How will you pass the time in the off season?

Yoong Montoya · 22 Oct 2002, 19:51 (Ref:410486)

I wasn't too bothered about the end to this year. Sums up how much interest I lost in F1. Towards the end of the year, I only watched the highlights, except Italy when I was ill and decided to watch the full race. If next season is like this, I might even abandon F1 altogether and just look up the result in ten-tenths.

But how will all you F1 fans out there pass the time until race 1 of 2003 next March?

ASCII Man · 22 Oct 2002, 20:00 (Ref:410506)

God only knows...

formulastudent · 22 Oct 2002, 20:03 (Ref:410510)

watching the american football... andros trophy... ice speedway, xtreme sports, all the fast fun things you can do in the snow/cold!

J.McClane · 22 Oct 2002, 20:04 (Ref:410511)

drinkin' and workin' and maybe a little how's yer father too.
To be honest i am loosin' interest in the ole F1 and rerally won't be countin' the days till its back........................which is how many days exactly?

ASCII Man · 22 Oct 2002, 20:06 (Ref:410515)

Don't have a clue...

Sato san · 22 Oct 2002, 20:09 (Ref:410521)

i think 10 tenths will help me through , but luckily weve still got the british winter series national race meetings to attend before it all really stops for the winter.

TimD · 22 Oct 2002, 20:58 (Ref:410618)

Yes, winter nationals, fifty years of Autosport and Motor Sport magazines, modelmaking (must finish that Ferrari 625A that's on the work bench), 600+ motorsport videos (think I may re-watch the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix)....

Off-season....?

ASCII Man · 22 Oct 2002, 21:00 (Ref:410621)

600+ ???

Sato san · 22 Oct 2002, 21:05 (Ref:410633)

ive got many many F1 videos too....but i also like to have a look at F3 reviews also....I may watch amonst others Rubens and DC fighting for the F3 title from many years ago !

Damon · 22 Oct 2002, 21:08 (Ref:410643)

Karting all the way!! There's nothing quite like freezing your ass off bombing around some god forsaken field on a crisp winters day!

TimD · 22 Oct 2002, 21:09 (Ref:410645)

Yes, old footage of the learning slopes can be fascinating. I know for a fact I've got some tapes of Dario Franchitti, for example, running Formula Vauxhall. Now, if I can just get some of the BBC footage Paulzinho's got of his dad's racing career, I'll be a happy man.

formulastudent · 22 Oct 2002, 21:11 (Ref:410652)

That's true, I may dust off the Buggy that's been mothballed since it broke four of my girlfriends ribs, and see if I can't work out why (which will of course involve bombing around a godforesaken field, or quarry)

ASCII Man · 22 Oct 2002, 21:17 (Ref:410663)

The only F1 video's i have are season reviews of '89-'94-'95 and '97

Nicholas · 22 Oct 2002, 21:43 (Ref:410683)

Doing something constructive like having more time to look at Ten-tenths and all the inane threads...

Damon · 22 Oct 2002, 21:54 (Ref:410696)

inane, here...never!

Miss Hardt · 22 Oct 2002, 22:21 (Ref:410715)

Quote:

Originally posted by Yoong Montoya
I wasn't too bothered about the end to this year. Sums up how much interest I lost in F1.

True. Same with me. I was an obsessive running to see each mintue of everything, this year I hardly watched the qualis because I knew what will happen on each one

I'll spend my time studying, working on my both F1 sites and my forum and making a Michael Schumacher voodoo doll, so the 2002 season won't repeat.

Lee Janotta · 22 Oct 2002, 23:00 (Ref:410751)

Looking through my VHS collection for old IMSA, CART and F1 races, ranting on here, watching BTCC and DTM, and trying opportunistically to build my own reputation by capitalising on Bernie's call for a more exciting F1, attempting to build a concensus around several key points I've been pounding into people's skulls for the better part of the last year.

Oh, and college.

Jordi · 22 Oct 2002, 23:01 (Ref:410752)

For the moment, watch the remaining CART races. Then, who knows...

f1manoz · 23 Oct 2002, 03:21 (Ref:410868)

I'm thankful this season is over. I was bored more during the season than before it.

What will I do to pass the time? Watch some of my old F1 videos (where there was actually RACING), play GP2 (where it's possible to OVERTAKE), look for work...and get really, really drunk on a few occassions.

DNQ · 23 Oct 2002, 03:28 (Ref:410873)

When the Chequered Flag fell at Suzuka, I was glad (or I would have been if I had watched the race), this season has been so pathetic, an absolute joke.

I'll probably muck around with GPL and GP4, and read some of my old motor racing magazines and the like.

Sato san · 23 Oct 2002, 05:12 (Ref:410902)

just remembered one race i want to watch on video during the winter months....somewhere ive got that great Cart race in Canada where Zanardi is at the back off the field and comes through to get the lead , then gos off at the hairpin and end up dead last and a lap down , only to drive his ass off and drive past everyone to take the chequered flag in P1 ...

ASCII Man · 23 Oct 2002, 11:08 (Ref:411088)

You're joking, right?

I'll just probably watch season reviews over and over again and fool around with GP4 and DTM Race Driver...

Down F0rce · 23 Oct 2002, 12:47 (Ref:411202)

i might have a look aroung in my video collection- i have Emerson Fittipaldi's last CART race (when he had that HUGE shunt) on tape somewhere. oh yea, my copy of Burnout 2 arrived as well. that will keep my busy for many a day.

steve_r · 23 Oct 2002, 12:49 (Ref:411203)

By getting a life.

ASCII Man · 23 Oct 2002, 12:58 (Ref:411211)

And i'll get to see my Gilles Villeneuve vid too..

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