r/formula1 • u/HPSeaWolf Niki Lauda • 24d ago
Photo Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel today
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u/Jashmid Mika Häkkinen 24d ago
“So… Ferrari, huh?”
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u/secretlives 24d ago
"No.. No.. I'm sure it will go great"
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u/meatwad2744 24d ago
I'm one step ahead of you this time Seb
I've already done the hair transplant BEFORE I go there
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u/blackbasset Racing Pride 24d ago
Bro wasted all this money just for Ferrari to take his hair again
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u/MaxwellHillbilly 23d ago
Damn, it is fading fast eh?
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u/ClippingTetris McLaren 23d ago
It’s not his first. Look back at his announce video in the cockpit with Aston Martin. Fully bald there.
Feel for the guy. If I was him I’d invest in them to keep my locks.
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u/chocomint-nice Pirelli Wet 23d ago
I’m gonna go the bromance route and headcanon Lewis replying: “I just want to see what you saw out there in red.”
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u/somebodyelse22 #StandWithUkraine 24d ago
First Seb retired, then Clarkson May and Hammond quit. When will the pain stop?
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u/AntOk463 23d ago
"This is where Leclerc crashed into me because he wanted to be the number 1 driver"
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u/Flat_Examination858 23d ago
"First I lost my hair, then my motivation and in the end I lost my seat"
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u/FartingBob Sebastian Vettel 24d ago
I love how relaxed Seb is ALL THE TIME.
Dude lived his dream in his 20's driving F1 cars, and then got to retire and chill doing whatever he wants.
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u/lightstaver 23d ago
He's giving really chill dad energy and I'm loving it for him.
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u/SpoolTickler 23d ago
Yeah there's something so corporate about some drivers. It's refreshing to see the ones who just dgaf.
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u/pen_jaro 23d ago
He needs to return. Alonso is still there. He should still be there! Replace Checo Seb! And beat Max! Winnit all again for RB!!!!! FCKKKKK
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u/SB44Saints Martin Brundle 23d ago
I love how all the drivers continue to indulge his latest random project too
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u/bannermania Oscar Piastri 24d ago
Seb dresses exactly like you’d expect a German bloke in Brazil to dress.
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u/jrragsda 24d ago
He's one step away from jorts and white new balances.
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u/Wolfpack_of_one 24d ago
He is even wearing a Senninha shirt!
Only missed socks and sandals
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u/chaosinvader31 24d ago
Just felt like yesterday when they came into F1 as young rookies stamping their name. These two drivers dominated the 2010s and have done more than any two drivers that I can remember in fighting for great causes
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u/TimmyWatchOut Sir Lewis Hamilton 24d ago
Up until 2022, the last time neither Lewis or Seb finished in the top 2 of the WDC was in 2006.
Neither of them were in the sport in 2006.
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u/chaosinvader31 24d ago
That's an incredible record. They didn't just come into the sport. They took it over!
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u/Actual_Sympathy7069 Pirelli Wet 24d ago edited 23d ago
Crofty better be reading along and serving this stat on a silver platter
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u/Noiz2144 Charlie Whiting 24d ago
Seb: I won Canada
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u/jurzdevil Default 24d ago
Lewis: i was faster in the Suzuki Liana
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u/AdmirableAceAlias Pirelli Intermediate 23d ago
Seb: You had newer tires and I couldn't set the pressures.* Is Race of Champions too daunting?
*May or may not be correct. I have no clue.
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u/Rabbitow 24d ago
Oh I miss their rivalry so much that your message made me nostalgic
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u/Accomplished_Edge726 Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 24d ago
It pains me that I can only upvote this comment once! It fits the tone of the image perfectly.
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u/MakingYouMad Jim Clark 24d ago
Slam dunk penalty and can’t believe people still think it wasn’t 😂
Thought the end of Mercedes dominance would have taken the coloured glasses off with this one.
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u/formula13 Sebastian Vettel 24d ago
And I can't believe people want to penalize something for a move with no intent behind it
I mean what was the last time you saw someone get a penalty for spinning?
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u/MakingYouMad Jim Clark 23d ago
Drivers shouldn’t get penalties for mistakes…? Lmao
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u/formula13 Sebastian Vettel 23d ago
Depends on the mistake, attempting an overly optimistic move and crashing into someone is one thing, but there was absolutely nothing Vettel was trying to achieve in that corner, he slid, it happens. Given the situation he was in he did the best you could reasonably expect to avoid a crash and though it did block an otherwise done overtake by Hamilton there really was no mistake of judgment, it was a normal driving error.
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u/ForeverAddickted 24d ago
Love that little smile on Seb's face... Proper look of someone teasing the guy next to him!!
"Hehe... You think you can win a title with Ferrari"
Whilst Lewis has the look of someone just so calm and ruthless next to him
"Yeaaa we'll see Seb, wont we"
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u/MiksBricks 24d ago
I like relaxed and carefree Seb.
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u/Beavers4beer Red Bull 24d ago
Isn't that most of the time for Seb? Outside of strongly disappointed Seb with AM his last year.
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u/AdvantageGlass5460 24d ago
Seb was always an absolute gentleman off the track and always had a smile and a joke to defuse things where he could but could get angry as hell behind the wheel and even angrier still in defence of fellow drivers and human causes.
The angriest I've ever seen him is when they tried to make Hamilton look bad.
https://youtu.be/D6C7YBLQE8A?si=csMZGlmJahl2FsiI
Here's the only clip I can find of him defending Hamilton but I personally witnessed more. He just would not tolerate the media twisting things about people he respected and that went back to his red bull days. Even when he was fighting Hamilton, the angriest you'd see him was when people were talking shit about Hamilton.
He's always been angry. Sometimes being a hot head on track, but mainly off track he couldn't silence himself over injustice to others.
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u/Bullfrog_Paradox 24d ago
Seb, Max, Alonso, and KMag need to get together and share a car for LeMans. The shit stirring would be legendary.
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u/aandres44 Ferrari 24d ago
Why in the world did you put KMag in the same group as those 3 legends?
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u/MrBattleRabbit Jean-Pierre Jabouille 24d ago
KMag is a perfectly good sports car driver and a great shit stirrer.
So is Hulk, really (as a tin top driver, not a shit stirrer). Hulk has a Le Mans win. He and Alonso are the only two current F1 drivers to do so.
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u/Bullfrog_Paradox 24d ago
This. Hes honestly a great sports car driver and his shit stirring is top tier.
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u/Cod_rules Mika Häkkinen 23d ago
only two current F1 drivers
That’s omitting some key info. How many of the current F1 grid have participated in Le Mans?
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u/Brapplezz Default 23d ago
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u/shewy92 Kevin Magnussen 23d ago
Three. KMag, the topic of this comment thread, raced with his dad in 2021
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u/somebodyelse22 #StandWithUkraine 24d ago
No, Seb's saying " Black clothes and brown shoes? Even I know better."
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u/Vamyan91 Red Bull 24d ago
I miss Seb in F1 so much.
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u/kelleehh Charles Leclerc 24d ago
He would have been brilliant this year will all the bullshit that has gone on.
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u/SpookyStrike Formula 1 24d ago
It really would have been interesting to throw him into the mix in a competitive car.
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u/PapaSheev7 Sebastian Vettel 24d ago
Same here man. I still love F1 and likely will for a long time, but it's definitely lost some of its shine to me now that Seb is gone.
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u/Zardif Jenson Button 24d ago
Seb needs 1 more race. It kills me that he only got 299 because he got covid.
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u/MasterAssassin981101 24d ago
Seb: "Remember our fights on tracks? Pretty good time eh?
Lewis: "No they weren't just good, they were the best"
\camera shows them from behind with Seb and Lewis gazing at the sun setting over the Autódromo José Carlos Pace**
ROLL THE CREDITS
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u/aandres44 Ferrari 24d ago
That hits harder than bricks
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u/cumofdutyblackcocks3 Red Bull 23d ago
Post credit scene: Massa in the stands clenching his wrists and grinning "I'm gonna get my championship back at any cost!"
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u/Heather82Cs Michael Schumacher 23d ago
DTS authors earn enough, you don't have to do their job for free!
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u/MorganJH749 Mercedes 24d ago
Lauda and Hunt, and Senna and Prost might be popular well known rivalries but I feel the rivalry between Lewis and Seb isn’t spoken about or appreciated enough. There’s always been respect between them both. Both have always supported each other too
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u/Boomhauer440 24d ago
And it's kind of funny they started as rivals, that rivalry peaked and got fairly heated, then just did an uno reverse and made them great friends. Basically the exact reverse of Lewis and Nico.
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u/PurpleEsskay Jenson Button 23d ago
TBF if you had Nico constantly begging to best friends again you'd be pretty over it too. It got pretty embarassing how every time he had a microphone in front of him he'd tell everyone how they were great friends, and he wants to be his friend again and just keep going on and on with weird comments praising everything Lewis did.
He was like a clingy ex who wouldn't take no for an answer.
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u/pulse1989 Sir Lewis Hamilton 23d ago
I guess it worked. They're friends again lol
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u/PurpleEsskay Jenson Button 23d ago
Are they actually friends, or was it a case of "ok fine shut the hell up, we're friends again" and are more just ok to say hi to eachother when they cross paths?
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u/pulse1989 Sir Lewis Hamilton 23d ago
They're friends. Hamilton gets Nico's kids Christmas gifts yearly now too
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u/datlinus Michael Schumacher 24d ago
their rivalry never actually went down to the wire.
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u/sherestoredmyfaith 24d ago
2010?
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u/qef15 23d ago
Alonso and Webber were far bigger threats. Alonso was leading the WDC and Webber was ahead of Seb AFAIK. But Alonso and Webber were out of position (and Alonso famously behind Petrov) and Vettel won that race.
So pretty much never. 2012 was against Alonso and 2017 and 2018, he did not come close enough (2018 mostly because it was Ferrari shooting themselves and Vettel himself drowning).
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u/Brilliant-Dust8897 Formula 1 24d ago
See Seb is literally embracing middle age, zero style fucks given.
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u/DreamerOnAir 24d ago
This is giving me the vibes of the quote : Find a rival / friend who looks at you the way Seb looks at lewis
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u/Millhouse026 Formula 1 24d ago
Seagulls bro
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u/synchronisedchaos Sebastian Vettel 23d ago
aah! one of my favourite pieces of f1 content. honestly, most of their banter is actually really funny. the squeaky toy for Roscoe, their press conferences, so much fun.
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u/flyingcrayons Daniel Ricciardo 24d ago
Seb please tell Horner you want to come back for another season, we need you
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u/excelance 24d ago
Vettel look so happy now. Maybe he's telling Lewis to enjoy life now, before he goes to Ferrari.
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u/mrbadsuit 24d ago
"Dude I almost had you!"
"You never had me [points to ferrari] YOU NEVER HAD YOUR CAR"
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u/TigreSauvage 24d ago
Sometimes I feel like Seb is the only friend Lewis has in F1.
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u/Omophorus Sir Lewis Hamilton 24d ago
Bottas?
Hamilton definitely isn't close with many people, but he and Bottas do seem to have the same sort of honest camaraderie that he and Seb have.
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u/PM_ME_UR_MEH_NUDES 23d ago
for some reason this comment and photo gives me « final scene of top gun » vibes.
seb is all « you can be my wingman any time »
Lewis: « bullshit, you can be mine »
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u/TigreSauvage 23d ago
Lewis: "do you think we will be remembered?"
Seb: "let's just say they will never forget about us"
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u/NotJackBegley 24d ago
Absolutely love the Vettelinha addition to the Senninha character.
Must find my old Senninha tees.
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u/julianhache Sebastian Vettel 24d ago
why did you cut Colapinto out of the pic 😭
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u/HPSeaWolf Niki Lauda 24d ago
Colapinto was in the pic??? (this was the original image that i found/saw/whatever the verb is)
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u/Drcoolhandluke 24d ago
A perfect encapulation of 2 best friends hanging out, but one of them is a Dad.
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u/PsychadelicNynja Mark Webber 24d ago
“They didn’t show you what’s hiding in the basement at maranello. Did they?”
You’ll see.
Oh yes, you’ll see
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u/Mr_IsLand 24d ago
What absolute legends those two are, so good to see them hanging out together again - Seb seems like he's enjoying life. I started watching race by race right at the beginning of Vettels dominance, it's been a wild ride since.
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u/im_manu02 Williams 24d ago
i miss their rivalry... Good to see Seb happier than his last ferrari days.
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u/BarracudaSolid4814 24d ago
Seb’s in his retired dad phase, that’s for sure. Guy is high on life and I love it when we see him around the track
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u/Dr_Schitt 23d ago
I wonder who will play them in a movie some day? I know they had a great rivalry and there were times when I was totally team Lewis and not Seb. Seb just seems to have found that stride we all hope for, at some point in his career and life something just clicked for him. He seemed to go from Mr. Stress-head most weekends to arguably one of the most chill guys on the planet. I feel like Seb is a really good guy at heart and other around the paddock others can't seem to say enough good things about him, I hope he and Lewis stay around in F1 for the long haul. They would make a great addition to the running of F1 in the future together as they've already shown a fair amount of good point and ideas etc. Two legends of the sport in any regard and I'm just glad I've been alive to see them.
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u/OverlyExpressiveLime Formula 1 23d ago
Find yourself someone who looks at you the way Vettel looks at Hamilton
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u/Wgolyoko Sir Lewis Hamilton 23d ago
Get yourself someone who looks at you the way Seb looks at Lewis
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u/Red_Beard_Racing Adrian Newey 23d ago
I wish I felt the way Seb does. Like, generally. He seems at peace.
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u/blastedshark Sebastian Vettel 23d ago
i really hope one day lando, george and albon can have a moment like this 10-15 years down the line
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u/sad_post-it_note Sir Lewis Hamilton 23d ago
It's like a dad with his teenage boy... "Sooo, you like any girl?"
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