Just remembered I was at Croft in 2003 with Mark and Ibby when I got the news that Mark Lovell and his codriver had died :(
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Just remembered I was at Croft in 2003 with Mark and Ibby when I got the news that Mark Lovell and his codriver had died :(
Richard Burns: Woke up one morning, rolled out of bed, made the rounds online and then found out he had died. I knew he had a brain tumor and was in the hospital. I anticipated that he would make it out alive.
Colin McRae: I didn't know until the following day. I just kept reading that he had died in a helicopter crash on WRC.com, but just couldn't believe what I was reading.
JFK.- way before my time
Senna.- I was watching the race with my dad, as I wasn't much into F1 that time(and being only 8 years old also) I didn't realize the crash was huge but I remember how my dad was suddenly pale and not speaking
Lady Diana.- Didn't care much, my mom was bit shocked at dinner time
Queen mother.- Don't know/don't care
Greg Moore.- Heard it first on the sports news that evening, wasn't much of CART fan so I wasn't much shocked
Michael Park.- I was asleep as my brother woke me up telling me the news, now this time it was a real shock!
Colin McRae.- another huge shock, heard it first on the local radio as I was driving back home
9/11.- I was on school and a teacher told us a plane had crashed at the Pentagon, didn't care much then until I got home and turned on the TV!
Pope John Paul II.- I remember coming home from college and my dad telling me the Pope was dying, I'm not much of a catholic but I did respect the man and I stayed like 4 hours watching TV until they finally announced his death
Michael Jackson.- received a text message from a friend during classes telling me he was going to pass by my house at 8 PM to give me back my pediatrics book and had a "PS Michael Jackson has died" attached, I thought he was joking at first
These things are called Flashbulb memories, studied it in Psychology, quite interesting. Key events are easily remembered as you relate the event to what you are doing - therefore when you think of the event you automatically remember what you were doing. It is hard to forget this because you consistently recall the information as, for instance, JFK is consistently mentioned in modern media.
For me, I was only born in 1985, so JFK was long gone by then.
Can remember Senna - saw the crash live and heard of his death on the news.
Greg Moore - read it in the paper
Queen mother - don't actually remember this, she was 101 when she died so it was only a matter of time!
Princess Diana - was my cousins wedding and heard when I woke up that day and it on every channel
9/11 - was in RE lessons at college when my teacher told the class, didn't realize the significance until i got home and put on BBC1 and saw a plane crashing into the tower.
Greg Moore - watched it live. I felt so sick in my stomach I actually cried. Never gave much thought to Senna and Earnhardt because they had a worthy career and achieved all there was to achieve.
Moore never had the chance to achieve great things that looked promising had he been driving for a better team.
Sorry for making people feel sick. In the late 1990s Moore was the driver I idolised along with Schumi. I never truly understood the cult fanboy-ism over Gilles Villeneuve but after Moore's death I understood both drivers were endeavors of racing purism - in and out of the car.
I'm still waiting for Mugabe and Jong-Il's turnsQuote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
I can't really remember where I was when things happened