Nicki Thiim
Nicki Thiim
Jimmy Broadbent to take him out on lap 1.
The official F1 YouTube channel are playing a qualifying + 50% race with only F1 drivers involved. Mercendes said they’re trying to send the gear to Hamilton and Bottas now. Seems like they’ve seen Lando hitting the top of twitch.
However, I did see something about them trying to make it fair for the bigger names, in The true spirit of F1, they’ll be allowed to use driving assists etc.
Surely, they are all on simulators continuously, right?
Surely all the F1 drivers would be at least reasonably good at it? Not in comparison to the sim guys, but in comparison to Lando?
Probably not instantly, it is still a game and therefore has its own tricks and foibles that won't transfer from the track. Plus the grip model is different enough from real life that you have to get used to how it behaves.
Found a channel that has some full races from 2008, it's surprisingly archaic in places for something that seems such a short time ago and you get some gems from the commentary. During Spa James Allen (or is it Blundell?) tells us that 'Pat Simmons has thrown a curveball with Nelson Piquet's strategy'. Not for the first time that season mate.
I love watching the 80s races. An overlooked era is '82-'84, which had messy world championships no one really wanted to win, and eccentric cars that loved going pop.
This is probably the best/oddest finish to a race ever:
When/where can I watch the sim races?
I'll follow that up with my favourite start.
https://www.youtube.com/user/nismotv2013Originally Posted by Pepe
It will also be streamed by some of the drivers.
I would say I don’t understand how people can watch someone playing a computer game, but I’m about to watch a man fixing an old hand saw so carry on.
When it comes to car racing it is pretty much the same thing, although I generally agree. There's fuck all to do today though.
What happens to the real drivers only thing?
That's tomorrow.
I watched that not very good documentary about Steve McQueen and his Le Mans film, and I found that the iPlayer also has this baffling artefact covering Alain de Cadenet and Guy Edwards at the 1981 race. It's worth a watch out of morbid curiosity if anything.
Whatever your equivalent of 8pm GMT is, presumably on the F1 YT channel.
Things I have learned from re-watching some of 2008 (GB, Hungary, Brazil, & Spa so far):
- Nick 'Quick Nick' Heidfeld was nothing of the sort and was deservedly binned.
- Despite Anthony Hamilton carrying his son through the last part of the season, Lewis putting professional distance between them may have been the second best decision he made in his career.
- Massa was embarrassingly bad at several points, Silverstone is one of the worst performances by a title contender I've ever seen.
- Brazil was mental right from the first lap and still managed to double down on the craziness in the last 5. Hamilton choked badly (again) and was extremely fortunate to have the weather drop the title in his lap.
- Grooved tires were the shittest move the sport has ever made.
- Sky coverage is immeasurably better than anything ITV ever did, I begin to wonder if Mark Blundell ever actually drove in F1 and James 'How will this affect Hamilton' Allen must have been watching different races at some points.
- David Coulthard seemingly completed less than 20 laps of his farewell season.
- Refueling was crap.
I'll always go to back for Massa as one of the most improved drivers I've seen over their career. He never banished it completely, though.
Oh, and lastly:
- Are we sure the Ferrari Raikkonen wasn't a doppelganger? Worlds apart from the guy who donned everyone senseless at Suzuka that time.
There's been some conspiracy and scuttlebutt about that season. Namely the Ferrari management were already after Alonso / a returning Schumacher. All the upgrades went to Massa, etc.
2008 was one of the last times we had Brazil as the finale, no?
I can only think of 3 memorable moments from Abu Dhabi being so. Alonso SEETHING that Petrov wouldn't let him pass. Hamilton slowing the race down to walking pace only for no one behind him to want to do any overtaking and then the reverse, were Rosberg was pushing his dying car around the track hoping for Hamilton to break down.
We've had no properly good finish or drama there really.
Havve they renamed the last turn at Brazil Glock corner yet?
No because he passed him the corner prior. And it already has a name.
I think they'd rather have burned him at the stake.
It was all set up perfectly for Massa. To be crowed the first Brazilian Drivers Champion since Senna, at the Brazil GP and by winning it and as a local lad as well.
Then Glock happened. Fair to say they don't like him there.
Glock can't control the weather.
Try telling that to the always reasonable people of Brazil.
The Glock-spiracy is amazing in that it's more mental than the last lap of that race.
That still has a bunch of 'youtubers' and whatnot.
Looks like F1 have copyright striked TRL and Delatraz during the race and took their stream down
Such fucking wankery.
Ian Poulter is streaming with his own Ferraris in the background.
Good old Poults, he genuinely has the self-awareness of a cardboard box.
What's gonna be the most fun stream of this and can someone provide linkage cheers xxxx
I'm sticking with Jimmy Broadbent because trouble finds him.
Is this the one on Sky Sports Mix?
Someone put up when this is on.
Johnny Herbert's on it?
Programme just started now.
Wait, is there a different race?
EDIT: Lol, I'm a bit late to the party here.
I enjoyed that one, although half the grid have no idea what they're doing. And now Jimmy Broadbent is on the front page of the BBC Sport site, what a time we live in.
The start was something else. Johnny Herbert should know better.
I was watching it on Broadbent's stream and the whole first half of the race seemed to be a series of mental multi-car crashes which he somehow avoided.
Mixed up grids like that are better entertainment than the times I've seen a full grid of top sim racers drive, as the latter are just too good and don't make mistakes.
There is that I suppose, although Herbert was never going to take it seriously. I did wonder how he turned up in the top four suddenly.
Who is Jimmy Broadbent, is he just a streamer?
He probably pitted a lap too early or else could have been 3rd.
Turn 10 around there gives me nightmares every time, the apex is about an inch.
Yes. I don't think he's particularly good in the grand scheme of things but is thoroughly engaging/entertaining.
I don't think I've ever driven it, currently trying to get to grips with Bathurst which I am terrible at.
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