148 replies to this topic

[PayasYouRace]

This had better finish in the next half hour because he All-Stars racing is at 1700.

[Risil]

I'm not sure it's going to start in the next half hour.

[midgrid]

It's so F1 to, in the absence of current races, (a) stream a "classic" race that, in retrospect, was blighted by delays and stoppages, and (b) to set up an official e-race in which only one current driver will take part.

[PayasYouRace]

Surely 1991 or 1993 would have been more appropriate?

 

Or surely a Bahrain Grand Prix would have been even more appropriate?

[Risil]

Race will restart in 10 minutes!

[Risil]

The F1 paddock was a really unhappy place in 2016, wasn't it? "Don't trust the messages on the radio", says one team boss.

[ANF]

This had better finish in the next half hour because he All-Stars racing is at 1700.

Oops!

[Risil]

Do you think F1 knows the race wasn't over in 2 hours?

[ANF]

Palmer making a lot of sense as usual.

[SophieB]

GET ON WITH IT

[PayasYouRace]

Jimmy Broadbent is live for the all stars now, so stuff this.

[SophieB]

SC in after the next lap

[ANF]

The good bit is about to start, so I'll watch the simulator stuff later.

[SophieB]

I have no idea who Jimmy Broadbent is but enjoy!

[Risil]

Martin's idle reminiscences have reminded me that if we're going to do a terrible delayed gloomy late-season Grand Prix race, I'd be well up for the 1994 Japanese Grand Prix.

[Risil]

I have no idea who Jimmy Broadbent is but enjoy!

 

I think he played Bridget Jones's dad?

[Risil]

"The track is no different"

 

Sounds like a Samuel Beckett stage direction!

[SophieB]

And we’re off!
 

 

er, again.

[PayasYouRace]

I have no idea who Jimmy Broadbent is but enjoy!

 

He's a man who lives in a shed.

[SophieB]

Hahahaha, that was great, the way Verstappen emerged from the spray!

[Risil]

Max has this ability doesn't he to identify the 99.5% in risky conditions, when everyone else is doing 99%.

[Risil]

Hahahaha, that was great, the way Verstappen emerged from the spray!

 

The four-wheel drift in the spray at the first corner to go round the outside of Rosberg was insane.

[SophieB]

It’s like they are all racing in Jack the Ripper style London fog.

[TomNokoe]

100,000 watching? wow

[ANF]

I still can't believe he saved it.

[ANF]

Driver error by Alonso!

[ANF]

Vettel almost lost it again in T13.

[SophieB]

It is always difficult for me not to be hugely rude about Massa. 

[Risil]

Oh no, Massa has crashed

[Risil]

It is always difficult for me not to be hugely rude about Massa.

 

I can confirm this is true

[SophieB]

Was this the race he milked his glorious crash in front of his home crowd and then came back the following year or are we already in fhe year he retired and didn’t leave

[P123]

It is always difficult for me not to be hugely rude about Massa. 

 

Listen to the applause though.  Hailed for binning it.

[Risil]

I think Massa did another year, as Rosberg unexpectedly retired and Bottas left Williams for Mercedes.

[P123]

Was this the race he milked his glorious crash in front of his home crowd and then came back the following year or are we already in fhe year he retired and didn’t leave

 

Yes, this was his final home race, that in the end wasn't.

[Risil]

Listen to the applause though.  Hailed for binning it.

 

When you're actually there though, it's hard not to have admiration for the guy that just crashed into the wall at high speed. If not his technique.

[SophieB]

I am managing in fact to not ‘have a little tear myself’

[SophieB]

It is spectacularly funny to me knowing he just started again in Australia the following season

[ANF]

SC in this lap.

[ANF]

Verstappen P16 after the stop? Oh dear.

[SophieB]

Such a swashbuckling drive!

[ANF]

It was after this race that I stopped doubting that Verstappen is very, very, very good.

[Marklar]

are they streaming this with all the delays?

[TomNokoe]

are they streaming this with all the delays?

yes, they did

can't wait to see what ""classic"" they come up with next week

[SophieB]

are they streaming this with all the delays?

The complaining about being shown the delays was nearly my favourite bit!

[Risil]

Me too! We wouldn't be F1 fans if we had a low tolerance for the shooting of one's own foot.

[SophieB]

Just to add how next level F1.com can be, we even got the footage of the delays that led to the race starting late.

 

(but I'm still glad we got shown a full race. Germany 2011 next, please)

[PayasYouRace]

Just to add how next level F1.com can be, we even got the footage of the delays that led to the race starting late.

 

(but I'm still glad we got shown a full race. Germany 2011 next, please)

 

+1

 

That was one of the best races of the last decade.

[TomNokoe]

Just to add how next level F1.com can be, we even got the footage of the delays that led to the race starting late.

(but I'm still glad we got shown a full race. Germany 2011 next, please)

It'll probably be something stupid like Abu Dhabi 2012

[Requiem84]

I only remember one thing from that race.

How was the rest of that race?