25 August 1991 - Where were YOU?

danardif1 · Post by **danardif1** » 17 Jan 2010, 18:45

I can't wait for the cars to come out at the end of the month...

And I'm really hoping that we see a USF1 car run at Barber, it's such a nice track, and I don't want to see a team fail before they even get a chance to be rejectful for real...

Also to keep this on topic, one thing I'm dreading is the smug look on Eddie Jordan's face when F1 comes back in Bahrain... I still can't believe he was right, and so far ahead as well!!

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 17 Jan 2010, 18:47

eagleash wrote:
danardif1 wrote:

That's the spirit. Keep away from the dark side of the Force and it all be all right.

Football's ok in moderation, like watching out for your favoured team or cheering your country on in the world cup, or even having a quick multiplayer on me PS3 with mates... But F1 takes over your whole life, and that's why all of us still talk about it, even though there's been no racing whatsoever since November 1st...

Cheer up we're now nearer to the new season than the old one. & in the Northern Hemisphere the nights have been drawing out for a month.

I'm glad it's not just me waiting eagerly. I wish shinji would put back up his "days to season start" sig again.

DonTirri · Post by **DonTirri** » 17 Jan 2010, 18:51

eagleash wrote:
DonTirri wrote:
eagleash wrote:This is scary. I can remember where I was when Hawthorn won the championship.

Schumacher? Oh he's that new kid. They say he might not be too bad.

How OLD are you Eagleash? O_O

On topic: I was a whisker under 3 years at that point. Don't remember much.
I do remember hating Schumacher right outta day 1 when I started following F1 in 1994

In my first ever text I mentioned having followed F1 for 50 yrs...

I'm 55 as it goes.....50 is the new 30. Right guys? Guys? That's funny...... where'd they go?

Jesus christ man, you are older than my father O_O
I didnt even know middle aged people knew how to use internet. (atleast not the ones I know, anyone above 50 i know is friggin clueless about computers in general)

Shows what I know.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 17 Jan 2010, 19:10

CarlosFerreira wrote:I'm glad it's not just me waiting eagerly. I wish shinji would put back up his "days to season start" sig again.

Yes that was rather ambitious, wasn't it?

I might start it again, 55 days to go.

Edit - you get your wish Carlos.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 17 Jan 2010, 19:23

DonTirri wrote:
eagleash wrote:
DonTirri wrote:
How OLD are you Eagleash? O_O

On topic: I was a whisker under 3 years at that point. Don't remember much.
I do remember hating Schumacher right outta day 1 when I started following F1 in 1994

In my first ever text I mentioned having followed F1 for 50 yrs...

I'm 55 as it goes.....50 is the new 30. Right guys? Guys? That's funny...... where'd they go?

Jesus christ man, you are older than my father O_O
I didnt even know middle aged people knew how to use internet. (atleast not the ones I know, anyone above 50 i know is friggin clueless about computers in general)

Shows what I know.

With age comes a degree of wisdom. Like knowing Keke got a Finnish knighthood, when someone slagged the Brit honours system. :lol:

trying to figure out Twitter...that's a mystery

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 17 Jan 2010, 19:29

shinji wrote:I might start it again, 55 days to go.

Edit - you get your wish Carlos.

Yeah!

eagleash wrote:trying to figure out Twitter...that's a mystery

Make sure you subscribe to sniffpetrol. You'll get awesome descriptions of how he got, and I quote, "HORSE DISOLVINGLY DRUNK". :lol:

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 17 Jan 2010, 19:42

CarlosFerreira wrote:

eagleash wrote:trying to figure out Twitter...that's a mystery

Make sure you subscribe to sniffpetrol. You'll get awesome descriptions of how he got, and I quote, "HORSE DISOLVINGLY DRUNK".

Doesn't sound my thing!

It's weird, I can't make sense of it at the moment.

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » 17 Jan 2010, 19:48

CarlosFerreira wrote:
danardif1 wrote:... otherwise I could've become a football fan

I'm glad I took the F1 side... I do support two teams (Bolton Wanderers and Hannover 96), but I would rather watch old F1 clips than Match of the Day..

That's the spirit. Keep away from the dark side of the Force and it all be all right.[/quote]

The dark side??? Isn't the dark side cooler, more hip and trendy? Tottenham Hotspur come before everything except my family, I'll do anything for them to be successful. Including sacrificing myself in various ways. I'll give a kidney or an appendix, half my possessions, a bribe to the people investigaitng our manager for not paying taxes, anything

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 17 Jan 2010, 19:53

eagleash wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:
eagleash wrote:trying to figure out Twitter...that's a mystery

Make sure you subscribe to sniffpetrol. You'll get awesome descriptions of how he got, and I quote, "HORSE DISOLVINGLY DRUNK".

Doesn't sound my thing!

It's weird, I can't make sense of it at the moment.

Oh, I suppose so. For a non-local like me, it all adds up as "novel use of language", which I relish on.

WeirdKerr · Post by **WeirdKerr** » 17 Jan 2010, 20:19

I had my first driving lesson the day before, i think....

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 17 Jan 2010, 20:35

CarlosFerreira wrote:
eagleash wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:
Make sure you subscribe to sniffpetrol. You'll get awesome descriptions of how he got, and I quote, "HORSE DISOLVINGLY DRUNK".

Doesn't sound my thing!

It's weird, I can't make sense of it at the moment.

Oh, I suppose so. For a non-local like me, it all adds up as "novel use of language", which I relish on.

It's Twitter I find weird I can't seem to make it work at all.

By the way is there much difference between European & Brazilian Portuguese? (Unrelated topic to unrelated topic..........)

DonTirri · Post by **DonTirri** » 17 Jan 2010, 20:56

eagleash wrote:
By the way is there much difference between European & Brazilian Portuguese? (Unrelated topic to unrelated topic..........)

The difference might be akin to the difference between American English and British English.
(or Real swedish and Finnish Swedish for anyone who knows what i'm talking about)

noisebox · Post by **noisebox** » 17 Jan 2010, 21:13

I was 17 and madly into F1 at the time. I remember that race really well, not becuase of Schumi's debut but because there was at one point a real chance that De Cesaris could've won the race in Jordan's first year in F1. This was during a time when the only teams that won were McLaren, Williams, Ferrari and sometimes Benetton.

I know Schumi out qualified De Cesaris but at the time that wasn't such a big deal - his subsequent performances alongside Piquet at Benetton were startling and it was clear form a very early stage that this boy was something special. The only other driver I've seen make such an impact so soon in his career was a certain L Hamilton...

Jack O Malley · Post by **Jack O Malley** » 17 Jan 2010, 22:13

I was almost 6 and didn't mind F1. I started following it in 1994 (what a year :cry:

).

It's amazing that Schu will race agains Alguersuari (if he'll be confirmed) that was just 1 in 1991. I think it will be the longest span ever between drivers birthdate in the grid...

Popi_Larrauri · Post by **Popi_Larrauri** » 17 Jan 2010, 23:37

Watching F1, actually, since I was followng it since monaco 1990. But at the time didn't know who the hell was Schumacher (Motorsport coverage here, before the internet (YES! there was something alike in the old days) and after Reutemann was lame to say the best in Argentina). But the guy inspired some sympathy to me for his performance and his bad luck after turn 3... sympathy that wouldn't last too much, I'm afraid...

noisebox · Post by **noisebox** » 18 Jan 2010, 00:28

Jack O Malley wrote:I was almost 6 and didn't mind F1. I started following it in 1994 (what a year ).

It's amazing that Schu will race agains Alguersuari (if he'll be confirmed) that was just 1 in 1991. I think it will be the longest span ever between drivers birthdate in the grid...

Probably... also Schumi raced against (and in 1993 they were team mates) Riccardo Patrese, who made his debut in 1977!

Alianora La Canta · Post by **Alianora La Canta** » 18 Jan 2010, 00:29

Let's just say I'd been born but hadn't started school. I think that particular day was sunny at my house, so I was probably playing in the sandpit outside while the race was on. My first F1 race was nearly two years later.

So how much has your life changed over Schumacher's career span? Have you been born? Have you progressed from nappies to college? {shinji - Original post}

I've progressed from six words in one language to fluency in one language and enough proficiency to understand tweets in three others. I've completed all levels of school, got a degree, got and lost my first job, represented England twice in international swimming, competed in two other major galas and been selected for the World Games (the competition level down from the Paralympics).

So not much has happened since 25 August 1991...

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 18 Jan 2010, 00:45

Alianora La Canta wrote:...represented England twice in international swimming, competed in two other major galas and been selected for the World Games (the competition level down from the Paralympics).

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 18 Jan 2010, 01:45

I was a year old and change at that point. I couldn't answer that definitively.

baddriving50 · Post by **baddriving50** » 18 Jan 2010, 06:11

*Digs into his mind for info about said day*

Not much I can remember, other than I was three and a bit years old and most likely driving one of these around in the back yard:

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 18 Jan 2010, 07:17

Phoenix wrote:In the womb. Now, I'm the average 17-year old guy, really.

Same here. Except for average 17-year old- I'm more of a nerdy 17-year-old.

madcat · Post by **madcat** » 18 Jan 2010, 08:33

I was 18 at the time (glad eagleash is here, not the oldest then!), still living in Portugal, finishing my IT course. Had been watching F1 since 5 when Andretti won the championship (one of my earlier memories in fact). Didn't pay that much attention to Schumi then, and little did I know that in a few months time my life would change, moved to UK with an english girlfriend and still here!!!!

MaxZero · Post by **MaxZero** » 18 Jan 2010, 10:26

I was one and a half, living in a small terraced house, My mother was heavily pregnant with my brother, all the attention i got from everyone was about to be shattered

BigG80 · Post by **BigG80** » 18 Jan 2010, 11:09

It was a week after my birthday so I was 12 years old. The first F1 race I remember watching was the British GP from 1991 with Mansell giving Senna a lift back to the pits but I could only watch F1 (and indeed TV) at my Dad's so I don't think I saw this race unless it was on at a friends house. Sadly.

And since then, I changed towns, went to university, dropped out of university, sang in several bands, ploughed my way through several different jobs and girlfriends until now where I've achieved happiness with band and relationship and am seeking a better job....but isn't everyone!

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 18 Jan 2010, 11:45

DonTirri wrote:
eagleash wrote:
By the way is there much difference between European & Brazilian Portuguese? (Unrelated topic to unrelated topic..........)

The difference might be akin to the difference between American English and British English.
(or Real swedish and Finnish Swedish for anyone who knows what i'm talking about)

eagleash, something like what DonTirri says, yeah. Maybe because it's my mother tongue, I find the gap between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese wider than American English and British English. There's clear grammar differences in the use of verb tenses and sentence building and ordering. We understand each other clearly, but I feel silly if I try speaking Brazilian Portuguese (really, I do).

To give you an example, I tried reading a well-known book by a well-known Brazilian author (Jorge Amado) and stopped after about 30 pages because of the sheer effort I was having to do just to keep up. Years later, my sister reported the exact same episode, oblivious the same had happened to me; mind you, that specific book may have been the cause for the disruption.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 18 Jan 2010, 11:53

CarlosFerreira wrote:
DonTirri wrote:
eagleash wrote:
By the way is there much difference between European & Brazilian Portuguese? (Unrelated topic to unrelated topic..........)

The difference might be akin to the difference between American English and British English.
(or Real swedish and Finnish Swedish for anyone who knows what i'm talking about)

eagleash, something like what DonTirri says, yeah. Maybe because it's my mother tongue, I find the gap between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese wider than American English and British English. There's clear grammar differences in the use of verb tenses and sentence building and ordering. We understand each other clearly, but I feel silly if I try speaking Brazilian Portuguese (really, I do).

To give you an example, I tried reading a well-known book by a well-known Brazilian author (Jorge Amado) and stopped after about 30 pages because of the sheer effort I was having to do just to keep up. Years later, my sister reported the exact same episode, oblivious the same had happened to me; mind you, that specific book may have been the cause for the disruption.

I have a problem reading some of your posts... I guess you can say I'm colour-blind! (Only for the spelling-related pun, not in reality...)

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 18 Jan 2010, 11:59

Alianora La Canta wrote:Let's just say I'd been born but hadn't started school. I think that particular day was sunny at my house, so I was probably playing in the sandpit outside while the race was on. My first F1 race was nearly two years later.

So how much has your life changed over Schumacher's career span? Have you been born? Have you progressed from nappies to college? {shinji - Original post}

I've progressed from six words in one language to fluency in one language and enough proficiency to understand tweets in three others. I've completed all levels of school, got a degree, got and lost my first job, represented England twice in international swimming, competed in two other major galas and been selected for the World Games (the competition level down from the Paralympics).

So not much has happened since 25 August 1991...

I'm impressed.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 18 Jan 2010, 12:10

thehemogoblin wrote:I have a problem reading some of your posts... I guess you can say I'm colour-blind! (Only for the spelling-related pun, not in reality...)

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 18 Jan 2010, 12:43

I am merely 18 days older than Jaume Alguersuari Escudero, so I was 1 year old at the time. Needless to say I hadn't started following F1 yet. I didn't start doing that until 1998, not right at the beginning of the season, but somewhere in the first half, when Michael Schumacher was fighting for the championship with Mika Häkkinen. I remember finding those battles extremely exciting as a young child. I supported Schumacher, because my dad (whose name was also Michael, and who was also born in Germany, and was pretty good at driving cars too!) also supported him. Michael Schumacher grew into my undoubted favourite driver of all time after that year, probably aided by the fact he lost the championship. Me and my dad always had a thing for supporting the underdog, be it in racing, football or whatever. The fact that he won 5 successive World Championships after that didn't change a thing, in fact I looked it on amusedly, while acknowledging F1 had become boring, but I would definitely have been far more disgruntled had a different driver dominated F1 for 5 years straight (unless it would've been Montoya, whom I've always liked. But imagine Ralf winning 5 in a row! Ulgh!). I was very emotional when Michael drove his last race in 2006, because I realized how much he had been a part of my life for all those years, and also because he reminded me of watching the races with my dad who had passed away two years before. That race went on to become one of the most memorable in my memory. Naturally, I was overjoyed when it was announced he will return this year, almost feeling it was too good to be true. (Although I felt a bit weird when he was going to replace Massa last year, and wasn't very surprised when it didn't work out in the end, but that might also have had something to do with really wanting Luca Badoer to finally get a drive (of course, I fondly remember the 1998 European Grand Prix, and I've been following F1 Rejects since 2003!).) By the way, in 1999 Häkkinen was one of my most hated drivers, but I've eventually grown fond of him, though sadly most so after he retired.

Now I spend my time studying linguistics at university, playing video games, inventing stupid fantasy F1 seasons, and having people on internet forums try to figure out whether I'm a man or a woman. So, not a lot has changed in those 19 years, or maybe there has, but whatever. (Btw, why do my posts always turn out so long?!)

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 18 Jan 2010, 12:49

Waris wrote:(Btw, why do my posts always turn out so long?!)

Dunno. But they've been 500 interesting posts so far.

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 18 Jan 2010, 12:51

CarlosFerreira wrote:
Waris wrote:(Btw, why do my posts always turn out so long?!)

Dunno. But they've been 500 interesting posts so far.

I wanted to post "why thank you", then I realized that wow, I had 500 posts, which is quite the reason for celebration, and I would ruin that with my 501st post. But then I decided that oh whatever, 501 is a nice number too. (Any darts fans here?)

Edit: Oh, P.S., I enjoy your posts as well, meu amigo.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 18 Jan 2010, 12:56

Waris wrote:Edit: Oh, P.S., I enjoy your posts as well, meu amigo.

Funny, you're the second Dutch person this week that turns to me and speaks Portuguese.

Keep it up, and let's have the next 500!

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 18 Jan 2010, 14:45

I sat on my grandmother's couch as the whole family sat round the TV and watched as he parked the Green Beauty with a broken clutch on Lap 1.

fondmetal-fond · Post by **fondmetal-fond** » 18 Jan 2010, 15:44

I was 2 yrs old. I would not know about the existence of F1 until 11 years later. (I became interested in aerodynamics because of planes, then spacecraft, then progressed onto formula 1 cars). :oops:

deCrasheris · Post by **deCrasheris** » 18 Jan 2010, 16:36

I was 3 and a half. Sadly I had no idea what F1 was until two years later even though i was starting to get into nascar at that young age :mrgreen:

.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 18 Jan 2010, 21:45

Too many young un's on here, poor fools didn't see the magic of prequalifying or even proper qualifying. I was 16 at the time and was enjoyhing the best season that Minardi had...

I am disappointed that not a single person has mentioned that just behind Mr Schumacher was Pierluigi Martini in his Minardi Ferrari. Also ironic that a certain Roberto Moreno got the fastest lap of the race...

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 18 Jan 2010, 22:41

CarlosFerreira wrote:
DonTirri wrote:
eagleash wrote:
By the way is there much difference between European & Brazilian Portuguese? (Unrelated topic to unrelated topic..........)

The difference might be akin to the difference between American English and British English.
(or Real swedish and Finnish Swedish for anyone who knows what i'm talking about)

eagleash, something like what DonTirri says, yeah. Maybe because it's my mother tongue, I find the gap between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese wider than American English and British English. There's clear grammar differences in the use of verb tenses and sentence building and ordering. We understand each other clearly, but I feel silly if I try speaking Brazilian Portuguese (really, I do).

To give you an example, I tried reading a well-known book by a well-known Brazilian author (Jorge Amado) and stopped after about 30 pages because of the sheer effort I was having to do just to keep up. Years later, my sister reported the exact same episode, oblivious the same had happened to me; mind you, that specific book may have been the cause for the disruption.

Thanks Carlos I was hoping someone (Ie you) from Portugal would answer rather than Finland

. Melhor assim.

Bort · Post by **Bort** » 18 Jan 2010, 23:03

I was 12 years old.
Probably in bed asleep here in Australia while the race was on.

I am now 30 years old, and all of the young ruffians on this board frighten and confuse me.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 18 Jan 2010, 23:14

Bort wrote:I was 12 years old.
Probably in bed asleep here in Australia while the race was on.

I am now 30 years old, and all of the young ruffians on this board frighten and confuse me.

Oy how dare you! Less of the young if you don't mind!

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 19 Jan 2010, 00:18

Bort wrote:I was 12 years old.
Probably in bed asleep here in Australia while the race was on.

I am now 30 years old, and all of the young ruffians on this board frighten and confuse me.

Good to know. We're doing our job.