2020 races you would watch again
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So i was just thinking in my head of the great races we have had in this season and the ones i would want to watch again had i forgotton about the end result.
I seem to have forgotton some good races and wanted to re watch them. But the only ones i can remember thay were dramatic are
Portugal
Silverstone
Turkey
Im sure there are others but cant remember.
Any suggestions?
I seem to have forgotton some good races and wanted to re watch them. But the only ones i can remember thay were dramatic are
Portugal
Silverstone
Turkey
Im sure there are others but cant remember.
Any suggestions?
Murghee said:
So i was just thinking in my head of the great races we have had in this season and the ones i would want to watch again had i forgotton about the end result.
I seem to have forgotton some good races and wanted to re watch them. But the only ones i can remember thay were dramatic are
Portugal
Silverstone
Turkey
Im sure there are others but cant remember.
Any suggestions?
British GP was boring. Only the tyre failures made the conclusion exciting and without it another straighforward win for Lewis. You could fast forward to the last few laps and would not have missed much or at all.I seem to have forgotton some good races and wanted to re watch them. But the only ones i can remember thay were dramatic are
Portugal
Silverstone
Turkey
Im sure there are others but cant remember.
Any suggestions?
The great/re-watchable races are ones that keep you captivated from start to finish.
Austrian/Styrian GP
Mugello
Monza
Imola
For me the highlight of a great season has to be George's fairytale ride last weekend.
Qualifies within a gnat's hair of Valtteri, who has qualified ahead of Lewis a few times this season. Takes the lead at the start with a confident but careful pass. Gets some distance and sits at the front as though he hasn't spent the last two years circulating at the back.
Gets screwed by pitstops with, what? 15 laps to go? Pushed back to 5th and behind Bottas. I'm gutted but he's on fresh tyres and hasn't given up. Passes his team mate. Passes Stroll. Passes Ocon. All great, measured passes like he's being doing this every day for the last two years. Getting ready to take the lead back and I'm now thinking you know, I was gutted but this is even better. So happy for the guy to see him not only take a win, but overcome that setback, keep his head, doesn't bin it or touch any other car, and goes to take an even more impressive win.
Then picks up a puncture, and I'm gutted for him again. I was thinking after all that if he still doesn't break his duck and get any points I'm going to... I dunno what I'm going to do. Manages to get back to 9th at least and save my TV, but still, Murphy had got in the way enough and denied him the fairytale ending to a weekend worthy of Disney.
What a weekend, and that's from my point of view. I can't imagine what it was like for him.
EDIT: Oh, and come back online on Monday to find that PH has gone absolutely nuts
What a season. I'd happily watch a movie about it. Not sure I'd watch the season itself again, I assume it would be like watching The Sixth Sense again... but maybe in 20 odd years while I'm bored in retirement and my memory's gone a bit more and it's all fresh, exciting and surprising once again.
Qualifies within a gnat's hair of Valtteri, who has qualified ahead of Lewis a few times this season. Takes the lead at the start with a confident but careful pass. Gets some distance and sits at the front as though he hasn't spent the last two years circulating at the back.
Gets screwed by pitstops with, what? 15 laps to go? Pushed back to 5th and behind Bottas. I'm gutted but he's on fresh tyres and hasn't given up. Passes his team mate. Passes Stroll. Passes Ocon. All great, measured passes like he's being doing this every day for the last two years. Getting ready to take the lead back and I'm now thinking you know, I was gutted but this is even better. So happy for the guy to see him not only take a win, but overcome that setback, keep his head, doesn't bin it or touch any other car, and goes to take an even more impressive win.
Then picks up a puncture, and I'm gutted for him again. I was thinking after all that if he still doesn't break his duck and get any points I'm going to... I dunno what I'm going to do. Manages to get back to 9th at least and save my TV, but still, Murphy had got in the way enough and denied him the fairytale ending to a weekend worthy of Disney.
What a weekend, and that's from my point of view. I can't imagine what it was like for him.
EDIT: Oh, and come back online on Monday to find that PH has gone absolutely nuts
What a season. I'd happily watch a movie about it. Not sure I'd watch the season itself again, I assume it would be like watching The Sixth Sense again... but maybe in 20 odd years while I'm bored in retirement and my memory's gone a bit more and it's all fresh, exciting and surprising once again.
Edited by kiseca on Wednesday 9th December 16:44
Edited by kiseca on Wednesday 9th December 16:45
kiseca said:
For me the highlight of a great season has to be George's fairytale ride last weekend.
Qualifies within a gnat's hair of Valtteri, who has qualified ahead of Lewis a few times this season. Takes the lead at the start with a confident but careful pass. Gets some distance and sits at the front as though he hasn't spent the last two years circulating at the back.
Gets screwed by pitstops with, what? 15 laps to go? Pushed back to 5th and behind Bottas. I'm gutted but he's on fresh tyres and hasn't given up. Passes his team mate. Passes Stroll. Passes Ocon. All great, measured passes like he's being doing this every day for the last two years. Getting ready to take the lead back and I'm now thinking you know, I was gutted but this is even better. So happy for the guy to see him not only take a win, but overcome that setback, keep his head, doesn't bin it or touch any other car, and goes to take an even more impressive win.
Then picks up a puncture, and I'm gutted for him again. I was thinking after all that if he still doesn't break his duck and get any points I'm going to... I dunno what I'm going to do. Manages to get back to 9th at least and save my TV, but still, Murphy had got in the way enough and denied him the fairytale ending to a weekend worthy of Disney.
What a weekend, and that's from my point of view. I can't imagine what it was like for him.
It was a hell of a ride.Qualifies within a gnat's hair of Valtteri, who has qualified ahead of Lewis a few times this season. Takes the lead at the start with a confident but careful pass. Gets some distance and sits at the front as though he hasn't spent the last two years circulating at the back.
Gets screwed by pitstops with, what? 15 laps to go? Pushed back to 5th and behind Bottas. I'm gutted but he's on fresh tyres and hasn't given up. Passes his team mate. Passes Stroll. Passes Ocon. All great, measured passes like he's being doing this every day for the last two years. Getting ready to take the lead back and I'm now thinking you know, I was gutted but this is even better. So happy for the guy to see him not only take a win, but overcome that setback, keep his head, doesn't bin it or touch any other car, and goes to take an even more impressive win.
Then picks up a puncture, and I'm gutted for him again. I was thinking after all that if he still doesn't break his duck and get any points I'm going to... I dunno what I'm going to do. Manages to get back to 9th at least and save my TV, but still, Murphy had got in the way enough and denied him the fairytale ending to a weekend worthy of Disney.
What a weekend, and that's from my point of view. I can't imagine what it was like for him.
The anticipation during the build up, the edge of your seat race and then the “did that really just happen” few hours after.
It was draining yet very exciting at the same time.
A new star is born !!
Well it was certainly exciting last time out!
But for GRs sake I really wouldn't want to watch it again! He really deserved to win - Mercedes got things badly wrong.
I'm torn - as much as I'd like to see LH back I'd love to see GR in "his" car again.
Maybe next year we might have them both in Mercedes cars, because sadly VB seems to have lost the plot.
But for GRs sake I really wouldn't want to watch it again! He really deserved to win - Mercedes got things badly wrong.
I'm torn - as much as I'd like to see LH back I'd love to see GR in "his" car again.
Maybe next year we might have them both in Mercedes cars, because sadly VB seems to have lost the plot.
Err, all of them?
A suggestion to anyone from Sky reading this, please can we have consecutive extended highlights packages of the whole season, over a couple of days between Christmas and New Year?
There’s not been a single duff race since France 2019 at Paul Ricard, every one has been worth watching.
My only complaint is a couple of the late safety car deployments have had an air of the American “Competition Caution” about them, as much about engineering a close finish as the safe operation of the event.
A suggestion to anyone from Sky reading this, please can we have consecutive extended highlights packages of the whole season, over a couple of days between Christmas and New Year?
There’s not been a single duff race since France 2019 at Paul Ricard, every one has been worth watching.
My only complaint is a couple of the late safety car deployments have had an air of the American “Competition Caution” about them, as much about engineering a close finish as the safe operation of the event.
I'd probably judge it on which races I watched the highlights on C4 after I'd watched the main event during the day. Probably;
Austria
Styria Qualifying
Belgium
Italy
Italy
Eifel
Portugal
Italy
Turkey Qualifying
Turkey
Bahrain
Sakir
Even the crappy ones have been pretty good with a midfield that's so close, it's certainly the first year I've actually considered buying my first season review DVD since my VHS copy of the '89 season!
Austria
Styria Qualifying
Belgium
Italy
Italy
Eifel
Portugal
Italy
Turkey Qualifying
Turkey
Bahrain
Sakir
Even the crappy ones have been pretty good with a midfield that's so close, it's certainly the first year I've actually considered buying my first season review DVD since my VHS copy of the '89 season!
Pretty much all of them. A few I might get bored and skip through. Same for 2019 too.
Some people are never happy but whatever... hold this and last season to anything for the last several decades and I think they've been overall better. There were certain isolated races in past era's which are all we remember now, so we think the entire era was great... But really an awful lot of races were very uneventful. Great moments in terms of memories, but an awful lot of dull races that we naturally don't recall now. But I sure as hell recall turning the F1 on back in the day and often tuning out because nothing really happened for about an hour.
2019 is when the midfield started to draw together and collide, that's been epic. And watching the extent of Mercedes dominance is simply impressive - makes me wonder what exactly is holding their competitors back. Themselves, in various ways, I suspect.
Some people are never happy but whatever... hold this and last season to anything for the last several decades and I think they've been overall better. There were certain isolated races in past era's which are all we remember now, so we think the entire era was great... But really an awful lot of races were very uneventful. Great moments in terms of memories, but an awful lot of dull races that we naturally don't recall now. But I sure as hell recall turning the F1 on back in the day and often tuning out because nothing really happened for about an hour.
2019 is when the midfield started to draw together and collide, that's been epic. And watching the extent of Mercedes dominance is simply impressive - makes me wonder what exactly is holding their competitors back. Themselves, in various ways, I suspect.
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