For reasons to complicated to explain here, I was looking forward to watching the Monaco Grand Prix this year. Normally, I'm busy doing something else, or I haven't got access to Sky, or whatever, but this year, I was going to get to watch it and enjoy.
Enjoy was probably the wrong word.I am a Ferrari fan. I am also a Charles Leclerc fan. And he is cursed (https://www.sportskeeda.com/f1/what-charles-leclerc-s-f1-monaco-gp-curse-all-ferrari-driver-s-peculiar-luck-home-race). I was watching it to see exactly how his Monaco curse was going to happen this year. Because, you know, never even finished his home Grand Prix in any formula is a thing.
So I sit down in front of the TV, having begged to be allowed to watch it. Because somehow, he'd qualified first and this time he hadn't binned it on the formation lap (did I mention cursed?).
It's Monaco, there is no overtaking. If he can keep it in a straight line, there is hope.
Then I'm told 'no, no, no, you can't watch, no one else wants to watch it,' and I'm like "fine". I go into the back room and put in my headphones, I will watch as God intended, on the radio.
I get as far as the red flag.
And suddenly, visitors, so no, I can't listen. And I'm okay with that, there's a flag, it might take time to restart and anyway, I can rewind and listen.
The visitors leave.
I am now about an hour behind and having to avoid TV and internet so I don't find out in advance.
Of course, I inevitably do.
Equally inevitably, no-one will let me watch the highlights show so I only get to see it in the +1 hour version, so 5 hours after everyone else, I finally get to see Leclerc cross the line.
I am so happy.
Please find the highlights of the race, which by the way was terrible and I don't care, here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeCI0ObFY8M
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