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thank you to whoever uploaded the donna tartt audiobook as a spotify podcast i owe you my life
i love the way donna narrated the "cubitum eamus" part francis abernathy i will always love you

happy api month
didnt realise her kids were halfie?? and that she was 2nd gen immigrant?

i needed a fast read for my goodreads challenge okay and also gillian anderson

i havent used my brain while reading a book for a long time i feel smart again

french twin sisters pull a 2008 beijing olympics national anthem - one sings behind the scenes, the other does media events. then the media event one kills herself and the singer one assumes her sister's life. and everyone is super sexist

literally in love with the authors writing style crossed w kimis personality
"His head contains a couple of hundred grams of English. A bit more would be good – say, a kilo."
"The words 'what the fuck' show up on Kimi's forehead in invisible letters"
"And who does it benefit if I temper my memories? No one, so I won’t. Kimi tells it as it is, picking up a memory as if it were a fresh fish he has caught in a trap."

- adrians first job offer: rocked up to the interview on his ducati 900ss, interviewer had the rival moto guzzi le man motorbike and asked to take adrians for a spin, offered him the job when he returned. those were the days huh!!!!!!
- used to hide the springs when he changed his driver's suspension so the other drivers couldnt use them??
- very limited wind tunnel testing, so lots of modelling by eye

i was worried it was gonna be repetitive hearing about karting after reading jensons book but kimi brings the parental perspective since his son robin karts. he goes on a long rant about rich kids who pay for mechanics vs his own parents and brother doing all his setup lmao
- cute baby photos
- doesnt need maps no matter the country
- horrible on the highway, great at learning new tracks
- repeated 5th grade

i will singlehandedly build the AMR25 for fernando
jk this book is mainly a memoir w lots of nerding out about aerodynamics so far

very inspiring how deadset he was gunning to work in motorsport! also very funny hearing about how in his youth he was a hippy and then a punk when i only know him as an old bald goat car designer

fighting for my life to get through rn

randomly picked this up for a break between memoirs not teww bad so far

- lewis great to compete against but sooo flopiana on twitter
- lh44 left mclaren bc he prolly thot jb was being favored by team?
- girl so confusing vibes when lewis left mclaren
- jb didnt get along w checo at the start, thought he was too aggro driving
- kimi wanted to punch checo @monaco13
- got along w kmag but kmag had a rough start thrown into deep end
- really sad dad death :(
- lots more nando praise!!!!<3

i lost my library hold on it kms but what i remember:
- lots of praising nando for being the best driver xoxo
- 2010 + 2011 seasons lots of on track rivalry w seb(+mark)
- lewis being unpredictable in what he'll say to the media?
- highlighted some races to look into but dont remember rn
- canada 2011 had its own chapter (jense wet weather tyre whisperer)
- v good timing i got to jb calling daniel his best friend ;_;

- yayyy 2009 wdc! main complaint was lack of upgrades thru out season
- rubens mad abt strategy flip in barcelona?? need to research
- parked in the wrong place after winning monaco, then took the prince out clubbing
- kicked over a paparazzi ladder in brazil
- abu dhabi quote from seb w thick accent????
- 2010 brawn gets bought by merc, but not funded by merc? so jens goes to mclaren (SLAGCLAREN ERAAAA YAYYYYYYY)

- 2004 @ BAR was a good year (3rd in championship
- story about fernando getting high and giggling on anti-malaria pills ???
- 2005 contract messiness between williams and BAR
- filmed a documentary?? at the playboy mansion w hugh hefner and got to interview 3 of his wives
- same year got disqualified from 3 races @ imola for an illegal fuel tank so partied by night and did commentary by day
- indianapolis undrivable

- listened to The Prodigy as a teen
- fav hotels: Grand Hyatt Tokyo, Crowne Melbourne, Cyber View Lodge Malaysia
- Ralf Schumacher is a bit of a diva (derogatory)
- Cute story about meeting Keke and a very shy Nico

this taught me more about the techniques and strategy behind racing than half a season of the f1 netflix show did
highlights so far:
- being called "genitals" at school LMAO
- thank u for decrypting and sharing ur divorced parents relationship dynamic its half the reason i read biographies
- listens to pharrell williams, rage against the machine, kings of leon
very cute so far and writings actually pretty decent

i hope the way i stupidly grin while reading this at the bus stop in the morning makes me look unapproachable mysterious and cool