there's a classic f1 videogame in the works btw

I just realized I do have something to share actually. please enjoy these cursed cards for an italian card game called Mercante in Fiera, made by the motorsport magazine Rombo back in the days:

oh you know i just had to reblog this

Have a photo of Jackie Stewart giving François Cevert a piggy back ride for these trying times

oh and of course I acquired some vintage motorsport magazines at Imola during the Minardi Days 👀

Imola was fun!

Greetings from Imola!

Goodbye, Didier. In the past years I've seen more and more people getting interested in your story, and that's already a small victory: I wish you were still among us, but at least you're not forgotten.

Didier Pironi, Jean-Claude Guénard and Bernard Giroux, lost 38 years ago today in the Needles Race, off the Isle of Wight #Pironi #DidierPironi #RIP #F1 #Colibri

Remembering Didier Pironi, who passed away #OnThisDay, 23 August 1987. Pironi died when his powerboat flipped in the Solent off the Isle of Wight in the UK. #f1 #formula1

My brand-new #MotorSport column profiles ’70s/’80s #F1 ace Didier Pironi - who was very quick, very intelligent & very ambitious, but also impetuous, reckless &, in the end, fatally unlucky. Click below to find out more, including what might have been… www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

1982 #OnThisDay, 3 July, Didier Pironi secured victory for Ferrari at the Dutch Grand Prix, finishing ahead of Piquet and Keke Rosberg. The win came shortly after Pironi survived a testing accident at Paul Ricard, where his car somersaulted before landing upright on the track. #f1 #Formula1

Ciao Elio, sarai sempre vivo nei nostri cuori ❤️ #eliodeangelis

Very nice read, really loved it!

still can't believe this is me tbh

Stopped by to say hello and leave an orchid 💙💔

today I served cunt in a jim clark honoring way

😔

To celebrate Didier's first victory, here's the Autosprint pages about it! (yes that is a caricature of Didier dressed as the Gitanes lady. much to see in old motorsport magazines)

Didier Pironi's first F1 victory. Teammates Alan Jones & Carlos Reutemann finishing 2nd & 3rd. Belgian Grand Prix, Zolder, 4 May 1980. Race report www.statsf1.com/fr/1980/belg... © Getty Images #F1

#OnThisDay 45 years ago Didier Pironi scored his first #F1 GP win, at Zolder, in this beautiful (& front wing-free) Ligier JS11/15. Pironi drove a faultless race, he led every lap, & he finished 47sec ahead of his nearest challenger, pole man Alan Jones (Williams).

Beautiful Keith Sutton pic of Roland Ratzenberger, in the Simtek S941, at Imola, doing what he loved for the very last time, #OnThisDay in ’94. #GoneButNotForgotten #RIPRolandRatzenberger

happy lella points day btw!

also don't make me think about how didier should be at the grand prix historique de france or i may start crying fr

happy birthday josé! wherever you are I hope you're having fun with didier...

Remembering José Dolhem, born #OnThisDay in ’44, Didier Pironi’s half brother & first cousin, for they had the same dad & their mums were sisters. They’re even buried in the same plot (Grimaud, France). Pic: Dolhem, 2nd in class, 9th overall, Ferrari Daytona, Le Mans, ’73.

so here's my favourite photo of michele alboreto instead! I wish you were an old man still hanging around the paddocks ❤️ I bet it would be fantastic to sit down with him and have a chat.

i think we should focus on michele today bc I don't wanna engage with "pironi betrayed team orders!!1" kind of posts tbh

happy easter from this old autosprint cover!

I HATE the automotive market all these consumers demanding stupid SUVs with off-roading capacities they’ll never use WHEN WILL YOU DEMAND A POPUP HEADLIGHT REVIVAL YOU MONSTERS

it's crazy to say that women only care about drivers being cute, you're confusing them with motorsport journalists of the past, I hope it helps! (no seriously, they would write about patrick tambay like a teenage crush)

Great article, definitely a recommended read!

happy birthday to me im now officially older than didier ever got to be which feels so weird 💙💔

happy birthday you photogenic man

spent an entire workday resisting the temptation to tell my colleague wearing jeans a denim shirt white socks and loafers that she looked just like didier pironi

hbd to my big three <3

Happy birthday in Heaven dear Elio #eliodeangelis

happy birthday didier 💙 a lot has happened since you were just a little kid racing your bike on the streets of Boissy, dreaming of speed, and I wish you were still here to tell your story with your own voice.

Remembering Didier Pironi, born #OnThisDay in ’52. Often remembered for his part in the Imola ’82 row with Gilles Villeneuve, Pironi was a superb driver who won 3 #F1 GPs but should have won many more. Pic: Ligier JS11/15, Österreichring, ’80.

Remembering Lella Lombardi, born #OnThisDay in ’41, the only point-scoring woman in championship #F1 history (Montjuïc ’75). Pic: here’s her privateer Brabham BT44B en route to 12th at Österreichring in ’76, the last championship F1 GP in which a female driver started… for now.

are you ready for didier's birthday tomorrow? because I am

post your lock screen

"I never stopped thinking about F1 since the day of the accident. My heart is still there." - I have acquired new didier materials but at what cost (emotional devastation)

1992 – Remembering the trailblazing Lombardi #OnThisDay Maria Grazia ‘Lella’ Lombardi, the only woman to score a World Championship point passed away. #f1 #formula1

Jean Behra's wounds and scars // The wounded man from Feldtbuch der Wundartzney by Hans von Gersdorff (1519)

lowkey obsessed with the second photo, i'm gonna do a thing

#OnThisDay 45 years ago René Arnoux (Renault) won the #BrazilGP. At the start Gilles Villeneuve hurled his Ferrari between front-row men Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault), in pole position, & Didier Pironi (Ligier), to create a multi-coloured tableau of early-’80s #F1 mega-ness.

Who's up thinking about the 1982 F1 driver strike

Thinking about jack brabham and jochen rindt arriving late on the grid bc they were busy drinking tea (they're just like me fr)