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31 years since the lap of gods which means i get to parade what i think might be my personal fave work, really!

SEGA Hyperfixation Corner | The 1993 European Grand Prix

sometimes in history, we have a hard time realising that certain events and relevant people coexisted in the same moment in time. for instance, the university of oxford already existed when the aztec empire was created or how 1929 was when both anne frank and martin luther king were born. for me, it didn’t kick in until recently that the lap of the gods, the greatest lap that we have ever seen in formula 1, took place in the same grand prix as the sonic trophy. in fact, if you think about it, the sonic trophy was *the* reward given to ayrton senna for pulling that insane lap! so, today, for this hyperfixation corner, we’re gonna tie all the loose ends and come to peace with the 1993 european grand prix, or better, the 1993 SEGA european grand prix.

part 1: it takes AGES to sponsor a team part 2: your dreams are the same as mine - the race circuits of autopolis and donnington park part 3: it takes AGES to sponsor a grand prix part 4: the race of the gods epilogue: where in the world is the sonic trophy?

disclaimer: this edition isn’t actually sponsored by sega and i have never made a single buck out of this blog. in fact, i have lost money since i started doing this. i am a broke student. please don’t sue me if you’re reading this sega.

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me after saying ‘it is what it is’

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you’re telling me that we classified relatively bad for our standards yet we got another podium and a charles leclerc masterclass running two different strategies?

#imagine if charles hadn’t gone wide against perez there……

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jenson button | 2006 hungarian grand prix

#i think this gifset very underrated ngl

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DAVID SANCHEZ LMAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOO

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BUT that being said, i don’t see reasonably the formula e experience lasting that long in brazil. formula 1 is unfortunately overpriced, but tickets sell out every year because we have a long tradition of racing overall, sure, but also three of the greatest formula 1 drivers ever: emerson fittipaldi, the racist (he was a damn good driver) and ayrton senna, who is a GOAT contender. 8 titles in total and i’m not counting keke, nico, jenson and lewis.

by the time formula e finally started to get broadcast in brazil, it had long been since lucas and nelsinho’s titles and formula e is more of an acquired taste. tickets, i think, were way expensive (i paid 287,50 reais for a ‘solidarity ticket’, brazil’s minimum wage is 1412 reais. for comparison, i paid 30 euros for my monaco ticket, at the time the minimum wage in france was 1353 euros net). it’s too expensive when you consider that, if you’re coming outside são paulo, other expenses will add up: travel fares, accommodation, meals, etc. if you get there and it’s not well organised like the experience i had, it’s just not worth it. comparatively, for monaco i was able to arrange a train from paris to nice for cheaper than a plane from rio to são paulo, cheaper accomodation for me and my friends so we were able to spend 4 days in nice instead of 1 in são paulo, we took a train from nice to monte carlo on the day of the race and it was easy peasy. the rest of the time we were on the beach at nice. you know what they have in são paulo? buildings. smh.

(granted, i lived in paris and i don’t now so i won’t attend the monaco e-prix anytime soon)

was at formula e today ama

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@topnotchquark sorry for the late reply!! you got buried under a few other notifs, but thanks a lot for asking! a bit of a long answer coming in, hope you don’t mind hehehe

this was my second time at a formula e race, first time being in monaco 2023 and it was a very different experience! first, because of the time of the year (in monaco, the race took place in early may so it was sunny-ish but still light cardigan weather) whereas in são paulo, it was mid-march, which, although it’s são paulo so it can rain whenever, it was fucking hot and me and my friends felt every bit of it. in fact, they had free rehydration stations but at the beginning of the day these weren’t working, so we bought a lot of water. at the end of the day, the water tasted a bit weird so we still bought a lot of water fkdbksbs. so, def, the heat took its toll on us and it did feel like the promoters weren’t ready for it at all.

another thing that gave me the ick was that last year, in monte carlo, fans were allowed to participate in the autograph session according to arrival. places were limited, but it was first come, first served. thanks to it, i had the opportunity to meet a lot of the guys and get tons of the autographs and so i was looking forwards to catching up with my faves this year and, in particular, talking to nick cassidy who i hadn’t had the opportunity to last year. unfortunately, this time it was invitation only and there was no explanation on the criteria for it, so the lack of transparency also sucked. we lost our places in the shadow looking for the autograph sessions until we found out about it as well. it was my friends’ first experience in formula e as well and i had spend the whole week hyping them up for the paddock visit, so overall that was ass.

we had bought tickets for sector B, lower section, so since it’s a short race we decided to grab a place on the rail and watch it from upclose. bad decision for our overall state of dehydration and lack of sleep (we woke up around 3am that day to go to SP from rio) but amazing choice racing wise. this dude was in front of us:

so, obviously we saw the drivers, i yelled a bunch of their names, some of them looked and appreciated it (including nyck de vries, nice lad), some of them didn’t even look even though you could absolutely hear me (jev you cunt). didn’t yell for ticktum, why would i. the roar was bigger from everyone for lucas di grassi and sette camara, of course. i like sette cam a lot because he was really nice to me in monaco, a shame i couldn’t say hi to him this year.

anyway, the guy who got the greatest commotion this year though was this one:

a funny moment happened when I was the only person who recognised his son emmo, who i think is racing in the middle east, so i shouted his name. he was a little bit embarrassed so he just gave me a little thumbs up, but his mother was super happy according to my friends at my recognition. THEN she slagged him off at only thumbing me up instead of saying hi fkdbdkjd

another funny moment was when BERNIE somehow thought it would be a good idea to walk the grid the week it was announced felipe massa was suing him over 2008, so when people started shouting his name he started walking quickly, so people started screaming even more (and i even heard some “FELIPE MASSA” screams. i might have uttered some of those.) - yes, i know it makes sense when you consider his wife, current FIA VP, is brazilian. but bernald…. stay put.

ANYWAY. when it was racing time, i was actually surprised that the cars that close are louder than they seemed at monaco! in monte carlo, i was at the casino corner, here:

so as i wasn’t that close to the cars they sounded like they do on the tv, pretty quiet. back in são paulo, however, as i was pretty close, they were way louder, much different experience, so it was really interesting to note how their sound actually gets lost in distance. this might sound logical, but then when you actually hear them it doesn’t, it’s two different cars in sound and i was only a couple meters closer!

anyway, the racing itself was brilliant, as formula e always is in terms of competition! unfortunately nick dnf’d and a mclaren won, BUT at least it was sam bird, who is an amazing guy! the girls absolutely loved the last lap shenanigans and they fell in love withe the category, so overall we had a great day. to reward ourselves, we had after the race an incredibly expensive but delicious dinner at an all you can eat asian restaurant (são paulo is a hub for an asian diaspora so you can trust the quality!), bought ourselves some sweets, had the most well earned showers of our lives and ate said sweets whilst watching football. a terrific day :D

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#have never had this experience because literally started wearing glasses at three #weirdly enough soon after (REALLY SOON) started reading #… my mother really should have taken me to that neurological evaluation that my school ordered at the time #i’ll get on that one soon #anyway people who managed to live a while without glasses are v lucky can’t wait to get my surgery done

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only to end up with no points anyway smh

i can’t believe i am about to defend a driver i don’t care for of a team that i wish that would rot, but i think that vowles’ decision to sit sargent out would be logical if albon’s crash had been due to a car failure and not to a gross driver error. for someone who boasted so much the entire past season about how much he believed logan, today’s decision was a slap in the guy’s face. williams is the best positioned team of the “backfielders” (even more now that alpine is at such a disadvantage) and they could easily recover from not having alex drive this one and also reinforce their trust in sargent. would maybe even give him a boost of energy and also make alex come back with more sense for the next gp. instead the lad comes back demoralised for japan, alex learned nothing from his mistake, and ultimately, williams remains williams. woe to everyone involved. lame.

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#i’m JUST watching so just let me be happy

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FERRARI 1-2 RED BULL DOWNFALL AND RESTORATIVE SLEEP IN THE SAME NIGHT? THERE MIGHT BE A REASON TO CONTINUE AFTER ALL. FORZA FERRARI

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HAPPIEST SKIPPED GP OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!

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happy multi 21 day!

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i genuinely slept 11 hours tonight. eleven.

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i can’t believe i am about to defend a driver i don’t care for of a team that i wish that would rot, but i think that vowles’ decision to sit sargent out would be logical if albon’s crash had been due to a car failure and not to a gross driver error. for someone who boasted so much the entire past season about how much he believed logan, today’s decision was a slap in the guy’s face. williams is the best positioned team of the “backfielders” (even more now that alpine is at such a disadvantage) and they could easily recover from not having alex drive this one and also reinforce their trust in sargent. would maybe even give him a boost of energy and also make alex come back with more sense for the next gp. instead the lad comes back demoralised for japan, alex learned nothing from his mistake, and ultimately, williams remains williams. woe to everyone involved. lame.

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1) NOT THIS BITCH IMMEDIATELY CRYING AGAIN I LOVE HER SO MUCH I WANT TO TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH HER

2) her skincare routine must be liiiiiiit. look how little she aged in nearly ten years and how she’s glowing. god bless everyone who isn’t white (ノ_．)ノ

do you guys know about mana, the nico fan who cried meeting him at japanese grand prix 2010? (link to the full gif set by @formulinos here)

well here she is meeting nico at abu dhabi 2019, almost a decade later and nico both remembers her and she cries about it. she's soooooo real

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still haven’t decided if i should wake up to watch the australian grand prix or not. it’s not that there is a 99.9% chance of max winning, as long as there are ferrari cars on track i’m in, but my body has been physically craving as much sleep as possible. ultimate cozy era.