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What is the most you've done to see a F1 televised race?

I'll let you know what i went thru shortly....just let me say in the last 10 years i've always watched F1 live, but.....

Update:

Excellent, made me laugh too Julian.

One time in Thailand, I was in a bar cos my cable hadn't arrived or something. I was quite happily watching the race, eating my "fly rice sickin" and supping a beer, when the owner decided to wander over and flip the channel to "footbun". My mouth and others mouthes couldn't have got any wider or speechless. Pandemoneum ensued when i upped and ran out of the bar and into the nearest bar that was showing F1 and not the bloody "Liverpun" match. Went back later and paid my bill....

Update 2:

Last Sunday I went to my fiancee's home town for her birthday. We booked into a prominent hotel on the Thurs, which assured me that they had cable that would be televising the F1 on Sunday live.

Came back to the hotel on Sun 7.30pm and turned on the TV and surfed thru...no F1.

Stayed up til 1am..nothing.

Woke up on Mon, summoned manager, told her what i thought of their staff's guesswork on something I had specifically made enquiries about and had also verified with a very questioning "Are you sure?". After castigating her for not training her staff properly,she then called her cousin who had a cable company. Cable was duly installed in the bar that was attached to the hotel and they opened the bar at 11am specifically for me (it normally opens at 6pm) and I watched the F1 on a huge TV screen with complimentary coffees and mango shakes with my fiancee, albeit half a day too late!

Update 3:

Addendum to the above.

I informed the manager that I had been in SE Asia since '98. During that time I'd never missed an F1, even in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,Japan,HK, Indonesia, Malaysia and this was a first...

Update 4:

Makliekie...this bloody expensive hotel has cable from ZA, but the S2 channel was showing cricket last Sun (I made some very deflammatory remarks about ZA, sorry!!),so I was like a bull terrier with a favorite bone when talking to the manageress the next morning, but as you can see above, she made every effort to make ammends. On Wed they aired the F1 on S2, so I got to watch it again in the room, which I like to do and this time it was the ITV commentators not Star Sport Asia, so that was interesting.

Update 5:

I'm sorry, i can't decide.

You've all made some huge sacrifices in the name of our chosen sport. I think you'll pip it Val and good luck to you, but I hope you'll all understand that you've all given something of yourselves to F1 and F1 is the better for it!

Update 6:

Indian Dude, you have got to be kidding me.

Firstly I don't live in Bangalore.

Secondly, your schedule is somewhat optimistic. Arunyapatet(spl) to Angkor took me 10 hours to cover the 150km journey and it was the journey from hell; craters; 21 people in a pick up van plus luggage; dragged by tractors thru paddy fields, etc, but cheap at $7. Siem Riep now has a airport!! You cannot take in Angkor in a day - it's impossible and it's an insult. A train thru Cambodia to KL would be interesting - at 20mph you could sure take things in and KL isn't all that! Phuket isn't that great either.

No, I'll stay here thanks, watch the race on TV - chewing gum!!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No Julian you are not, I've got one in my handbag!!!! I used it yesterday when I was at Castle Combe race track until someone told me they had a TV in the bar. You would have laughed then, there was I trying to run. I can't walk properly let alone run. I'm tripping over my sticks, still holding my little Casio, cussing when the signal kept going, nearly falling over a Ferrari or two, nearly getting run over by a single seater, getting in the way of a few Evo's and generally being a pest because I can't take my eyes off the telly in case I miss the start. We then get to the bar, but to the outside. not wanting to miss the start I pressed my nose to the window and watched it from the outside until the first ad, with the trusty little Casio still playing away for the commentary!!!

    Another time I watched the races on Turkish satellite hardly understanding a word they were saying.

    Oh and the Casio used to come to work with me every time a race started after I did. I didn't watch it when I was driving, but it was always on the front seat so at least I could hear what was going on!!!

    I don't have sky plus, just a nearly worn out video recorder and a half knackered tape, but you can just about make out who is who if I have to record it lol.

  • 1 decade ago

    Luckily in South Africa they always show qualifying and the races live... But one weekend we went to the Kruger National Park - A game reserve as big as Belgium... We stayed in a camp in the middle of the Park and after finding out that that specific camp did not have any TVs, my dad had to rush me to the nearest town - some 50km away - to watch the race... Just to rush back to make the curfew into the camp. Needless to say, I didn't care too much for seeing any animals that day (except maybe the prancing horse ;-)... We could have seen a lion taking down a giraffe and I wouldn't have cared... Man, Formula 1 has mixed up my priorities!! lol

  • 1 decade ago

    Rush home ASAP after work/school like mad. The first thing that I do once at home would be to switch on the TV and if the race is already on, sit there and watch it. Only dashing to grab something to eat once the commercials come on.

    Other than that, staying up at unholy hours to watch races and having to keep my mouth shut as not to wake the entire neighbourhood. Or waiting impatiently for my PC to start up to follow the race online at times when there is no TV around. And then watching the race later if I manage to find a delayed telecast. even if it means sacrificing some sleep

  • 1 decade ago

    San Marino GP 2005 - my wife was in labour with our 2nd baby while I was watching the race on TV. Schumi was some 30 seconds behind the leader Alonso, but he was catching him at a rate of 1.5 seconds/lap. He caught up with him with 15 or so laps left in the race, and the titanic duel that followed was not something that you could just walk away from.

    I stayed and watched until the end of the race, then rushed my wife to the hospital. She gave birth 45 minutes after arriving at the delivery ward.

    Come on, if you'd watched that race, you can't blame me for being such an asss.

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  • MJ
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    1 decade ago

    Sacrificing my 20 days holiday a year from work just to watch qualifying is bad enough let alone telling work to piss off if they want me to work on a GP weekend

    Fridays i move everything aside for online streaming for Practice 1 & 2 moving driving lesson's haircuts stuff like that

    Saturday having day off work to watch qualifying

    Sunday getting up at no mans hours to watch a 4am - 5am start on a race its insane but awesome

  • 1 decade ago

    The 2003 Japanese GP sticks out, I was in Germany at the time so, with German commentary some ungodly hour inthe morning, a hangover and two large, horny, female Beagles crawling and scratching allover me I was in raptures. I also had to feed them pistachios the entire duration of the race and was completely covered in dog hair. .

    I would not do this for football!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    For a race on TV? Probably bribing the guy at the bar in Spain. He was reluctant to put it on because Alonso was demoted.

    Cost me 20 euros to watch a race that I could have watched for free at home.

  • 1 decade ago

    Probably the only person that still tries to use those junkish little portable Casio TVs, thank God for sky +, sometimes its impossible to see it live but haven't actually missed a race since the Portuguese GP 1996, who won?....

    Source(s): Edit, Val you made me laugh big time :)
  • 1 decade ago

    Televised?

    I am making a trip to Singapore to watch the F1 race in Sep.

    Its a very cheap trip and here are the booking details if you are planning to watch it too.

    Here is the plan

    http://9945255452.com/The%20Plan.html

    Happy Race watching

  • 1 decade ago

    I was on vacation in a God forsaken place so I took my father to a restaurant and had him pay the manager to videotape the F1 race.

    I took the tape and watched it a couple of days later we got back home.

    I remember it was in Hockenheim and Senna won.

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