Pet hates!
Posted by rapid_f1
I've never noticed Brundle getting any more error-prone than he ever was TBH. As far as I've known he's always been pretty on it. Definitely I don't think age comes into it - he's no Murray yet.
Yeah, there's definitely a buzz you get from correctly guessing what the commentators will say before they say it. It was quite easy back when Murray and James Hunt were commentating, since both of them were pretty good at missing things, to the point where it was really annoying sometimes. It was easy when Jonathan Palmer was alongside Murray too, for more or less the same reason. It got a lot harder when Brundle started commentating, but you still acclimatized to that. There was one time in the mid-2000s when I used to watch almost every GP with some mates who were also hardcore F1 fans, and I was consistently noticing/saying stuff before Martin said it. In the opening laps of the 2007 Australian GP, for example, when Massa was pulling out of the slipstream of slower cars to get cool air to his radiators, my mate's GF asked why he wasn't driving on the racing line. I explained; about 30 seconds later Brundle explained. She nearly fell off her seat.
Yeah, there's definitely a buzz you get from correctly guessing what the commentators will say before they say it. It was quite easy back when Murray and James Hunt were commentating, since both of them were pretty good at missing things, to the point where it was really annoying sometimes. It was easy when Jonathan Palmer was alongside Murray too, for more or less the same reason. It got a lot harder when Brundle started commentating, but you still acclimatized to that. There was one time in the mid-2000s when I used to watch almost every GP with some mates who were also hardcore F1 fans, and I was consistently noticing/saying stuff before Martin said it. In the opening laps of the 2007 Australian GP, for example, when Massa was pulling out of the slipstream of slower cars to get cool air to his radiators, my mate's GF asked why he wasn't driving on the racing line. I explained; about 30 seconds later Brundle explained. She nearly fell off her seat.
bet she was as wet as an otter!
Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it
danm Wrote:
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> bet she was as wet as an otter!
And now they're happily married.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
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> bet she was as wet as an otter!
And now they're happily married.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
I'm glad it's not just me that gets a buzz out of Brundle-beating 
danm Wrote:
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> bet she was as wet as an otter!
the correct phrase you were looking for is "wet as an otter's pocket"
they have people talking to them in their headphones and people handing them bits of paper with facts and figures/info throughout the race, so there's a lot distracting them. we're usually 100% concentrated on the race with probably not much else going on in the room, and likely to be watching a bigger tv than they have at some venues they go to.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
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> bet she was as wet as an otter!
the correct phrase you were looking for is "wet as an otter's pocket"
they have people talking to them in their headphones and people handing them bits of paper with facts and figures/info throughout the race, so there's a lot distracting them. we're usually 100% concentrated on the race with probably not much else going on in the room, and likely to be watching a bigger tv than they have at some venues they go to.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
I watched a race recently (was it grand-am???) where the commentary team did not even have windows in the box! Maybe it was Dubai 24hours? It was a recent event as far as I remember, but I was pretty shocked at that =/!
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
that happened in India for the F1 didn't it? i remember Martin saying he had no windows and wasn't anywhere near the track and that it must change for next year or he'd be annoyed.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
Yeh it did, i remember them talking about it in the free practises, how they couldnt actually see anything. By the sounds of it they sometimes have quite small screens as well as lots of other stuff going on, but that doesn't stop the smug feeling when you spot something or say something before they do
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Hehe, that's the season review VHS. But it'd be funny if they did live commentary in that matter-of-fact style :P
Anyone remember the season review video where Jonathan Ross did the commentary?
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Is that the one from 1992/3? I have it on VHS also. Shocking.
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Yep, it was 1993, just found a vid of it! "Ayrton stwuggling for gwip"
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I never got that VHS but I did see that season review on YouTube. On the British GP bit of it he says "Pwost doesn't normally like the wain". I LOLed first time I heard it.
The phrase "spun wildly" was used quite often in the Jonathon Woss review as well. The Clive James reviews were funny though.
The Clive James ones were easily the funniest. The most annoying one was the 1983 review - the constant interruptions by Barbara Rosenblat... Dear God.
The 1987 one(Peter Ustinov with Simon Taylor doing race commentary) was arguably the most boring.
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The 1987 one(Peter Ustinov with Simon Taylor doing race commentary) was arguably the most boring.
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Regarding the original thread topic, my pet hates are:
1. The continuous trend towards dumbing the sport down. Boring/crappy circuits, homologated engines and car parts, etc. It stinks, and I detest it. The only good thing that's come out of it is that the sport is safer now, but I'm pretty sure that the current safety level could be maintained while re-introducing some more genuinely challenging tracks(Like Hockenheim as it was pre-1982, for example) and relaxing the "cost-cutting" measures of the last 10 years that have led to every car looking and sounding the same.
2. Lewis Hamilton. Every time you think he might have turned the corner, he says or does something so stupid you immediately want to bang your head off of the nearest wall. This year I'm hoping he'll somehow get himself sorted out, but I was hoping the same thing a year ago, and I got proved epically wrong...
3. Felipe Massa, for the same reasons already said. Unlike some others I don't think his Hungary 2009 accident has had any bad effect on him as a person or a driver, in fact I actually think he's been an improved driver since it if anything. Certainly he's far more consistent and makes far less stupid rookie mistakes. What's shown Massa up has been the arrival of Alonso as his teammate. Alonso's presence in the team has clearly eroded Massa's confidence, and in particular Germany 2010 was a huge psychological blow to him which has left a lasting effect. But this has just gone to show that Massa was only ever a #2 Ferrari driver at best, and I'm pretty sure 2012 will be his last season with them.
4. Romain Grosjean. A smug little douche who thinks he's far better than he ever will be. After his 2009 season I think he's a complete waste of a seat in any car better than HRT or Marussia. I'm hoping he thoroughly disappoints and gets dropped before the end of the season.
There'll be others too, but these are my main ones for now.
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1. The continuous trend towards dumbing the sport down. Boring/crappy circuits, homologated engines and car parts, etc. It stinks, and I detest it. The only good thing that's come out of it is that the sport is safer now, but I'm pretty sure that the current safety level could be maintained while re-introducing some more genuinely challenging tracks(Like Hockenheim as it was pre-1982, for example) and relaxing the "cost-cutting" measures of the last 10 years that have led to every car looking and sounding the same.
2. Lewis Hamilton. Every time you think he might have turned the corner, he says or does something so stupid you immediately want to bang your head off of the nearest wall. This year I'm hoping he'll somehow get himself sorted out, but I was hoping the same thing a year ago, and I got proved epically wrong...
3. Felipe Massa, for the same reasons already said. Unlike some others I don't think his Hungary 2009 accident has had any bad effect on him as a person or a driver, in fact I actually think he's been an improved driver since it if anything. Certainly he's far more consistent and makes far less stupid rookie mistakes. What's shown Massa up has been the arrival of Alonso as his teammate. Alonso's presence in the team has clearly eroded Massa's confidence, and in particular Germany 2010 was a huge psychological blow to him which has left a lasting effect. But this has just gone to show that Massa was only ever a #2 Ferrari driver at best, and I'm pretty sure 2012 will be his last season with them.
4. Romain Grosjean. A smug little douche who thinks he's far better than he ever will be. After his 2009 season I think he's a complete waste of a seat in any car better than HRT or Marussia. I'm hoping he thoroughly disappoints and gets dropped before the end of the season.
There'll be others too, but these are my main ones for now.
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The 1996 review is easily the most boring - for some reason, it was deemed necessary to give the times for pretty much *every* pit stop >_<
I can't really see how you can judge Grosjean from his half a season with Renault. He was thrust into a car mid season against the best driver in F1 at the time. To just get close to Alonso is an achievment, just look at Badoer and Fisichella in the Ferrari in the same season, they were equally awful, Fisichella had been driving consistently for best part of 15 years in F1 before jumping in that Ferrari so he should know how to adapt.
In the Italian GP qualifying that year Grosjean qualified less than 0.3s slower than Alonso, Fisi qualified just under half a second slower than Raikkonen, both dropped out in Q2.
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In the Italian GP qualifying that year Grosjean qualified less than 0.3s slower than Alonso, Fisi qualified just under half a second slower than Raikkonen, both dropped out in Q2.
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