Posted on 09/18/2025 12:38:49 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2025 Live Thread, Circuit: Baku City, First Grand Prix: 2016, Number of Laps: 72, Circuit Length: 259 km, Race Distance: 306.587km, Lap Record: 1:11.097 by Lewis Hamilton (2021) Sunday, October 21, 7:00AM ET
Years ago, I was an occasional TRASHCAR watcher, but I don’t remember that Cross of St. Andrew emblem, anywhere.
Now all I watch is IMSA and F1, but thanks for the history lesson. Interesting.
Here is Sen. Neuberger’s July 12, 1955 speech on the floor of the United States Senate that was found to have led AAA to cease the Contest Board.
Mr. NEUBERGER. Mr. President, I think the time has come to. forbid automobile racing and similar carnages in the United States. I doubt if there is as much bloodshed in Spanish bull rings as today is occurring on automobile racetracks in this country. Now, even women racing drivers are getting killed in fiery and dreadful wrecks.
In my State, last week, a bicycle stunt artist, who leaped his bicycle over a number of automobiles, died hideously before a large crowd when he failed to clear the cars. I imagine there may have been many small children in the crowd who saw him perish. Yet, we talk unctuously about the horror of the bull rings in other lands.
Mr. President, I have heard a lot of talk lately about censorship of so-called comic books in an effort to stamp out juvenile crime and sadism, and yet, at the same time, we allow children to visit racetracks where men and women are constantly in peril of being maimed and killed. If automobile racing is necessary to perfect motor vehicles, as proponents of racing ridiculously claim, then I suppose we next ‘will hear that we must run stallions off cliffs to improve horseflesh. I believe the time has come for the United States to be a civilized Nation and to stop carnage on racetracks. The deaths on our highways are sad and tragic, but at least they are not purposely staged for profit and for the delight of thousands of screeching spectators.
Congressional Record: https://www.congress.gov/84/crecb/1955/07/12/GPO-CRECB-1955-pt8-6-1.pdf
That Sen. Neuberger sounds like a real asshole; glad he’s gone.
This was similar to what happened in Europe too. France, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland cancelled their F1 races, and Switzerland banned motor racing until 2018.
Harry Benjamin, not David Croft, in today. One of his five races off.
F2 Feature goes to the kid from the 704.
1 Jak Crawford DAMS Lucas Oil 25
2 Joshua Durksen AIX Racing 18
3 Dino Beganovic Hitech TGR 15
4 Gabriele Mini Prema Racing 12
5 Leonardo Fornaroli Invicta Racing 10
6 Pepe Marti Campos Racing 8
7 Arvid Lindblad Campos Racing 6
8 Rafael Villagomez Van Amersfoort Racing 4
9 Richard Verschoor MP Motorsport 2
10 Sebastian Montoya Prema Racing 1
11 Ritomo Miyata ART Grand Prix
12 Oliver Goethe MP Motorsport
13 Roman Stanek Invicta Racing
14 John Bennett Van Amersfoort Racing
15 Victor Martins ART Grand Prix
16 Amaury Cordeel Rodin Motorsport
17 Laurens van Hoepen Trident
18 Cian Shields AIX Racing
19 Luke Browning Hitech TGR
DNF Kush Maini DAMS Lucas Oil
DNF Alex Dunne Rodin Motorsport
DNF Martinius Stenshorne Trident
One of the Brit commentators?
Is he the ‘screamer’ of the bunch? That screeching stuff gets tiring, quickly.
Oscar’s run of ‘No DNF luck’ ... ran out. Lando now is 25 points away from 1st place in WDC. Pity for him he wasn’t able to take better advantage of his teammate’s misfortune.
And with seven races and 175 1st-place points yet on offer, Max is 69 points adrift of the leader.
If Max at last truly has recovered him mojo, and McLaren keeps shooting itself in the foot, and Mercedes and Williams remain competitive, and the Racing Bulls keep making nuisances of themselves, this could get interesting.
Stranger things have happened.
The next few weeks are going to be very interesting, for sure.
Yes, he is the screamer. And US motorsport fans, empowered by NASCAR and CART in the 1980’s with radio trained men, whose race craft is done by radio and not television, understood.
How many times did they not see pit lane until the screen showed it?
When Piastri stalled at the start, nobody even caught he fouled first until way after he crashed.
There’s a reason we’re used to radio guys who understand.
19 cars finished.
VER has Grand Chelem
1. VER 51 1:33.26.408
2. RUS 51 +14.609
3. SAI 51 +19.199
SAI: First Williams podium since 2017.
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