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[Risil]

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

[Brawn BGP 001]

WTF Heinz

[midgrid]

Harry Heinz is full of beans today!

[noikeee]

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

[Risil]

Harry Heinz is full of beans today!

 

The Benettons will never ketchup with him now!

[TomNokoe]

Traffic galore!

[ANF]

Schumacher pits and Häkkinen is in traffic!

[Risil]

Unbelievably tense!

[Risil]

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

[midgrid]

Best pit-stop of the season by McLaren!

[ANF]

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

[Brawn BGP 001]

McLaren nailed that stop

[noikeee]

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

[midgrid]

Irvine sliding into his box.

[midgrid]

Coulthard is over half-a-lap behind Häkkinen.

[ANF]

I wish they would have kept the commercials.

[Risil]

I wish they would have kept the commercials.

 

It breaks every rule of historical conservation!

[Brawn BGP 001]

Ralf in trouble

[ANF]

Graveltrappen.

[Louis Mr. F1]

Coulthard is over half-a-lap behind Häkkinen.

 

He's a Bottas

[SophieB]

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

[TomNokoe]

Luxembourg-Grand-Prix-At-The-Nurburgring

[noikeee]

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.

[Risil]

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.

[midgrid]

Villeneuve has four hours to make it to Australia.

[Risil]

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

[noikeee]

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

[Risil]

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

[SophieB]

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

[Risil]

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!

[SophieB]

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

[Risil]

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

 

[ANF]

Change the pitch and Mika sounds like Harrison Ford?

Or looks like maybe. Eh.

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

[Risil]

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

[ANF]

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

[SophieB]

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

 

 

I only ever saw it in chip shops.

[TomNokoe]

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


Plenty more 1998-2000 material on YouTube

[Jellyfishcake]

Had to watch this on delay, but was fun.

 

Hopefully more of late 90s stuff to come

[Risil]

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

[Collombin]

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

Harsh. They're always talking about you.

[Risil]

Touché!

[messy]

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.

[Bleu]

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. 

[Anuity]

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.

[Sterzo]

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."