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Helen Rollason Award goes to Billy Monger

Started by balmybaldwin , Dec 16 2018 19:42

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#1 balmybaldwin

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 19:42

Thoroughly well deserved for Billy at BBC SPOTY:

https://www.bbc.co.u...nality/46558092

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#2 PayasYouRace

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 20:12

Very well deserved. Good lad!

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#3 jonpollak

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 21:55

I hate award shows... this one being the absolute worst.

However, Billy Wizz is going places and the more recognition he gets the better.
Jp

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#4 Vitesse2

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 22:05

I hate award shows... this one being the absolute worst.

This year's seemed to be even more of a PC box-ticking exercise than usual. And who was that woman at the piano 'singing'? Dunno about other people, but I couldn't make out a single word!

However, Billy Wizz is going places and the more recognition he gets the better.
Jp

Indeed. An inspiration. :up:

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#5 Andrew Hope

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 22:30

Bill Monger is probably the only race car driver in history who I am genuinely excited to hear about good things happening to.

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#6 BuddyHolly

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 22:42

I hate award shows... this one being the absolute worst.

However, Billy Whizz is going places and the more recognition he gets the better.
Jp

I feel and same and totally agree with you!

Edited by BuddyHolly, 16 December 2018 - 22:43.

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#7 Beri

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 23:02

Will this years Chimichanga Award or the Oh-My-God-Every-Deceased-Person-Needs-An-Award Award also go to Monger? Anywho, the kid has done good this year. But I can't shake the feeling the award winning was just a bit too much PR in favor of Billy. But hey, he won, good for him.
Hope to see him in Mercedes' garage again next season. With his bestie Hamilton. [/Sarcasm]

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#8 JHSingo

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 23:51

Good for him. :up:

Ironically, he must now be one of the more well known active racing drivers in this country.

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#9 owenmahamilton

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 07:24

I hope Clare Balding gets fired for cutting Billy off mid speech, I thought that was disgraceful, nobody else had their speeches cut, felt a bit like disability discrimination to me, and being disabled myself I know what that is like. I'm sure they only allowed him to finish his speech at the end due to the backlash that the BBC received on Twitter.

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#10 ensign14

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 08:02

Not as bad as when Tanni Grey-Thompson came 3rd in the overall voting and couldn't get on the podium as they hadn't put in a wheelchair ramp...

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#11 Vitesse2

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 08:09

I hope Clare Balding gets fired for cutting Billy off mid speech, I thought that was disgraceful, nobody else had their speeches cut, felt a bit like disability discrimination to me, and being disabled myself I know what that is like. I'm sure they only allowed him to finish his speech at the end due to the backlash that the BBC received on Twitter.

I don't think it was down to Clare Balding, more the production team cutting to a pre-timed mid-programme ident. So I'd blame the director. From what Billy said when they went to him at the end, he seemed to have actually carried on and only found out it wasn't broadcast afterwards. I doubt those on stage realised what had happened.

There was a time when the Sports Review of the Year was just that and when the BBC didn't care if it ran over by twenty or thirty minutes, because we got entertainment from genuine sports personalities like Graham Hill. This year's was more like a celebration of football failure, tightly timed and strictly choreographed. Because obviously it was so important for people to know who was going to benefit from Lord Sugar's largesse and that couldn't possibly be delayed ...

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#12 Steve99

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 09:56

I hope Clare Balding gets fired for cutting Billy off mid speech, I thought that was disgraceful, nobody else had their speeches cut, felt a bit like disability discrimination to me, and being disabled myself I know what that is like. I'm sure they only allowed him to finish his speech at the end due to the backlash that the BBC received on Twitter.

Where on earth do you get 'disability discrimination' from? They brought the lad up, gave him an award, made him the star of the moment, and ran out of time. That's live Tv for you.

Well done to the lad, well deserved.

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#13 Peat

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 10:30

And who was that woman at the piano 'singing'? Dunno about other people, but I couldn't make out a single word!

I honestly thought she was singing in Gaelic or something.

I hope Clare Balding gets fired for cutting Billy off mid speech,

Pfft. Pull yourself together man.

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#14 jonpollak

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 11:13

There was a time when the Sports Review of the Year was just that and when the BBC didn't care if it ran over by twenty or thirty minutes, because we got entertainment from genuine sports personalities like Graham Hill. This year's was more like a celebration of football failure, tightly timed and strictly choreographed. Because obviously it was so important for people to know who was going to benefit from Lord Sugar's largesse and that couldn't possibly be delayed ...

https://twitter.com/...349990519205888

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#15 Rinehart

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 11:19

Will this years Chimichanga Award or the Oh-My-God-Every-Deceased-Person-Needs-An-Award Award also go to Monger? Anywho, the kid has done good this year. But I can't shake the feeling the award winning was just a bit too much PR in favor of Billy. But hey, he won, good for him.
Hope to see him in Mercedes' garage again next season. With his bestie Hamilton. [/Sarcasm]

The cynicalnet at its finest. Previous award winners include Michael Watson and Anne Williams. Google them if you don't know who they are. The award is given for "for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity", and usually there is a strong essence of inspiration. The kid almost died. His life has been changed forever as a teenager. Yet he's decided he's still on his mission to succeed in motorsport, which has already included lobbying the FIA to allow it. Paving the way for fellow drivers with disabilities and potentially inspiring anyone who might have thought they had a reason why they couldn't try to achieve something in life. And all you can come up with is this award is tokenistic PR. I think you're the one getting too much publicity...

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#16 pacificquay

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 11:26

Will this years Chimichanga Award or the Oh-My-God-Every-Deceased-Person-Needs-An-Award Award also go to Monger? Anywho, the kid has done good this year. But I can't shake the feeling the award winning was just a bit too much PR in favor of Billy. But hey, he won, good for him.
Hope to see him in Mercedes' garage again next season. With his bestie Hamilton. [/Sarcasm]

Pretty vile attitude there.

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#17 Dick Dastardly

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 14:32

I wonder whether Lewis will persuade Mercedes to give Billy Monger a run out in a 2014/15 or whatever car....

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#18 DS27

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Posted 18 December 2018 - 13:43

And who was that woman at the piano 'singing'? Dunno about other people, but I couldn't make out a single word!

Well, each to their own with music I suppose, but I thought she was amazing, and that the song was very moving and appropriate for the memorial piece they did.