Only 37 more sleeps

Seeing as all the other threads are pretty naff,may as well have another one,only 37 more sleeps until the lights go green and the action starts again.
This will cure the off season cabin fever. :brm: :brm: :chflag: :winner: :#1:

I'm tempted to annoy Adam by mentioning the "sleeps" that may follow the green lights, but I wouldn't really dream of it......... ;)

Hey it will be a season worth waiting for,Michael wont win them all,he'll let Rueben win the other one.

Well, that comes as a major comfort, for sure...... ;)

I'm tempted to annoy Adam by mentioning the "sleeps" that may follow the green lights, but I wouldn't really dream of it......... ;)

Ah, but there are no green lights anymore... just nothingness...

Maybe that's why they went to that system - to show that once the race has started, there's really nothing of interest to see :rotate: :laugh: :bag:

Does anyone else actually like Formula One?

Or is it just me?

Aysedasi, NickoGP: Bah!

The spectacle! The noise! The excitement! The intrigue! And that's just Martin's grid walk! :D

The spectacle! The noise! The excitement! The intrigue! And that's just Martin's grid walk! :D

Ah... if only we got the grid walk.
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I'm looking forward to this season - I just hope I get to watch some of it. I'm usually asleep by the time it comes on... and no VCR
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Does anyone else actually like Formula One?

Or is it just me?

Like it?

I LOVE it....

I'm just not so partial to the current era.......

I love Formula One - of course I do have a multitude of other things to get excited about at the moment, but I shall duly remember to get excited in the course of things.

Ha! Martin's gridwalk. I shall take every available chance to remind you all how good RTL is for the F1. 5 hours on race day...Martin who?

Well if 2005 is another bore... atleast we have James Allen commentary... er... :bag: ;)

Did someone say 5 hours..............?


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I'd like to be picky and point out that the lights will not be going green... they gone green now since the of 1995 when they changed the start lights procedure :p

No Green Light...?? So its not so much a "Start" as a "Lack of Stop" then! :rotate:

Does anyone else actually like Formula One?

Or is it just me?
No, not since the green lights went out.

I think we will have an interesting season. Different quallies (does anyone actually know what is happening yet?), tyre rule changes, engine rule changes, new teams, a smattering of newish drivers. DC not in a Mac, JPM in a MAC, no Davis Richards, lots of other things to ponder over chums.

I love F1 - I havn't missed a race since 1992, can't remember them all mind you, so no questions please.

I haven't missed a race since 1990-ish and despite the fact that we have had two seasons that have fell below expectations in the last three years, you still get that unbelievable build up of excitement, expectation and you realise why you love the sport.

Roll on Melbourne! This season looks promising! :beer:

This season looks promising! :beer:

Lets hope this isnt one of your "the complete opposite is going to happen" predictions... :(

Does anyone else actually like Formula One?

Or is it just me?


Well, you and me K-B :)

I know it's a free forum, but it does anony me that people post about a sport they don't actually enjoy :(

Well, you and me K-B :)

I know it's a free forum, but it does anony me that people post about a sport they don't actually enjoy :(

Well I say if you haven't got anything nice to say about something don't say it.

But I expect even people who are not to fond on F1 to comment about happenings.

But it would be nice if we had a forum for top F1 fans, but there's no need, as we all are deep down. ;)

Anyway only 37 days, 10 hours, 33 minutes and 18 seconds, untill the lights go out.

It does make me sad that people who do not enjoy formula 1 / or, are traditionalists always find a reason as to why they arnt excited bout the following season; however, it doesnt change my enthusiasm for the upcoming year. Without allowing myself to get overly excited (and thus a great let down) this year is possibly, for me, the best season of the last 7 years (the time ive really been watching).

On a side note; I got my university timetable about a week ago, and was quite upset I had money off, yet, the rest of the week was full of lectures, however, it occured to me that now i can watch every f1 race this season!!! So please Gods allign the planets and give us an exciting 05!

Well done! My TAFE course falls on a Monday, thus I get two more hours of sleep on a Monday, which is great! Especially for races such as Canada, USA, Brazil

O.K then so the lights that don't go green any more,that replaced the man who used to wave a flag,but now they turn red and then go out and then some idiot screams "GO,GO,GO,GOOOOOOOOOOO ,loudly on the telly,when we can all see the damn race has started,because the lights that were red ,went out and didn't go green,like they did after they replaced the man who used to wave the flag that started the race,before he was replaced by the lights that were green,but now go red before they go out.........is only 36 sleeps away from happening.

Well, you and me K-B :)

I know it's a free forum, but it does anony me that people post about a sport they don't actually enjoy :(

I think the vast majority of the people who post here enjoy the sport, but would make the observation that there is more to the sport than F1......

I've loved F1 for as long as I can remember but I haven't enjoyed the last few seasons of Ferrari/Schumacher domination. If we can have a season of real competition and real racing, then I'm sure my love for the sport will be even greater...... :)

Does anyone else actually like Formula One?

Or is it just me?

I'm with you KB!

I get up at 6AM on race day here in the states to watch the European races, and for the Asian races I stay up all night, until the un-godly hour of 4:30AM, to finish watching the race! Now thats a fan my friends! :laugh:

I stay up and watch all the races, no matter what time I have to work/wake up in the next morning. Plus I tape all the races, ad free and watch them again the next day, followed by entering the race and qually results on my F1 database on computer, after which I update the scores of the tipping comp I run with friends.

The races start here at midnight and finish around 1:30am,work suffers the next day,but what the hell,its only work.

I have seen every race live since the early nineties and I would never think of missing one.

While IndyCar or Touring Cars may offer more in the way of all-out entertainment (and I watch them both), there's something special about F1.

It's the only type of racing where I feel a tension before the start.

Yeah, I'm with you on that last point there KB. I become a wobbling wreck in the weeks leading up to Melbourne for example. I love all motorsport, but I don't get the same sense of anticipation from, say, the weeks leading up to the opening IRL round.

But it's for that reason that I often feel more compelled to complain about F1 at times than other disciplines, because I expect more from it than anything else. Hence my over-reactions after Hungary last year!

I've loved F1 for as long as I can remember but I haven't enjoyed the last few seasons of Ferrari/Schumacher domination. If we can have a season of real competition and real racing, then I'm sure my love for the sport will be even greater...... :)

It saddens me a little that obviously genuine motor sport fans don't seem able to enjoy watching one of the greatest masters of their sport. Maybe I'm being a bit "untypically" British (not rooting for the underdog and all that) but I want TGF to wipe the floor with the lot of them. And its not because I particularly love Germans or Italians, but because I want to witness in my own lifetime the greatest driver ever to take to a race track. That is still up for argument in some people's minds, but another couple of seasons of total domination will silence all the critics and force even his detractors to admit that we are witnessing history being made, not just statistically, but in reality!

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It's the only type of racing where I feel a tension before the start.

Me too... i am a wreck 30 mins before the coverage starts...and the half hour before the coverage is terrible for me...it passes at snail's pace....and the race it seems is over in 20 mins..:(

Me too... i am a wreck 30 mins before the coverage starts...and the half hour before the coverage is terrible for me...it passes at snail's pace....and the race it seems is over in 20 mins..:(

Same here, I remember trying to sleep the night before the '99 Japanese Grand Prix, really nervous because Eddie had a chance of winning the drivers world championship.

Those were the days.....

I stay up and watch all the races, no matter what time I have to work/wake up in the next morning. Plus I tape all the races, ad free and watch them again the next day, followed by entering the race and qually results on my F1 database on computer, after which I update the scores of the tipping comp I run with friends.

Its just dawned on me how sad my life was before i got married. I still enjoy F1 but at a slower pace. I havent missed a race since Australia 1986 altough more recently many are recorded and watched later that day. I like close racing which is why I long for the end of the Schumi era. Then I will toast to a Great driver and a return to closely fought races.

The start of a new season always exites me purely to see drivers in strange cars and new liveries.

P.S Big up the Jenson Button for World champion. The name of my child relies on it following on from Michael, Michael Jnr and Michael III. :p

Only 34 sleeps then you guys can get that tingely in your pants feeling again. :D

Have we ever had a season with close actual wheel banging racing for the championship?.

34 sleeps and Michael Schumacher will quite probably break another record. Which one is it??? :)

Me too... i am a wreck 30 mins before the coverage starts...and the half hour before the coverage is terrible for me...it passes at snail's pace....and the race it seems is over in 20 mins..:(
im like that will all the races

get very nervouse and exited arould 1/2 hour b 4 the race and it feels like it takes forever for the race to start!

If we can have a season of real competition and real racing, then I'm sure my love for the sport will be even greater...... :)

How about you stay in Sportscars and I'll PM you if/when it happens :p

I can’t wait. When school life is getting me down I will be able to say, “Hang in there Vicki, only x days until you can watch a Grand Prix.” And I’m not being sarcy, it means I won’t have to resort to watching figure skating cos all the racing is being quiet. Also, my Internet connection might be sorted so I will be able to post without the risk of being cut off like the last time I tried to post this. Four whole days without Ten-Tenths does funny things to a girl… So if these words reach you, I am alive and well although slightly deprived of forum browsing capabilities.

Actually, thinking about it, this off-season hasn't been too bad. It's went by faster than some.

Last off-season was absolutely unbearable as we sat waiting for the season billed by most as "most likely to be the greatest ever".

And next off season, we'll have A1GP to watch through the winter, as opposed to nothing this time round.

And next off season, we'll have A1GP to watch through the winter, as opposed to nothing this time round.

But in a way, this off-season so far we've had the race of champions, F3 Super Prixs, and WTCC races at Macau, Dakar, and Monte Carlo rally, and that's just of the top of my head.

Only 32 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 2 seconds.

Before the lights go out at Melbourne.

Only 32 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 2 seconds.

Before the lights go out at Melbourne.

So are they having a power-cut on race day then. :laugh:

Only 31 days left now.
Isn't it amazing ,everyday its one day less.

But in a way, this off-season so far we've had the race of champions, F3 Super Prixs, and WTCC races at Macau, Dakar, and Monte Carlo rally, and that's just of the top of my head.


True - although I view the F3 and WTCC races as being part of the traditional racing season and the race of champions as a fun event.

It doesn't compare with top class single seaters regularly racing through November, December, January and February.