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F1 Sunday 2pm WatchParty: The 1998 Luxembourg Grand Prix


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#251 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:02

Er, Heinz-Harald? Just lit up the tyres and overtook Mika Salo in the pitlane!



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#252 Brawn BGP 001

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:02

WTF Heinz



#253 midgrid

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:03

Harry Heinz is full of beans today!

#254 noikeee

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:05

Mika pulling away now, looks like the Mclaren is handling its tyres better.

#255 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:05

Harry Heinz is full of beans today!

 

The Benettons will never ketchup with him now!



#256 TomNokoe

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:05

Traffic galore!

#257 ANF

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:07

Schumacher pits and Häkkinen is in traffic!

#258 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:08

Unbelievably tense!



#259 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:08

"You watch Mika Hakkinen; I'll watch the track!"



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#260 midgrid

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:08

Best pit-stop of the season by McLaren!

#261 ANF

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:09

Wow! He must have had a lot of fuel left in the car.

#262 Brawn BGP 001

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:09

McLaren nailed that stop



#263 noikeee

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:09

Wow, what a pitstop from McLaren! Have you ever seen a faster pitstop than that!



#264 midgrid

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:10

Irvine sliding into his box.

#265 midgrid

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:12

Coulthard is over half-a-lap behind Häkkinen.

#266 ANF

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:13

I wish they would have kept the commercials.

#267 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:14

I wish they would have kept the commercials.

 

It breaks every rule of historical conservation!



#268 Brawn BGP 001

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:14

Ralf in trouble



#269 ANF

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:14

Graveltrappen.

#270 Louis Mr. F1

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:18

Coulthard is over half-a-lap behind Häkkinen.

 

He's a Bottas



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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:18

Music that is almost but not quite Don’t Fear The Reaper



#272 TomNokoe

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:19

Luxembourg-Grand-Prix-At-The-Nurburgring

#273 noikeee

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:23

He's a Bottas

What's a Bottas?

 

David's been quicker than Mika in the past, I see no reason why that can't happen in the future. I think this current car just doesn't suit him. Next year will be his year.

 

There you go, fastest lap for Coulthard, see he's got potential.



#274 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:26

Ah, we're in the "unless something pretty catastrophic happens to Mika Hakkinen" zone. Words telegraphed into the far future of the 2001 Spanish GP.



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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:30

Villeneuve has four hours to make it to Australia.

#276 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:32

Erja continuing the driver's wives tradition of looking a lot happier when their husband is out of the cockpit.



#277 noikeee

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:32

Congratulations Mika and McLaren! Great win! They look like world champions in the making now!



#278 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:33

Coulthard, Hakkinen and Schumacher all scratching their faces and necks consecutively while the national anthem plays.



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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:34

I didn’t know there was a Luxembourg royal family.



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#280 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:35

I didn’t know there was a Luxembourg royal family.

 

I suspect that's the first and last time I'll ever think about them!



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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:37

I expect they are a kind of Panda cola to Monaco’s Pepsi.



#282 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:39

Can you still get this in shops? Feels like a very on-trend 1998 reference.

 

Oq2aKsTAE97c_u6oputTbGKvJnQA0Hb58ST2A6yU



#283 ANF

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:40

Change the pitch and Mika sounds like Harrison Ford?

Or looks like maybe. Eh.

Edited by ANF, 22 March 2020 - 15:41.


#284 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:41

There's something quite cruel about these "sit awkwardly in your race gear and go back over how you lost the race" press conferences.



#285 ANF

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:43

What's your plan now that you can't take out your opponent and win the title?

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:45

Can you still get this in shops? Feels like a very on-trend 1998 reference.

 

Oq2aKsTAE97c_u6oputTbGKvJnQA0Hb58ST2A6yU

 

I only ever saw it in chip shops.



#287 TomNokoe

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 15:59

Thoroughly enjoyed this, even though I spoiled the result for myself earlier this morning (yes, really) :lol:


Plenty more 1998-2000 material on YouTube

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 17:18

Had to watch this on delay, but was fun.

 

Hopefully more of late 90s stuff to come :)



#289 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 17:21

I'd like to take a look at the 1995 Belgian Grand Prix. You know, for balance!

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 17:28

I suspect that's the first and last time I'll ever think about them!


Harsh. They're always talking about you.

#291 Risil

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 18:50

Touché!

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 20:30

The 1998 season was my first where I followed every race. I saw the odd GP from 1995 onwards but from Argentina 1998 I was an absolute obsessive fantastic. I remember being disappointed after this race. I really thought, when Ferrari looked out the front row, that the path was clear for brilliant “underdog” (yep, really) Michael Schumacher to win the Championship ahead of Hakkinen, who I viewed an inferior driver in a better car. Hindsight has changed my view somewhat - but I’ll always maintain 1998 was an absolute high water mark for Schumi’s brilliance.

I found the battle for third between Williams, Benetton and Jordan fascinating and this race showed it off brilliantly, with them fighting tooth and nail for ‘best of the rest’. Jordan had a bit of a below par weekend here actually because the trend was in their favour - but in reality, they got into the mix more by dint of their Spa 1-2 than anything else didn’t they? I think of the three Benetton clearly had the best car, and it was a shame they didn’t maybe have the drivers in hindsight to make the most of it because especially early in the year, that car could easily have mixed it.

#293 Bleu

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 21:58

Benetton started the season really well but then dropped back. In the last seven races just one point.

 

It might be argued that Goodyear improved their tyres during the season compared to Bridgestone which probably explains part of that. 



#294 Anuity

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Posted 22 March 2020 - 22:10

The 1998 season was my first where I followed every race. I saw the odd GP from 1995 onwards but from Argentina 1998 I was an absolute obsessive fantastic. I remember being disappointed after this race. I really thought, when Ferrari looked out the front row, that the path was clear for brilliant “underdog” (yep, really) Michael Schumacher to win the Championship ahead of Hakkinen, who I viewed an inferior driver in a better car. Hindsight has changed my view somewhat - but I’ll always maintain 1998 was an absolute high water mark for Schumi’s brilliance.

I found the battle for third between Williams, Benetton and Jordan fascinating and this race showed it off brilliantly, with them fighting tooth and nail for ‘best of the rest’. Jordan had a bit of a below par weekend here actually because the trend was in their favour - but in reality, they got into the mix more by dint of their Spa 1-2 than anything else didn’t they? I think of the three Benetton clearly had the best car, and it was a shame they didn’t maybe have the drivers in hindsight to make the most of it because especially early in the year, that car could easily have mixed it.

I think it's very possible that 1998 was the best season by Michael, I followed the whole season closely. Ferrari got up to speed in the  latest races, but sometimes it was absolutely nowhere.

He was extremely good in 2000 as well, but by that time Ferrari has closen the gap (although I still feel Mclaren was a better car).

 

He was brilliant in 1994-1995 as well, but opposition was weak in those. Although still remarkable, given that he had inferior cars.



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Posted 22 March 2020 - 22:49

Was late to the party (as usual) but what a great choice of race. Even included some classic Brundle. Of a backmarker being lapped by the battling leaders: "It's a Minardi, actually Murray, but it doesn't really matter."