F1 and the death of HRH ERII

bathurst77 · 8 Sep 2022, 21:48 (Ref:4125356)

I expect that the British Canadian and Australian drivers will be wearing black arm bands.

Maybe the British teams will also run special liveries or markings on the cars and pit crew uniforms?

Maybe Lewis will be dressed as the queen

**ScotsBrutesFan** · 8 Sep 2022, 22:20 (Ref:4125357)

I'm sure teams will be able to create a "black band" decal for the cars at relatively short notice.

I wouldn't be surprised to see arm bands from non UK & commonwealth teams too.

chillibowl · 8 Sep 2022, 23:02 (Ref:4125360)

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Maybe Lewis will be dressed as the queen

thats good!

tux · 9 Sep 2022, 04:53 (Ref:4125378)

Will the British teams compete? Given that all British sport has been postponed/cancelled im not sure it would be a good look?

Not that i care or think that they should withdraw tbh, its sad that shes died but life has to go on.

bathurst77 · 9 Sep 2022, 08:15 (Ref:4125385)

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Will the British teams compete? Given that all British sport has been postponed/cancelled im not sure it would be a good look?

I cant imagine anyone not being there. For legal and financial reasons if nothing else. I think the English/commonwealth people will just make gestures of respect.

S griffin · 9 Sep 2022, 08:40 (Ref:4125388)

I highly doubt the British teams will pull out. However there will be a minute's silence before practice

It's weird, 25 years ago Diana's funeral happened during the Italian GP weekend. Last year Phil's funeral happened during the San Marino GP weekend. Now the Queen dies just before the Italian GP.

Hawkwood · 9 Sep 2022, 09:20 (Ref:4125396)

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Originally Posted by tux

Will the British teams compete? Given that all British sport has been postponed/cancelled im not sure it would be a good look?

Not that i care or think that they should withdraw tbh, its sad that shes died but life has to go on.

It hasn't, not as yet anyway.
Several sports aren't going ahead today (some football and cricket matches postponed, and some horse racing cancelled), but as yet everything else is either going ahead this weekend, or hasn't made a decision yet.

**Born Racer** · 9 Sep 2022, 11:34 (Ref:4125407)

There will be a minute's silence before FP1.

GCCheddaris · 9 Sep 2022, 11:45 (Ref:4125408)

Wasn't all sport cancelled following the death of Princess Diana until after her state funeral ?

crmalcolm · 9 Sep 2022, 11:56 (Ref:4125410)

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Wasn't all sport cancelled following the death of Princess Diana until after her state funeral ?

No - in fact some fixtures were moved forward from the date of the funeral to the week beforehand.

In general terms - it was the weekend of the death and the day of the funeral that saw sport postponed.

Skam85 · 9 Sep 2022, 15:46 (Ref:4125434)

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Originally Posted by S griffin

I highly doubt the British teams will pull out. However there will be a minute's silence before practice

It's weird, 25 years ago Diana's funeral happened during the Italian GP weekend. Last year Phil's funeral happened during the San Marino GP weekend. Now the Queen dies just before the Italian GP.

9/11 as well

S griffin · 9 Sep 2022, 17:27 (Ref:4125441)

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9/11 as well

True, but I was thinking more of British royal deaths

bathurst77 · 10 Sep 2022, 02:16 (Ref:4125478)

Many cars are carrying EIIR crowns. Many drivers and team members have black arm bands. There was a minutes silence before p1 and will be another before the race.
I was struck that the silence seemed absolute yesterday. Normally there is still some background noise from some people or activity, not yesterday

A very respectful and nicely done by F1

**Aysedasi** · 11 Sep 2022, 10:18 (Ref:4125641)

Yes, that silence was impressive, couldn't hear a pin drop. I noticed that the golfers at Wentworth wore very smart black ribbons (?) on their caps yesterday at Wentworth.

Greem · 12 Sep 2022, 08:09 (Ref:4125800)

Given some of the reports of dreadful behaviour in some sections of the crowd, plus the three hour queues to get in, and the hour-long queues just to get a bottle of water, and the security/crowd stewards/abuse helpline basically ignoring everything bad that was happening - I was pleasantly surprised that over a hundred thousand people were genuinely silent.

A measure of how highly regarded QEII was around the world, very impressive.

It's a shame though that the TV production had Ferrari's strategy team doing the sound for Andrea Bocelli's rendering of the national anthem. (I also didn't know he's totally blind).

S griffin · 12 Sep 2022, 08:35 (Ref:4125802)

It was great that both times the crowd remained silent. Shows they can be respectful when the time calls

GT6 · 12 Sep 2022, 09:07 (Ref:4125808)

Very noticable thatthe whole of F! and the fans stayed silent for the queen a respectful lot when needed but stil gave max a hard time when he appaered

billy bleach · 12 Sep 2022, 16:09 (Ref:4125857)

It's a shame though that the TV production had Ferrari's strategy team doing the sound for Andrea Bocelli's rendering of the national anthem. (I also didn't know he's totally blind).[/QUOTE]

It didn't end there Post race the top three had to dump their kit on the ground whilst bottles of water were handed out as an afterthought. One job...... Neither would have happened in Bernies day!