The Weekend Nobody Wanted to Race: The Weekend of 15th September, 2001
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- 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.
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.
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2001 was a tough year for the sport in general. The emotiinal first race back after 9/11 coupled with Losing Earnhardt at Daytona. Jr won at the return in July and the race after the attacks. It was a season of healing. Unfortunately it's my opinion that the sport began it's downward spiral after that season for a multitude of reasons, possibly deserving of a future episode.
@@travisburton2948 The whole world started its downward spiral after the attacks.
You did a marvelous job with the perfect balance between fact and respect, as usual.
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
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
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.
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.
@@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.
I heard of it. Cops stormed the cockpit because of a miscommunication from a plane that landed there, if I recall.
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.
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.
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
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
Where did you live? I was 12 and remember most kids I knew had a discman or mp3 player by 2001, there was the odd Walkman cassette but hadn’t really seen them much since the early 90s
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).
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.
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.
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 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
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
Very compassionate. Noticed the tone of the video, no outro music.
Very respectful 💪🫡
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.
Thank you, Aidan. Proud American and race fan
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.)
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 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 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.
This channel kills it - thanks Aiden Millward! Always celebrating racing.
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.
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.
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.
I appreciate your story today. There are so many sad stories that I remember but didn't realise had all happened in September '01. God bless them all
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
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.
Man I learnt a lot in this video. Absolutely fact stacked from the start. Good job Aiden
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'm watching this 23 years to the day since this gp
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.
Was born September 14, 2001.
I guess a lot of people thought WWIII had just begun.
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.
Thanks for this, Adrian.
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.
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
I was at work, I remember watching the news on TV in the showroom
Excellent video as always.
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
Same mate. at school year 11 came home and watched it on the news
Was in Year 6. Probably the first time I remember there being a breaking news story, since Diana was killed while we were asleep.
Spent the initial 10 minutes wondering why CBBC wasn't on.
@AidanMillward I was the 1st in my house to hear about Diana as I was always getting up early to watch TV as a kid I went upstairs and told my mum I'd never seen her move so fast 😪 bad times. Sucked being born mid 80s it's when the world seemed to just implode
Those things were very different for me.. Because of time zones.
@@leeanthony126 there was definitely a shift in the TV programming. You can tell there’s a mood change in a lot of it.
@AidanMillward definitely was mate
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
This kinda hits a lil harder as I live just down the road from Rockingham and visit corby alot
When you mentioned the 1994 F1 season..it was the darkest season for that sport and also very controversial and full of scandals.
Like you, I was at school and found out when I got home that afternoon
I was in school when it happened, and the news was on in every classroom. I don't remember much else before or in the days and weeks after.
In Australia the NRL and AFL still ran their respective finals matches that weekend
I was on holiday in Scotland when 9/11 happened, i was 11 years old and can still remebr how the mood changed and how i could tell, even at 11 that this was a major moment, one of those things when as a child the adults try to keep the enormity of it in but of course it doesn't work because you work it out anyway
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.
I was in Croatia, probably learning to swim. I missed all of it.
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)!
Zanardi's crash was horrendous. But it also hit hard for me, because it happened *exactly* seven years before I was born.
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. 🇺🇸❤🇮🇹
I was 13 years old, first day back to school after the summer holidays, I will always remember what my dad said to me as he picked me up, hurry up and get in, some planes have crashed into the world trade centers, I watched them fall as I got home, how was that 23 years ago? Where has that time gone?
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
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.
Hello Aidan: Good job. Thank you.
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 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.
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.
Nice video! I remember Monza 2001. I was just kind of stunned and didn't know what to say about the events of that week. Is that the Black Country flag in the background? I was born near Stourbridge but I live in France now
I was watching it all happen at work after my mum rang up to say a plane had crashed into the WTC. We had the internet at work and saw it all on the BBC website.
The whole world just felt different after 9/11. In the days afterwards I remember being in a supermarket in Leeds, UK and everyone just walking around looking shaken and upset. The lady on the check-out was asking each person if they were OK, everyone had the same answer "Not really".
I was 19 when 9/11 happened. It was awful. My grandmother died the day before. Its still raw.
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
@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! 🇮🇹
I was AT school when it happened. We were just getting out of Gym class and we were watching it on TV in science class.
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.
It was my first F1 race. ❤
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 at Customs in Tortola, BVI.
I watched this live on tv, a few years later I was in Afghanistan looking for Taliban and AQ in the mountains.....great channel keep it going
Thank you for your service sir… just… thank you
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 think amidst all that, the fact that Kenny Bräck won the CART race is actually pretty chilling given his crash in 2003. Eerie and absurd that he was around and won on that day, only to go to irl and suffer a major crash himself. Racing history is full of odd connections like that. If Castroneves or andretti wins that race, nobody thinks anything of it. If some backmarker wins, they may get a mention of a lone win, but still overshadowed by the day.
@@barrettcarpenter1745 When the Texas race was called off only two drivers voted to race. One was Paul Tracy, the other was Kenny Bräck.
Two years later…
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.
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
I went to the first NASCAR race after 9/11, in Dover. It was amazing and a little bit surreal.
1:45 for me I was a lil boy in reception class I still remember the headteacher telling us what happened and I was super scared for my aunt as she lived in NYC (still does to this day) I kept telling my mother to phone her using the old school dial up international cards till we could contact her she was perfectly fine
But the world was never the same, even on a similar note I vividly remember 7/7 in 2005 being from London we were sent home early less than 24 hours before everyone was celebrating we won the bid for the Olympics the next day panic I was scared to go on the tube for the next 4 weeks till my aunt came over from Nigeria on a sightseeing trip to London
I was in 10th grade that day, second period "principles of business" class
Dad picked me up early from school that day and i was confused as to why. Figured it out when i asked him
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Minor error there, Alesi was driving for Jordan at that point. Aside from that, excellent video, as per usual
@@sgt.thompson98 it’s just a picture of Alesi from 2001.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 dad had a job interview (he got the job) and I was at my grandmas, annoyed my tv program was interrupted
somethin tells me Mr Millward also knows a lot about 20th century history in general
Just here to document the event. Bbc can tell the future
Except Jacques Villeneuve :P
9/11 was when i found spongebob, because there wasnt anything else but news to watch