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Dudley

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On the Stewards investigating thing, surely it is a case of the viewers being told that the incident is being investigated, rather than an increase in investigations? It stands to reason that the stewards will be looking at just about every incident just as part of their job, the difference is that the audience knows about it instantly instead of afterwards.

Yep, in previous years we'd simply have heard nothing.

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reani_

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I've managed to avoid news so far as I want to watch the race on the iplayer. I was a bit confused as there are two parts on the iplayer. Never mind... I'll find out soon hopefully. Why is the second part not available yet? I don't want to watch the first part and then stop in the middle of the race

Any clues? It still says "coming soon" :quote:

E: Actually the gif above spoiled it a bit. Thanks! :angry:

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reani_

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Antenor: don't worry mate, the bit that gif indicates is only a tiny, tiny fraction of what made the race so amazing ;).

Can't wait to see it...

What are you doing in here if you haven't seen the race yet? :huh:

Tbh I went to the last page straight away and clicked the "Reply" button to ask, but then when it posted my reply the site reloaded and I saw the gif.

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kiroquai

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It's not the first time it's happened either (the marshal thing). It's not on Youtube, but if anyone has the 1993 FIA review VHS fast-forward to Spa and watch in amusement as a marshal tending to Jean Alesi's spun Ferrari falls over, gets back up only to fall over again and then, having got up again, is so spooked by a car going past that he trips up a third time!

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Weren't that a driver? The same driver that decided to stay in his car at a previous race when it broke down and was hit by the saftey car when being towed back to the pits?

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kiroquai

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Ah yeah, and the safety car he got hit by was driven by Jean Ragnotti at Monaco (a few months before the Hungary video above).

I watched Jean Ragnotti drive a maxed-out Renault 5 at Silverstone during the World Series by Renault weekend in 2009 and he seemed to have not been informed that the car could go anything other than completely sideways through every corner with tyre smoke pouring off the wheels! The guy's completely, wonderfully, nuts.

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dayte

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From the BBC F1 blog:

At 09:52 13th Jun 2011, mikeandmarg wrote:

It will probably come as a surprise to the BBC's sports-oriented mandarins, but the majority of viewers have little more than a passing interest in motor-racing. So why allocate so much prime time on the prime channel to a race on the other side of the Atlantic, elbowing out more popular scheduled programmes such as Songs of Praise and Antiques Roadshow? We cannot understand why such an event could not be broadcast on either BBC3 or BBC4, neither of which start their usual programmes until 7pm.

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:lol:

Just watching that Murray Walker documentary that was on the other week, and they're showing the Isle of Mann TT LP's he used to commentate on with his Dad. Brings back memories of Sunday mornings, 7am we'd all get woken up as my Dad decided he quite fancied listening to an old TT race on the record player.

Between that and his racing sidecar he built in our back garden, I'm surprised he was even liked by our neighbours.

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What did I miss .... other than the greatest Le Mans in a decade ?

Even I, who would happily sit through 24 hours of formula 2 stroke snail racing would struggle to not have been blown away by the Gp at the weekend.

Besides, the biggest most massive problem with any event at Le Man is this:

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Dudley

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Ah yeah, and the safety car he got hit by was driven by Jean Ragnotti at Monaco (a few months before the Hungary video above).

I watched Jean Ragnotti drive a maxed-out Renault 5 at Silverstone during the World Series by Renault weekend in 2009 and he seemed to have not been informed that the car could go anything other than completely sideways through every corner with tyre smoke pouring off the wheels! The guy's completely, wonderfully, nuts.

He does that every year at those things, love him.

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Although admittedly last year Jerome D'Ambrosio did a good job of trying to upstage him

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Many pics from last year here -

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To be fair ITV used him too. You never hear him speak though, must have a terrible voice :lol:

Great article - makes me recall those qualifying sessions where Hamilton would pull out the impossible lap in the last minutes of Q3. Vettel and Webber did a couple of those last year as well though to be fair to them.

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