Influencer.
When a young Mark Zuckerberg sat lonely in his Harvard dormitory room, perving-adjacent on the girls in his school and creating the social media behemoth Meta neé Facebook, do you think he dreamed he’d one day be an influencer?
Oh, of course people weren’t called “influencers” back then, they were called “influential” but do you think Zuckerberg dreamed people would one day copy his schtick?
Like, very wealthy and talented people like the world’s greatest race car driver Lewis Hamilton?
Hamilton, who was recently in Brazil for an F1 race, pulled a page straight out of Zuckerberg’s Facebook, acquired the apocalypse’s “must-have” accessory, and went e-foiling off the coast, filming self set to the very chill Fleetwood Mac tune “Dreams.”
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But is a lightly older Mark Zuckerberg now sitting surrounded by servants wearing grass skirts and leis in his Kauai compound giggling like an evil nerd?
He should be.
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World’s great race car driver?! Puhleeeessse!! Fangio #1, then Senna. In equal cars, they would eat Hammy up in a second!
Most successful,. Not greatest.
yesss!
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Fuck I hope Verstappen wins. What a fuckwit.
I bet ya wouldn’t have found Stirling Moss dicking around on one of these kiddies toys…
Oily brah! Makes me want to take up no it doesn’t. Nope.
I can’t wait til I see a discount code on here for a foil so I can buy it along with a Sprinter van and throw that baby on the roof! Lowers here I come
Take it to Malibu. Maybe you’ll get a chance to run over that Vajonah kook.
When I use vajonah, I will credit you for this legendary moniker!
I prefer as motosport Le Mans, LGPM, rally specially with the finlands., and MOTO GP
Nascar it’ not a parameter, like Indy although both are interesting and exciting.
And by the way, joke’s aside, never quastioned your skills as a driver.
That’s yours and only yours, and no one outside can question this .
Group B rallye from the 80’s would be my favorite.
Cars are beasts with wheels!
Absurd!
There are some footages, videos, with these beasts climbing Pikes Peak, the most famous, Ari Vatanen with a Peugeot 405 T16 Group B, a video multi-awarded at various film festivals.
It’s called Climb Dance, it’s simply phenomenal.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
If you get a chance watch this on Netflix https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Did you ever hear the story about Lewis getting expelled from school for beating up some kid. His father fearing that Mercedes would drop his son got on to David Cameron (yes the David Cameron, future Prime Minister of Great Britain). Apparently it was all a misunderstanding, Lewis was innocent! Strange story!
One thing I love about that era is that the drivers weren’t typically groomed from 4 years of age to be a driver. Berger only started racing at 22, that would never happen these days.
I think you watch much Nascar and less F1…
Hamilton is good but for pure viewing thrills my fave was our teenage neighbor, Careena Corolla, who lived up the road from us. It was pure adrenaline watching her every morning driving a rusty old beater and deftly avoiding potholes on Kamehameha Hwy while she applied her mascara, drinking coffee and passing slowpokes on the right shoulder going 60 in a 30 mph zone whilst flipping everyone off.
Ha! Applying her mass scare ya driving skills.
Damn she was hot. I played this every time she drove by.
He is very good, up there with Max and Alonso, far better than patrese, Berger and maybe better than Mansell – maybe, on his day he’d give Prost and senna a run for their money, but over a season they would beat him easily
I’m ashamed of myself for clicking to watch him foil. Serious.. You guys should be ashamed for putting this shit out there too!
Shameless.
still shaking my head.. We talk about Kelly’s footprint on the world. What is the net power consumption /foot print clicking on that. It had three million plus views. Then he has a picture of himself just standing there in a sleeveless sweater. It wasn’t a sweater vest! This world is fucked mate.
Cleary you know nothing about F1…
Is he the one who dated Gabriel?
So…you just stand there and go in a straight line?
Hopefully he’ll die of boredom.
He would if he paired foiling with racing NASCAR.
Sounds like one of my typical sessions
To be fair, mine too.
Lewis is a class dude
Cheers for him
Maybe he gave us and to the motorsport world, one of the best, if not the best, race, not race… best race weekend in motorsport history.
Friday he had to make adjustments in the car, for the sprint race on Saturday
He was penalized, and saturday in the sprint race (to make the final grid for the sunday race), he started in the LAST POSITION and overtook everyone in the tracks, not by pitstops, to take 5th place in the final classification.
Again, he had to make adjustments in car and… was penalized for the sunday race, falling from 5th to 10th place.
Sunday, final grid position, 10th place… he passed everyone in the race tracks, not by pitstops, and won the race.
PHENOMENAL
Oh and by the way, here, he never hid the foil controls, to fake his actions.
All hail to the king of motorsports world!
Saturday
The sprint race, qualifier for the sunday race… from the last position to 5th place…
https://youtu.be/hgRdFAgpLuM
Humble, a down to earth guy but when he was younger he let fame go to his head and did a lot of shit, talented, and extremely competitive.
The best in what he does.
There’s someone round here, a bigmouth, that could learn something with him…
https://youtu.be/JwXi7fv3zTg
Come off it, he blew past everyone because his engine was in another league. Lewis has had some great races, but winning in a car that is so so much better than their rivals is not that big of a deal!
That`s no true Jimmy… he deals with other great pilots Alonso, Vettel, Raikkonen, Button, and other pilots like Massa, Ricciardo, Webber.
The advantage Mercedes have / had technically upon others it’s immensely smaller than Ferrari’s period with Schumacher, and in that period Ferrari have FIA protection too.
Hamilton is acknowledgement the best by all experts in motorsports, and for F1 the best in his history, surpassing by far Schumacher, Senna and Prost.
He drives with Prost precision and technical skills, but with a insanely commitment, talent and fierceness and speed.
The other three pilots who managed to gather all these characteristics were Fangio, Clark and Senna
That is complete nonsense, he was beaten by both Button and by Rosberg, neither are considered true greats. He never had a bad car, he never didn’t have the best engine, and for the past eight years he has had the most dominant car in the history of the sport. This was demonstrated in part, by Russell last year – not fitting in the car and still dominating the weekend while Lewis was off with covid. It also demonstrated what a joke of a teammate Hamilton has had since Rosberg left, a guy who would be better suited to driving tractors than racing cars. If Lewis had quit and Rosberg had stayed on, with bottas as his teammates. Rosberg would have six titles. The only ones saying Hamilton is the greatest of all time are the biased British press. He is a very good driver, to say he is the greatest of all time is laughable! Let’s see how legal that Mercedes was, Red Bull have launched an appeal
Rosberg is a good guy, but a robot…
A robot who beat his teammate – Lewis Hamilton to a championship! I can’t blame Hamilton for having a waste of space like bottas as his teammate, but I think Mercedes cheated the F1 fans by having such a dominant car with such uneven drivers
Rosberg grew with Hamilton in Mercedes, and was beaten till early times.
He beat Hamilton one time and only, like Button…
Do you really think Button or Rosberg would beat Senna or Schumacher (the real Schumacher – not the one who came out of retirement) over a season! Not a chance!
I agree…..Hamilton is a great driver , and we will now see hopefully a couple of years of Hamilton/Verstappen….and yeah last weekends Brazil race was one of the best I have ever seen ( Been watching since Brabham raced , where he was the first to slide in and out corners at full speed!)………but how do you rate the Hunt /Lauder era so intense like Senna/Prost/Shumacher…….bit like the Kelly/A I days….
Hunt wasn’t in Lauda’s league at all was he though? The movie made it seem like there was a big rivalry but I’m not sure that there was. I really don’t think Hunt was special in particular way, there were about ten drivers in 1976 who were as good if not better than him – in my opinion!
when Hunt was on song , he was super quick like Senna……I think Hunt was living the life to the full…sex drugs rock n’ roll , and Lauda was a lot like Prost….a mechanic/professor vs the wild Man….bit like Kelly and Andy?
Hi Maurice
Great points!
I simply love Lauda pre accident, and Hunt too.
Lauda pre accident it’s was like Piquet / Prost, pure talent, speed, but also, a mechanic in the box.
That era of Piquet / Prost / Mansell / Senna / Lauda (later years) / Schumacher (the youngest among them), I’m often compares to the Curren / Carroll / Occy / Potter / Lynch / Hardman / Sunny (the youngest among them) not forgot to mention Kong (a champ without title, among them)
Look how many champs in one era in each sport…
Slater and AI, in my opinion, is like Lewis and Verstappen now, Lewis and Vettel, Senna and Prost, Schumacher and Hakkinen.
Lewis faced a hard era: Alonso,
Vettel, Raikkonen, Button, Rosberg, all them champs.
And be a champ it’s not simple. Requires talent, and guts, balls.
It’s curious how the Medina / JJF / Italo / ADS / Slater era it’s more about the 70’s / 80’s / 90’s golden f1 era than the so called, and super estimated, “momentum
generation”!
interesting how you talk about how competitive the 70’s 80’s and 90’s were , with the Australian presence driving competitive juices to levels never seen before in Surfing….there was such competition from the Australians that were dominant , then Tom Curren and Kelly came and challenged and beat the Australians…..
fast forward 30 yrs no Australians..a couple of super competitive Brazilians and an American….that’s it…….
Momentum Generation was a title given after the On A Mission brand was diluted because of the existing Corporate Sponsorship , which was created by some of the Momentum boys…..remember LMB…….LOL!!
Anyhow this weekends F1 looks insane , Lewis on Pole Red Bull freaking out about the rear wing of the mercedes….all up for grabs…..yeahhhhhh!!
I’m also relate the so called Brazilian Storm (and I hate this shit name) to great era 0f the 70’s and 80’s in professional surf, Maurice. Same way to the f1 guys.
Beacause for me, all these guys were, and still are, heroes in my mind, since the beginning os the 70’s.
I begin to surf in 76 with 12 years, so, for me PT, Kanga, Warren, Cheyne, MR, Shaun and MT, and the hawaians LB, Buttons, Dane… but principally the guys in the 80’s era were like heroes, my role model in surf ((and of course in the 80’s I ran some amateur contests), togheter with some brazilians surfers.
So that’s why the 70’s, 80′ s, and beginning of the 90’s generations in surf were / are so important to me, all surfers from Australia, Hawaii, USA and Brazil.
That’s why I love competitive surf till today, even though i’m a freesurfer nowadays.
And that’s why I love to that new generation with Gabe, JJF, Fil, Italo, Yago, MC, Callinan, Seth, JR… they all are now outside pushing limits for both, competitive surf and freesurf.
Ferrari cheatded by his time, Red Bull with Vettel cheated… Lotus with Emerson and Peterson cheated, and later with Andretti and the downforce…
You know who isn’t chated? Brabham with Gordon Murray enginneer Piquet’s time.
But Brabham cheated later with Lauda and the tail fan…
So your talk it’s totally nonsense Jimmy, because always a team will grow and have predominance over others in specific times.
The great cheater of all time was Ferrari in Schumacher period with FIA by his bodyguard. But even this, and I’m not stupid and mad to talk that Schumacher is not one of the three best in the world.
Oh Red Bull will call FIA about Mercedes??? That’s was the great irony talking about Red Bull
I kinda don’t car who is cheating as long as the cars as somewhat on a level playing field. We know Benetton cheated in 94, not sure about Ferrari during Schumachers era. We do know that the extremely average Button cheated and was disqualified for a year for running a secret fuel tank, and even then he didn’t win much!
The problem with Ferrari’s Schumacher era, it’s more about FIA than cheating technicaly.
I know a girl who is somehow related to Nelson Piquet, I keep asking her to get me an autograph from him, but she doesn’t want to ask him because he is such an asshole! But he was a great driver
Piquet was a middle term, Prost and Senna combined
Like Prost, who won a race with four gears, four gears on the gearshift, and all passing by the ear, listening to the engine!
Piquet are like Prost, both was pilots / mechanics, that were in the garages following the assembly of their cars. Schumacher had some of this thing.
This kind of thing doesn’t exist anymore, it’s from a F1 garage team time.
Senna, Mansell, Vettel, and Hamilton were more about speed, race, although they have a fine tuning for the cars.
My disappointment with Piquet today is that he is a very violent bolsonarista, a violent Bolsonaro guy, he was the Rolls Royce driver for this genocide on September 7th, Independence Day…
I know, but I still want his autograph
I’m not Hamilton’s biggest fan by any means, but this weekend he is racing in the last last bastion of human and gay rights (Qatar) and is wearing a rainbow schemed helmet! I’ll give him a pass for the foiling!
That’s amazing!!
You go to Qatar and run around with a rainbow flag, we could crowd fund it!
The arabs get a pass on everything because, we’ll, just because.
Racist, homophobe, carbon terrorists.
It’s the trifecta.
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Dreams by Fleetwood Mac? Nice. Can’t wait to watch Chas’s foil footage on IG set to Come & Get It by Selena Gomez…
P.S. Anybody have any ideas for the next listicle I can write and submit to Derek? Must be at least loosely surf related.
Oohhh, oohhh I know !
1. Must-have Apparel when poncing about Bondi.
2. 10 Ways to Man-scape – without blood.
3. Cocktails to make when your website fails.
There ya go Karl – it’s a start !
5 appropriate social settings for mentioning your Whoop band can also be used as a choker
Heheh.
Accessories for the 4 Minute Miler
The, overuse of commas, in surf, journalism?