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mister lewis hamilton, sir, how are you gonna go on live television and talk about about how your karting days were the best times of your career and still never say nico's name? not once but multiple times??? oh you mean the karting your did with your childhood best friend nico rosberg? that karting? the karting where you met him? the karting where your families became friends? the karting where you spent months in italy together? the pizza eating contests and torn up hotel rooms? the frosties? the unicycling? that karting???? "i'm over the divorce," says man who is soo not over the divorce.

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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.

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@mothmanavenue you ate this one little thing

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In today episode, we have:

“How Charlos’ petnames game going so far”

#my charlos heart #f1 #charlos #charles leclerc #carlos sainz

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"Fernando's too old he needs to reitire" you just dont get him like i do.

Fernando Alonso who was the youngest ever race winner in 2003. after that win he said "im 22 years old and i have my first victory in (my) pocket so i hope (for) a long career here in formula 1 with more victories"

Fernando Alonso who won his FIRST world championship in 2005 he broke MICHAEL SCHUMACHERS 5 year long winning streak after being in formula one for 4 years. His whole F1 career at that point had been solely dominated by Schumi.

Fernando Alonso who's a 2 time world champion and has been racing longer than Oscar has been alive and has been in more scandals than races

Fernando Alonso who said he knew Michael Schumacher would step on the brakes because he had a wife and kids at home and FERNANDO DIDN'T.

Fernando Alonso who is one of 15 Spanish F1 drivers ever.

Fernando Alonso who is the only Spanish F1 driver to win a WDC (and not just one, TWO.)

Fernando Alonso who's been in 385 gp's (3x as many as Pedo De La Rosa)

Fernando Alonso who's scored 2,298 points in his career (67% of the total F1 points scored by all Spanish drivers)

Fernando Alonso who's not only raced in F1, but also Indy, 24 hours of Le Mans, and the World Endurance Championship.

Fernando Alonso who drove his first go-kart at 3 YEARS OLD.

Fernando Alonso who's family didn't have enough money to buy wet tyres so he had to TEACH HIMSELF to drive on a wet track on slick tyres.

Fernando Alonso who's mother made his racing clothes herself because they didn't have enough money.

Fernando Alonso who won his first karting race at SEVEN. (Daniel Ricciardo, Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton, Yuki Tsunoda, and more drivers on the grid weren't even in karts at seven.)

Fernando Alonso who's managed to stay as passionate (if not more) about F1 in his 23 year career no matter his performance.

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ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

#iris #the goo goo dolls #lazarus #david bowie

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the sprint commentary from nico is precisely why i refuse to learn more about brocedes because the crumbs i do know are already enough to devastate me. because yes, nico might have spent that entire sprint trying to send telepathic signals to lewis on how he could improve so he could win. yes, every other word out of his mouth might have been about how he knows lewis can be more agressive than that, how he knows lewis and knows he can do better. but that's all commentary, that's still technically part of his job description.

but what do you mean lewis still sends christmas presents to nico's daughters every year?? what do you mean lewis, when talking about the first time he visited monaco said that it wasn't for a a gp, it was because 'a f- ...someone i know- ...a friend of mine invited me'??? the friend in question? a 13 year old nico. what do you mean that now, 25 years later, they live in the same apartment building in monaco???? what do you mean nico said 'he's still my best friend at heart'????? what do you mean lewis, when asked if he was a better driver now then he was in 2016, completely unprompted said 'yes, and better teammate' and then the camera cut to nico wHO WAS ON THE BROADCAST THAT WEEKEND AND HE JUST LOOKED DEVASTATED??????

the childhood best friends -> teammates -> enemies -> strangers -> whatever the fuck it is they've got going on now is just too strong and it would pull me in too deep and i would never escape.

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In honour of the last race of the season, here are some respectful moments from 2023 🩷

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nothing but a tragedy

modern greek lore

brocedes is like. ‘awesome race.’ keke rosberg. ‘he was the golden boy at 13.’ come with me to monaco. anthony hamilton. unicycling. kellog frosties. vanilla ice cream. italy. pizza. go-karting. staying up till 3 am laughing. nico using lewis’ map. best friends and then. teammates. dreaming in 2014. ‘unreal.’ spa 2016. ‘we’re not friends. we’re colleagues.’ eating only milk and frosties in abu dhabi. nico retiring a day after his maiden championship. ‘i don’t have any regrets.’ neighbours in monaco. ‘historical context.’ yellow helmets. diving out of corridors to avoid you. ‘karting was the best days of my life.’ nico’s vlog with anthony. ‘do you think lewis would do that for me?’ i send your daughters christmas presents but i still cannot say your name out loud. ‘you’re still flat out motivated, right?’ ‘he was holding his breath.’ ‘i’m a better driver. and teammate.’ ‘in my heart, he’s still my best friend.’ ‘friends, teammates, childhood buddies, rivals, everything but a lover.’

#brocedes #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg #formula 1 #the silver war

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Brocedes lore

The reason Brocedes can never be replicated is that it was never just a sporting rivalry. Being childhood besties with someone means bonding your inner child with someone else's, sharing your hopes and dreams with them not just saying, "I want to achieve this" but saying, " I want to achieve this with you by my side." It's the way Nico goes out of his way to mention Lewis because it makes him real, it's the way he knew Lewis was holding his breath on his pole lap before Lewis even said it himself, it's the way he is critical about Lewis but can't stand it when someone else does it, it's the way Nico asked Lewis, "you're still flat out motivated, right?" not as an interviewer but as someone who knows Lewis is a fighter through and through, it's the way that was the only time Lewis looked at Nico and smiled because he understood Nico was saying, "I know you. I remember you. I know you don't give up," it's the way Lewis has a working relationship with Alonso who bribed mechanics but refuses to say Nico's name because being hurt by someone is depthless while hating someone can be defined, it's the way Lewis said, "and a better teammate," with regret lacing his voice knowing Nico was listening as a way of acknowledging the hurt was mutual after all these years, it's the way Lewis rarely calls anyone his friend but called Nico his best friend and then stopped saying his name at all when he got hurt, it's the way shutting out your childhood best friend means suppressing your inner child who never stops loving them. It's the way hating them is never an option because hate requires the absence of love but hurt can co-exist with said love. The reason everyone still talks about Brocedes is that we all know what it feels like to lose someone knowing it can never be the same again. Brocedes was never a simple rivalry, it was the embodiment of what it means to get hurt.

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So I've been looking for this one video and haven't been able to find it. I thought you, as number one nicologist of tumblr, of all people would know where it is

So this video where they look at old photos, I see it all the time in edits and shit but with my 5 seconds of searching I couldn't find it

Thanks in advance!<3

you can hear lewis go "I know you love me, man" while nico crawls on top of him... ahhhh bahrain 2008 🥹

so the only version of this lost footage exists in this video on dailymotion, which is dubbed in german (full 5 min video here) you can sort of make out what they are saying over the dub, here's the translations on twitter

but feel free to enjoy the gif sets and HD pictures <3

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In their own words

-> Quotes aren’t strictly in chronological order

-> All those people in those old photographs I've seen are dead, and in the end, I'd do it all again, I think you're my best friend. - Fall Out Boy

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this is modern greek lore / tragedy

I think the thing which stands out about Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton more than every other driver pairing is that they were genuinely close at one point. Yes it fizzled as they grew older and they very much did fall apart but- they were close. They admit that. Anyone who knew them knew that. Presenters knew that even before they were on the same team.

In a sport where so many drivers on the grid met previously in karting it’s easy to say “oh they just vaguely knew each other as kids and you’re inventing more out of it with hindsight” which is true of a lot of drivers in all honesty. But knowing of each other is not the same as inviting someone to join you on multiple family holidays. That’s not an acquaintance. And there’s so much more too.

The thing about brocedes is that none of the background is imagined. They wrestled in hotel rooms. They had competitions over pizza. Lewis went to Nico’s when he didn’t want to cook. Lewis phoned up their karting boss after their first shared podium. Nico still thinks of him as a friend in his heart. Lewis is a better teammate now. They live in the same building. They both turned vegan and had an extreme e team in a series about the environment and gender equality. Lewis gives Nico’s children’s presents. They’ve known each other a long long time.They dreamed of being teammates and world champions in Greece and it happened in a way they never predicted but it happened.

The story is there, the friendship between them was very much there but competition got in the way.

Because Nico Rosberg with a world champion father and having previously been teammates with Michael Schumacher and having Lewis Hamilton as a current teammate was never far enough away that achieving his dream was impossible. It wasn’t just 2016 that it technically came down to Abu Dhabi and he’s still up there in lists of pole positions, total race victories, consecutive race wins etc and he retired quite early. No he never had the potential either of his Mercedes teammates did but he was more than a second driver and he certainly proved that.

And Lewis Hamilton with so much talent and having been dealt unfortunate hands relative to the world of Motorsport knew he had the potential to be the best and he couldn’t understand why Nico was trying so hard and using some pretty questionable tactics to beat him. And it really was ugly by the end to an unhealthy degree.

It seems that in general both have matured a lot now (as tends to happen in a decade) and they’re on fine terms on the rare occasion they do see each other but it really is the best kind of tragedy. The ending was inevitable, no one would have made a different decision, but it’s important to remember the friendship was there. There can’t be betrayal without trust first.

#brocedes #nico rosberg #lewis hamilton #they are the blueprint #f1

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this is so personal for reasons I can't explain <>

#bring brocedes back to me #the fact they went from that to fighting in 10 mins kills me😭 #nico was so cute getting up to congratulate Lewis #lewis being petty as per usual

#brocedes #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg #formula 1 #the love was there but it didn't change anything #but the love was there #f1

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PLS

#brocedes #formula 1 #nico baby you are on live tv #why don't you just stomp all over my heart

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for x, @xiaoluclair, the funniest person i've met thru f1blr

Lewis Hamilton & Nico Rosberg - not friends, not enemies, but a sacred third thing

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping / starpeace / Lewis, Essentially Sports / Planet F1 / unknown / currentlycryingaboutlancelot / Lewis' note in Nico's guestbook, The Sports Rush / June Gehringer, I get so jealous of euthanized dogs. / Richard Siken, Twitter / Nico, Independent / p.d. / Lewis, The Guardian / Lewis, Eurosport / Kahlil Gibran, The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems / Lewis' former karting boss Dino Chiesa, The Sun / Lewis, Essentially Sports / Fortesa Latifi / unknown / Toto Wolff, Motorsport / Elaine Kahn, Romance / David Cronenberg, Consumed / Pierre Corneille, The Cid (tr. by A.S. Kline) / mine / Lewis and Nico, Sky Sports / Nico, The Sports Rush / Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous / Rumi

F1 Web Weaves

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in a better world, nico rosberg and lewis hamilton never get divorced and nico still retires after his one wdc and he still becomes a reporter and instead of the the awkward interview we got last year, we get thousands of brocedes interviews where they're being stupid together. lewis moves to ferrari and nico publicly quizzes him on his italian. nico interviews another driver and lewis is in the background making fun of nico. people make compilations of lewis and nico making each other laugh during interviews.

#i am struck with a vision so potent of lewis pulling nico into a hug in the middle of nico interviewing someone else #lewis winning a championship and nico and vivian are the first ones to spray him with champagne... #the amt of uncle lewis content we would've gotten with nico's kids #it would've been vivian‚ vivian's husband nico‚ and nico's homoerotic friendship lewis #they would've been terror together. reporter!nico and racer!lewis #god could you imagine teamlh and nico rosberg on the same side??? menaces for real #brocedes #this is gonna kill me #this started as a hobby i will never be the same again #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg #f1