The Weekend Nobody Wanted to Race: The Weekend of 15th September, 2001
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The Italian Grand Prix of 2001, and CART's foray into Europe came at the worst time, as they were two of the first three large scale events following the events of the 11th September. With a long shadow cast over the races, and CART already enduring a nightmare year, it was like nobody wanted to what they loved doing most, and just go home.
CART would see the massive accident involving Alex Zanardi, that impacted the Formula One world as much as it did the American racing world.
With F1 also suffering, with the death of a marshal early in the season and the 12mth anniversary of another marshal death at that race weekend, Michael Schumacher was seriously considering not racing, and tried to get the other drivers to commit to a pact. But he couldn't get them on side.
So what was going on that weekend?
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Would have bought a picture of the Ferrari with the black nose but Alamy hadn't got one, unfortunately. The early 2000s seems to be a bit of a void.
Shoulda told me! I have a model of Barrichello’s car from that Monza weekend with the black nose! I’d have lent you a pic!
Yea I’d been meaning to say, why not just use photos of models?
@@F-Man came here to say the same thing. I got a Schumi car from that race a few years back. Tragically iconic!
@@AidanMillward have a few I could send
I remember that ferrari. I was a big Jordan fan but, surprisingly, I don't remember the stars and stripes being on the Jordan.
I’m in the states. I was a special Ed teacher. A girl I knew since kindergarten was in tower 1. Miss you still Leah.
Uffff. Sorry bro.
10:49 ironically enough, I only remember Kenny Brack because he was the guy who crashed and experienced 200+ G forces due to an incredibly high speed spin during the impact, possibly the highest instance of G forces a human survived.
I was at school, then I went around a friend's house to get stoned. Saw the news, thought "bloody 'ell" then continued getting stoned.
I'm rolling one up now too
Cool Story Bro
Bro living the best life out there
Don't know how true it was, but I recall part of CART's justification for racing at the time was that if they didn't the already-teetering series would've died right there and then.
I was in bed with a hangover. It was my mate's 18th birthday the night before. Mum woke me up to tell me what had happened. It was surreal.
One week later, NASCAR returned at Dover. Every car had an American flag, as did every attendee. Dale Jr, the series’ most popular driver, won. It is considered by many to be a moment of healing.
They also showed the driver intros and the charities they are representing. A world tragedy didn’t mean Jeff Gordon was going to be cheered. lol He got loud boos.
@@Convectuoso86 it wouldn't have been NASCAR back in those days without Jeff Gordon getting booed.
🦅
I was in Belfast working for an IT company and heard about 9/11 when a colleagues wife rang him to say the Internet was running very slow. He then had a look and saw the news feeds. That evening I was in a Central Belfast bar where two 'Irish men' commented "That isn't terrorism, terrorism is when you get in your car in the morning wondering if it will explode when you turn the key". It was a bar where you just put £5 in the collection hat without speaking....
Yeah, the internet was extremely laggy that day. I thought I might go find some info that wasn't on TV, but it was the World Wide Wait!
This is something I’ve said to my American friends a lot. When my parents were in their 20s, if a bomb went off in Birmingham or Manchester the first thing anyone said was “bet it was the Irish again”
Now? First thing anyone blames is a “foreign looking type”
I got woke up by my now ex wife. I looked at the screen and said “Well, looks like they found a new what to use those hijacked jumbo jets. I wonder who we pissed off now?”Kind of joking because I’d been an army brat in the 80s and 90s. After growing up with accounts of several barracks bombings I’d known already
im afraid i cant quite read whether these two meant that it was Worse than "regular" terrorism, or if they were dumbing it down
Zanardi is one of my favorite drivers, was so sad when he had his accident. On a creepy coincidental note, in Italian "Taglio" means "cut" in english, Alex Tagliani who collided with him is a Canadian of Italian origins.
To add to the creepiness Helmuth(meaning head)Koenig was decapitated and Francois Cevert(Severed) was cut in half
As a Yukoner, thank you for mentioning Whitehorse's involvement. The story is very interesting and is practically unknown, even here in Canada.
Yeah, Gander got all the good press/movies.
@@ryanstewart4444 the Newfies are such characters that it was inevitable...I as a Canadian know Yellowknife and Whitehorse had the same situation (small towns being inundated by airplanes and housing the passengers) but I think what happened in Gander was all that on steroids and the Newfoundland culture embraced that challenge and turned it into a positive that Americans fell in love with. We forget northern hospitality is as big a thing in Whitehorse as it is anywhere in Canada
I'm familiar with Yellowknife from the TV show "Ferry Pilots". Didn't know about Whitehorse, or how the two towns helped during this incident.
Thanks for spotlighting them.
@@FerralVideo Whitehorse is in the Yukon. It likely took flights from the Pacific coming into the Chicago and other mid west cities
@@marklittle8805 A bit more than that with Whitehorse. Sometimes referred to as the "fifth plane", one of the passenger planes that landed here wasn't responding to ATC and dealt with some serious security on the tarmac. I believe it was coming in from Anchorage which upped the risk factor.
You did a marvelous job with the perfect balance between fact and respect, as usual.
I think NASCAR was the only American series that didn't race that weekend.
I started a new job on 9/11. So I was listening to the radio in my truck, then getting updates and seeing videos at each stop. Nobody was really working. I vividly remember the days following 9/11, when the skys over the US were empty. It was almost surreal. I met Sharon Stone the day after the airports reopened. She had been in NYC on 9/11 and she, and her sister and manager decided to rent a car and drive from NYC to LA. It took them 2 days to get to Cincinnati, a drive I've done in under 10 hours. I drove her rental car from downtown Cincinnati to the airport while she rode in a limo my buddy was driving. I ended up walking into the airport with Sharon Stone on my arm.
You are right about NASCAR as they were scheduled to race at New Hampshire that weekend & decided to follow the NFL & MLB in not holding events. The New Hampshire race was originally going to be cancelled altogether but NASCAR decided at the last minute to move it to November & make it the season finale (Atlanta the season finale at the time, would be moved up a week) even though the teams had concerns about the weather at that time of year. Luckily the weather was excellent for this race which was won by Robby Gordon.
The IRL postponed their race at Texas.
I flew into Washington D.C. on the 17th and made my way to Dover for a NASCAR race at Dover Downs and then onto Indianapolis for the F1 race there,the weekend after.
That's one hell of a story!
Then the week after, the raced at Dover, Which Dale Earnhardt Junior won
Entire world changed after this point and not for the better. Remember exactly where I was during 9/11, came home from school and saw the second plane hit, I legitimately thought it was a movie or something until I changed the channel and it was on every single channel. A horrific time.
9/11 brought the post Cold War peace in the west to a sudden stop. Gone was the threat of nuclear Armageddon brought on by two global superpowers and in was the radical extremism where attacks didn’t happen on battlefields but in public places.
We’ve turned into a state where the balance of freedom and surveillance is tested to breaking point, social media coming through to the masses and public perception has drastically changed for the worse since 9/11.
Thank you Aiden. I knew of Zanardi's crash but everything else just got lost in the fog of the moment. I remember staring at the TV on 9/11 and continuing to function but in a haze. Honestly my first coherent memory of the event and days that followed was David Letterman's opening when his show went back on air. He might not be a hero but Dave said exactly what NY and the nation needed......BTW: you do a REALLY first rate job at this Aiden
I had a Walkman cassette in school (2001) and it was a fancy one with an FM radio. I remember walking home with it on and about 50 other students walking around me listening to the news. I don’t remember anything from school, bullying and all; but I remember that day walking home
I was a kid when 9/11 happened, I didn’t know something happened until the Monza weekend where Ferrari was sponsor less & ITV crew was in a somber mood that a kid can tell something is up but you don’t know what it is. The pre race was so strange meetings was still happening on the grid. I wouldn’t blame a driver to race or not race, as long as they comfortable with racing. First time hearing what Michael was doing off track just shows what a good human he is
Honestly, that Zenardi incident haunts me far more than 9-11.
I absolutely love cars, but watching auto racing is still difficult for me, 20+ years later.
How, just how did he make it. Ill never understand
Zanardi said in an interview he was given 9 liters of blood transfusion. Since an average human has about 6 liters ob blood he actually lost 150% of his blood. Not 75%.
Concidering the phisical and mental pain he must have gone through he is a real strongman. Kept driving racecars and winning 2 goldmedals in the Paralympics 2012
2 golds and a silver in 2012, and the same in 2016 too
I remember marshalling the Revival that weekend where one driver drove his cars from the US to Canada then get a flight to Norway, drive through Europe and ferry across the channel. Also the flagpole along the pits flew the Stars and Stripes. They played the American anthem instead of God Save The Queen. But the most touching tribute came near the end of the day from the air. As the Spits and Hurricanes were performing their last display, the Mustangs were taxi-ing to leave. The RAF aircraft flew low over the circuit and dipped their wings in salute to the Americans. It was a sombre weekend. And of course we had the news of the near tragedy of Zanardi. It affected everyone.
Lived in NYC when it happened. 2nd grade and hearing it via radio in my classroom and school letting out early.
On LI, in 6th grade at the time. They didn't even tell us
Same here. 2nd grade but in NJ. Must have been a scary experience.
@@blacklightning98 yeah, it was surreal for many of us since a few classmates knew someone who either worked near it or in the towers.
@@One_LuvZ I was in 4th Grade, went to my school in Brooklyn almost like normal. My school had a parent-teacher day, so all of the students' parents, including my mom, came with me to class and were supposed to stay either for the whole day or a majority of the day. My mom worked in WTC 5, which was right next to the towers, but by the time the towers were hit, she would have probably still been on the train. Either way, we were lucky that she had to come with me to school. Some other students in my school were not as fortunate...
@@chrisatd1 yeah, sad when it results in a loss (be in parent, relatives, etc).
Canada and in particular Gander got a real eye opener how many international flights coming to the US were over Canada. What Gander and St John's did made me so proud as a Canadian. People don't understand how many people they had to house and feed for a week in a place that is not that big. Gander essentially has enough hotel space for maybe a plane or two; not 35 of em ....
As for Indycar being stuck over there, it does make sense to me now Lausitz happening that weekend ....
@@marklittle8805 don’t think CART could have afforded a third cancellation, either.
@@AidanMillward no for sure, but when you said they were trapped, I forgot hearing it in that way, and makes it far more easier to understand why they raced when NASCAR did not. And I forgot Monza ran that weekend at all. I was 36, little older than yourself on that day and I remember so much of that horrible day, and not that much about how it effected racing other than the criticism CART took and F1 did not....
@@marklittle8805 CART probably got heat because it’s an American series, and it was America that was attacked.
F1 being run by the French wasn’t going to get the same heat.
I went to that NASCAR race that was supposed to be in New Hampshire that week (it was postponed to late November, a week after the season was scheduled to end). It was my first live race, but I remember an odd atmosphere around the event, further compounded by all the tributes to Dale Earnhardt, plus Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin, Jr., who had both died at that track the previous year.
Watched the second tower get hit live on TV while in school. Didn't see my dad for a couple days after that, he stayed at his Air Force post over night. They were helping organize all the military aircraft patrolling the skies after the 11th. There were lots of European planes in he air over NY that you never hear about, so thanks guys.
We were hosting an international Research conference in Greensboro, NC when 9/11 went down. And like magic, the attendees from London, Munich, Vienna and Tokyo etc. were all 'ours'. They had no hotel reservations or flights home. Rental cars were gone in a flash. Entertaining Chemists and Biologists is a challenge even in the best of times.
These events both felt so eerie. The only time I remember watching a race but not really being in the mood to watch, and no one participating seemed to want to either. One of the few times I saw a race where it felt like everyone in it was simply like the rest of us; just at work to do a job, and then leave.
I had just started my career a few weeks back, working on a Tivo-like Personal Video Recorder. We had a Sky News as the test feed and were continually recording everything.
I was initially working with music on my headphones, but looked up from my screen to wonder why a whole load of new colleagues were staring at the test feed in disbelief.
We watched the whole thing unfold in front of us.
I was home from school and spent the evening drawing the images of smoke coming out of the two towers. It affected me deeply. I remember not understanding much, apart from a deep sense of something having gone very wrong.
I was in 7th grade. Homeroom class at 0700 in the morning. Southern California, USA. Heard an announcement over school loudspeaker “teachers: it is okay to turn on your tvs in the classrooms.”
The rest, as you said, was a blur.
My late dad and I were at the German 500 at the Lausitzring that weekend, and we were both avid Alex Zanardi fans. Imagine how heartbroken we went home that Sunday having watched his blood run down the tarmac in turn 3.
@@dschoene57 you see parts of his legs and blood fly off in the accident. It’s not nice.
@@AidanMillward It was bloody gruelling watching it from the grandstands. You learn the meaning of the word eerie when you witness 50.000 people go dead silent in an instant. Four years later we were 200 miles northwest in Oschersleben watching Alex win a WTCC race. Grown men were crying, including dad and I.
I've seen a still of that scene in a magazine. It's one of those images that I wished I had never seen. Zanardi's career after the accident should be an inspiration to all.
I remember watching the news, and being scared that we were going to war like WWII - my Mum had to reassure me and explain to me that any war would probably happen far away and wouldn't affect us. Later on my parents recorded a documentary about how the towers fell on VCR (with graphics showing the layers of dry-wall in the building, the exterior, the angles the planes hit, etc.) and I hyperfixated over that for a solid while.
In comparison, I don't really remember a grand prix being on. I wasn't really watching F1 consistently at the time, though I was still a big fan from when I followed it in 1999. I loved drawing pictures of my own races with all the drivers and teams mixed up (and Trulli naturally winning them all because he was my favourite.)
When NASCAR was slated to race at New Hampshire that weekend, Mike Skinner was the driver of the #31 Lowe’s Chevrolet. But when the race was postponed to November, he had already been released & replaced by Robby Gordon…..who ended up winning his first career race. That was also Robby’s only Cup Series win on an oval.
Plus the only non Hendrick/Jimmie Johnson win by Lowe's the 1st points paying win for the sponsor in their last race for Childress.
@@stephenholloway6893And the first win for RCR's #31 car in general.
@luisy.gonzalez6469 For a points paying race anyway. Which they won a duel and the Japan non points races before this one but none of those were for points.
still many years later it amazes me that Alex was able to drive (and win) after all that. Perhaps the greatest comeback story in motorsports
I was 8 back then. It was Wednesday morning half-way across the world in Indonesia. I just woke up, finished my bath and dressing up preparing to have breakfast and go to school when the news broke the entire television network. This and the 2002 Bali Bombing actually formed the racist part of me for a few years. Being a Catholic minority I saw that as a threat to our existence back then. Thankfully after entering public school during my high school years where people from different cultures and beliefs gathered in one place I reformed.
Very compassionate. Noticed the tone of the video, no outro music.
Very respectful 💪🫡
Thank you, Aidan. Proud American and race fan
I remember 9/11. Because it happened overnight most of Australia wasn’t exposed to the live unfiltered footage of the second plane but since I was a kid my family didn’t have the tv on for a few days and I’m very sure that my school did have some sort of assembly. On the same day as 9/11 Australia’s second biggest airline Ansett announced they were shutting down.
Besides the WWE, CART AND F1 having events the Australian Football League still went ahead with the second week of the finals series.
Was born September 14, 2001.
I guess a lot of people thought WWIII had just begun.
Was at home in Nth QLD and good friend called me. She was on the 98 floor. All she said the building shock there was smoke. Then screaming
Yeah I was in school at the time - 5th Year (a year removed from not being in school anymore) and we'd find out due to our Business Studies teacher suspending classes for 15 minutes to listen to the radio accounts of what was going on. I don't think I could fully comprehend it until I saw what happened on TV. It eerily reminded me of Simple Minds' Today I Died Again with the lyrics "Paint me a picture, towers in sand, America can fall" and in the second verse "Paint me a picture, bodies in sand, presidents can fall" and this was a song that was written in 1980! The difference before then and after in terms of going on a flight somewhere is something I can't imagine now ever going back to how it was. Everyone became shit scared of something happening on their watch and understandably so. Still...between that and having vague recollections of watching The Berlin Wall going down when I was about 4, it's funny how history impacts us.
I was in my auto mechanics class in my sophomore year of high school at the time. We had a TV in the classroom section of the shop, but it wasn’t turned on, so none of us knew what was going on. I didn’t find out until I got to my next class, where I was a student assistant for those with special needs. That classroom’s TV was on, and showing the aftermath of the attacks. I don’t remember exactly how I reacted, other than being in disbelief over what I was seeing. A cross country meet vs Lake Orion that I was to take part in was postponed until the next day.
@@FlashoftheBlades Yeah I can understand it not going ahead. To be honest, even though I watched the Italian GP, I didn't feel it should have gone on myself. This whole thing of "if we cancel this, they will have won" mentality that was around had good intentions but I felt people needed some space to take stock of what just happened. Then again they would say "if we...." meaning they didn't want to lose the money they might have earned. It's all history now so I suppose it doesn't matter.
That's a time of my life that I will never forget. We all (those of us old enough) remember that day. I could tell a story but this is not the time nor place. Thanks for dealing with it, Aidan, you did an excellent job.
I was 7, in school but if I recall we all went home around noon. We lived about a half hour north of Boston and no one really knew if another plane was gonna end up hitting the city. Quietest day I can remember in a long time, no planes in the air at all. No one was out. Everyone was inside watching things unfold on the news.
Might be a trick of my memory but I feel like we could smell the smoke from New York the next day - same way a forest fire makes the wind smell of it.
I was at work in Poole (Dorset, UK) on 9/11 and someone was telling us the details. When we were told that one tower had collapsed it was hard to believe. It was only at the end of the,work day that on returning home I saw,the images on TV.
I was going to make a trip to the USA for the F1 race at Indianapolis. I was going with a friend and was going to the NASCAR race at Dover Downs the weekend before.
I flew into Washington D.C. on the 18th. I believe the queues at Heathrow had only just returned to normal but the plane was full. We bypassed New York City and apparently there was smoke still rising.
And now we have a Saudi Grand Prix. Just saying.
C.R.E.A.M.
Eh, while it's well know the US governemnt has been hiding something about the saudi's and the event, he he should not be named had long burned his bridges with his homeland and governement long before the event.
The truth is banal, non-nation stste actors exist. He he should not be named was motivated by a conspiracy theory of a judeo-christian american plot against islam. Notice how Americas war on puppies following the event only poured gasoline on such flames? Similarly American foreign policy before the event directly created it, thats the reality we need to confront.
(Saudi sports washing is still concerning but not because of the thing)
(Trying real hard to avoid an autodelete lol)
The Saudi sportswashing across most sports makes me sick. I've been a rabid F1 fan since 1961 and I nearly abandoned it when the Guilf states started getting Grands Prix.
And America has 3
@@mannaclerThey even claumed the Dakar Rally.
I was already a teenager when the Berlin Wall fell. I remember I was chilling out in my bedroom on Tuesday the 11th of September 2001 when the presenter on the radio station I was listening to said something was happening in New York that was like a Hollywood disaster movie it was so unbelievable. Then one of my flatmates came to tell me what was on the television. I watched the coverage of one of the towers fall. I was on evening shift at the factory I worked at that week and it was obviously the big topic of discussion at work later that evening.
Took a while to compose this, the topic got me thinking quite a bit.
My memories of that week remain fairly strong, which if you were of that timeframe, of course it would. Seeing something so literally world changing happen on your screen at age 15 is going to linger in the mind.
I remember the moment I learned the events were happening, waiting for the taxi home from school, the journey being in silence listening to the radio - which station, I don't know, it had cancelled its programming and was just simulcasting audio from Sky News. And our nightly at the time letting the dog out into the field in front of the house on a starry night, wondering what kind of horrible feelings people were having that night. And the scary sense of routine upended and not knowing what's going to happen next seeing BBC1 announce all programmes are cancelled and they're going over to the BBC News Channel for the rest of the night.
That weekend, as life goes on for the rest of us, as it were, I remember us going to do what we were going to do that weekend anyway, heading out to the new computer store to get a deal on our first ever PC. Back when 'tower units' were all the rage, the fancy new computer that could stand up vertically, and save space. Also being heavily advertised by this particular chain was a new amazing thing called a TV card, which could plug into a slot and pick up digital signals, so now you can - gasp! - watch TV on your computer! As my parents were going over the pros and cons, ins and outs in search of the best model, I stood, transfixed. First, because I'm watching TV on a computer, whoa. Second, because it was showing qualifying on ITV, so I'm not missing it and it was at that moment that I first saw the sponsor-less, black nosed Ferrari. A reminder of what week this still was.
The race build up was tense. The discussion talked about Zanardi's accident. I only remembered him from '99 and finding it slightly amusing at the time that here was a driver whose name rhymed with a team's name. Mum remembered him from earlier in the 90s from following Michael back in the day, and it added to the horror for her, recalling how highly rated he had been the first time around. Footage of the crash was eventually shown, still one of the worst ever. He was in brutal fashion, my introduction to the concepts of amputation as well as just plain losing a limb or limbs in an accident. Prior to that, I was only familiar with people having limbs missing because they were born without them. It chilled me, and as an adult, even though I know how it works, my ASD brain still can't fully accept it - what I mean by that is thinking of things in black and white terms. Knowing from biology class that veins can bleed and be okay, but if arteries are breached one can bleed to death in a relatively short time, my mind can't get past losing a limb or limbs, be it by a voluntary amputation or an injury requiring an emergency amputation, or here in Zanardi's case, limbs being basically obliterated. Something just doesn't compute in my mind about how one just doesn't die immediately when loss occurs in any of those scenarios, and the main thought I had for a long time after this situation was 'how the hell is he still alive?' Zanardi's story is known amongst us in motorsport, and it was all the positives you can summon to see his Paralympic achievements, which were mentioned in a previous video, as was the tribute paid to him on The Last Leg by Alex Brooker, which would introduce him to those outside of racing. My disabilities don't involve limbs like that, but I look to those who do as being on the same team. As Michael's supporters say, Keep Fighting.
As for him, his attempts to get a sort of rolling start going added to the pre race tension, with Murray Walker adding to the moment as he said "I normally shout 'Go Go Go', but are we even going to 'Go Go Go' at all today?" The racing gods answered 'hell, yes', and the race was a belter with strategy, overtakes and a first time win for the feelgood factor, at the right time for that.
Nobody wanted to be there, but damn it they did their duty. A week that made us feel sick to the stomach, ended with us shaking our fists at the sky shouting "F(1) You!"
That was definitely deeper than I planned.
After the CART teams raced that weekend when all they wanted was to be home with their families, REALLY made me dislike von Cobblers' attitude about Indy. But then, I'm in Northern Ireland, the blitz spirit remained until well into the 2000s
I was just barely old enough to remember. I remember being confused why my brother was home on a school day and why the news was on instead of SpongeBob. I didn't truly understand what had happened for a few years
This channel kills it - thanks Aiden Millward! Always celebrating racing.
I was 19 when 9/11 happened. It was awful. My grandmother died the day before. Its still raw.
I love how Ferrari did the plain red livery with the black nose on their F2001 car. The Prancing Horse had cried for us Americans on that tragic September day and to the team, I give my thanks. God bless America and God bless Scuderia Ferrari. 🇺🇸❤🇮🇹
@AidanMillward just saw Brooker’s speech on Zanardi, wow! I remember watching him win gold in London 2012, when he won I went, in my best Murray Walker voice *And Alex Zanardi WINS at Brands Hatch!!* It was like an F1 victory for him! 🇮🇹
There Indycar Race in Germany But had to race-2001 - During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffered a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.[10]. 9/11 Being in Australia it was middle of the night (East Coast time) and 1st heard about was 12th about 7 am when Mark Colvin said ABC news Specal and then Richard Filldder said about the accak I jump out bed fast
That cart race wasn't aired live in the states either. It was on tape delay and when it got to the point of zanardi's crash they went to commercial break and came back to interview Brack in victory lane and then told everyone what happened
I was only Three Years Old I can remember 9/11 like it was yesterday going to Tesco in Three Bridges with Mum before picking my Brother up from School listening to Mark and Lard on Radio 1 thinking it was a normal Tuesday Afternoon but it all changed when that first News Report was broadcast
it was the middle of the night for australia, so most of my friends remember seeing it on early morning television although I didn't because we weren't allowed to watch tv before school, so I don't know when exactly I learnt (I was like 4/5 so I don't remember). I do remember Queen Elizabeth though, because I was in London, which as an australian is pretty surprising & meant I knew before basically anyone at home did.
At the time I was in 7th grade and lived on the eastern seaboard of the United States. All schools went on lockdown, after watching the towers fall and the pentagon hit, they let us out early. As we were walking to the buses two F-16s from the local Air Guard Base went over in full-afterburner the lot of buses we were all out walking to. Kids ducked and screamed, others cheered. A day I will remember forever. Everything seemed absolutely unreal.
The Zanardi crash is still the most horrific I've seen live. I remember just saying oh shit, oh shit when he spun because I knew exactly what was going to happen.
Reportedly Matt Neal missed the 2001 Bathurst 1000 due to his BTCC team not being willing to send him out to Australia as a result of 9/11
Some players in various North American sports ignorantly said "we should play so people have a distraction". Utterly tone deaf. Read the room, or in this case, the flight deck.
Im all to Aware of this
As I saw it all on my tv when i came back from college and couldn't believe it
It has forever scared me
Zanardi's crash was horrendous. But it also hit hard for me, because it happened *exactly* seven years before I was born.
I was at work, I remember watching the news on TV in the showroom
When you mentioned the 1994 F1 season..it was the darkest season for that sport and also very controversial and full of scandals.
I wasn't born before the 9/11 attack. I was born three weeks after it had happened.
Damn it feels weird saying it out loud
woke up early and happened to switch on the tv about 2 minutes after it happened (which was oddly quick to begin with, almost like people around the world were on standby to broadcast this really bad thing) when people were still thinking it was a movie stunt gone wrong, watched the second one hit live. then watched three buildings, two of which had planes hit them, and a smaller one three blocks away, manage to collapse within their own footprint.
not saying anything strange was going on, but strange things were going on.
I remember recording the Monza race in case the world went nuts like on September 1,1939. I remembered there was a Swiss GP race around that date. Having a film of the last GP before WW2 would be something else.
Yet Michael still felt the need to have a pop at Villeneuve on the drivers parade calling him pretty small which I thought there was no need for (it's on the year-end video/DVD review)
Except Jacques Villeneuve :P
2001 is a year I wish I could forget from the PTSD I still suffer this time of year, to losing Dale Sr just months before and Columbine and being near the active area of the D.C. Sniper, living in Richmond, VA where murder was almost daily. Those few years, It sacred me as a child. When nascar canceled New Hampshire that weekend, I was heavily upset but I think it was more I just wanted to forget the horrible events of that day, if only for a few hours. Looking at it now, no races should have happened
Even all these years later I still remember what I was doing that day 23 years ago, in fact i remember almost everything that happened that morning.
I was in culinary school at the time, on that particular day we had just started daily instruction and were in the middle of a lecture when the school president and program head came into the room and pulled our instructor out for a couple of minutes, when he came back into the room his face was ashen withe and his voice trammeled when he told us to take all our stuff and got to the main hall in ten minutes.
Ten minutes later we were all in the main hall area when the program director informed us of what happened in NYC (the pentagon hadn't been hit yet) then the school president told us that classes were over for the day, that we were to immediately leave the building and classes would be canceled for the rest of the week.
The drive home was the longest 40 minutes of my life, I was mostly listening to the news until I just couldn't bare it anymore so I dug out a random tape I had in the glovebox and put it on, in what was possibly the most strange irony of the day for me personally that day, when I got to my house the last song that played on the tape when I was arriving was The Living Years by Mike + The Mechanics which is when I was finally overcome with the emotion of the moment.
I don't remember much else about that day other than becoming so desperate to escape the avalanche of horrifying news that I ended up watching all of the naked gun movies back to back in the middle of the night so I could feel some small amount of joy and sleep that night.
Yeah that was rough. Was at school myself in a class in the library. Walked unto choas, as the school had several kids whos parents worked at the Pentagon after events that happened minutes before. Classes were for the most part not running and the library had been basically become a zone for kids to call their parents to know about what happened. Alot of crazines to the day.
In Australia the NRL and AFL still ran their respective finals matches that weekend
My dad had a job interview (he got the job) and I was at my grandmas, annoyed my tv program was interrupted
This kinda hits a lil harder as I live just down the road from Rockingham and visit corby alot
Dad picked me up early from school that day and i was confused as to why. Figured it out when i asked him
Why do i feel like the majority of people saying they remember where they were when this happened were like 5 and barely remember wiping their own ass?
somethin tells me Mr Millward also knows a lot about 20th century history in general
Schnell Schnell means go immediately in German because I live in Germany
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9/11 was when i found spongebob, because there wasnt anything else but news to watch
we were in collage and watched all the asian students jumping on canteen tables cheering at the news coming in on the canteen tv, then we got home and just watched it on a tv in our friends garage. then the crash the afterwards just compounded things
I was in Croatia, probably learning to swim. I missed all of it.
Speaking of the things you remember like they were yesterday... 1999 bombing by you lot, and planes flying over my house. And we're the same age, so what were you doing 25 years ago?
1999? I’d have been in year 4 and spending most of my free time playing football. 💁🏻♂️
Like you, I was at school and found out when I got home that afternoon
I forgot the details exactly but in the same style of story in the sport of motocross, there is a yearly nations championship (mxon / mxdn) which happens at the end of the seasons.
I'm not sure if the full event was cancelled but i do remember that the superstar USA team didn't compete cause it required cross atlantic travel (the event is kind of a massive usa vs eu event)
Crazy this had same effects on other series like this video is about
"The hot-favourite American team leading into the event, did not compete this year and were a late withdrawal due to terrorism concerns by the US riders, following the Twin Tower bombings in New York, just two weeks prior to the ‘des Nations"
Quote about it from news article
I realy feel sorry what your parents have seen It I'm sorry trump
I saw the thumbnail and the first thing i thought of was Zanardi. I started following F1 during his last season in it, was a fan of him from day 1…..the accident he had hit me harder that 9/11 eleven did (no offense, but i live half the world away from the US).
I’ve always had him as an icon, an example, even more so after I got brain trauma.
And the Luca Badoer idea by Schumacher. Imagine how the view on him as statistically worst F1 driver ever have evaporated, assuming he would have finally scored points in that beast of a car.
Other than thinking in Year 9 when I saw the plane hit the second tower that this was WW3, it didn't really click in my head. The NY firefighters were at our school in Acocks Green a year or two later which was nice but I never felt anything. Went to New York in 2019 and went to the 9/11 museum and around the foundations of the former towers they have photos of the victims. But scattered amongst them are solitary oak leafs with names under them. It explains that these represent the loved ones as the families had no photo of them. And it got me then. After that we had a tour and the guide worked in Japan for the US government. Part of the job he had was to correlate victims with their families, looking for proof of a connection to the relationship. One day a woman came in with her young son (8/9 years old?) and she said this is the only connection she has to her husband who died. Well since then, I don't care who you are, if I have my film camera on me I take a photo of you and I get it printed and I give it to you. I can't be having people lose loved ones and not have a photo of them to have.
You are doing a service sir… keep it up, for all of us, stay strong out there:)
My dad was sailing at that time and he saw the planes crash into the towers.
I remember Schumacher walking up & down the grid on race day trying to get this no pass thing to happen.
Surely it would be more dangerous if something like that was agreed.
It's one of the few occasions when Villeneuve was spot on
Just here to document the event. Bbc can tell the future
I was 16, in my room playing Gran Turismo 3 on a day off of work when I was called downstairs to see what was taking place. Then the second plane hit and literally thoughts of World War III entered my mind. It was horrible and a bit scary because you just knew the repercussions were going to be huge.
I was at Customs in Tortola, BVI.
May we never forget the innocent lives that were lost 23 years ago today🫡🇺🇸
Forget?
Do you mean not forget or what?
@@tescopepsi9679 yeah sorry, I meant never forget
And all those (ALL sides) who followed in Middle East thanks to Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld
Never Forget
I was 17 and had jus finished BEST for the day when I walked through the door, my late mam jus looked up from the tele and told me a plane had hit the World Trade Centre, then I watched, stunned, as another one hit... Normally, I'd be petty about date format, but, not today, jus no... We were still in the Premier League that Season as well, I wonder who we played...? (Leeds, for those who don't know!) By, that was sombre for me, wasn't it? I'm still amazed I don't remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, I was most likely too young to appreciate such a monumental event... I remember waking up to my mam telling me about Princess Diana, though, I was in town when I saw on one of those electronic advertising boards showing Liz's face with the years!
On the subject of parents, my dad would have picked, if he were to go on Mastermind, the 1966 World Cup Finals as his Specialist Subject (he was 16 at the time) and my parents often joked about the "landing in the Nevada Desert" (guess which event that was)! He also used to say how he would have had a t-shirt saying "Don't Blame Me, I Voted Labour" (guess which Prime Minister that was referring to)!
We all love Michael Crapmocker.
Minor correction: Operation Yellow Ribbon specifically refers to the Canadian response of handling aircraft coming in. The US response was called SCATANA, or Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids. 9/11 is to date the only time it has been implemented, and even then it was modified, as the plan actually calls for the DoD to take over ATC, and all radio navigation aids to be shut down, both of which didn't happen.
@@TheLazurus you missed the part where I said it was carried out by the Canadian government.
@@AidanMillward fair enough, it was quite early and I was half awake
My second Restaurant Manager got married on the 11th September 1999 two years earlier
I got to watch the events in NY sort of live, I think I just turned on the TV to watch a DVD or something, I can't remember
I remember getting home from training that Tuesday night seeing my parents sitting in front of the TV in silence. I looked at the footage, turned around, and just went to my room, also in silence. We talked about it with our teachers the following week, but our 11-yo brains didn't really comprehend what was going on.
I wasn't actively watching F1 at the time, but I did watch the '01 Italian GP for some reason.
Uniforms overalls are.