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To celebrate @andre3000’s 49th birthday, I’ve created my final addition to my Aquemini Art Project.
I felt it was only right since this was inspired by Aquemini yet I hadn’t placed both @andre3000 & @bigboi together in the same art piece, so it had to be done.
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Last year, a seven-time world champion told reporters his own team should replace him. He was coming off the worst season of his career. On Sunday, that same man, Lewis Hamilton, finished second at Monaco, a race where overtaking is famously almost impossible.
Hamilton has won the championship, the season-long title, seven times. Last year he joined Ferrari, his dream team since childhood, and it went badly. His teammate, Charles Leclerc, beat him in qualifying, the Saturday laps that set the starting order, in nineteen of twenty-four weekends. He finished the year eighty-six points behind. For the first time in his whole career, he did not reach the top three of a single race all season.
A second place at Monaco means more than one almost anywhere else. The reason is the track. Monaco is raced on ordinary city streets, so narrow the cars can barely fit past each other. And the 2024 race produced a first in the sport's history: the top ten cars finished in the exact order they started. Nobody up front passed anybody all race. A circuit like China can produce fifty overtakes in an afternoon. Monaco averages about twelve. Your result is mostly settled before the race starts, by where you qualify, then by not making one mistake for two hours.
Sunday gave Hamilton plenty of chances to make one. At the start, the car ahead of him, Max Verstappen's, broke down and dropped out, moving Hamilton up to second. Then the officials gave him a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane, where teams change tyres. A crash then stopped the race for forty minutes. When it restarted, the cars lined up for an eight-lap dash to the finish. Hamilton held second the whole way.
The driver who won, Kimi Antonelli, is still a teenager, the boy Mercedes signed to replace Hamilton when he left. On Sunday he led from the front, beat Hamilton by six seconds, and became the youngest person ever to win at Monaco, his fifth win in a row. Hamilton shook his hand on the podium. A few hundred metres away, the other Ferrari sat wrecked against the barriers. Its driver, Charles Leclerc, is a Monaco local who had just crashed out of his home race.
None of this means Ferrari are winning again. They have not won a race since October 2024, and Antonelli drove away from both red cars whenever he wanted. It was a strong second, but the fastest car still belonged to Mercedes.
Hamilton has won at Monaco three times before, in 2008, 2016 and 2019. Those were full victories, earned at his peak. Late last year, his own boss at Ferrari told him to talk less and drive more. He has gone from that to second in the championship in about six months. Most drivers never get a comeback like this. Second place might mean more to him now than any of those three wins did.
BREAKING: A new bombshell report reveals that George W. Bush’s DOJ helped assist in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 plea negotiations that resulted in his sweetheart deal, per the Miami Herald.
NEW: The Kennedy Center just removed Trump's name from its website after a judge's ruling.
The name on the exterior of the building has to come down no later than June 12.
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What a good dad. Destroyed that demonic corruption and left the rainbow still proud and shining. Even let his son transition. Thank you for your support Hunter Eagleman