I remember pretty well as I was watching 2003 Belgian GP sitting on the floor in the living room before the TV. That's also when my love for scarlet Ferraris started
A fast food meal with a toy inside, the toy was a futuristic take on Mika Hakkinen's car. Didn't know much about the sport then, but I would eventually!
Sneaking downstairs to watch the Australian grand Prix with my dad on his big boxy tv at god knows what time in the morning with Murray Walker screeming out and thinking Schumacher and Ferraris were so cool !
I fuzzily remember Nigel Mansell winning the world championship in 1992. I strongly remember the uncertainty and tension of waiting to learn what had happened to Senna at San Marino in 1994. I was a child for both.
My own pic of Senna in the paddock at the British GP at Silverstone in (I think) 1983; it was Senna’s last year of #F3 before his move up to #F1. A close fought race and season with Martin Brundle.
Alan Jones was handing out the trophies that year.
When I was 19 I attended the Formula 1 race at Watkins Glen on October 7th, 1979. Gilles Villeneuve driving for Ferrari won it. It rained that day and the track was very wet.
1996. I don’t remember which Grand Prix specifically, but I was a huge Indycar fan and since Jacques Villeneuve had won the 95 Indycar championship, I tuned in to F1 to see how he was doing there. Been watching ever since.
I'll answer that by saying - relevant to what would have been my answer - that it's best not to lean too heavily into nostalgia in a sport where people occasionally die.
My love started with Indy cars, during Hamiltons rise there. Went to the Milwaukee race probably 10 times, center track with my buddies family. It was actually just this year my curiosity was enough to get me hooked, but I’m sad Lewis is struggling with Ferrari now. Anyway, McLaren is it now!
late 80s. I'm 8-9 yo. Sunday afternoon, my dad watching a race but taking a nap. I'm fascinated to see sparks coming out of the cars, I woke him up to ask about it. Dad mumbles something, gets upset and goes back to sleep 😅.
Also a Lotus JPS poster in big cousins bedroom.
Watching Jack Brabham lock up his brakes into the wall at Mónaco while Jochen Rindt passes him on the way to a win. Rindt came from way back to win . I think it may have the last lap.
I'm a Brit, so I've watched it all of my life. Can't remember my first memory...but maybe Graham Hill?
It will come to me in the middle of the night...
Have a faint memory of Scheckter and Villeneuve in Ferraris, think it was Monaco 1979. Have clearer memories of de Cesaris leading at Spa (1983) in an Alfa Romeo.
Canadian Grand Prix's at Mosport in the early 1970s...Marshalled & served as Track Physician..3 .kids aged 5 - 3 years initiated into racing at an early age...still big fans today!
My very first time watching F1 was probably one of the saddest weekends of F1: San Marino GP (Imola) 29April-1stMay 1994. I witnessed Barrichello's accidents, the deaths of Ratzenberger and Senna on that weekend.
it's not impossible that i had spotted F1 prior to this video (SPEED channel, for instance), but me wanting to desperately drive the RB8 in this game takes the cake for me
That and the X2010 as an "less restricted F1" machine, a gift that keeps on giving
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Senna’s crash is crystal clear.
Ayrton Senna in that iconic Lotus.
Nigel Mansell & that Mustache & just being glued to the TV whenever I could get to see it.
I was 4 years old.
Alan Jones was handing out the trophies that year.
Also a Lotus JPS poster in big cousins bedroom.
#F1foreverfan
It will come to me in the middle of the night...
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https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/six-fascinating-facts-tyrrell-p34.5Eqy5lE9SsSLmF9an1Ak5g
https://youtu.be/v-EJAooYELU?feature=shared
this video
That and the X2010 as an "less restricted F1" machine, a gift that keeps on giving