Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand Prix Post-race Conference, 1990.

Death Could Not Beat Me - written by Jorge Gaitán Durán (orig. spanish No pudo la muerte vencerme) + Primož Roglič.

Primoz Roglic on the 2020 Tour de France, stage 20 filip bossuyt from Kortrijk, Belgium // eurosport: Getty Images Primoz Roglic after losing the 1st place to compatriot Tadej Pogacar, Tour de France 2020, stage 20// Giro d'Italia // AFP 2021 Vuelta a España, podio final // Roglic, Dumoulin y Dennis, on the podium of Tokio Olympics 2020 TT competition, MARTIN RICKETT EFE // @primozroglic // @primozroglic : Billy Ceusters // @primozroglic.

this one’s very long my bad

tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard // some nights by fun.

reaction meme i guess

now how do we get netflix to do unchained femmes

Always There, Women in Motorsport: The fast women of la belle époque

Women's history in motorsport is rich, and that has always been the case. Most of these stories however aren’t well known and aren’t spoken about enough. Women have always been in motorsport and always will be.

Three French women, Hélène van Zuylen, Camille du Gast, and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart are some of the fastest women from France’s La Belle Epoque (circa 1880-1914).

In 1898 Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1847-1933) (also known as the Duchess of Uzes) became the first woman in France to obtain her driver’s license. While getting out of the car she announced with delight that woman had just overcome a new barrier. Not long after she also became the first to be caught speeding for which she had to pay a five franc fine.

in 1926 she founded the first female Automobile Club, L'Automobile Club féminin de France (ACFF)

The Duchess of Uzes in 1927

Hélène van Zuylen (pictured on the cover image) was a French author but also the first woman to compete in an international auto race. Baron Etienne van Zuylen, her husband, was the President of the Automobile Club de France

She entered the 1898 Paris–Amsterdam–Paris using the nickname Snail, while her husband used the nickname Escargot. She successfully competed the trail and entered the Paris-Berlin race in 1901 but was stopped by technical failure.

That year Hélène, a lesbian, would meet Renée Vivien with whom she would have an affair. Vivien's letters to a confidant revealed that she considered herself married to Hélène. Most of Vivien's work is dedicated to "H.L.C.B.," the initials of Zuylen's first names.

Just over a decade before she died, Hélène van Zuylen created the Renée Vivien Prize, Honoring the woman she loved and intending to give encouragement to female writers.

Hélène van Zuylen - Nouvelle Revue internationale illustrée, December 1908

Camille du Gast (1868-1942) finished 33rd (19th in class) out of 122 participants in the 1901 Paris-Berlin race. Du Gast, achieved the results despite driving her husband's 20CV Panhard-Levassor which was not designed for racing. She had to start the race in last because she was a woman. The race did mark 2 female competitors with du Gast and van Zuylen. She loved several extreme sports such as mountaineering, parachuting and frencing.

In 1902 she competed in the Paris-Vienna race and also wanted to compete in the New York-San Francisco but was refused entry because she was a woman.

In 1903 she would start the Paris-Madrid race. Which she would enter with a proper racing car, a works 5.7-litre de Dietrich car. It was a chaotic race with 207 competitors which unfortunately saw several deaths. Camille started in 29th and gained 9 positions in the first 120 km. She had climbed up to P8 before stopping to give medical aid to a fellow driver, Phil Stead (also driving a de Dietrich) involved in a near-fatal crash.

Camille du Gast in her 30 hp De Dietrich with starting number 29 during the 1903 Paris-Madrid Race

Later one of the leading drivers at that time, Charles Jarrot said that if Camille had not stopped Stead likely would have died. After an ambulance arrived she continued the race eventually finishing 44th or 45th in the shortened race.

The French government would stop the race at Bordeaux, as over half of the field (275 cars) had either crashed or retired and several drivers and spectators had died.

Open road racing was banned, so in 1904 Camille wanted to participate in the French elimination trial for the Gordon Bennett races, as the Benz factory team offered du Gast a race seat. But the Autosport Club France (ACF) banned women from racing. Du Gast published a letter in protest but the ban was defended as the ACF could not risk a woman getting injured or killed in a racing event.

Because of this she ventured to boat racing. One of those races was caught by a big storm which saw most competitors either abandon their ship or they sank. She was rescued and later declared the winner of that race.

Eventually she had to put a halt to her adventurous life when she survived an assassination attempt by her daughter. Nothing was ever the same for her after that. From that point she devoted herself to animals. She would serve as president of the 'French Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals'

NEXT UP > More female racing drivers from the early 1900s

Cazzy F1 Masterlist ✨️

General:

Masterlist of photo and video archives for Classic F1

Facts and lore about classic f1 drivers Masterlist

Information about the 1982 drivers' strike

Quotes about the 1982 drivers' strike from a book I accidentally downloaded

YouTube playlist of classic f1 documentaries

Random driver book quotes:

Wolfgang von Trips

Niki Lauda:

Masterlist of my favourite Niki Lauda quotes from books about him

YouTube playlist of Niki Lauda videos

Translated interview with Niki Lauda and Helmuth Koinigg

Mike Hawthorn:

Mike Hawthorn book quotes

Mike Hawthorn documentaries

Mike Hawthorn Sunday Times Car Reviews

Mike Hawthorn interview 1958 British GP

Mon Ami Mate - The Tragic Life of Britian's First Formula One World Champion - Cazzyf1's university dissertation

Mon Ami Mate - Dissertation essay

Peter Collins:

Peter Collins interview 1956

Peter Collins interview 1957

GPDA Meeting, 1969 South African GP

Doriane PIN ♥

finally FINALLY made a full drawing of one of my favorite drivers <3

Taking Over the World by Coyote Theory

so I've actually been keeping this as a draft for a few months because of some things that need to be fixed and a particularly annoying typo. But at this point I doubt that I'm ever going to find the will to fix it and re cut all the pictures (fugg you tumblr size limit).

if I'll ever fix this I'll just edit this post :)

Happy new year