Well I now have an 8Mbps broadband line, but what a day of arsing about making it work properly.!!! I will write about last nights events on Monday, it is way to late now.! But, I do want to speak about something…
Twas the Canadian Grand Prix today (switch off now, go on, lol). It was a good eventful race, another win for Alonso, Schumacher sneaking ANOTHER lucky second place and Villeneuve getting stuffed by Ralf at turn 7 (I think). It is actually Villeneuve I wanted to mention, actually his dad, Gilles…
Nowadays F1 is all about the bigger picture. Too much has changed away from the art of driving the best car as fast as possible without dying. The engines rev at 19,000rpm and don’t sound as good as they used to, too much is placed on aerodynamics and not driver ability or mechanical grip. Watch one of today’s races and then click THIS LINK FOR THE REAL THING. It shows the last few laps of the 1979 French Grand Prix or, more exactly, the battle between Villeneuve and Rene Arnoux for second place. Villeneuve wins in the end for Ferrari in the gorgeous 126, while Arnoux brings in third for Renault, the first F1 car with a turbo. The race was won by Jean-Pierre Jabouille in the sister Renault, starting the 10 year turbo era, which left Renault the originators but ultimately the losers (they never won a championship with a turbo car).
Do you see what I mean. With Murray Walker’s classic commentary, something that I know word for word from this clip as it still makes me sit up and watch it closely each time it is on. I can only think of three other clips that send shivers down my spine with regard to F1, the sight of Villeneuve and Pironi fighting it out at Imola in 1982, two weeks before Gilles lost his life at Zolder, Damon Hill taking the lead at Hungary in 1997 in an off the pace Arrows Yamaha and watching Olivier Panis win the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix.
Weren’t the old days better.?
yeh they were…but im not talking about F1.
xxXxx