Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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Thank you for a lovely game of dissertation. Time to get crunk. See you on Friday.
 
Number 1 Jasper said:
Well said .

Senna was my Hero ( still is ) but I feel really sorry for Rolands fans and family , it's only the true fans , take a bow GBS , that remember that poor soul died that weekend as well .

Also Rubens nasty accident and the wheel flying into the crowd.........

As a matter of interest GBS , do you remember where you were the day Ayrton Died ?

I was upstairs in my room ( yes i was still at home ) , saw him hit the wall come to a stop and spotted THAT head twitch , knew then he was dead .
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Roland's accident was even worse than Senna's in my opinion. Head on into a concrete wall at 200mph unable to steer. It's horrible at the end of it you can see his head just roll around as the car spins, and you can just tell his neck was broken.

I wasn't even a year old when they died, but mum told me I loved watching F1 even at that age. Mum says that, naturally, Senna was my favourite. So in all honesty, I don't remember it at all, which is maybe for the best. I was affected badly enough by watching Shoya Tomizawa/Marco Simoncelli/Dan Wheldon dying, so to see that would have been just horrible.

The fact that there was an Austrian flag in Senna's cockpit just adds to the tragedy also.
 
Schad said:
At the time of his death, Senna was planning big action on driver safety...it's sad that his death ended up being the trigger that forced motorsports to really get serious, after getting somewhat complacent as the years advanced from what was frankly mass carnage in the 60s through the early 80s.

Speaking of, if anyone has not seen Grand Prix: The Killer Years, it's stunning. Huge names falling left and right, and the constructors and governing body couldn't care less; drivers were a replaceable commodity, going faster was all the mattered.
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I watched that, such a powerful documentary. And then of course the Senna film was just incredible.
 
Gay Bacon Strips said:
I wasn't even a year old when he died, but mum told me I loved watching F1 even at that age. Naturally Senna was my favourite. So in all honesty, I don't remember it at all, which is maybe for the best. I was affected badly enough by watching Shoya Tomizawa/Marco Simoncelli/Dan Wheldon dying, so to see that would have been just horrible.
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Can I just say how OLD your first comment makes me feel <wah>
 
Bill Roache aka Ken Barlow has been arrested, suspected of raping. Guessing the crap he said a few months ago looks even worse now.
 
Gay Bacon Strips said:
Roland's accident was even worse than Senna's in my opinion. Head on into a concrete wall at 200mph unable to steer. It's horrible at the end of it you can see his head just roll around as the car spins, and you can just tell his neck was broken.

I wasn't even a year old when they died, but mum told me I loved watching F1 even at that age. Mum says that, naturally, Senna was my favourite. So in all honesty, I don't remember it at all, which is maybe for the best. I was affected badly enough by watching Shoya Tomizawa/Marco Simoncelli/Dan Wheldon dying, so to see that would have been just horrible.
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I didn't get into F1 until I was like 10, is the Senna film worth a look?
 
Number 1 Jasper said:
Can I just say how OLD your first comment makes me feel <wah>
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Want to feel even older? Many kids who are reaching the age of consent this year are possibly too young to remember 9/11.

Oh, and they were born in the year Diana died and The Spice Girls released "Wannabe".
 
Number 1 Jasper said:
Can I just say how OLD your first comment makes me feel <wah>
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It's only through many hours of just reading various accounts of it that sticks so vividly in my head.

In addition to what you mentioned, there was the incident in the pitlane where the mechanics got hit by Alboreto's flying wheel after a pitstop. I have that whole weekend's BBC coverage downloaded on my hard drive somewhere, and I remember Murray Walker sounding very distressed after that, saying that they should have just ended it there and then.
 
Gay Bacon Strips said:
Roland's accident was even worse than Senna's in my opinion. Head on into a concrete wall at 200mph unable to steer. It's horrible at the end of it you can see his head just roll around as the car spins, and you can just tell his neck was broken.

I wasn't even a year old when they died, but mum told me I loved watching F1 even at that age. Mum says that, naturally, Senna was my favourite. So in all honesty, I don't remember it at all, which is maybe for the best. I was affected badly enough by watching Shoya Tomizawa/Marco Simoncelli/Dan Wheldon dying, so to see that would have been just horrible.

The fact that there was an Austrian flag in Senna's cockpit just adds to the tragedy also.
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I didn't go to the race ,Loved the sport for years ( Starting with John watsons win at the British GP 1981 ) bought the F1 magazine BEFORE the race , so no glory hunting here ! , but didn't go to one for ages .

Old friends ( as in ex friends ) who were there and saw / Heard Roland hit the wall , knew right off he was dead .

Not many people where Ayrton died as not possible .

Just wish I had seen the master drive when he was still alive .
 
One more: Pokemon was already a year old when they were born, and so was the memory of England getting knocked out on penalties by Germany in Euro 96.
 
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