# Most exciting race of all time **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 15, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886 "2018-02-15T18:37:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/21 "2018-02-19T03:04:35Z")
> [@borschevsky](#): > > The short track guy [was Australian](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fAADWfJO2qM). > > Another good one was the [ski-cross qualifier](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2biE7TTdpLQ) in 2014. > > (both videos) Okay, thanks! I knew Southern Hemisphere. Just didn’t quite recall which one. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/22 "2018-02-19T04:33:02Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I’m usually pretty uninterested in races of all sorts. I feel like there’s just no room for storylines. Basically one of three things happens: > (1) Someone is faster and wins > (2) Someone is faster, then someone else comes from behind > (3) Someone is faster, then someone else almost comes from behind, but not quite Actually there is a fourth storyline: there is a big crash knocking the leaders out of the race or otherwise mixing everything up. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/23 "2018-02-19T06:05:26Z")
There was a New Zealand greyhound from about 2010 called Swift Fantasy. All her races are worth watching - there’s half-a-dozen on the tube. [This is a good example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3eHh5XB7fo). ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/24 "2018-02-19T12:36:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Maybe this is stupid, but [this turns out to be much more exciting than it really ought to be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaXbh0Pkb4&vl=en). “Comet out in front by several lengths”!!! 😃 Gold! > [@Wallaby](#): > > There was a New Zealand greyhound from about 2010 called Swift Fantasy. > > All her races are worth watching - there’s half-a-dozen on the tube. > > [This is a good example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3eHh5XB7fo). Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/25 "2018-02-20T02:20:02Z")
Jay Leno commented on this one time. It had come out, at the time, that some athletes were finding that Viagra gave them a performance boost. Leno, talking about Olympic racing said, _Boy, and you thought winning by a nose was exciting…_ ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/26 "2018-02-20T04:40:55Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > There was a New Zealand greyhound from about 2010 called Swift Fantasy. > > All her races are worth watching - there’s half-a-dozen on the tube. > > [This is a good example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3eHh5XB7fo). Was she known for coming up from dead last? How does a **dog** do that? I’ve never known one with a bit of patience or strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/27 "2018-02-20T09:13:08Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Was she known for coming up from dead last? > > How does a **dog** do that? I’ve never known one with a bit of patience or strategy. Definitely. Did it a few times. If you look at some of the other races on the right hand side of the Youtube page (they show up under ‘Up Next’ and are related), in those races the callers say things like ‘She’s last away - that’s OK’, and ‘She’s 6 lengths last, but she’s about to come home hard!’. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/28 "2018-02-20T09:35:54Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > There was a New Zealand greyhound from about 2010 called Swift Fantasy. > > All her races are worth watching - there’s half-a-dozen on the tube. > > [This is a good example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3eHh5XB7fo). Recently I was talking to some fellow punters about the idiots you see in the TAB, cheering for dogs way back on the turn, that have no possible chance of ever getting up… I don’t recall seeing anything like that before. And not just once, several times. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886/29 "2018-02-20T19:08:59Z")
2008 Brazilian GP was pretty good. Poor Massa won the race and thought he had won the championship, but Hamilton still had two corners to go… > **[2008 Brazilian Grand Prix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Brazilian_Grand_Prix)** > > The 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2008) was a Formula One motor race held on 2 November 2008 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Interlagos, in São Paulo, Brazil. It was the eighteenth and final race of the 2008 Formula One World Championship. Ferrari driver Felipe Massa won the 71-lap race from pole position; this was the last of Massa's 11 Grand Prix wins. Fernando Alonso finished second in a Renault, and Massa's teammate Kimi Räikkönen finished thi [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-race-of-all-time/808886.md?page=1)