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Arrow McLaren releases David Malukas from IndyCar contract

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the fact that logan's parents moved the family to switzerland when he was a preteen, hated it and left him in europe alone full-time within a couple of years.... cannot imagine renting your child an apartment in a foreign country for him to stay in without you//// wait did he live by himself? a nanny? tutor? like how did he get around or get fed?

in his gq article, he does say he was living at school for a couple years. i forget which article he mentions it, but he is very deliberately light on the details about his living arrangements just after that-- only a brief mention here and there about how he had an apartment of his own in the UK by the time he was 16 and entering single-seaters. i'm sure the teams helped at that point, along with his former trainer ben... who he met around the time he moved over there:

HP title sponsorship i never said anything bad about you thank you for funding newey’s salary

Ferrari: according to the information received by @FormulaPassion, Adrian Newey is in permanent contact with the Scuderia management.

The Maranello team is in pole position to recruit the engineer.

Im a bit confused why so many people think Newey is basically already in Maranello 🙈 I mean he’s still got a contract until the end of 25 and apparently after that a year of Garden leave. He’s 65 years old already turning 66 at the end of this year. RedBull has enough money so why would they let him go. Chances are - if they decide to keep him in his contract - that he maybe wouldn’t start a job at a new team as a 68 year old 🤔

To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised either way, if he retired or if he went to another team/Ferrari.

As you said he isn’t available for any team until 2027, there is a chance that he could get bought out of his contract, but even then he wouldn’t be available before the 2026 season, plus I think he has his retirement plan sorted

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But also in his book (which is incredible by the way) he expresses that he would have liked to work with Ferrari and he would have also liked to work with Alonso and Hamilton, and has regrets about not doing that. This is also something he has reiterated in interviews since then.

Also it’s possible that he could work for a team in a consultancy position, where he gets paid large sums of money but still has free time to get involved in other things that interest him or time to sail his yacht.

I don’t think he’d ever be someone who wholly leaves the sport, I think he’d stay around either as a consultant to a team or potentially even work with the FIA to write the regs

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Felt like drawing him

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'

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