Your F1 most memorable moment

[wibble cb]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_British_Grand_P...

By lap 35 Mansell was around 2 seconds behind his teammate. Both Williams drivers were scheduled to complete the race without a tyre change, but Mansell and the team elected to make a stop to change tyres. Mansell rejoined the race some 29 seconds behind Piquet, with 28 laps remaining. On fresh rubber Mansell began an epic charge which saw the lap record broken 8 times to the delight of the over 100,000 strong British crowd.

By lap 62 the two cars were nose to tail and on lap 63 Mansell performed his now famous 'Silverstone Two Step' move, selling Piquet a dummy on the Hangar Straight and then diving down the inside into Stowe Corner

[Bebee]

Most memorable moment.

tt man Cornelius Horan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpesYL9iNRs


Couldn't believe what I was seeing.






Anytime Lewis overtakes SebVet is a thrilling moment.

[paulguitar]

Bebee said:

Most memorable moment.

tt man Cornelius Horan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpesYL9iNRs


Couldn't believe what I was seeing.

That is some damn fine marshalling right there.

[Eric Mc]

Quite a few -

1982 had some great (and dark moments). Of the "great" moments, I'd include Elio de Angelis' Austrian GP (great race, great circuit) and the 1982 Monaco GP - the race nobody wanted to win.

Damon Hill (surprising some people migh say) featured in quite a few -

1994 Suzuka
1994 Adelaide
1996 Suzuka
1997 Hungary
1998 Belgium

Jody Scheckter causing the massive pile up at Silverstone in 1973 also stands out and I have fond memories of watching the 1974 Monaco GP - won by Ronnie Peterson in the aging Lotus 72.

[Bebee]

paulguitar said:

Bebee said:

Most memorable moment.

tt man Cornelius Horan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpesYL9iNRs


Couldn't believe what I was seeing.

That is some damn fine marshalling right there.

Indeed, the Marshall should have been armed with a High Voltage Stun Gun, or a low voltage, as long as it did the job......................nah, high voltage is best.

[e21Mark]

jsf said:

e21Mark said:

Seeing Damon Hill almost win in that gorgeous looking, all black Arrows. Genuinely moved me to tears, as had his taking the world championship.

The Arrows was White and Blue.

It must be my age? I had it in my head that it was all black. Was there an all black Arrows? Anyway, I sit corrected.

[r11co]

jsf said:

e21Mark said:

Seeing Damon Hill almost win in that gorgeous looking, all black Arrows. Genuinely moved me to tears, as had his taking the world championship.

The Arrows was White and Blue.

Of course it was. Here it is (yesterday).



(While the Sniff reference is intended, I did actually take this picture yesterday at the Ignition Festival in Glasgow, and that's Lee McKenzie in the background BTW).

[r11co]

PS. For me, this.

[anonymous-user]

e21Mark said:

jsf said:

e21Mark said:

Seeing Damon Hill almost win in that gorgeous looking, all black Arrows. Genuinely moved me to tears, as had his taking the world championship.

The Arrows was White and Blue.

It must be my age? I had it in my head that it was all black. Was there an all black Arrows? Anyway, I sit corrected.

Don't worry, you aren't going completely senile yet.

Damon drove the 1997 Arrows A18 in White/Blue

The 1998 A19 was all Black.

[ajprice]

^^^ The black A19...



Anyways, memorable moments that weren't necessarily about the racing.

Canada 2011, because Button, and because of the Brundle/Coulthard filling in the time commentary on red-shouldered blackbirds etc.

Spa 98, Schumacher going into the back of Coulthard and losing a wheel, then stomping to the McLaren garage wanting to thump him.

Abu Dhabi 2016, drunk Jenson Button after retiring from his last race (pre Monaco 2017).

[Revhappychappy]

Lucky enough to be there for this 11 years ago today...

Edited by Revhappychappy on Sunday 6th August 13:38

[Mark A S]

Villeneuve and Arnoux Dijon 79, Senna Donnington 93 and of course Jenson Canada 2011

[FW18]

Hard to pin point just one for me but here are a few -

Suzuka 1994 - Damon's best drive and also the battle between Alesi and Mansell
Adelaide 1994 - For THAT incident...
Europe 1995 - Alesi being superb in the wet and dry conditions
Canada 1995 - Alesi first and only win
Adelaide 1995 - Chaotic race that had so many twists and turns
Suzuka 1996 - Damon finally getting the job done after been robbed in 1994
Hungary 1997 - For Arrows almost pulling off the shock of the decade!
Canada 1998 - Just being a wild race
Spa 1998 - See above
France 1999 - See above
Canada 2011 - See above

[louiechevy]

Silverstone 1991 Mansell wining and Senna running out of fuel in front of me and the famous lift back to the pits!

[VGTICE]

some consider this guy the greatest driver ever




"driver error"......

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Meeting your hero takes some beating

[anonymous-user]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Meeting your hero takes some beating

You win

[paulguitar]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Meeting your hero takes some beating

Please tell us some more about this...

[anonymous-user]

This is Formula 1 for me.

1500 bhp in qualifying trim and it would still spin it's tyres in 6th gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLf1qKQeBEs

Testing footage from 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfXkMAQKoAE

Warriors

[LaurasOtherHalf]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Meeting your hero takes some beating

You win

cheers!

The reality was probably something less than impressive for most to be honest. Me and dad travelled down to Silverstone on the Friday night of the GP weekend. Dad was a proper grafter, we didn't get to spend too much time together as he worked incredibly hard to get the family where he wanted but he booked a general access ticket for us both for the weekend knowing that I'd enjoy it.

After his business had started to take off (and before the early to mid 90's crash which nearly wiped it all out) Dad started to be able to do things we couldn't do before. He bought a brand new 4x4, we started going on foreign holidays and he treated me and my sister to some amazing things. In 1988 he took me to see Michael Jackson, then we went to Silverstone to see Senna...

Now, back then people didn't really like Senna. The country was awash with Mansell-Mania and today's deification of him was alien but to a few of us fans but regardless of who was "top dog" the fact that Mansell was in with a great chance of a home victory meant a record crowd was due to appear. You speak to folk now and they're all Senna fans but back then he was the pantomime villain and if you followed him you were a traitor, almost as bad as supporting the Argies in the world cup!

Anyway, we jumped in the Isuzu, called in at Argos and bought a hand held TV and headed down. If I remember correctly we slept in the car Friday (sleeping bags) night and made the final short journey to Silverstone early Saturday morning.

Now when we were in the traffic getting close to the circuit we started hearing something strange in the car. It didn't sound good but it was sound all the same, getting louder and louder until it was impossible to ignore. After a while we realised it was the sound of the F1 cars practicing on Saturday morning, it might sound obvious now but in all honesty the fact that we could hear cars that were miles away blew our minds. We parked in the car park and literally ran to the circuit.

I'd love to tell you all of the cut and thrust of Qually but I can't remember it, all I remember is walking from "our" corner round the track to the pits and picking up the rubber marbles from tyres I'd only seen in distant TV feeds from half a world away. We sat in the main grandstand and watched the McLaren team work on the cars into the early evening (when they were allowed to do that).

Dad was probably bored of me watching them and disappeared to get a drink and came back with two pints of Fosters, my first ever pint and probably my most memorable. I still can't believe he did that (we were pretty straight laced), he might wish he never had but it truly was a weekend of firsts, 25 years later I still look back on it fondly.

We had a rather struggled sleep that night, as most campers do (there were some groups making the most of the weekend) but in the morning we got ourselves together and made the effort to beat the bad weather. We took our camping seats into the murk and found our spot which Dad had researched to be the best place.

As miserable as the weather was it just kept getting sunnier and warmer right up until the race itself where things were pretty much perfect. The banter in the crowd was really funny especially as I was (what felt like) the only Senna fan in a field of Mansell supporters and Dad pointed it out so I got much ribbing from the local crowd. In my defence I'd supported Senna since '85 and as a young teenager to see my hero up close I was pretty much in seventh heaven.

The race? God knows. All I remember is the McLaren coming into the corner and the gearbox sounding like a bag of spanners in a cement mixer. Senna pulled off the track and coasted to right in front of us.

Even typing these words into a laptop I still can't believe it happened. Senna got out of the car and proceeded to look thoroughly pissed off. 20 yards away from me.

Now these days people drink water from a bottle all the time, maybe in cool places they did so back then but in the deep dark north where we were from bottled water was a pretty new thing. So new we'd only seen a few sports stars drink it after they'd finished their discipline. For whatever reason we took some Evian to Silverstone with us.

Now I'd love to tell you Senna drank our bottle but he didn't. I ran over to the fence to offer him one, Dad said all the sports stars drank bottled water so go offer him one but he didn't. That doesn't matter though, not for me anyways. I offered Ayrton Senna de Silva a drink and he said no thanks. Probably because the few thousand people behind me were screaming for his blood.

There was an F1 Magazine that we bought after the race and it showed me up at the chain link fence offering Senna a drink but I don't have that anymore. But it did happen.

A most memorable moment? I think so...

Maybe only more than Imola as it meant so much to me. Maybe more than Imola was Brazil 2008? Actually there's no way anything can pass that moment but it's a testament to LH that him winning the WDC is up there with Senna.

Once Ayrton died I probably watched less than 20 races up until 2007. I'm quite happy with Lewis making me watch every race since the beginning of 2007.