Only 37 more sleeps - Page 2

GP Racer · 29 Jan 2005, 00:33 (Ref:1212374)

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Originally Posted by Kicking-back

Does anyone else actually like Formula One?

Or is it just me?

I'm with you KB!

I get up at 6AM on race day here in the states to watch the European races, and for the Asian races I stay up all night, until the un-godly hour of 4:30AM, to finish watching the race! Now thats a fan my friends!

Skam85 · 29 Jan 2005, 06:08 (Ref:1212466)

I stay up and watch all the races, no matter what time I have to work/wake up in the next morning. Plus I tape all the races, ad free and watch them again the next day, followed by entering the race and qually results on my F1 database on computer, after which I update the scores of the tipping comp I run with friends.

Armco Bender · 29 Jan 2005, 08:01 (Ref:1212475)

The races start here at midnight and finish around 1:30am,work suffers the next day,but what the hell,its only work.

Kicking-back · 29 Jan 2005, 11:43 (Ref:1212547)

I have seen every race live since the early nineties and I would never think of missing one.

While IndyCar or Touring Cars may offer more in the way of all-out entertainment (and I watch them both), there's something special about F1.

It's the only type of racing where I feel a tension before the start.

Knowlesy · 29 Jan 2005, 11:56 (Ref:1212563)

Yeah, I'm with you on that last point there KB. I become a wobbling wreck in the weeks leading up to Melbourne for example. I love all motorsport, but I don't get the same sense of anticipation from, say, the weeks leading up to the opening IRL round.

But it's for that reason that I often feel more compelled to complain about F1 at times than other disciplines, because I expect more from it than anything else. Hence my over-reactions after Hungary last year!

**dtype38** · 29 Jan 2005, 15:09 (Ref:1212649)

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Originally Posted by Aysedasi

I've loved F1 for as long as I can remember but I haven't enjoyed the last few seasons of Ferrari/Schumacher domination. If we can have a season of real competition and real racing, then I'm sure my love for the sport will be even greater......

It saddens me a little that obviously genuine motor sport fans don't seem able to enjoy watching one of the greatest masters of their sport. Maybe I'm being a bit "untypically" British (not rooting for the underdog and all that) but I want TGF to wipe the floor with the lot of them. And its not because I particularly love Germans or Italians, but because I want to witness in my own lifetime the greatest driver ever to take to a race track. That is still up for argument in some people's minds, but another couple of seasons of total domination will silence all the critics and force even his detractors to admit that we are witnessing history being made, not just statistically, but in reality!

ralf fan · 29 Jan 2005, 17:36 (Ref:1212710)

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Originally Posted by Kicking-back

It's the only type of racing where I feel a tension before the start.

Me too... i am a wreck 30 mins before the coverage starts...and the half hour before the coverage is terrible for me...it passes at snail's pace....and the race it seems is over in 20 mins..

luke · 29 Jan 2005, 18:08 (Ref:1212720)

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Originally Posted by ralf fan

Me too... i am a wreck 30 mins before the coverage starts...and the half hour before the coverage is terrible for me...it passes at snail's pace....and the race it seems is over in 20 mins..

Same here, I remember trying to sleep the night before the '99 Japanese Grand Prix, really nervous because Eddie had a chance of winning the drivers world championship.

Those were the days.....

Dog Faced Boy · 29 Jan 2005, 22:02 (Ref:1212826)

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Originally Posted by Skam85

I stay up and watch all the races, no matter what time I have to work/wake up in the next morning. Plus I tape all the races, ad free and watch them again the next day, followed by entering the race and qually results on my F1 database on computer, after which I update the scores of the tipping comp I run with friends.

Its just dawned on me how sad my life was before i got married. I still enjoy F1 but at a slower pace. I havent missed a race since Australia 1986 altough more recently many are recorded and watched later that day. I like close racing which is why I long for the end of the Schumi era. Then I will toast to a Great driver and a return to closely fought races.

The start of a new season always exites me purely to see drivers in strange cars and new liveries.

P.S Big up the Jenson Button for World champion. The name of my child relies on it following on from Michael, Michael Jnr and Michael III.

Armco Bender · 30 Jan 2005, 07:00 (Ref:1212983)

Only 34 sleeps then you guys can get that tingely in your pants feeling again.

Have we ever had a season with close actual wheel banging racing for the championship?.

racer69 · 30 Jan 2005, 07:04 (Ref:1212986)

34 sleeps and Michael Schumacher will quite probably break another record. Which one is it???

ozrevhead · 30 Jan 2005, 07:32 (Ref:1212998)

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Originally Posted by ralf fan

Me too... i am a wreck 30 mins before the coverage starts...and the half hour before the coverage is terrible for me...it passes at snail's pace....and the race it seems is over in 20 mins..

im like that will all the races

get very nervouse and exited arould 1/2 hour b 4 the race and it feels like it takes forever for the race to start!

Wrex · 30 Jan 2005, 08:34 (Ref:1213015)

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Originally Posted by Aysedasi

If we can have a season of real competition and real racing, then I'm sure my love for the sport will be even greater......

How about you stay in Sportscars and I'll PM you if/when it happens

Vicki · 30 Jan 2005, 15:49 (Ref:1213190)

I can’t wait. When school life is getting me down I will be able to say, “Hang in there Vicki, only x days until you can watch a Grand Prix.” And I’m not being sarcy, it means I won’t have to resort to watching figure skating cos all the racing is being quiet. Also, my Internet connection might be sorted so I will be able to post without the risk of being cut off like the last time I tried to post this. Four whole days without Ten-Tenths does funny things to a girl… So if these words reach you, I am alive and well although slightly deprived of forum browsing capabilities.

Knowlesy · 30 Jan 2005, 15:53 (Ref:1213194)

Actually, thinking about it, this off-season hasn't been too bad. It's went by faster than some.

Last off-season was absolutely unbearable as we sat waiting for the season billed by most as "most likely to be the greatest ever".

Kicking-back · 1 Feb 2005, 17:59 (Ref:1214803)

And next off season, we'll have A1GP to watch through the winter, as opposed to nothing this time round.

luke · 1 Feb 2005, 19:41 (Ref:1214909)

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Originally Posted by Kicking-back

And next off season, we'll have A1GP to watch through the winter, as opposed to nothing this time round.

But in a way, this off-season so far we've had the race of champions, F3 Super Prixs, and WTCC races at Macau, Dakar, and Monte Carlo rally, and that's just of the top of my head.

luke · 1 Feb 2005, 19:45 (Ref:1214912)

Only 32 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 2 seconds.

Before the lights go out at Melbourne.

Marbot · 1 Feb 2005, 20:20 (Ref:1214940)

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Originally Posted by luke

Only 32 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 2 seconds.

Before the lights go out at Melbourne.

So are they having a power-cut on race day then.

Armco Bender · 2 Feb 2005, 07:48 (Ref:1215218)

Only 31 days left now.
Isn't it amazing ,everyday its one day less.

Kicking-back · 2 Feb 2005, 08:08 (Ref:1215234)

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Originally Posted by luke

But in a way, this off-season so far we've had the race of champions, F3 Super Prixs, and WTCC races at Macau, Dakar, and Monte Carlo rally, and that's just of the top of my head.

True - although I view the F3 and WTCC races as being part of the traditional racing season and the race of champions as a fun event.

It doesn't compare with top class single seaters regularly racing through November, December, January and February.

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