his luck had not changed.
The air pressure line to the engine was acting up, and the mechanics had to shield his car from view while Leclerc had to leave him behind to go on the circuit. Vettel had to stay on the vehicle for as long as he could.
“The car was obviously broken so we couldn’t fire it up and go,” he said.
“We fairly quickly made the decision to change, but it’s not so easy to take the bodywork off... “We done everything we could be we couldn't get it done in time," he continued.
“There's nothing you can do inside the car. It's nobodies fault, but we need to understand what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again...
“At that time it's nobodies fault, I knew most likely that if we fixed it, there would be one run, so I tried to focus solely on that.
"As much of a pain it is, it's good to see that the other car came through and got pole.
"I'm happy for the team, obviously not happy for my side. We'll have a good day and a good race tomorrow."
Following Vettel’s comments Mattia Binotto, Ferrari F1 team boss said "It is an engine problem, "We had miscombustion on one cylinder, but it's yet to be understood.” which indicates they will be taking Vettel’s engine back to Maranello, Italy ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix.
This is Charles Leclerc's second career pole position after qualifying in Bahrain GP back in March but missed out due to a cylinder malfunction where he allowed Mercedes a 1-2 win, to Hamilton-Bottas overtaking in his last ten laps.
The Monégasque, who was repeatedly proving his driving credentials with speed, in Spielberg, started his driving career, karting at a very young age.
This time, however, was a different story, qualifying to leave the Mercedes in the dust by a margin, with Max Verstappen from Red Bull right behind him following his karting days from 2012.
This time It seems almost as if "Chal Lelerc," as he joked on Twitter earlier in the day to the Formula1 page when they jokingly @mentioned his name "Lelerc" on a Tweet, was testing a rocket, because he broke the circuits record by 1.03.003 mins, broken the year prior by Alfa Romeo's Kimi Räikkönnen by 1:06.957 mins.
"The car felt amazing actually," said Leclerc during the FIA conference. "In FP1 I struggled a little bit, but then we did some changes, and from FP2 it was quite good and a big pleasure to drive this car on the limit. It just felt great, and I'm very happy to bring the pole position back home - but tomorrow we need to finish the job."
Not in vain, he calls this his favorite circuit since in 2017 he won his first cup while he raced for Prema Racing in F2. It's safe to assume that after this loss and the stewards unfairly ruling he will continue to push to get that #1 Championship Title he deserves.
No offense to the winner, Max Verstappen but that ruling was uncalled and the stewards got it wrong.
FIA did give an opening for Ferrari to appeal but Mattia Binotto, Ferrari's Team Boss rejected to appeal "to support the sport."
"What's Ferrari's opinion and position - we still believe this is a wrong decision, that's our own opinion, we believe that Charles left the entire space, he had no fault, a collision has happened and he has been pushed and forced off the track," Binotto continued,
"We believe these are clear rules, which we may appreciate or not, and these are exactly the same rules which have been applied in past races.
"Having said that, we respect fully the decision of the stewards, they are the judge and we need to recognize that, and more than that I think that as a Ferrari fan - and I'm an ultimate Ferrari fan - I think it's time for F1 to turn the page and to look ahead.
"As we often said, we should leave the drivers free to battle, so we may not be happy of the decision, we are not supporting the decision, but somehow we understand the fact that we need to move forward, and overall I think that's good for the sport and good for F1."
Binotto may be looking to move forward from this one, but the fans won’t, and if by 2021, FIA has not devolved from how their rulebook has immiserated fans worldwide, then, RIP Formula One.
Verstappen won the race by 2.724 seconds.
Congratulations on your big “win.”
Photo credits:
Reuters, Getty, and AFP
When Charles Leclerc is “Lelerc” and Chal Lelerc fixes it for the Tifosi. 😂👌
Megan Rapinoe
Did you know that we have better maps of the moon that we have of Earth? This is an actual 3D model of our Mooncrom NASA.
The LRO Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has done all the homework for us after 10 years in Luna! Thank you, little guy! You are indeed GLORIOUS for withstanding Lunar Orbit and sending us all that data to prepare us for Artemis. 🙋♀️🏻🚀🥳🙏
https://t.co/vlyT1QzX4v?amp=1
Get pumped. Hassle the Hoff! David hasselhoff.
Valteri Bottas, FrenchGP, 2019
More Schumi gifs. One from Brazil and the offer from Budapest. Legend!
Michael Schumacher. Keep Fighting, Kaiser!!!
Michael Schumacher. The Kaiser. The BEST F1 driver in history. Him and Ayrton Senna defined entire generations. Nobody, not even those fanboys crying that certain McLaren drivers are the best can take this from him.
Hate me for saying this, but it isn't going to happen. Schumi FOREVER.
KEEP FIGHTING!
Some Alien and Prometheus gifs
The Expanse S4 coming up!
You welcoming Screaming Firehawks!
RIP Center Core Booster, of course, I still love you pad June 24th pad miss. 😭🚀
Some Raceday gifs of Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz at Le Castellet. France. 😆
The bromance is real.
Bottas and Hamilton wished they had this ship.
The key to a good partnership is everything to win races or make things work, and they're heading that way.
Sometimes wonder if the Ferraris have ever ship this hard.🙏🥺❤️
Is everything. 😭👇
As a mom of boys, all I can say is,
Never change boys.
Never ever change. You're changing F1 for me.
Thank You. Truly.
This was gold, Carlos smearing his ice cream like a good brother would. My brother Carlos does that still.🤣 Tio! 🙋♀️🏻👏👏👏
Revenge is a dish best-served cold? Hah! Puns.
Yup! I went to the theater with my husband and our two sons, behind me there at least 10 guys watching that screamed a resounding “WTAF” in unison and could not even.
They were PISSED!🤣🤣🤣
My husband grabbed my knee in acknowledgement, and I soft nodded because it was all too hilarious I almost wanted to grab my phone to record it. But damn.
Just like they tell us all the time about that sandwich, DEAL WITH IT.
Let me tell you. Never have I cried harder with a movie before.
I felt a sense of pride with Wonder Woman, but with Captain Marvel, I never knew a woman could BE, you know? I mean, YOU KNOW?
A WOMAN. KICK A$S. Simply BE.
Unapologetically, herself. Not having to ask permission to be a woman, or feel, or smile and not taken in to subtext for that alone,🤦🏻♀️ or permission to fight to survive or have to be vulnerable or angry because everyone takes our right to choose all the d*mn time. It's liberating, and to see someone represent us like this and to see the men that are crying over it still is even better because I still see it on Twitter.🥳
I’m not saying Gal did not do it in Wonder Woman but with our rights being overturned this movie resonates the harder. WW opened the door. She gave us the key. She let us dream. The many women before her paved the way.
Captain Marvel is taking us places now!
Men only need us to sexualize our bodies until we can prove them we don't need them to rescue us, and then they're offended or angry and have to be mad or take an aim calling us names because we're not feminine enough to please them. Please!
We threaten their existence since we bled for the first time, but they needed us anyways to procreate, and if it came to them for the world’s survival, the world would be in a heap of trouble.
Give the women some credit, already!
Men should feel complimented, honored even that a woman like that can mother them children.
It goes both way, if we take their names just like we take theirs and we give them babies and we make them homes, it’s a two-way street, give us some darn respect.
To all the awesome men that stand with us, we hear you; we love you, we stand with you, we respect you, and that's why we have married you and made homes with you and the ones we have not, then, your mirror is a reflection of why that is! 🤷♀️🏻
Women aren't just for making you sandwiches or breakfast.
We are Scientists, Warriors, Doctors, Lawyers, Actors, Astronauts, Congresswomen; and much; much more.
We’re saving the world in as many ways than men could give us credit and not because men have not tried to stop us from it!
Look around.
I’m just saying.
Double Standards:
Indiana Jones:
Men:
Captain Marvel:
Men:
Some Alien and Prometheus gifs I made.
The great John Wheeler.
One of the greatest Theotherical Physicists that ever lived.
I’m feeling a bit like this, this morning.
Happy Monday
Some Niki Lauda gifs. The true Formula 1 legend. Stars’ Speed The Computer. 🙏🏻
The last gif is him and Alain Prost.
Rest easy old friend. Thank you for the memories, always and forever.
Without you, our childhoods, would have been less fun.
Alas, you're now with the rest of those who formed us. Theres a racing shoe stuck in my throat as I write this so bear with me.
Give Beco, Julio, and Hervé, Alain, and James, our love.
Ciao Niki. Thank you,
Forever. 🏎🏎🏎🏁🏁🏁
The track is all yours now, dear friend, and guess what?
This one doesn't go in circles! 🙏🏻😭
Niki Lauda
Formula 1 Racing Legend
Born Andreas Nikolaus Lauda
in Vienna on February 22, 1949
three-time F1 World Champion
The only driver in history to have driven and won for both Ferrari and McLaren.
May 20th, 2019, when death couldn't meet him on the tracks, so, it decided to meet Niki Lauda on his sleep and take him because to quote Niki:
“You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality...
A race isn’t won until it’s over.
Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.
Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.”
~ Niki Lauda
requested by shippingfanatically
Whoever wrote this, this is perfection.😆🔥
F1 drivers as people you work with
Lewis: low level management, email signature is #Blessed, goes to the gym every day before work and tells you about it, brings his own lunch every day and always offers to let you try some
Valtteri: also goes to the gym every day but doesnt talk about it, talks all the time about how impressive his wife is, the first person to say “so, we’re all going out for drinks tonight right?”, has like 4 drinks more than anyone else but is never hungover
Sebastian: wants a management position but is just a little too oblivious and plays obvious favorites, accidental snitch (asks you “hey, how was the concert last night?” right in front of the manager that you called out ‘sick’ to), weirdly anal retentive about the coffee maker in the break room
Kimi: probably liked this job once but is now just here for the paycheck, bribed the IT guy to get him off of the weekly office-wide corporate emails, seems like the most boring guy but is actually a great cook and does tons of fun stuff over the weekend, can’t work the fancy new coffee machine to work so Seb makes him coffee every day
Daniel: wanted to be a comedian or an actor or something but figured he needed a 'fall back’ with a steady paycheck, always roasting everyone but is the first person to defend you from angry clients or management, always knows about the best restaurants and microbreweries, the person who remembers everyone’s birthdays and brings in treats
Max: kind of gets a bad rap because of an Incident with a Family Member that no one will let him live down and also because he makes a bunch of mistakes, but when he’s good he’s GOOD so they probably won’t fire him, always asking to borrow your charger and just leaves it somewhere in the break room, goes to get water like 11 times a day because he won’t just bring a water bottle
Pierre: impeccable fashion sense, if only he’d do something decent with his hair he could be super hot, every year gives his secret santa fancy cool patterned socks, drinks water out of a blender bottle
Brendon: super chill and easy to get along with but for some reason management doesn’t like him, brings in the good coffee for the break room coffee machine, breaks the copier at least once a week, had anxiety over whether or not to invite the whole office to his wedding or just his friends
Lance: got his job because his dad owns the company, pretty ok guy but no one wants to be friends with him because of his dad, prints out pictures of memes and hangs them up at his desk, always gets chinese food delivered for lunch but can’t use chopsticks
Sergey: got the job because he’s friend of Lance’s, is either the nicest guy or will 100% burn this place to the ground but no one can get a read on him, always tries to leave early on thursdays because that’s when he has dinners with his mom, always wants to see your dog pictures
Fernando: definitely loves this job even though no one can figure out why, always turning down better offers from better companies, total snitch (tells management “so did you see the cool pictures that X posted of the concert they went to last night?”), has a private Instagram but always complains when anyone else does, constantly leaving the coffee maker a mess to make Seb mad
Stoffel: was trained by Fernando, either only has 2 pairs of pants or just several of the same 2 pairs, always smells really good even though apparently he just wears knock-off cologne, signs birthday cards really big so that everyone else in the office runs out of room
Carlos: everyone’s office crush, completely unaware of how hot he is, most consistent member of the team even though he’s never recognized for it, the guy who inexplicably signs the back of every card even if there’s tons of room to write on the inside, will always eat the last donut/cookie/piece of cake
Nico: serial dater, never in dress code but management never notices, will tell you “there’s donuts in the breakroom” even though he KNOWS there’s just one half of a smooshed maple glaze left, thinks he’s “The Jim” when really he’s Andy, always says he wants overtime but will literally hang up a phone call if it’s even 5 minutes before closing time
Romain: complains so much that no one really pays attention to him, clients are always mispronouncing his name and he doesn’t even correct them anymore (“yes, this is Gross Jeans, how can i help you?”), has a million pictures of his wife and kids, will screenshot his facebook status to then post on Instagram
Kevin: absolutely the funniest guy in the office without trying to be, always drinking energy drinks you’ve never heard of, always has his sleeves up so you can see his tattoos, compliments everyone else on their tattoos, holds grudges for days
Sergio: tells everyone that taco bell isn’t real mexican food but eats taco bell twice a week, super in to charity work and volunteers almost every weekend, wears futbol jerseys to work all season even though he always gets in trouble for it, the guy who’s just good at literally everything he ever does
Esteban: totally the most petty guy you’ve ever worked with, was on student council in high school and listed that on his resume, leaves the premises for lunch but never tells anyone where he goes, but always returns phone chargers that Max leaves laying around
Marcus: always wants to order food, always signs up to bring something for the office party but then forgets and is late that day because he has to stop and get chips and dip on the way in to work, other than the party food has a great memory, remembers everyone’s kid’s and spouse’s names and birthdays, lives for crossfit
Charles: has had a rough life but is always so positive, seriously NEVER ask him about his family, goes to the gym after work so that he can say “sorry guys id love to go to happy hour but my gym buddy is counting on me” even though everyone knows it’s because he’s not 21 yet, always brings ramen in to work even though there’s no way to cook it so he just leaves it in the breakroom
BONUS:
Nico Rosberg: transferred branches when he got a promotion and Lewis is hella salty about it
Daniil: was fired for making the same mistake that Max makes constantly but is still out there living his best life i guess
“What, what, what, WHAT!?” the actress recalls thinking. “Because it comes out of fucking nowhere. I’m flabbergasted. Absolutely never saw that coming. I cried,” Clarke says. “And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn’t come back for five hours. I’m like, ‘How am I going to do this??’
THAT tells you all you need to know about Daenerys. It was NOT foreshadowed. It was NOT in her character to do what she did. D&D are trying to cover their tracks but Emilia Clarke is not having it!
You kept all your promises to me. 1x07/8x06