Flying Vibs

Nico being driven by other team mates vs. Gabi

2006: schumacher's last teammate and expected to be the ferrari successor primary driver

2007: various issues meant the team went all in on kimi raikonnen who won the wdc by one point

2008: lost the wdc by one point on the very last corner of the last race

2009: knocked unconscious in a race and in a coma, came back and the team had switched their attention and support to fernando alonso

2010: victim of team orders so blatant the rules got changed and he was subjected to the most mortifying press conference ever.

2011: bonkers beef season with lewis for some reason

2012: ferrari broke the seal on his gearbox in parc ferme at cota on purpose so he'd get a grid penalty and start behind fernando

2014: fired from ferrari, replaced by kimi raikonnen, did take his beloved engineer with him

2016: retires. big emotional last race in brazil.

2017: came back from retirement when valtteri bottas got the surprise call-up to mercedes post rosberg retirement. retires again.

now: currently suing the fia over crashgate and the first part of the judgment was like he lost the wdc cause he SUCKS.

and the whole smedley love affair is crazy, like Smedley didn't even want to be a race engineer but Massa didn't get on with his previous engineer so badly they basically arrange married them. And then there's the infamous 'Felipe, baby, stay cool' radio incident. Smedley saying, well I didn't think the radio would be public that was just normal coworker talk. SURE. normal coworker talk so normal we're still talking about it 20 years later. Rob had to tell him he lost the WDC and then after the race when he was alone cried for two hours and couldn't stop no matter how much he tried. smedley desperately trying to raise Massa on the radio post-crash :(( then rob blowing up ferrari's spot giving those team orders and then apologising in such a blatant way no one could deny they'd happened. he couldn't let that injustice stand and it came through. and then going to Williams again he couldn't bond with anyone so they had to whisk Rob away from his much more successful team to go to williams. and rob went. (Edit: being corrected that Rob went to Williams first which is different but then I guess he was still willing to engineer for Felipe despite a promotion so let's sya still Romance) Romance!

alas.

me:

Every gringo that spreads the "south america was a safe haven for Nazis post WW2" myth deserves a slow death.

BRAZIL WAS A FUCKING ALLY TOO, YOU DIPSHIT IMBECILE.

When Wernher von Braun "fled" to the US, he became a chief engineer at NASA and a hero.

My great-grandpa who immigrated to Brazil... in the 1800s. As a baby. Because his dad was against the unification of Germany.

Like, my great-grandpa was definitely racist. According to my mom, he refused to recognize the adopted daughter of one of my mom's cousins because she was Black (Him marrying someone who was part Indigenous was apparently fine, but an adopted Black great-niece was evidently where he drew the line? Racists make no sense).

But racist and Nazi are far from interchangeable terms. All Nazis are racists, but not all racists are Nazis.

My grandmother was part of the war effort AGAINST the Nazis. She helped collect scrap metal and make clothing for Allied soldiers.

It's ironic that the zionist told me to go back to where I came from, because I'm also Indigenous Brazilian (Nambikwara) from the very same side of the family that I have my German heritage.

Later on my grandpa married a CATHOLIC Brazilian woman (my grandma), he raised his kids as catholics. Every cerimony, everything catholic.

Talking about the war, or what his life before Brazil was seeing as taboo in the family, so it led many thinking he might have been a mustache man sympathizer and it was always kinda a silent worry.