Schumacher passes Alonso and more Monza moments
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Schumacher tries to pass Alonso at the Rettifilio
Michael Schumacher’s off-track pass on Fernando Alonso at the Rettifilio was not shown during the race
But footage of the moment was captured by a fan at the first corner.
See that and more in this collection of the best fans’ videos from Monza.
The banking
The past merges with the present at Monza. Spectators at the first turn look over the old banking towards turn one:
HRT pit stop practice
HRT have been losing more time in the pits than any other team. But they keep on practising:
The start
This side-on view of the top four cars shows how good Fernando Alonso’s start was and how poor Jenson Button’s was. The Ferrari was past the McLaren before they reached the starting line.
Alonso grabs the lead at the first corner, prompting a cheer from the crowd:
The first-lap crash
Heading to the first corner, Vitantonio Liuzzi makes sure the HRT pit crew don’t have to worry about changing his tyres:
The restart
As the race gets going again, Vettel chases Alonso into Parabolica but Lewis Hamilton has fallen into Schumacher’s clutches:
Webber’s Red Bull
Mark Webber crashed at the Parabolica early on in the race. Here’s video of his car afterwards
Schumacher (briefly) passes Alonso
While the TV cameras were showing replays of Webber’s crash, Schumacher briefly got ahead of Alonso.
As this video shows, he ran too deep into the Rettifilio chicane on lap six, cutting the corner and passing the Ferrari.
Having cut the corner he let Alonso past again. As the world feed cut back from replays Schumacher was attacking Alonso again at the della Roggia chicane:
Ascari
Plenty of passing going on in the DRS zone heading to Ascari:
The podium
Monza surely has the best podium in Formula 1. Here’s footage of Alonso celebrating with the crowd:
From hospitality
It pays to be connected. Here’s some well-edited footage from the hospitality suite adjacent to the start/finish line. Includes some great close-ups of the drivers pre-race:
So far it seems no-one captured any footage of Felipe Massa, Jarno Trulli and Sebastien Buemi colliding at the della Roggia on lap five.
If you’ve found or shot footage of that, or any other action from Monza, please share it by email, using Twitter or leave a comment below.
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John H said on 13th September 2011, 13:21
Well, that’s the floor of the RB7 pretty much revealed then. Engineers, get copying!
streetfightingman said on 13th September 2011, 22:25
No doubt Italian marshall’s did that on purpose. Can imagine RBR not being too pleased with it…
bsnaylor (@bsnaylor) said on 13th September 2011, 13:35
Some great fan vids! Cheers Keith, always appreciated.
Calum said on 13th September 2011, 13:37
I love start videos from the sidelines, it just shows how unbeleivably fast the accelaration of these cars is, and it highlights there is a huge differance between a great start and a sluggish start.
It doesn’t come across on the front on TV camera, but from the fan-cam Alonso’s start is rocket boosted compared to the Mclaren that got bogged down, those cars looked like they were differant Formula because of the differance in accelaration.
Far more emphasis and excitement, the famous Monza atmosphere really came across to in these amateur videos compared to the F1 Feed videos because you could actually hear the fans – and the camera shaking to build up tension was a nice touch too!
bsnaylor (@bsnaylor) said on 13th September 2011, 13:55
Yes, much as I hate being at each race, the atmosphere and noise is what makes it, and gives you such a buzz. Following what’s actually happening while you’re in the grandstands is bloomin hard!
Even with my laptop/live feed/audio/screens.
All part of the fun though :)
bsnaylor (@bsnaylor) said on 13th September 2011, 13:57
And when i say “hate” being at each race, i mean love of course :)
Mark Hitchcock said on 13th September 2011, 23:32
The video of the cars braking into turn 1 is similar. The tv angles don’t show quite how quickly the cars slow down.
HounslowBusGarage said on 13th September 2011, 13:51
Webber’s RB78 on the crane is a bit ridiculous. As we get a real close-up of the undertray, you can hear the German anthem in the background. So this is the end of the race and Webber’s car was either left dangling for the most of the race or the marshalls re-hoisted it at the end of the race so that the fans could get underneath it . . .
KaIIe (@kaiie) said on 13th September 2011, 14:30
It was lifted into safety. Mika Salo said during the race, that the teams used to instruct him to grab everything he can from the car (steering wheel, seat, etc.), as the tifosis will tear it to pieces after the race.
But what a great footage, the atmosphere and the speed is just so much better presented in these videos than in the world feed. And that’s a shame.
HounslowBusGarage said on 13th September 2011, 20:40
Aha, so it was hoisted in the air to stop souvenir hunters!
And yes I agree with you about the fan-footage, really brings the excitement to you. Will this be a regular feature after each race, Keith?
Dan_the_McLaren_fan (@dan_the_mclaren_fan) said on 13th September 2011, 15:08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwWT1fymmsg
An onboard video of the very short race from Rosberg. Maybe it was short, but Nico managed to overtake one car … almost.
Checkout the channel of this broadcaster, he has other interesting onboard videos from Monza
HounslowBusGarage said on 13th September 2011, 20:41
Blocked by FOM already!
DaveW (@dmw) said on 13th September 2011, 15:35
I had a suspicion that Alonso had slightly jump-started from the TV shots. You can’t really see if a guy is rolling a bit from the head-on view. But fromn this video, you can see actually got off the line a hair slower than the front three cars, but within 50 ft he was going much faster. Amazing.
F1abw (@f1abw) said on 13th September 2011, 16:11
No need for the Red Bull mechanics to stand around the back of the RB7 during grid walks any more then……
Pretty much all secrets revealed there in that vid!
Chaz (@chaz) said on 13th September 2011, 17:08
Question. Would the Italian stewards have ever held a ferrari car so perfectly in the air for so long such that many people could walk under and take video and photo’s of valuable car details as they did with the RedBull? Somehow I don’t think so. The Italian stewards should be investigated and fined heavily and strongly reprimanded with a threat to loose an Italian GP…
John H said on 13th September 2011, 23:52
Hahaha!
redlight said on 13th September 2011, 17:12
Great videos, thanks to all.
Despite checking fan footage I never did find out how Seb passed Webber after the restart at Spa. All I know is it was in or around Eau Rouge.
Can anyone tell me?
Tom said on 13th September 2011, 17:18
Watching these clips makes me reconsider wanting to see a GP in person. How the hell can you tell what is going on?
redlight said on 13th September 2011, 17:58
It’s easier than you’d think. If you’re near a screen or hire a Kangaroo TV you get all the info you want. Even without, the racing isn’t so difficult to follow and tbh, you’d absolutely love being there for so many other reasons. You’ve never really seen F1 til you’ve seen it live – TV is good, but cannot really capture the speed, power and sound of the cars, it can’t make your head spin a little with the noise and you don’t see so clearly how the cars are being driven. The fans are great too. It’s totally worth it, every time.
Matt said on 13th September 2011, 20:28
FOM do anoy me when they don’t show things manly when the timing graphic at the top of the screen goes yellow indicating a yellow flag, you wonder what’s happend and then you never see a replay or there’s a yellow flag and it’s because someone’s run slightly wide on a corner. FOM need a new yellow flag idea and they need to add more cameras so we see everything that goes on. If F1 could adapt something like the MotoGP coverage it would be excellent.
Luis said on 13th September 2011, 20:33
@ Tom. Redlight is absolutely correct. The noise, the smell of burnt rubber, the braking in a dime, the fans, the beer, ….you should try it sometime at least once.
Cheers !
AJ Ball said on 13th September 2011, 22:05
I realise that in these days of trackside advertising needing it’s TV time that can never be any ‘spectator cam’ angles on TV like the one before Ascari but it’s such a shame because that shot really shows the sheer energy of the things.
mrgrieves (@mrgrieves) said on 13th September 2011, 22:18
This is a brilliant addition to the site. Only bad side it really makes me want to go to a race. Amazing sounds for these and the belgium videos
streetfightingman said on 13th September 2011, 22:21
Seeing as Hamilton was waaay back on the restart, why didn’t he get the penalty Vettel got in Hungary last year?
Habib said on 13th September 2011, 23:03
Because its only applicable to the leader of the pack
BasCB (@bascb) said on 14th September 2011, 8:22
Its not, the 10 car lenghts is for everyone.
In Hungary last year Vettel (in 2nd) got punished for keeping to much distance to Webber leading the pack.