8:39 Montoya used to be supreme through this section of the circuit too, tbh Lewis is too it rewards crazy levels of confidence on the brakes and compliance in your car to ride the curbs
I watched that live on the telly. Damon: mild shunt. The Michael: caves in his right side. JV: hold my beer [T-bone]. Le Boi was fully committed. Memories. . .
@@Batters56 Me too. Gonzo's gonna gonzo. JV was no Gilles, but he def-o wore the family name well - when he had a decent ride, that is. Gilles could drive a lawnmower and still be in the hunt.
Yep and that's what the video is about, by putting that comment you are appearing to be more fake than a ticking Rolex from a street market in Delhi. You didn't watch it live on TV either, what you saw had already happened a few seconds beforehand, so what you did was just watch it on TV not live...!!!!!!
Checking in from Toronto, I will give you an 8/10 on the Canadian (English Speaking) Accent and a 9/10 on the appreciation of the Canadian sense of humour having "Biennvenue a Quebec" on that wall :)
I recently read the story about 1953 Le Mans which was won by a drunk driver. Not condoning drunk driving but different times etc. it’s a fascinating story if you happen to be looking for material
This was an early storytime episode, it may have been lost in the Purge. It was a fun one, Aidan attempting and failing to describe varying states of livation were impressive.
So much has happened at Montreal over the years - rain, crashes, tyres falling apart, that year the tarmac fell apart... Another Montreal event worth mentioning was in 1998. Michael made perhaps his most FU move of all when exiting the pits and quite simply ran Frentzen (who was coming down the start finish straight on the far side) off the track at high speed before turn 1, resulting in a scary crash and retirement for Frentzen. Scumacher claimed he didn't see but... that's just taking the p... Michael. Of course the stewards took the Michael also and no action was taken for the incident. As a result (the following year?) Formula 1 added those solid lines we still have now on the pit exit which drivers exiting the pits are not allowed to cross, and which have resulted in many penalties ever since. (They should call it the Michael Line.) In one of the last years of F3000 (2004??) at Barcelona (I think) one driver was memorably penalised for crossing the line and served a drive through or stop go penalty. On exiting the pit lane he crossed the line again. Can't remember if he got another penalty first, but the end result was him being black flagged and pulled out of the race, on the grounds he clearly didn't know the rules and was a danger to everyone.
@@AidanMillward I live in Arizona. It’s currently 41c out. I completely understand. I always find it hilarious the rest of the planet dies at 30c. Keep up the good work man. Congrats on the 100k. ❤️
@@JD_Racer97 Brits can handle 30 degrees fine. People can’t figure out that we have incredibly humid summers that even Aussies and Brazilians find horrendous. That and our houses are designed to insulate.
5:07 And then 2011 happened! I loved the 1999 season, it was my favourite until 2009 when Jenson won. I didn't know about Frentzen being hospitalised, I just thought he had fractures on his knees. Given that his win in France at the next race is even more impressive
I am Canadian and I went to the 2008 Canadian GP. I had fun and had never been to Montreal, so about a month later I went back and dragged my bike along. I, of course, went to the circuit Gilles Villeneuve and did some laps with my bike. On one of the laps I, on purpose, crashed into the wall of champions, figuring if crashing there was good enough for Shumie, it was good enough for me.
it was a mistake, he just got out of the pits with slicks on a still slippery circuit, got onto the wet kerbs at Piratella and then the car was uncontrollable on the grass.
Schumi's' '1 error a season' quote is interesting. Currently reading James Allen's 'Edge of Greatness' book on Schumacher and it mentions the infamous Monaco 2006 grand prix and his attempt to block the track and red flag the qualifying session. Allen basically goes on about Schumacher's mindset was all about never showing weakness or fault publicly to create an image to his rivals of being ruthless and having the killer instinct to push the rules and boundaries where others might not go. All about the mind games to gain an advantage over others. There is a bit where Coulthard is talking about his crash with Schumacher at Spa in 98 and how they met at a neutral driver home to talk it out a few days after the event. Coulthard conceded fault but said Schumacher had to bear some of the responsibility since he technically drove into the back of him but Schumacher's mindset was 100% he did nothing wrong. I guess that psychology is part of why he was so successful but controversial as well. Really enjoying the book, I'm about halfway through 👍
What you mean 1999 f1 season was underwhelming? I thought it was great! European GP at Nurburgring, especially was brilliant! Herbert winning that race too made it even better.
I cried at the end of that race. Herbert is one of those "if only" drivers. The fact that he could drive anything, let alone a Formula 1 car - _winning a few races_ - was frankly amazing. I got choked up for Badoer too. Poor lad 😢
Schumi made real driving errors in my view at spa 1994 causing his plank to wear too much (or so his team claimed), and Imola 1995 when he over drive and spun off on the entry to Piratella corner.
Exactly! He wasn't the perfect driver that he has currently been made out to be. It's like that since his accident (I honestly - even as a Damon fangirl - would give anything to turn back the clock to prevent it), he's become virtually untouchable to many fans. Especially those too young to have watched him. It's the same with "Saint Ayrton"... People miss the fact that it was their imperfections which made their great races so great.
@@y_fam_goeglyd Damon fanboy from back in the day here too. Only really got to appreciate Schumi more once both had left the circuit, my brother was for Schumi, me for Damon, you can imagine the fallout from Adelaide haha :)
He made mistakes all the time. I was at the 2000 USGP where he was cruising along and spun in the infield all by himself but got the clutch in in time. He was just one of those fortunate drivers who seemed to be able to recover from his brain fades. He'd have had a much harder time in practices too without a spare car. It was his MO to "find the limit" on Friday or Saturday, knowing there was another perfect car or two waiting for him in the garage.
1:10 The Fosbury Flop comes to mind as a named athletic move. In F1 you got the so-called "Max Verstappen rule" -> Driver must be at least 18 years old, 2 years in junior series ..... etc etc
As a former high jumpist, the Fosbury flop is the reason my neck is fucked. Or it’s my fault over rotating but personal responsibility doesn’t exist these days.
I like watching your factual and insightful vidds, huge F1 fan since I was little, I know a bit about some of the stories you tell, but there's always the odd fact I didn't know. I like also, when you present a wiki screenshot, eg 13:35, you can see which links (drivers / teams etc) you've viewed..!
11:07 1995 I can only think of San Marino crash maybe the collision last race of the season but that was a racing incident 1997 he also went off at Monaco but had a 55 second lead (Lmaoo) so just spun the car around Edit the next one (mistake) would probs be 2000 with one of his famous “Schumi” chops leading to an instant DNF I believe either Austria or Germany that year
It's weird, I got into F1 around '07 and I can remember a time around 2011 I think where there were 6 champions on the starting grid at each race, and now we have 3. It must have been: Alonso Schumacher Vettel Raikkonen Hamilton Button
I could spend all day in Tim Horton’s (the one near Trafford Centre & Manchester one near the famous curry mile) large sofas, beautiful French Vanilla Latte.
You should’ve seen it 1 morning at the Trafford Centre Horton’s Aidan, the rozzers were in, including trainees, for breakfast, not a single one got a doughnut. You just know in 🇨🇦🇺🇸 that’d be different
Love that track. Would be good to do a video about the Canadian Grand Prix that took so long it changed the rules of the race length and television coverage.
5:16 When you live in Canada long enough, snow in june/july is VERY normal. I think only Vancouver is spared that and alot of it has to do with the Pacific Ocean....Montreal? Oof.
Yeah, Vancouver has the Pacific version of the Gulf Stream that means we have milder wetter winters than what Toronto and Montreal get. By we I mean Britain. Considering we’re on the same latitude as Gander we have much warmer winters. 😅
Let me be the grumpy Montréaler, won't you? 1. 1:34 Well, locally, it's known as the mur du Québec, so... only known as two things, then. 2. The accent is... well, definitely not local. 3. The Boston Bruins hat. Ouch!' Ok, I'll stop the grumpiness. Here, take my like :)
In 1998 The Michael messed up something very badly in every 2 races. If he had committed only 50% of his errors in that year, he would have been a world champion before Nurburgring. 1) Melbourne: new Ferrari engine was harder to handle and to operate, he managed to stall the car during his first pitstop, but the crew started the engine again and he could continue - only to have a mechanical failure later on. 2) Buenos Aires: comfortably leading the race, then horribly messing up a corner some laps before the end, but managed to find a service path and keep the engine running, coming back to the track with insane amounts of dirt. 3) Monaco: now that was a festival of Michael errors. Losing patience with Wurz after being stuck behind him for like 40 laps, colliding with him 3 separate times, damaging his suspension. Crew managed to send him back, being down 2 laps. Crashing into 10th placed Diniz on the last lap didnt help either. 4) Austria: Chasing Hakkinen in the early laps to male the 2 stop strategy work, getting impatient, going off track, bouncing up 3 feet in the air, losing the front wing, having to drive a whole lap before entering the pits, exiting dead last. 5) Belgium: ooooh, we all know what happened there. 6) Canada: carelessly joining back from the pit lane, sending Frentzen to the walls, getting a 10 second penalty for it. 7) Hockenheim: messing up the qualifying. Ferrari took a new, longer car design to Germany, and Michael didnt like it. He switched back to the previous design, losing valuable time on friday to work out the ideal setup, ending up in 5th place on saturday. No improvement during the race either. 8) Suzuka: Stalling the car on the grid. I think thats enough errors for half a decade, especially from a 2 time WCH
Your comments around 15:00 are interesting. Kind of reminds me of some of the comments Schumacher made prior to the 1994 Spanish GP, how the cars were on a knife's edge due to the required changes, meant to slow the cars down, after Imola and Monaco. Sure enough, Andrea Montermini crashed and broke his foot.
10:55 - 2004? 2000: Slow start at Germany, chops Fisichella's front wing and out at the first corner. Barrichello's first win. 2001 and 2002, indeed none spring to mind. 2003: Aquaplanes off at Brazil? But then so did about 1/3rd of the field.
Back in 09 in the NCATS (that's NASCAR Canadian Tire Series) race, Scott Steckley managed to get it all wrong going into 2 and somehow managed to end up on his roof. Makes me wonder if an F1 car has ever flipped at Montreal, Steckley flipping the 22 Dodge is the only time I can recall someone going up and over at Montreal in a major series. Aside from the drain cover in 91 that caused the WSC round to be stopped early but good luck finding footage of that
It's not just the fact that Jacques was a Champion, and the third champion to hit the wall that day, but he was born not far from there and the track is named after his father...
The wall got its name 4 years before I started watching F1. In the decades sense then, I’ve watched any hit that wall, champion and non champion alike. Montreal has also become one of my favorite tracks to drive in racing games
❤I was there!🇨🇦FYI , THEY MOVED "The Wall of Champions", it's wider now than in 1999. I have photos from '99. Why are there NO OTHER NAMED CORNERS on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve?? Turn #3 & 4, "Jacques & Gilles"❤?? Back straight "Greg Moore", etc.? How do the organizers miss out on EASY, FREE , promotion, familiarity and brand loyalty to the 🇨🇦 Canadian Grand Prix??🙄🤦🤷♀️🤦♀️
Turn 9. I’ve unofficially called it the ‘Wall of Tears.’ If you manage to avoid the Wall of Champions be careful that the Wall of Tears doesn’t get you instead. Latest victim, George Russel, 2023.
If you do a video on Gurney flaps, Katherine Legge's crash at Road America is a powerful object lesson on their power. That crash is the worst I've ever seen where the driver walked away. I'm so glad she is still around and raced the 500 this weekend.
I remember that race. I also remember Damon announcing his retirement. He wanted to retire immediately but, as far as I'm aware (might not be true) Jos Verstappen tested for Jordan and was so far off the pace that Eddie forced Damon to finish out his contract.
Got an interesting topic for you to investigate: How did it come that over the years some TV stations planted their logo onto some cars? Notably of course RTL in 1995 on the Benetton. (I do have some answers, but yea it would be an interesting topic for your channel ;) )
The whole Canada as an igloo filled icebox for eleven months of the year is nonsense. The average temperature in Montreal for September is 22 degrees Celsius, hardly frostbite-inducing. Move Singapore to the slot after China and start the tour of the Americas with Canada on September 22, then move COTA ahead a few weeks, followed by Mexico, Brazil and Vegas.
"It can still snow in May ..." LMAO ... 58yo Cdn and I've seen snow in EVERY month of the year at least once. July was thankfully only once so far lol.
What was it with Trulli, Alesi and colliding each other and someone else at the first corner of the 1st lap of the Canadian GP back in the day? They did it twice in 98 and again in 99.
You mentioned the Michael & how we didn’t get an ending in 98 & we don’t know how it would of played out in 99 after Silverstone but have you done a video on Suzuka 2000, for me the best & pretty much perfect ending. Schumi Vs Hakkinen. Qualifying both was separated by +0.009 in the Michael favour & how it was 53 laps of pure qualifying. Whoever said that this race was boring, well it’s an opinion lol. This race & the next race was crazy
The wall of champions is at The Circuit Gielle Vellnueve the last corner of a challenging lap. To be fast you must be about an inch from the wall with the hammer down. Almost every great driver has hit the wall at least once
Funfact about the immelmann turn, it's highly unlikely that he ever did it, because the planes he flew in combat (diverse marks of the Fokker Eindecker) just physically couldn't pull that stunt of. He died half a year or so to early. Maybe he did some testing in more capable planes, like the albatross, and maybe he invented (or just did) it there, but if he'd done it in combat, his wings would have ripped off and maybe the engine would have stalled. But it's hard to over estimate how famous Immelmann and even more so Boelke have been on both sides of the war, so it would make sense that some fancy pants (but still very simple) turn would be named in his honor, maybe because it "made even you as effective as Immelmann" or something along that line. Finding out that you can do a half loop and then roll out of it isn't really rocket science, is it?
Nico Rosberg didn't crashed at the wall but cooked a set of tyres in the runoff of the chicane after locking wheels whilst being schooled by an 18 year-old Max Verstappen during the 2016 race.
not sure why I am jumping on that detail, but here are some more MSC errors: 1995 Imola race out-lap after pitstop, big crash in piratella, 1993 crashing into Damon in Suzuka
The reason for the big gap between the Nurburgring and Suzuka races in '98 is because there was supposed to be a race at Estoril in between. That got binned off because the Portuguese government wouldn't pony up for the necessary track mods.
The 44th rather than 45th anniversary of the Le Man's disaster, which makes it even more spooky as Mercedes current multiple champion is race number 44! Numbers can be fun 😉
Not enough appreciation for the ‘Wall of Tears.’ Just when you think you’ve escaped the carnage at the ‘Wall of Champions’ the turn 9 ‘Wall of Tears’ rears its ugly head. 😢 Great channel, glad you finally got a hair cut! 😂
I'd say it was actually easier to go into the wall then than it is now. The gravel trap was a significant deterrent for drivers to straightline the chicane if they overcooked it under breaking, so they tried to lob it in anyway. Must have had Nigel Mansell's 1992 off in the back of their mind. Today they just go across the tarmac run off.
Don't get why they don't move Mexico and Vegas to a triple header with Montreal in June (I mean I guess no Día de Muertos or fake end of season finale) and then have Austin, Miami and Brazil as another triple header either in March or October/November (american football calendar permitting)
"As you can see he's perfectly alright, only his dignity has been hurt."
- Murray Walker after Villeneuve's crash
Murray was a gem.
Murray Walker and James Hunt were great together
Zonta is kind of a lesser member of the Wall of Champions. He was an FIA GT champion when he hit it.
This is always forgotten, thanks for bringing it up.
Had literally just double checked which title it was to bring this up. Thanks :)
8:39 Montoya used to be supreme through this section of the circuit too, tbh Lewis is too it rewards crazy levels of confidence on the brakes and compliance in your car to ride the curbs
I watched that live on the telly. Damon: mild shunt. The Michael: caves in his right side. JV: hold my beer [T-bone]. Le Boi was fully committed. Memories. . .
Michael's car reminded me of those old 1920's gags where a Model-T would fall completely to bits.
I like how both of Villeneuves trips to the wall of champions were an impressive distance from getting round the corner.
@@Batters56 Me too. Gonzo's gonna gonzo. JV was no Gilles, but he def-o wore the family name well - when he had a decent ride, that is. Gilles could drive a lawnmower and still be in the hunt.
"Hold my Molson, eh."
Yep and that's what the video is about, by putting that comment you are appearing to be more fake than a ticking Rolex from a street market in Delhi.
You didn't watch it live on TV either, what you saw had already happened a few seconds beforehand, so what you did was just watch it on TV not live...!!!!!!
Checking in from Toronto, I will give you an 8/10 on the Canadian (English Speaking) Accent and a 9/10 on the appreciation of the Canadian sense of humour having "Biennvenue a Quebec" on that wall :)
Also from Toronto, agreed. Aidan seems to have a lot of familiarity with all things Canadian.
I recently read the story about 1953 Le Mans which was won by a drunk driver. Not condoning drunk driving but different times etc. it’s a fascinating story if you happen to be looking for material
This was an early storytime episode, it may have been lost in the Purge. It was a fun one, Aidan attempting and failing to describe varying states of livation were impressive.
Just checked. It was episode 20 and was lost in the purge.
One for Aidan to redo?
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Duncan Hamilton, a Legend of Le Mans
So much has happened at Montreal over the years - rain, crashes, tyres falling apart, that year the tarmac fell apart...
Another Montreal event worth mentioning was in 1998. Michael made perhaps his most FU move of all when exiting the pits and quite simply ran Frentzen (who was coming down the start finish straight on the far side) off the track at high speed before turn 1, resulting in a scary crash and retirement for Frentzen. Scumacher claimed he didn't see but... that's just taking the p... Michael. Of course the stewards took the Michael also and no action was taken for the incident.
As a result (the following year?) Formula 1 added those solid lines we still have now on the pit exit which drivers exiting the pits are not allowed to cross, and which have resulted in many penalties ever since. (They should call it the Michael Line.)
In one of the last years of F3000 (2004??) at Barcelona (I think) one driver was memorably penalised for crossing the line and served a drive through or stop go penalty. On exiting the pit lane he crossed the line again. Can't remember if he got another penalty first, but the end result was him being black flagged and pulled out of the race, on the grounds he clearly didn't know the rules and was a danger to everyone.
KMag would be proud of that.
What do you no action was taken? Michael got 10 seconds stop-and-go penalty for Frentzen incident
@@draganluzija3823 My error.
Barely even a tap on the wrist given the severity and danger of the incident. And he won comfortably anyway.
2000 or 2001 I think
If my memory serves me correctly, Zonta was also acknowledged as a champion at the time due to his F3000 title in 1997 and GT title the following year
And Heidfeld had an F3000 title prior to his crash in 2001 😅
"Texas in August is a solid 0 out of 10." Good work, Aidan.
I’ve been to Oklahoma in July. It was not nice.
And you’d think I’d be used to crippling humidity living up here but no.
@@AidanMillward I live in Arizona. It’s currently 41c out. I completely understand. I always find it hilarious the rest of the planet dies at 30c. Keep up the good work man. Congrats on the 100k. ❤️
@@JD_Racer97 Brits can handle 30 degrees fine. People can’t figure out that we have incredibly humid summers that even Aussies and Brazilians find horrendous.
That and our houses are designed to insulate.
5:07 And then 2011 happened!
I loved the 1999 season, it was my favourite until 2009 when Jenson won. I didn't know about Frentzen being hospitalised, I just thought he had fractures on his knees. Given that his win in France at the next race is even more impressive
Kudos for mentioning HHF's twitter. It's genuinely one of the best things ze Internetz has to offer these days
That race was the good kind of bonkers. It was also the first time that the race would finish behind the safety car
An event that wouldn't happen again until Australia 09
I am Canadian and I went to the 2008 Canadian GP. I had fun and had never been to Montreal, so about a month later I went back and dragged my bike along.
I, of course, went to the circuit Gilles Villeneuve and did some laps with my bike. On one of the laps I, on purpose, crashed into the wall of champions, figuring if crashing there was good enough for Shumie, it was good enough for me.
11:00 he crashed out of the San Marino GP in 1995 if i'm not mistaken
Not sure if it was a mistake or a failure i would guess a mistake
it was a mistake, he just got out of the pits with slicks on a still slippery circuit, got onto the wet kerbs at Piratella and then the car was uncontrollable on the grass.
Schumi's' '1 error a season' quote is interesting. Currently reading James Allen's 'Edge of Greatness' book on Schumacher and it mentions the infamous Monaco 2006 grand prix and his attempt to block the track and red flag the qualifying session. Allen basically goes on about Schumacher's mindset was all about never showing weakness or fault publicly to create an image to his rivals of being ruthless and having the killer instinct to push the rules and boundaries where others might not go. All about the mind games to gain an advantage over others. There is a bit where Coulthard is talking about his crash with Schumacher at Spa in 98 and how they met at a neutral driver home to talk it out a few days after the event. Coulthard conceded fault but said Schumacher had to bear some of the responsibility since he technically drove into the back of him but Schumacher's mindset was 100% he did nothing wrong. I guess that psychology is part of why he was so successful but controversial as well. Really enjoying the book, I'm about halfway through 👍
What you mean 1999 f1 season was underwhelming?
I thought it was great!
European GP at Nurburgring, especially was brilliant! Herbert winning that race too made it even better.
We were expecting Hakkinen vs Michael, got Hakkinen vs Irvine instead. 😅
I cried at the end of that race. Herbert is one of those "if only" drivers. The fact that he could drive anything, let alone a Formula 1 car - _winning a few races_ - was frankly amazing.
I got choked up for Badoer too. Poor lad 😢
@y_fam_goeglyd if I remember right, the commentary team weren't as sympathetic.
You can't deny that HHF's unlikely title shot was great story, at least until he forgot to push cancel...
Schumi made real driving errors in my view at spa 1994 causing his plank to wear too much (or so his team claimed), and Imola 1995 when he over drive and spun off on the entry to Piratella corner.
Exactly!
He wasn't the perfect driver that he has currently been made out to be. It's like that since his accident (I honestly - even as a Damon fangirl - would give anything to turn back the clock to prevent it), he's become virtually untouchable to many fans. Especially those too young to have watched him. It's the same with "Saint Ayrton"... People miss the fact that it was their imperfections which made their great races so great.
@@y_fam_goeglyd Damon fanboy from back in the day here too. Only really got to appreciate Schumi more once both had left the circuit, my brother was for Schumi, me for Damon, you can imagine the fallout from Adelaide haha :)
He made mistakes all the time. I was at the 2000 USGP where he was cruising along and spun in the infield all by himself but got the clutch in in time. He was just one of those fortunate drivers who seemed to be able to recover from his brain fades. He'd have had a much harder time in practices too without a spare car. It was his MO to "find the limit" on Friday or Saturday, knowing there was another perfect car or two waiting for him in the garage.
Love your style of videos and how you talk about interesting parts of Motorsport history most people would gloss over. Great job mate
1:10 The Fosbury Flop comes to mind as a named athletic move. In F1 you got the so-called "Max Verstappen rule" -> Driver must be at least 18 years old, 2 years in junior series ..... etc etc
As a former high jumpist, the Fosbury flop is the reason my neck is fucked.
Or it’s my fault over rotating but personal responsibility doesn’t exist these days.
@@AidanMillward At least you didn't crash into a wall doing it, right? :p
Your channel doesn’t get the credit and recognition it deserves! I love your videos!
Thank you. I too loved racing at Sochi in the F1 Game
Can confirm Sochi is a good track.
Canada is great to but I end up with so many penalties for cutting corners
10:53 the pettiness 😂😂😂 I love it
excelent video, awesome bit of history
I like watching your factual and insightful vidds, huge F1 fan since I was little, I know a bit about some of the stories you tell, but there's always the odd fact I didn't know. I like also, when you present a wiki screenshot, eg 13:35, you can see which links (drivers / teams etc) you've viewed..!
11:07 1995 I can only think of San Marino crash maybe the collision last race of the season but that was a racing incident
1997 he also went off at Monaco but had a 55 second lead (Lmaoo) so just spun the car around
Edit the next one (mistake) would probs be 2000 with one of his famous “Schumi” chops leading to an instant DNF I believe either Austria or Germany that year
Mr Wall even claimed The Michael! Always been a fantastic track 👍🏻
Thanks for the video, Aidan! I appreciate your knowledge and insight in to the sport!
It's weird, I got into F1 around '07 and I can remember a time around 2011 I think where there were 6 champions on the starting grid at each race, and now we have 3.
It must have been:
Alonso
Schumacher
Vettel
Raikkonen
Hamilton
Button
7 if you count future world champion who beat 7 time world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery
Loved the 🇨🇦 impression “Ya hoser!”
Get yahself a Timmies and watch the fackin’ leafs lose to Boston again bud!
I could spend all day in Tim Horton’s (the one near Trafford Centre & Manchester one near the famous curry mile) large sofas, beautiful French Vanilla Latte.
@@simontravers2715 there’s one in Birmingham too. Will pop in any chance I get.
You should’ve seen it 1 morning at the Trafford Centre Horton’s Aidan, the rozzers were in, including trainees, for breakfast, not a single one got a doughnut. You just know in 🇨🇦🇺🇸 that’d be different
First ever race to finish under a SC
Love that track. Would be good to do a video about the Canadian Grand Prix that took so long it changed the rules of the race length and television coverage.
Was there that weekend, sitting in the grand stands just off the wall of champions. Great memories at that track, those moments, amongst them.
5:16 When you live in Canada long enough, snow in june/july is VERY normal. I think only Vancouver is spared that and alot of it has to do with the Pacific Ocean....Montreal? Oof.
Yeah, Vancouver has the Pacific version of the Gulf Stream that means we have milder wetter winters than what Toronto and Montreal get.
By we I mean Britain. Considering we’re on the same latitude as Gander we have much warmer winters. 😅
Love your vids even if just for the verbiage and the terminology. "The Michael" is my fave and yes, oh so fitting!
Let me be the grumpy Montréaler, won't you?
1. 1:34 Well, locally, it's known as the mur du Québec, so... only known as two things, then.
2. The accent is... well, definitely not local.
3. The Boston Bruins hat. Ouch!'
Ok, I'll stop the grumpiness. Here, take my like :)
In 1998 The Michael messed up something very badly in every 2 races. If he had committed only 50% of his errors in that year, he would have been a world champion before Nurburgring.
1) Melbourne: new Ferrari engine was harder to handle and to operate, he managed to stall the car during his first pitstop, but the crew started the engine again and he could continue - only to have a mechanical failure later on.
2) Buenos Aires: comfortably leading the race, then horribly messing up a corner some laps before the end, but managed to find a service path and keep the engine running, coming back to the track with insane amounts of dirt.
3) Monaco: now that was a festival of Michael errors. Losing patience with Wurz after being stuck behind him for like 40 laps, colliding with him 3 separate times, damaging his suspension. Crew managed to send him back, being down 2 laps. Crashing into 10th placed Diniz on the last lap didnt help either.
4) Austria: Chasing Hakkinen in the early laps to male the 2 stop strategy work, getting impatient, going off track, bouncing up 3 feet in the air, losing the front wing, having to drive a whole lap before entering the pits, exiting dead last.
5) Belgium: ooooh, we all know what happened there.
6) Canada: carelessly joining back from the pit lane, sending Frentzen to the walls, getting a 10 second penalty for it.
7) Hockenheim: messing up the qualifying. Ferrari took a new, longer car design to Germany, and Michael didnt like it. He switched back to the previous design, losing valuable time on friday to work out the ideal setup, ending up in 5th place on saturday. No improvement during the race either.
8) Suzuka: Stalling the car on the grid.
I think thats enough errors for half a decade, especially from a 2 time WCH
Your comments around 15:00 are interesting. Kind of reminds me of some of the comments Schumacher made prior to the 1994 Spanish GP, how the cars were on a knife's edge due to the required changes, meant to slow the cars down, after Imola and Monaco. Sure enough, Andrea Montermini crashed and broke his foot.
I about spit my food out when you started talking in Canadian. Thank you for that 😅
There was no Internet in 1999? LMAO
I totally agree that Sochi is very fun to drive. Sure it makes for terrible overtaking, but just driving around it, it's pretty fun.
10:55 - 2004?
2000: Slow start at Germany, chops Fisichella's front wing and out at the first corner. Barrichello's first win.
2001 and 2002, indeed none spring to mind.
2003: Aquaplanes off at Brazil? But then so did about 1/3rd of the field.
Back in 09 in the NCATS (that's NASCAR Canadian Tire Series) race, Scott Steckley managed to get it all wrong going into 2 and somehow managed to end up on his roof. Makes me wonder if an F1 car has ever flipped at Montreal, Steckley flipping the 22 Dodge is the only time I can recall someone going up and over at Montreal in a major series. Aside from the drain cover in 91 that caused the WSC round to be stopped early but good luck finding footage of that
It's not just the fact that Jacques was a Champion, and the third champion to hit the wall that day, but he was born not far from there and the track is named after his father...
5:30 Sochi is one of the most fun tracks to drive on and I will die on this hill
The wall got its name 4 years before I started watching F1. In the decades sense then, I’ve watched any hit that wall, champion and non champion alike.
Montreal has also become one of my favorite tracks to drive in racing games
❤I was there!🇨🇦FYI , THEY MOVED "The Wall of Champions", it's wider now than in 1999. I have photos from '99.
Why are there NO OTHER NAMED CORNERS on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve?? Turn #3 & 4, "Jacques & Gilles"❤?? Back straight "Greg Moore", etc.? How do the organizers miss out on EASY, FREE , promotion, familiarity and brand loyalty to the 🇨🇦 Canadian Grand Prix??🙄🤦🤷♀️🤦♀️
Turn 9. I’ve unofficially called it the ‘Wall of Tears.’
If you manage to avoid the Wall of Champions be careful that the Wall of Tears doesn’t get you instead.
Latest victim, George Russel, 2023.
Imola 95 for the mistakes list
In 1999, Zonta was a FIA GT champion - he won the 1998 season. Back in 1999, he was counted towards the Wall of Champions victims.
I think you meant the 1998 season at 2m28? As the 1999 season had Sepang before the Japanese GP
Ive lived 42 years in Montréal and never saw snow in may.
If you do a video on Gurney flaps, Katherine Legge's crash at Road America is a powerful object lesson on their power. That crash is the worst I've ever seen where the driver walked away. I'm so glad she is still around and raced the 500 this weekend.
11:15 Didn't Schuey crash heavily at Imola in 1995. Too fast on cold tyres sort of thing?
I remember that race. I also remember Damon announcing his retirement. He wanted to retire immediately but, as far as I'm aware (might not be true) Jos Verstappen tested for Jordan and was so far off the pace that Eddie forced Damon to finish out his contract.
Got an interesting topic for you to investigate: How did it come that over the years some TV stations planted their logo onto some cars? Notably of course RTL in 1995 on the Benetton.
(I do have some answers, but yea it would be an interesting topic for your channel ;) )
I live in Montreal. Might drive over there and leave my mark.
The whole Canada as an igloo filled icebox for eleven months of the year is nonsense. The average temperature in Montreal for September is 22 degrees Celsius, hardly frostbite-inducing. Move Singapore to the slot after China and start the tour of the Americas with Canada on September 22, then move COTA ahead a few weeks, followed by Mexico, Brazil and Vegas.
"It can still snow in May ..." LMAO ... 58yo Cdn and I've seen snow in EVERY month of the year at least once. July was thankfully only once so far lol.
What was it with Trulli, Alesi and colliding each other and someone else at the first corner of the 1st lap of the Canadian GP back in the day? They did it twice in 98 and again in 99.
You mentioned the Michael & how we didn’t get an ending in 98 & we don’t know how it would of played out in 99 after Silverstone but have you done a video on Suzuka 2000, for me the best & pretty much perfect ending. Schumi Vs Hakkinen. Qualifying both was separated by +0.009 in the Michael favour & how it was 53 laps of pure qualifying. Whoever said that this race was boring, well it’s an opinion lol. This race & the next race was crazy
Didn't know "Cirque du CLR" was on the anniversary of Le Mans '55! o.O
This race also gave us the brilliant Murrayism "A confusing and sad ending, albeit a happy one".
The wall of champions is at The Circuit Gielle Vellnueve the last corner of a challenging lap. To be fast you must be about an inch from the wall with the hammer down. Almost every great driver has hit the wall at least once
Funfact about the immelmann turn, it's highly unlikely that he ever did it, because the planes he flew in combat (diverse marks of the Fokker Eindecker) just physically couldn't pull that stunt of. He died half a year or so to early. Maybe he did some testing in more capable planes, like the albatross, and maybe he invented (or just did) it there, but if he'd done it in combat, his wings would have ripped off and maybe the engine would have stalled.
But it's hard to over estimate how famous Immelmann and even more so Boelke have been on both sides of the war, so it would make sense that some fancy pants (but still very simple) turn would be named in his honor, maybe because it "made even you as effective as Immelmann" or something along that line. Finding out that you can do a half loop and then roll out of it isn't really rocket science, is it?
Nico Rosberg didn't crashed at the wall but cooked a set of tyres in the runoff of the chicane after locking wheels whilst being schooled by an 18 year-old Max Verstappen during the 2016 race.
not sure why I am jumping on that detail, but here are some more MSC errors: 1995 Imola race out-lap after pitstop, big crash in piratella, 1993 crashing into Damon in Suzuka
1995 Imola was a Schumacher mistake
I remember all the splats against that wall.
Mate what happened to your left wrist?
Worth mentioning that the wall has been reconfigured since the 00's. It's been pulled back dramatically from where it was in 99
Nate you need to do a video on 99 le man's 24 hours
You saying it can snow in may in Montreal like it's a big deal seems so funny to me (I'm Canadian)
The reason for the big gap between the Nurburgring and Suzuka races in '98 is because there was supposed to be a race at Estoril in between. That got binned off because the Portuguese government wouldn't pony up for the necessary track mods.
The 44th rather than 45th anniversary of the Le Man's disaster, which makes it even more spooky as Mercedes current multiple champion is race number 44! Numbers can be fun 😉
Good thing nothing happened in 2018 to said driver. Granted the Halo was implemented THAT year, but still.
Was often a conundrum in the 90s & 00s. Do you start the car full of fuel or do you go light.
As a future world champion, Logan Sargent is nailed on.
I think you misspelled "champion of wall"
Villeneuve also crashed there in 97
Not enough appreciation for the ‘Wall of Tears.’
Just when you think you’ve escaped the carnage at the ‘Wall of Champions’ the turn 9 ‘Wall of Tears’ rears its ugly head. 😢
Great channel, glad you finally got a hair cut! 😂
I had a hair cut 2 months ago
I'd say it was actually easier to go into the wall then than it is now. The gravel trap was a significant deterrent for drivers to straightline the chicane if they overcooked it under breaking, so they tried to lob it in anyway. Must have had Nigel Mansell's 1992 off in the back of their mind. Today they just go across the tarmac run off.
That 1999 Ferrari still looks soooo good after all these years,
"The Lord of Sisu" ❤❤❤
11:10 Imola 1995?
Love the Canadian accent, although I think the appropriate Jacques Villeneuve, French Canadien accent would have been even funnier.
Didn’t our Nige smash the wall in 95, in the Maclaren MP4/10b?
4:56 Why would they be scared of Huracans? They're very nice looking cars :)
In fairness, they become scary in the hands of complete tools who have no idea what they are doing.
Canadian GP should be first or last of the season, Studded tires need to be an option!
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada, where it's more warmer, but not as rainny as Japan.
(Not anymore-bring a fire extinguisher.)
I love my home race, although I’m from Ontario, not Québec
Don't get why they don't move Mexico and Vegas to a triple header with Montreal in June (I mean I guess no Día de Muertos or fake end of season finale) and then have Austin, Miami and Brazil as another triple header either in March or October/November (american football calendar permitting)
Eventually Aidan will cover the insane 2021 season.
I *think* The Michael™️ binned it in the wet at Imola in 95, gave Damon a free win but I don't remember it
Didn't kmag hit the wall of champions and slide off?
As a proud wiganer! You have to admit we've perfected the art of doing saving ourselves
At least your Rugby league club does well.
@@Pablo668 eh we've won the fa cup not many teams can say that and had 8 great years in the prem. But yes our rugby team is also rather good
In 1995 Michael had a pretty dumb mistake at Imola, crashing just before Piratella. Not that had any impact on his season going forward.
“I pulled a Homer”
Michael had his error from 1995 at San Marino when he wrecked the car
Birthing a wall? I'm sure it's mother thought that was a real 'oucher'
I remember watching this well. Gutted when Michael crashed out
great Canadian accent but you need to do a *French Canadian* accent