@BK
We were all cheering at that point. My mate and I were seated looking over turn 1 and saw the near miss at close quarters.

Biggest cheer of the day was when Monteiro stood on the podium to receive his 3rd place trophy. Schumey was booed.

@Fireflier - the worst of it wasn't the fact that Max and co didn't allow the chicane (that would have been a bit unfair on the Bridgestone guys, to be honest, but the fans would have preferred it), but that we at the track knew absolutely nothing of what was going on.

Nothing was said over the PA regarding any problems. The build up was apparently proceeding as normal

I then started getting texts from friend back home, wondering what the problem was. I had no idea what was happening so they told me what they had heard from the television, and I was relaying this information to the people around me in the stand.

I did get my money back, plus two extra free tickets for the following year's race, but it wasn't quite the same!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 10:55, Reply)