"Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas"
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The intent feels protective: to acknowledge success without inviting the superstition of certainty. In motorsport, "magnificent so far" is almost a technical phrase. It implies the race is still live, the engine can still fail, the weather can still flip, a small human mistake can still rewrite the story. That "so far" is doing the heavy lifting, turning celebration into a provisional report.
The subtext in "I knew my part of dramas" suggests hard-earned familiarity with chaos: crashes, politics, mechanical betrayals, pressure from teams and sponsors, the way public narratives demand either heroism or blame. He doesn't say he suffered; he says he knew. It's the language of someone who has been around enough to treat turmoil as a recurring character, not a shocking twist.
Context matters here because Ickx isn't selling vulnerability like a modern brand strategy. He's from an era when drivers performed competence in public and processed fear privately. The sentence bridges that old-school stoicism with a flicker of self-awareness, letting drama into the frame without letting it take over the wheel.
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| Topic | Contentment |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ickx, Jacky. (2026, January 16). Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everything-was-magnificent-so-far-even-if-i-knew-91460/
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Ickx, Jacky. "Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everything-was-magnificent-so-far-even-if-i-knew-91460/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everything-was-magnificent-so-far-even-if-i-knew-91460/. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.



