Chris2K

I completed it last night, and I also enjoyed it and thought it was rushed towards the end. I really enjoy the gameplay though so the huge amount of post-story content is going to be fun.

I think it was opposed after a few races where it started raining at the end of sessions so the later runners were significantly disadvantaged, and as that group included Ferrari in the 2000s there was a lot more sway to get rid of it.

Add me to the list of people not wanting reverse grids. Monza was not as exciting as it was because of Hamilton's overtakes, it was because of the combination of a car breaking down by the pit lane, a safety car, an unbalanced car crashing, a red flag, and a once-in-a-career penalty to Hamilton. All of those extraordinary events resulted in an Alpha Tauri, an Alfa Romeo, a Racing Point and a McLaren at the front, and the faster cars with the exception of Hamilton did absolutely no "cutting through the field". The only way of "shaking up the grid" I would be in favour of is one-shot qualifying, where one mistake can cost multiple grid positions and a perfect lap can result in making gains. Also, you still get a pole position, like every F1 race in history. Jack Nicholls gets it:

I would work out the odds if I could, but a Finnish guy bet €0.20 on that exact podium and has won €33,000 as a result.

Including his own teammate, who needed a pit stop far more than Lewis, yet didn't come in until he knew he was allowed to.

I don't wish to generalise, although I am, but this pandemic has shown that footballers really are the least intelligent sportspeople out there. This Foden/Greenwood thing is just the latest proof of that, and I'm sure there has been a disproportionate number of COVID cases for football compared to all other sports.

Nalbandian a few years ago at Queens when he kicked an advertising board into the shin of a line judge during the final and Denis Shapovalov in the Davis Cuo are the most recent big ones, Henman at Wimbledon 1995 in the doubles is more accurate to what happened here. According to the court mics, Djokovic's defence was: "She doesn't have to go to the hospital for this." He added: "You're going to choose a default in this situation? My career, Grand Slam, centre stage." I assume you can just injure anyone in the vicinity and it's fine if they don't have to go to hospital.

All the feels.

Oh damn, Leclerc's there to hug him. Damn these onions.

Amazing for Gasly, Sainz did a phenomenal job too. Random fact, Honda have now won for two different teams since leaving McLaren, whilst McLaren still haven't won.

Leclerc went off at the Parbolica and the tyre barrier was messed up to an unsafe degree, so they had to repair it. Meanwhile, Lewis has a stop-go penalty for entering the pits during a previous safety car when the pit lane was closed, Gasly, Raikkonen and Giovanazzi all pitted before that safety car so are ahead of Stroll and Norris who were running P2 and P3, Stroll didn't pit, and has now changed his tyres during the stoppage, so will lead when Hamilton stops for his penalty, and probably win. HAHAHAHA GREAT START LANCE, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.

I don't understand how you're allowed to change tyres when the race is stopped, or why you would be allowed to do anything to the cars. They're in parc fermé between qualifying and the race, but not when the race is essentially in progress? One thing we can be certain of is that, because they're craziness happening, Hamilton is going to crash into Alex Albon at some point.

Due to Hamilton's penalty, which was due to Magnussen breaking down, and the race stopping because of the way the tyre barrier ended up after Leclerc's crash, fucking Stroll is going to win this race. I've never known a human being luck his way through a sport like he does.

2020 will not go down as being the year Kyle Walker made his smartest choices.

They really have to consider staggered qualifying for Monza, one-two drivers out on the track at a time or something. As hysterically entertaining as this is, someone's going to get seriously hurt if this continues.

Renault are set to announce they are changing their name to Alpine for 2021. Assuming Racing Point change to Aston Martin it means that 4 of the 10 teams will start with "A".

One thing I do love about Nintendo is they're not "we're working on re-releases of Mario 64/Sunshine/Galaxy, here's a pre-alpha footage trailer, expect it sometime between January and December 2022!!", they're "we've made re-releases of Mario 64/Sunshine/Galaxy, it's available in less than three weeks. That is all."

Seb has bought one of Nigel Mansell's 1992 Williams for "some millions of dollars" based on its last auction price. I assume he's planning to enter it at Monza as a last resort.

Hot damn. I know Nishioka isn't exactly elite, but Murray's tenacity is out of this world.

Back in 1993 Murray Walker is frequently talking about how Luca Badoer is considered a front-runner for the second Benetton seat in 1994, which would eventually go to Jos Verstappen, having been fairly impressive for the terrible Lola-BMS team. He would have had the same car that won Michael Schumacher his first World Title. He was a pretty good driver, the issue he had when he came back for Ferrari was that he hadn't raced in F1 for 10 years.

Or George Russell, who is 28-0 against team-mates in qualifying so far in his career.

The historical F1TV package is £19.99 for a year. The archive comes with that, which is highlights of every race from 1981 onwards, mostly from Season Reviews hosted by Simon Taylor (the commentator from Rush), occasionally the BBC highlights program with Murray Walker and James Hunt, but without the BBC branding (so no The Chain intros :(), and very occasional full races. From 2009 onwards almost every full race is there, and I assume the ones that aren't are due to lack of entertainment reasons. To me it's a no-brainer purchase, at least until I've got through another 27 seasons of races, but I also have a lot more free time than the average person. Have a link on me.

1981 is the first season available on the F1 site in terms of highlights, so that covered any race I couldn't find online, but then I searched out 1980 because it felt better to start at the beginning of a decade. Most of them since 1984 are Google-able in terms of full races, YouTube, DailyMotion etc. but if it's on the F1 site I'll use that option as it's guaranteed good quality.

If it doesn't rain tomorrow I'm half expecting Lewis to have lapped the Haas' and Alfas within ten laps. There can surely never have been a faster F1 car in history than the Merc. On an unrelated note, I've been watching every race from 1980 onwards for a while now and have caught up with when I started following in 1993. This morning was the Italian Grand Prix, with the most incredible accident I've ever seen; in case you've never seen it, here it is. I call it the Shooting Star Minardi. That was also the last lap, so Fittipaldi finished the race whilst rolling along after the flip.

I haven't quite been able to compartimentalise the news yet, I just end up tearing up whenever something reminds me of his death. He was such a talent and the roles he played so well meant so much to so many people. R.I.P.