1) F1 is back and so, this season, is the Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, so to start us off here’s the last time the race was held there in 1992 when Nigel Mansell and Williams were simply unstoppable. Commentary starts in Spanish but then pleasingly turns into John Watson. Another spot of classic commentary here with Murray Walker hastily moving on when James Hunt is a little sweary at Monaco in 1989; Hunt again applying dry wit to the hapless Philippe Alliot at Japan in 1989 and again to Andrea de Cesaris at Imola in 1990. Hunt could get away with it all of course because he notoriously had big balls. For a quick introduction to the big boys here are the corporate previews and car launches from Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, McLaren and Williams.
Then, from the vaults: with several rookies on the grid in Australia this year here’s Jacques Villeneuve’s spectacular debut and battle with Damon Hill at Melbourne’s Albert Park in 1996 and Mark Webber taking a great fifth place in his first start at Albert Park for Minardi in 2002. Finally some of the best moves from recent years: Webber on Fernando Alonso at Eau Rouge in 2011; Sebastian Vettel on Alonso at Monza in the same year; Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg’s battle at Bahrain last year and, woah, 2014’s most impressive manoeuvre: Nico Hülkenberg takes Kevin Magnussen at Portier in Monaco.
2) Gazza, Clive Allen, Denis Wise, Stuart Pearce and well, a cast of thousands, it’s the Evening Standard London five-a-sides from 1993.
3) Basketball on trampolines? Oh. Yes. Here be some dunks in slamball. Less dunking, more fighting here, as this women’s basketball match descends into a massive brawl.
4) And here be goals – all of them from the 1990-91 Serie A season in fact.
5) A tough day at the office for Paderborn’s Lukas Kruse who as well as losing 3-0 at home to Leverkusen was absolutely mullered by this artillery shell from Stefan Kießling. Elsewhere Eniola Aluko shows some absolutely glorious skills for England against Holland in the Cyprus Cup. And a stone-cold classic as players investigate what it’s like to try and score after deliberately making themselves dizzy.
6) Think you’re getting past it? You are. Charles Eugster, however is not and has just set a new record in the indoor 200m for the 95-years and over age group.
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) Danger served with pain and fail: often the meat and two veg of Classic YouTube and this week our below the line comrades serve up a five course meal. And what better way to begin than with a man longboarding down a mountain, but what’s round the next corner? Then: a man crossing a bridge in the most unconventional manner he can manage.
2) Moving swiftly on there’s this photographer who fails to anticipate being biffed by horses in a harness, while these gentlemen simply all prove unable to turn left.
3) Kerasssh! Who put the hurdles in the wrong place? Bang! Who put the dugout in the wrong place? And wallop! West Germany’s Stefan Blöcher puts his head in the wrong place at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
4) And for dessert, the usual sir? Clash of the titans: Knebworth Town reserves v Hoddesdon Town reserves, check; hand held camera, check; mic picking up wind noises, check; epic miss (around 3min 38sec), CHECK. Followed by the wafer-thin mint of this goalkeeping fail.
5) Roger Federer takes on a kid. Kid’s lob game is tight.
6) And finally, old times to fast times: Pathé’s take on the 1964 FA Cup final between West Ham and Preston, including full conducting of the crowd and, a nine-year-old girl rides horse round barrels to win $50,000.
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