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There had been a attempt to bring about a second American Formula One Grand Prix to sunny Southern California in 1972 with the United States Grand Prix West at the ultra modern Ontario Motor Speedway after the success of the Questor Grand Prix the previous year but this was unsuccessful. With Watkins Glen on the downslope after two fatalities in successive years and a politically charged 1975 event, the United States Grand Prix West was created for the 1976 season on a tight circuit made up of city streets in Long Beach in California. A Formula 5000 race was held there in 1975, and the United States was just the second country to host two Formula One championship events in the same year. Southern California had seen a Formula One race before which was the 1960 United States Grand Prix which was held at Riverside Raceway, just a hour drive from Long Beach. Like most street circuits used in Formula One and other disciplines of motor racing, Long Beach gained a reputation for being a grueling race that was very punishing on the car and driver. From its first race in 1976, the circuit was an immediate success, and became the USA's answer to the Monaco Grand Prix which was just as popular an event as the most important of Formula One races and the typically sunny Southern California weather and the Mediterranean climate there made for a very pleasant setting. The 1976 event was won by Swiss Clay Regazzoni in a Ferrari with Niki Lauda finishing 2nd and Patrick Depailler finishing 3rd while furiously charging through the field after a incident that he had early in the race. 1977 saw a race-long battle between Lauda, Jody Scheckter in a Wolf WR1 and Mario Andretti in a Lotus 78. After being stuck behind Scheckter for most of the race, Andretti outbraked the South African into Queen's Hairpin and took victory. Lauda passed Scheckter and took 2nd with the latter completing the podium with 3rd place. In 1978, the start/finish line was moved to the long sweeping Shoreline Drive at the bottom of the circuit rather than starting where the pits were on Ocean Boulevard. So the race distance was 79.5 laps, and the parade lap went from the pits to the start on Shoreline Drive rather than completing a whole lap. That race was won by Argentine Carlos Reutemann, and Australian Alan Jones finished a great 2nd place for the new Williams team. 1979 got off to a confused start in which Reutemann was prevented from joining the start after trouble with his Lotus during the warm-up. The field was not stopped under orders, so pole-sitter Gilles Villeneuve continued and the field followed him back to the pits. Jacques Laffite's engine seized and he hopped into the spare car while Reutemann went out anyway because of him retiring with gearbox problems. The race saw a spirited drive from Jean-Pierre Jarier in his Tyrrell 009. He climbed up to 2nd behind Villeneuve in a Ferrari, although he had to drop back to finish 6th. Villeneuve won from his teammate Scheckter. 1 year later there was a number of incidents, including a messy pile-up at the Le Gasomet hairpin on Lap 3. Alfa Romeo driver Bruno Giacomelli spun entering that corner and came to a dead stop with his Alfa Romeo 179's nose mere feet away from the apex of the corner. Giacomelli had put his Alfa in reverse and as a result a number of oncoming cars, all attempting to avoid Giacomelli who had reversed onto the racing line, had to come to a dead stop in order to avoid hitting Giacomelli. This created a accordion-effect accident which led to 4 other cars also crashing, including Jarier who had crashed a lot heavier than any of the other drivers by hitting Elio de Angelis's Lotus 81 with some force. But the worst accident was yet to come. Clay Regazzoni in a Ensign N180 crashed when his brakes failed at 180 mph at the end of Shoreline Drive. While going off the course, the Swiss driver hit Ricardo Zunino's crashed Brabham BT49/B at full speed. He then hit the wall next to the track, went straight-on past Queen's Hairpin and crashed into retaining tire barriers head-on. This accident did not seem to be survivable. Regazzoni never raced in Formula One again but did race again in other forms of motorsports, albeit with hand controls rather than pedals. Brazilian Nelson Piquet dominated that race weekend which was the first of his 23 Formula One racing victories with his countryman Emerson Fittipaldi taking 3rd. 1981 brought a slight change to the course with one of the left handers at Pine Avenue being re-made from two corners to one corner. This race saw Riccardo Patrese take pole position from the Williams duo of Jones and Reutemann; Patrese eventually dropped back with mechanical problems while Reutemann made a mistake at one of the turns on Pine Avenue and Jones slipped by to take the lead, which he held until the checkered flag. For 1982 there were more changes to the circuit which saw Queen's Hairpin and most of Pine Avenue being removed. A whole new section of road was used for the race; the Clos esses were changed and there was a chicane placed on Shoreline Drive. Thus, the race distance was shortened from 79.5 to 75.5 laps. This race saw Ferrari take a neutral stance on the FISA–FOCA war by mounting 2 differently sized wings on the back of their cars. As a symbol of where the conflict would go, these 2 wings exploited a loophole in the regulations; there was no rule saying how many wings could be on a Formula One racing car at a championship event at that time. Niki Lauda won the race, his 3rd since his temporary retirement, from Finn Keke Rosberg in a Williams, who battled fiercely with Villeneuve in his more powerful Ferrari. Villeneuve finished 3rd but was disqualified because of the two wings mounted on the back of his car. Mario Andretti made a one-off appearance for Williams but crashed on the 20th lap. The final event in 1983 brought more track modifications. The elevated Ocean Boulevard and the steep runs up to and down from it, were no longer used; and Seaside Way, a road, level with the rest of the circuit, that runs parallel to Ocean Boulevard, was used. The revised circuit also included a number of tight turns built around the Convention Center and a slightly shortened Le Gasomet hairpin. The pits were moved down to Shoreline Drive. John Watson won from 22nd place on the grid which was the farthest back from which a modern Grand Prix driver had ever come to win a race by taking advantage of the front runners retiring and a incident between Rosberg and Frenchman Patrick Tambay. Watson's teammate Lauda finished 2nd after starting from 23rd on the grid. After the 1983 United States Grand Prix West the event was deemed too expensive to run. Rumours persisted during the whole weekend that race organizer Chris Pook had decided that Formula One racing was too expensive and risky. He had been approached by Championship Auto Racing Teams and announced after the 1983 Formula One race that he planned to run a IndyCar race at Long Beach in 1984 instead of F1. Despite tremendous success since the race's inception in 1976 and the observable impact of the global exposure it brought to the city, the organizers believed that the less expensive and domestically more popular CART championship, having mostly American drivers such as Mario Andretti, Rick Mears and Al Unser, would be a more promising investment. The IndyCar race proved to be a mainstay and is still being run. In 2013, there was some media speculation that IndyCar would be taken over by Formula One at Long Beach in 2016, as IndyCar's contract with the City of Long Beach was to expire the previous year and former Formula One racing boss Bernie Ecclestone had expressed interest in having his series return to the highly populated Los Angeles metropolitan area. On 1st April 2014, the Long Beach City Council informed the race's organizer that the IndyCar Series had been granted a three-year extension through the 2018 season. 33 years after the final United States Grand Prix West, Reagan Farmer uploaded Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, Bromsgrove and Six Flags Over Texas on 6 November to get his career as a YouTuber going again. He also uploaded the Six Flags Over Georgia version of Goliath on 22nd December and 5 days later uploaded Saint Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, which caused Manchester City Football Club to change its name. As well as the future of the Riverside International Raceway to be decided after it closed in July 1989 Reagan announced that he will upload Dijon-Prenois on 10th August. This version is a 3.801 km motor racing circuit located in Prenois near Dijon in France, and is noted for its fast, sweeping bends. Opened in 1972, Dijon-Prenois hosted the French Grand Prix five times, and the Swiss Grand Prix in 1982. The non-championship 1975 Swiss Grand Prix was also held at Dijon. The first Formula One race was run in 1974 on the circuit's original 3.289 km layout with the fastest lap times under the one minute mark and there was a major problem with congested traffic between the race leaders and the backmarkers. Therefore, a extension was added to lengthen the circuit as well as to reprofile many of the Dijon corners before F1 returned to Dijon in 1977. The 1979 French Grand Prix featured a memorable battle for second place in the final laps between Gilles Villeneuve's Ferrari and René Arnoux's Renault which was finally won by Villeneuve. The race itself was won by Jean-Pierre Jabouille in the other Renault. The 1982 Formula One season was not to see the French Grand Prix held at Dijon as that race was held at the Paul Ricard Circuit located at Le Castellet in southern France. Instead, Dijon held the, as yet, last Swiss Grand Prix, despite being located in France and not Switzerland because of the Swiss government's ban on motor racing in the wake of the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans disaster in which 83 people and Pierre Levegh died when his car crashed and vaulted into the pit straight grandstand. The French Grand Prix alternated between Paul Ricard and Dijon until the last Formula One race at Dijon took place in 1984. The race was won by McLaren's Niki Lauda, who would win his 3rd and final World Championship that year. The fastest lap of the race was set by Lauda's team mate Alain Prost at a average speed of 133 mph. Fittingly, the last F1 pole at Dijon was set by a French driver driving a French car, with Patrick Tambay recording a 1 minute 2.200 in his Renault RE50. Tambay led the race for the first 47 laps before being passed by Lauda, the Frenchman eventually finishing 2nd. Long-distance racing continued, with a race in the FIA GT Championship held there in 1998. Although Formula One has not returned to Dijon since 1984, the circuit continues to be used today for minor local races. Mark Webber was approached by Mercedes-AMG to compete in sportscar racing in 1997. Although he initially declined the offer he was persuaded at the end of the year when invited to participate in a test session for the team at the A1-Ring in Austria. Mercedes-AMG were suitably impressed with Webber and he was signed as the official Mercedes works junior driver for the 1998 FIA GT Championship alongside reigning champion Bernd Schneider. Travelling around the world, including the United States, Japan, and Europe, the pair won five of the ten rounds on their way to second in the overall standings, beaten to the Championship by Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta by just eight seconds in the final race at Laguna Seca. Webber remained with the Mercedes-AMG team for 1999, and was promoted to his own race car for the season. His sportscar career came to an early end after he flipped on the Mulsanne Straight during practice for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. A aerodynamic fault on the team's Mercedes-Benz CLRs caused Webber to become spectacularly airborne during both practice and race day warm-up with the same fate befalling Peter Dumbreck five hours into the race. The crashes forced Mercedes-AMG to shelve their sportscar programme for the year and Webber to reconsider a return to open wheel racing. Webber made his Formula One racing debut at the 2002 Australian Grand Prix which was the first race of a three race contract and was extended until the end of the season after his first race. He qualified 18th of the 22 cars, over 4 seconds away from the pole position time but 1.4 seconds ahead of Alex Yoong. The start of the race featured a spectacular accident between Ralf Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, the aftermath of which forced eight cars to retire from the race. Webber battled with a broken differential to fend off the experienced Mika Salo in a much faster Toyota and finish fifth. The result made Webber just the fourth Australian F1 driver to score World Championship points, and the first Minardi driver to score points since Marc Gené in 1999. Webber picked up two more 11th-place finishes but was unable to score points for the remainder of the year. Webber was able to outqualify Yoong and Anthony Davidson in every race, and his two points in Australia were the only points that Minardi scored all season, helping them to 9th in the Constructors' Championship, ahead of Toyota and Arrows. Webber's results earned him the "Rookie of the Year" award in F1 Racing magazine's annual Man of the Year awards and the Autosport.com "Rookie of the Year" award, as well as "F1 Newcomer of the Year" at the annual Grand Prix Party "Bernie" Awards. In light of his season, Peter Windsor related Webber to 1992 World Champion Nigel Mansell, saying that they had similar amounts of raw talent. In November, it was announced that Webber would join Jaguar Racing for the following year alongside Antônio Pizzonia. Webber's Jaguar career started disappointingly when he qualified in 14th place for the Australian Grand Prix before being forced to retire on lap 15 because of a rear suspension failure. The following race in Malaysia was problematic for Webber; Giancarlo Fisichella began reversing towards him on the starting grid and then Webber's in-car fire extinguisher discharged into his face. Webber took provisional pole position in Friday qualifying of the Brazilian Grand Prix when he out-qualified local driver Rubens Barrichello by 0.138 seconds during a rain-affected session. He continued his good performance in the Saturday session by taking a career-best 3rd on the grid, Jaguar Racing's best qualifying performance in their four-year Formula One history. In the race, hit heavily by rain, Webber was in seventh place when he attempted to cool his tyres by driving through a puddle lying off-line in the final corner. The resultant lack of grip caused Webber to crash heavily into the pit straight walls which left debris on the track and caused a second major crash with Fernando Alonso hitting a stray tyre at the end of the race. The race was subsequently red-flagged, and although Webber was originally classified 7th a FIA investigation found a timekeeping error which meant that Webber was placed 9th in the reclassification. His luck improved in the following races though, taking his first points in Spain and signing a new 2-year contract with the team reportedly worth US$6 million per season. He then went on to score points in five of the next six races on his way to moving into the top 10 in the World Drivers' Championship, the run of results interrupted only by a engine failure in Monaco. 1 of his best races came in Austria where despite starting from the pit lane and suffering a drive through penalty he set the race's third fastest lap behind only the Ferraris of Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello. At the Silverstone Grand Prix, there was drama on lap 11 after Neil Horan ran along the Hangar straight while wearing a kilt and waving "Read the Bible" and "The Bible is always right" banners. Horan ran towards the sequence of cars forcing several cars to swerve to avoid him. Webber came closest to hitting Horan in a terrifying parallel to the accident at the 1977 South African Grand Prix where Jansen Van Vuuren ran across the main straight to aid a car and was hit at 170 mph by Tom Pryce. Horan was tackled by race marshal Stephen Green, who removed him from the track before he was arrested. Green was later awarded the BARC Browning Medal for "outstanding bravery in tackling a track invader during the 2003 British Grand Prix" and thus became the second recipient of the reward, which had been rewarded to David Purley. Consecutive points finishes in Hungary and Italy saw Webber climb to ninth in the drivers' standings with a 5-point margin over Jenson Button. He was unable to hold on to this position however, after one too many laps on dry tyres saw him spin out from the lead of the United States Grand Prix and a disappointing 11th-place result in Japan which meant that he had finished on equal points with Button. Although Justin Wilson scored a point in the United States Grand Prix which was eventually won by Michael Schumacher Webber had still never been outqualified by a team-mate, and later in the year Jaguar announced that rookie Christian Klien would team up with Webber for the following year. Webber qualified sixth for the first race of the year but faced his second consecutive retirement because of a gearbox failure. At the following race in Malaysia, Webber produced the best qualifying performance of his career up to that point by splitting the Ferraris to line up second on the grid. The race was less rewarding with a near-stall at the start meaning that he was well outside the top 10 by the time the cars reached turn 1. A aggressive lap saw him move up to ninth place but during a exciting battle with Ralf Schumacher they collided which forced Webber to pit with damage to his front wing and tyre. In his desperation to make up for the lost time, Webber exceeded the pit lane speed limit and was handed a drive-through penalty which left him even further behind. More frustration eventually led to the end of his race as he spun into the gravel trap on the outside of the final corner on lap 23. The situation improved for the following race in Bahrain as Webber picked up his first point for the season despite a small mistake in qualifying which left him starting 14th and marked the first time that he had been outqualified by his teammate in F1. He was unable to continue his point scoring form as intermittent electrical problems in San Marino and a lack of grip in Spain meant that he could do no better than 13th and 12th in those races. He was able to pick up two Championship points in the following race with a seventh-place finish in the European Grand Prix. Webber had lined up 14th on the grid after being handed a one-second penalty for yellow flag infringements during Friday but was able to move through the field to take his points tally to 3. After the race he was criticised by Michael Schumacher for refusing to yield when Webber had emerged from his pit stop slightly ahead of, but one lap behind, Schumacher. Upon hearing the comments Webber said that he "would do exactly the same again" in the same situation. The following year Webber was granted a early release from his Jaguar contract to be allowed to test with Williams over the winter. Williams had announced that Jenson Button would drive for the team alongside Webber but his contract with Williams was overturned after claims that he was still contracted to British American Racing. With his new teammate undecided and going down to a "shootout" between Nick Heidfeld and Pizzonia, Webber hit back at Pizzonia's claims of unfair treatment, claiming that the Brazilian was lying and saying that he was a "loser" for believing that there was favouritism towards Webber. Heidfeld was finally announced as Webber's teammate at the Williams season launch on 31st January 2005, with Webber admitting that he was pleased with the eventual decision. Webber's move to Williams brought about comparisons to Alan Jones. Paul Stoddart predicted that Webber would take his first victory in 2005, while Williams technical director Sam Michael said that Webber would eventually win the World Championship with Williams. In his first race for the team Webber took 3rd on the grid but was beaten to the first corner by David Coulthard and eventually finished the race in fifth which matched his effort with Minardi. After qualifying fourth in the following race in Malaysia, Webber was defending third position having overtaken the Renault of Giancarlo Fisichella at turn 14. Fisichella was struggling because of the lack of downforce and tyre grip and slip streamed Webber on the back straight and attempted a counter-pass down the inside of turn 15. Unfortunately, Fisichella locked his brakes and slid into the side of Webber's car, which eliminated both drivers from the race. This allowed Heidfeld to inherit third place while Fisichella was later reprimanded by race stewards for causing the incident. It was later revealed that Webber had competed in the first two races suffering a fractured rib from a injury that he had sustained during pre-season testing at Barcelona although he "didn't want to make a fuss" about it and would be fully fit in time for the Bahrain Grand Prix where he qualified fifth. Webber finished sixth which took his points tally to 7. He finished 10th in the San Marino Grand Prix, although Webber's position was revised after BAR Honda was disqualified from the race and banned from 2 races and a penalty to Ralf Schumacher. The race was a poor one for Williams but Webber hit back at the Spanish Grand Prix where he qualified 2nd and finished 6th. The following race, in Monaco, saw Webber take third place, the first podium finish of his career. On the rostrum, Webber looked noticeably disappointed with the result after losing second place to Heidfeld because of the Williams team pitting Heidfeld before Webber causing Webber to lose time behind the slow Alonso. Webber had been ahead of Heidfeld for most of the race, and would probably still have been second had the team pitted them in the more regular sequence. This best result of Webber's career was followed by one of his worst at the European Grand Prix when he locked his brakes in the very first corner and collided with Juan Pablo Montoya which forced him to retire. The race in Canada was affected by this previous result as Webber was only able to qualify 14th but he was pleased with an eventual 5th-place finish and a further 4 Championship points. The United States Grand Prix was the beginning of a lean streak for Webber with just one point-scoring finish in the next seven races, a seventh in Hungary, and by this stage he had slipped from 6th to 10th. Webber had another poor race in Turkey where he collided with Michael Schumacher after the German changed lines in the braking area, which caused extensive damage to both cars. Webber's former Jaguar teammate Antônio Pizzonia stepped into the second Williams seat adding pressure on Webber to perform well given the public argument that the pair had towards the end of the previous year, and the Italian Grand Prix saw Pizzonia driving to seventh place while Webber was caught up in a first-corner incident which led to him finishing 14th. The roles were reversed for the following race in Belgium as Webber finished in fourth place, while Pizzonia retired after a collision with Juan Pablo Montoya in the closing laps. With rumours spreading that Heidfeld had in fact signed with BMW Sauber for 2006, Pizzonia continued in the race seat and in the Brazilian Grand Prix was clipped by David Coulthard at turn one. The contact caused Pizzonia to spin into the path of Webber forcing extensive repairs to the Australian's car. Webber described the 2005 season as "frustrating" and acknowledged that his reputation had somewhat diminished but opted to stay on with Williams, despite a offer from BMW Sauber. Webber's teammate would be Nico Rosberg who became the seventh driver to partner Webber since 2002. For the first time in Webber's career the first race of the season was held in Bahrain rather than Melbourne because of the original date clashing with the Commonwealth Games. Webber qualified 7th and had a solid race to finish 6th and pick up 3 Championship points. Although Webber was considered by some to have the better race performance, this was generally overlooked when Rosberg set the fastest lap in his debut race and moved up through the field despite a first-lap incident. Webber's two following races in Malaysia and Australia were cut short because of mechanical problems. The Spanish Grand Prix marked the first time that Webber failed to make the top 10 cut-off in the new qualifying system and he finished ninth. Monaco saw a huge improvement with Webber qualifying on the front row, after Michael Schumacher's grid penalty, holding third for a large part of the race before retiring when his exhaust burned a wiring loom. Webber's car was not as disadvantaged as at most other venues as aerodynamic efficiency is not as important at Monaco. After another disappointing qualifying session at the Italian Grand Prix where he qualified 19th he finished in tenth place. In China, Webber scored Williams's first point since Rosberg's 7th in the European Grand Prix when he finished eighth after passing the struggling David Coulthard in the closing stages of the race after qualifying 14th. He qualified in the same position in Japan but a lack of grip from his Bridgestone tyres saw him crash out of the race after 39 laps. His last race for Williams at the Brazilian Grand Prix ended in disappointment. After starting 11th, he collided with his teammate Rosberg on the first lap and suffered terminal damage to the rear of the car. It was a dismal season for Webber because of him scoring only 7 points to finish 14th overall in the Drivers' Championship. Webber's two-year contract with Williams ended at the end of 2006. Williams quickly elected to promote Alexander Wurz to a race seat and Sir Frank Williams stated that he was reluctant to wait for Webber to commit to the team once the option for future years had expired although he did not blame Webber for waiting to see if there was a seat available at another team. After some speculation of Webber joining the Renault team which was run by Flavio Briatore, it was announced on 7th August that Webber would join Red Bull Racing to partner David Coulthard, replacing former Jaguar Racing teammate Christian Klien. It is rumoured that Briatore arranged a agreement with Red Bull that Renault would supply them with engines if they offered Webber a race seat. On 26th January 2007, the Red Bull RB3 was unveiled in Spain, and Webber drove the car in a shakedown in Barcelona on the same day. The car featured heavy revisions to the team's previous cars and looked very much like designer Adrian Newey's previous cars which had either won or come close to the title. 6 years later Webber was retained by Red Bull Racing which was to be his last season with the team. At the opening leg in Australia, he qualified on the front row but only managed a sixth-place finish in the race. Tensions between himself and Sebastian Vettel rose after the former overtook the latter in the closing stages of the Malaysian Grand Prix to take the win despite team orders while Webber took yet another podium in Monaco, and in June Webber announced that he would be leaving Red Bull at the end of the season having signed for Porsche to drive their new LMP1 car in the FIA World Endurance Championship, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Webber took another podium in Britain after a battle for victory with Nico Rosberg during the last lap. He finished third in Italy, his fourth podium of the season. Consecutive retirements in Singapore and Korea ended his contention for second place in the championship, and Webber scored his first pole of the season in Japan, outqualifying his teammate for the first time in the year but finished second in the race. Webber scored his thirteenth pole position to equal Jack Brabham's qualifying record for Australian F1 drivers at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. In November, Webber admitted that he had been 'very close' to signing a deal with Ferrari for 2013 and the following year. Webber started from fourth place in his final Formula One race at the Interlagos circuit for the Brazilian Grand Prix which was held on 24 November. After a race-long duel with the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso, Webber finished his final race in second place behind Vettel, setting the fastest lap of the race at 1 minute 15.436 seconds. By finishing second, Webber jumped from fifth to third in the final championship standings, overtaking both Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Räikkönen, who did not compete in the final two races of the season. Despite their frosty relationship and winning his thirteenth race of the year, and ninth in succession, Vettel was happy to hand the spotlight on the podium in Brazil to his retiring teammate, congratulating him on his career. Webber finished his Formula One career with 9 wins, 42 podiums, 13 pole positions and 19 fastest laps from 215 race starts. 4 years after Mark Webber finished his Formula One career, a suicide bomber detonated a improvised explosive device in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena. The attack took place after a Ariana Grande concert that was part of her 2017 Dangerous Woman Tour. Many exiting concert-goers and waiting parents were in the foyer at the time of the explosion. According to evidence presented at the coroner's inquest, the detonation of the bomb killed people who were 20 metres away. Salman Ramadan Abedi was born in Manchester in 1994 to a Salafi family of Libyan-born refugees who had settled in south Manchester after fleeing to the United Kingdom to escape the government of Muammar Gaddafi. A minute's silence was held before Marcus Mumford opened One Love Manchester at the request of Mumford in memory of those killed in Manchester and in London. After Grande's first performance of the night Stevie Wonder appeared via video link. After Imogen Heap's performance, a video of David Beckham reading a poem dedicated to the city was played. Videos of other artists and celebrities, including Little Mix and Dua Lipa declaring their solidarity with Manchester were also shown. Liam Gallagher made a surprise appearance near the end of the concert. Previously, he had stated that he wanted to perform, but indicated a conflict with the Rock im Park festival in Germany. He was also scheduled to perform at the Rock am Ring festival but the rest of that festival day was cancelled because of terror suspicions while Usher was due to appear but did not perform. He appeared with other musicians in the pre-recorded video sending best wishes to Manchester. Grande also rereleased her single "One Last Time" which will donate all proceeds to the fund while she released a live audio version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" that she performed during the concert on music and streaming platforms as a additional charity single. 1 month after the Manchester Arena bombing, a attack took place in the Southwark district of London when a van mounted the pavement of London Bridge and was driven into pedestrians. The van crashed, and the three male occupants ran to the nearby Borough Market pub and restaurant area where they stabbed people with long knives. It was the third terrorist attack in the United Kingdom in just over two months after a similar attack in Westminster and a bombing in Manchester. The attack was carried out using a white Renault van hired earlier in the same evening in Harold Hill by Khuram Butt. He had intended to hire a 7.5 ton truck but was refused because of his failure to provide payment details. The van travelled south across London Bridge in a apparent reconnaissance of the target. It returned six minutes later, crossing over the bridge northbound, made a U-turn at the northern end and then drove southbound across the bridge again. It mounted the pavement and hit multiple pedestrians, killing three. Eyewitnesses said that the van was travelling at high speed. 999 emergency calls requesting ambulances were made at 22:07 and the police at 22:08. The van was later found to contain 13 wine bottles containing flammable liquid with rags stuffed in them along with blow torches. After the van crashed outside the Barrowboy and Banker pub on Borough High Street the three attackers ran to Stoney Street adjoining Borough Market where they stabbed four people in the Borough Bistro pub. The attack occurred shortly after the incident on the bridge with some people throwing items such as bottles and chairs at the attackers, and a witness stated that the attackers were shouting "This is for Allah!" The three attackers were then shot dead by armed officers from the City of London and Metropolitan police services outside the Wheatsheaf eight minutes after the initial emergency call was made. CCTV footage of the police response shows the three attackers in Borough Market running at the armed officers immediately after they get out of their City of London armed response vehicle, before they, together with officers from two Metropolitan Police ARVs, shoot the attackers dead 20 seconds later. A total of 46 rounds were fired by three City of London and five Metropolitan Police officers. The Metropolitan Police advised the public to run, or, if not possible, hide from any attacker and to remain calm and vigilant. All buildings within the vicinity of the bridge were evacuated and London Bridge, Borough and Bank tube stations, at the request of the police, were closed. The mainline station at London Bridge was also closed. A stabbing incident took place in Vauxhall at 23:45 which caused Vauxhall station to be briefly closed while London Bridge mainline and Underground stations remained closed. Theresa May returned to 10 Downing Street from campaigning for the general election. May, on the morning after the attack, said that the incident was being treated as terrorism and that the terror attacks in the United Kingdom are "bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism" which is a perversion of Islam. As part of a four-point plan to tackle terrorism, she called for tighter internet regulations to "deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online," saying that technology firms were not currently doing enough. May's stance on the role of the internet and social media in enabling radicalisation was criticised by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. 154 days before the London Bridge attack, Reagan began his 2017 dominance at 7:59 with The Riddler Revenge, a Zamperla Giant Discovery ride that pendulums riders at Six Flags Over Texas. Like other newcomers, The Riddler Revenge features Southern, Adolf Hitler, Thomas the Tank Engine, Percy, Tim Barker, Jonathan Aris, and, for the first time, Maria from Barney's 1-2-3-4 Seasons. The Riddler Revenge was followed at 8:16 by the first ever 8 wheel vehicle with Avtoros at the helm. The Shaman became his first success of the year with 59 views when it made its debut and was joined at 8:31 by Zonga. Unlike its Over Texas counterpart, Zonga had the song "Boots and Cats" played throughout. It attracted attention from Reagan, who pointed out how Thomas the Tank Engine would react if Zonga tried to prevent the terror attacks in Westminster and London Bridge from happening, which were treated as Islamist related terrorism. After ceding the crown to the 70 mph Goliath for 11 days Six Flags returned to the fray at 9:13 with Over Georgia. The park, located west of Atlanta in Cobb County, was the subject of a controversy 2 years earlier when a television presenter yelled "F\*\*king shut up!" to a crowd which caused The Joker Chaos Coaster to be cancelled and the Noo Noo to knock down the Eiffel Tower, which caused Duke to sentence the Teletubbies to prison. Georgia Scorcher was hired as the Larson Giant Loop attraction's replacement on 5 November a year later. The 54 mph roller coaster was the brainchild of Ryan, who introduced Superman Ultimate Escape at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure on 31st August after the debut of Geauga Lake and Wildwater Kingdom on that day. Over Georgia carried on with the Ariana Grande theme that had been introduced on Bonfire Night the previous year which continued with Finland at 10:00. A sovereign state in Northern Europe, Finland became the first ever European country where Martin Tyler and Alan Smith make their debut appearance. The former, a 71-year-old English football commentator, watches LA Galaxy player Jeff Larentowicz tackle a opponent which causes the referee to show him a second yellow card which is followed by a red card. Tyler, after Larentowicz tackles, says, "Uh-oh, he's in trouble! Booking earlier, you remember, second yellow, he's got to go!" Reagan discovered that Southern's "Uh-oh!" moments were accompanied by Freddy Fazbear screaming at the train company. Finland fell behind the pace set by Over Georgia before it and was replaced by the Bentley Bentayga at 10:18. This version was a evolution of its successful 2015 predecessor and Wolfgang Dürheimer said that it "put a lot of pressure on the professionals to perform to the best of the car's potential." Following the Bentayga, at 10:32, was a video that had its intro narrated by Andrew Morgado, Millennium Force. Millennium Force was the tallest and fastest complete circuit coaster in the world, reaching speeds of 93 miles per hour and heights of 310 ft. Millennium Force was the pick of the bunch when it made its debut, and was taken over by the Alfa Romeo Stelvio at 10:48. The Stelvio was Alfa Romeo's first production SUV with a length of 7 minutes and 2 seconds which was beaten by 50 seconds with the Giulia which made its debut 6 days later. 11:09 saw Land Rover dominate for the first time with the Discovery. Unlike the Discovery Sport, the Discovery featured a additional sample of Follow da Leader by Nigel and Marvin, which was dropped after one video. Ford showed that it was heading in the right direction as the Ka+ put the company on top at 11:46. With 22 views, the Ka+ was separated by the 10-view Ford GT which Reagan said looked to make further progress through the division. Alexandria made its debut and became the first video where the song "A Sailor Went To Sea Sea Sea" made its debut appearance. The song was sung by Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, Tosha, Derek, Min, and Shawn. It would then go on to make appearances in Storm Chaser and The Voyage. The song was not as popular as Satisfy by Nero, the latter making its debut at the end of July, but it would be one of Reagan's greatest songs of his YouTube career so far. At 13:20 Mercedes-Benz entered the mid-size pickup truck segment with the X-Class. This version is based on the Nissan NP300 Navara platform and is built in the same plants in Spain and Argentina, although it turned out that the video in question was deleted to make way for a production X-Class for the end of July. Unlike the original X-Class from New Year's Day, the X-Class from July closely followed the two concept pickup trucks from the previous year in terms of design. None of the brands that Mercedes would count as direct premium rivals have yet ventured into the sector that is growing in the United Kingdom, but is already a huge market around the world. The X-Class is a mid-sized pickup like its NP300 Navara and Renault Alaskan sister vehicles, and Volkswagen introduced a full-size SUV, the Atlas, at 13:37. Coincidentally, the length of the Atlas was the same as its upload time. Finland had 8 views when it was uploaded compared to the Atlas' 9 views. Volkswagen continued to close the gap on the Atlas when it came to its CrossBlue predecessor but Chevrolet made its debut with the Cruze Station Wagon at 13:54. The car, despite being described as "a Chevrolet that has no sense of what's coming," is a estate version of the Cruze. It takes on established rivals such as the Ford Focus Estate and the Škoda Octavia Estate, although it will need to fend off competition from the Kia Cee'd SW and the Hyundai i30 Tourer. Dubai went one better than the Alexandria city with the Burj Khalifa at 14:21. With a total height of 829.8 m, including the antenna and a roof height of 828 m, the Burj Khalifa is currently the tallest structure in Dubai. The skyscraper's designation as the tallest tower in the world was at the height of its powers when Lexus made its debut with the LC at 14:36. The LC was introduced in 2016 at the North American International Auto Show as a 2-door fastback coupé. The car will share the same 5.0-litre V8 engine with the RC F and GS F, but will have 351 kW because of a improved intake and exhaust and will be paired with a 10-speed automatic transmission. Kentucky Kingdom returned after having used the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom name the previous year with Storm Chaser at 15:35. Unlike its Cedar Point counterpart, Storm Chaser has a top speed of 52 mph compared to Millennium Force's 93, and became the first roller coaster with a barrel-roll drop. Holiday World made a dramatic debut with The Voyage at 15:51. Like Storm Chaser, The Voyage features Tosha telling Adolf Hitler "That we're getting to the island safe and sound" and asking Min to remember a book. Min remembers the book and says, "Oh… now I remember. Just as everyone was getting to the island, there was a really, big…" Tosha and Min yell "Storm!" which causes Hitler to hang up the phone. Mercedes-Benz entered the cabriolet arena for the first time with the C-Class Cabriolet at 16:37. This version was similar to the X-Class pickup truck from 13:20, and was followed by Crystal Palace at 17:06. Like its Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio counterparts, Crystal Palace features Andrew Morgado telling the professional football club in South Norwood in London to "Strap yourself in and glue your fingers to the harness. It's time to face Millennium Force." Rolls-Royce had seen what happened to Alexandria when A Sailor Went To Sea Sea Sea played after Adolf Hitler told the Egyptian city what it wanted and convinced Reagan that it has what it takes to win The X Factor with the Dawn at 17:24. Unlike the Drophead Coupé version of the Phantom, the Dawn set new luxury standards among cars of Reagan's era and had 61 views compared to the Ghost Extended Wheelbase's 8, the Silver Seraph's 52, the Dawn Black Badge's 112, the Wraith Black Badge's 115 and the Ghost Black Badge's 139. Volkswagen returned to the fray with the Golf at 17:53. Like Aldershot Town and Shettleston before it, the Golf featured a ringtone sample of By Your Side by Jonas Blue feat RAYE which would later return in the BMW X4 in which Thomas the Tank Engine tells Hitler that the car "moves more trucks than 3 diesels put together," which was not as popular with 16 views. Another newcomer made its debut with Senova taking over from Borgward with the D50 at 18:37. The pitched up sample of Firefly by Jim Yosef proved to be more dramatic than the standard version which had debuted in Ryan's Shivering Timbers. RMC Mean Streak was Ryan's popular video at the time and it remained there until the 658-view Joker Funhouse Coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia overtook the Rocky Mountain Construction refurbished roller coaster at Cedar Point. The 30 mph ride was not what Ryan was looking for because of the children from Look at Me I'm 3 telling Ryan that "We forgot to make a cake!" Ford followed up its highly anticipated Ka+ with the GT at 7:00. Like the Ka+, the GT features Thomas the Tank Engine telling the American mid-engine two-seater sports car that "There's a big storm coming! The picnic will be washed away!" which causes a laugh track to be played. This version preceded a unsuccessful XYLØ attempt at bringing London into Reagan's YouTube channel, but the duo destroyed the Central part of the city after Tim Barker told the capital of England and the United Kingdom to buckle up, which resulted in the city being destroyed. Florida made its dramatic debut with the Seven Mile Bridge at 19:17. The bridge, located in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, was one of the most dramatic projects that the state had ever been through because of Thomas the Tank Engine telling the bridge that "I'm sorry I played a trick on you," which had been introduced the previous year. Reagan's New Year's Day dominance ended with the Nissan Sunny at 19:46. Like the Avtoros Shaman and the Senova D50 before it, the Sunny repeated the result of the Shaman with the third thumbnail featuring Ariana Grande before she winks at the camera to show her beautiful looks, which was Reagan's favourite moment of the year. In 2015 Blonde came to prominence in the United Kingdom when its YouTube channel uploaded the 35-view I Loved You. The song, Blonde's first video, is 9 minutes and 52 seconds long and starts with a Barney Says segment in which Barney the Dinosaur shows flashbacks of the lessons which are shown as images learned in Ship Ahoy. Suspiciously, Blonde watches as Barney lists 4 types of boat, and then makes a reference to Coco Island. He then says that the island was beautiful and that "we met a parrot that talked" and that "we looked for hidden treasure on the island" and then tells Blonde that the best part of the trip was sharing a adventure with friends, which had been part of the story of the song. The segment ends controversially when Barney pops out on the bottom left corner of the screen and says "And remember I love you" and waves goodbye to Blonde which causes Hitler to hang up the phone. Blonde is shocked by what happened and asks Hitler to end the segment differently but the request is denied by Hitler. Blonde asks the children if they could appeal their decision to differently end the Barney Says segment, which causes the children to deny their appeal. Blonde is in even more trouble as Hitler tells the duo that its appeal to end the Barney Says segment differently would have been successful had the children not denied their request. From here on in, there is criticism from the segment because of a runaway ship's steering wheel. Blonde is worried that its status as a deep house duo will be torn apart if there is more criticism about the end of the Barney Says segment, which causes the children to say "Hats?!" There is even more criticism from the segment after a Ford Tourneo crashes into the venue of Ste Hay and Doug Carter's double wedding alongside Tony Hutchinson and Cindy Cunningham and tips onto its side. Blonde is blamed for causing the crash, and gets itself into even more trouble by Thomas the Tank Engine, who says the word "trouble" 7 times. More criticism about the ending of the segment arises as a ghost car drives down a grassy hillside to soothing music. When the car passes behind a large tree, the camera follows and once it pans off the tree the car is gone. Then, a zombie pops into the scene very briefly accompanied by a frightening scream. Blonde tells Hitler that it is just to blame for the crash and that it must not tell anyone that it was driving the ghost car while intoxicated, which had been the reason for the jump scare. Astrid S is brought in to play a sample of I Loved You as a very strong storm hits the ship that Barney and the children are sailing to Coco Island which the former mentioned earlier. The ship is rocked by howling winds of 195 mph which is the equivalent of Typhoon Haiyan, and a very big wave wipes out the ship. Blonde, shocked at what happened to the ship, sets out a inquiry to what happened, with famous faces, including Daniel Ricciardo, Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa, Zara Kershaw, Little Mix and Lewis Hamilton, present. Blonde tells everyone at the inquiry that they know what happened to the ship in the stormy weather. BJ steps in and tells Blonde that he already had his lunch which turns out to be a pickle sandwich. Blonde is worried, and believes that the storm was the equivalent of Typhoon Haiyan and that the ship was bound for Coco Island when Haiyan hit under Astrid S's orders, which had been mentioned in the controversial segment. Astrid S is once again brought in to play a sample of I Loved You as a fierce storm sweeps across the Island of Sodor and causes havoc. It rips off roof tiles, flattens fences and destroys the Sodor Suspension Bridge with its sheer ferocity. Blonde is confronted by the children again who have heard all about what happened to the Coco Island bound ship and the Island of Sodor while Hitler tells Blonde that there will be a third storm which will follow in the footsteps of the first and the second. The children from Barney's 1-2-3-4 Seasons say "What?", and tensions begin to mount when Blonde is attracted with more criticism after Hitler tells the children that the duo is to blame for causing the storms to wipe out the Coco Island bound ship and the Island of Sodor under Astrid S's orders, which results in the children saying "Barney?!" Things eventually settle down for Blonde when BJ tells the duo that it will "be on my team any day," to which Maria tells Blonde that she has ocean waves when she puts her hair in the summer jar, which is a sympathy for Blonde after the criticism that it attracted. It is claimed that Thomas the Tank Engine was watching Maria tell Blonde that she has ocean waves, and when asked by Blonde about where the third storm will hit, he says, "He heard you at the sheds, sir. He thought you were sending him to be scrapped!" Blonde disagrees with Thomas and says that the third storm will hit somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean where SS Royal Daffodil is sailing from New York City to the Port of Southampton, which was the route of the SS Titanic II. A very angry Fat Controller doesn't think so and says that there will be no cakes for Astrid S' party unless the bakery has butter. Blonde feels very guilty about the trouble it caused, and although Hitler orders the duo to take the buttered milk back to the dairy Blonde asks Air Crash Investigation narrator Jonathan Aris for advice on how to do it. Aris tells Blonde that "To get a plane loaded with passengers off the ground, you need to generate massive thrust" and explains how it works. Blonde believes that Aris is trying to trick it into thinking that SS Royal Daffodil won't survive after leaving New York City when Barney said "And remember, I love you" and waved goodbye. To Blonde's surprise, the children from Barney's 1-2-3-4 Seasons say "Barney?!" again, and Blonde tells the children that its name is Blonde, not Barney. The flight attendant on board Southern Airways Flight 242 tells the 81 passengers to brace for impact but the zombie from the ghost car advert appears out of nowhere, screaming. Blonde realizes that things have gone from calm and settled to scary once again, and this results in the pirates from the Wiggles Movie saying "A pirate dance!" Blonde denies allegations that Barney's controversial appearance at the end of the Barney Says segment was just a preparation for the Mercedes-Benz X-Class's reveal in 2017. Because of the criticism that the Barney Says segment attracted I Loved You cuts to SS Royal Daffodil where Tosha tells Hitler "That we're getting to the island safe and sound" and asks Min to remember a book. Min remembers and says, "Oh… now I remember. Just as everyone was getting to the island, there was a really, big…" Tosha and Min yell "Storm!" which causes I Loved You by Blonde to play and SS Royal Daffodil to be rocked by enormous waves. Duck is shocked and says "What?" but Kat Jennings screams in horror and her 1997 Ford Expedition crashes into a log. I Loved You attracted criticism when it made its debut and was joined by the 7-minute and 12 second long "Into You" on 28th July 2016 which Blonde described as a collaboration with Ariana Grande after the Melissa Steel collaboration 459 days earlier. With elements of EDM, a thudding disco beat, lurking synths and sharp clicks in its instrumentation, Into You wasn't as popular as the Melissa Steel collaboration, with 2 views compared to I Loved You's 35, which had contributed to Noddy's appearance in the video. 9th September saw a minor improvement for Blonde as they collaborated with British singer and songwriter Calum Scott in a video titled Dancing On My Own. Originally by Robyn, the song was remixed by Tiësto which gave Blonde something to smile about. 26 November saw Blonde collaborate with The Chainsmokers and XYLØ in Setting Fires. When it was released, Blonde criticized Paige Duddy's lack of personality, saying that "the downside to the wild success of that approach is that Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall have been forced to discover their creative voices in front of the whole world. Unfortunately, the sound that they've settled on is parked firmly in the middle of the road!" Setting Fires features a cameo appearance from a Vauxhall Movano with the registration CU06 XUS that is driven by Tyrone Dobbs, which he crashes into the house of Gail McIntyre. The design of the Movano crash scene was inspired by XYLØ's version of Absolute Zero, in which a shift in the Earth's polarity plunges the equatorial regions of the planet into a ice age of -459°F, which is a temperature so cold that light and energy doesn't exist. Absolute Zero features a cameo appearance from Dawn Chubai as TV announcer Barbara Summer along with evidence of unusually cold weather hitting Miami which XYLØ said would impact the major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States. Believing that XYLØ was putting Miami in danger, Blonde collaborated with Rudimental and John Newman in a video titled Feel the Love on 31st December. Though not as popular as Setting Fires or I Loved You, the song contains a man dancing to the Baauer song Harlem Shake before being interrupted. The following year Sean Paul and Dua Lipa collaborated with Blonde in a video titled No Lie. The song, Blonde's first taste of Jamaica, was a disappointment, with 1 view to show for its efforts. Blonde announced on 16th July that it would collaborate with Martin Garrix and Lipa in a video titled Scared to Be Lonely at a unknown date. Unlike I Loved You, Scared to Be Lonely opens with Rick Astley singing Never Gonna Give You Up before Hitler hangs up the phone. After Ariana Grande appears and sings to Blonde to warn them about the steeple of St Gerard Catholic Church in Maine being hit by lightning, Blonde discovers that the church will suffer the same fate as the Barney Says segment in I Loved You but is ignored by Thomas the Tank Engine, who says "Cinders and ashes!" to the duo. The church is ready for the big moment which Blonde says would increase Scared to Be Lonely's publicity even further however when Adolf Hitler gets on the phone to prevent the church from getting hit by lightning, Moleman978 realizes that the church is in danger and yells "BRACE!" Mother Nature doesn't think so and the steeple of the Grand Isle church is hit by a bolt of lightning. That night, Thomas the Tank Engine gets Blonde into trouble for trying to prevent St Gerard Catholic Church from getting hit by lightning. Blonde admits that the lightning strike put the church in danger and that it was the brainchild of the duo, which Hitler denies after the lightning strike earlier. More questions about the strike are raised by Emily and Percy who say "Right!" to Blonde after the duo tells them that it came 169 days after the reveal of the Mercedes-Benz X-Class. Hitler tells Blonde that the X-Class was uploaded by Reagan at the beginning of August but Thomas says to Blonde, "Oh no James! You saved the hot air balloon!" Hitler hangs up the phone. Blonde is in even more trouble with Thomas because of him getting the duo into trouble for allegedly causing Carl Bouley to whip out his mobile phone to record the church after his instinct told him that it was about to be hit. Hitler denies that Bouley recorded the video and uploaded it on YouTube but the flight attendant on board Southern Airways Flight 242 tells the 81 passengers to brace for impact and Tosha and Min yell "Storm!" which results in a extended version of Scared to Be Lonely to be played. Duck is shocked and says "What?" but Kat Jennings screams in horror and her 1997 Ford Expedition crashes into a log. Although several people including Yale University researchers Dorothy and Jerome Singer have concluded that episodes contain age-appropriate educational material by calling the programme a "model of what preschool television should be," Barney & Friends has been criticized for a lack of educational value as well as the character in nature. Barney & Friends is often cited as a contributing factor to the perceived sense of "entitlement" seen in the Millennial generation who grew up watching the show as children. One specific criticism is that "his shows do not assist children in learning to deal with negative feelings and emotions. As one commentator puts it, the real danger from Barney is 'denial: the refusal to recognize the existence of unpleasant realities. For, along with his steady diet of giggles and unconditional love, Barney offers our children a one-dimensional world where everyone must be happy and everything must be resolved right away!'" Despite criticism that Ship Ahoy was not Reagan's favourite episode of the show he discovered that Rhett Bixler will upload a video in which Hitler calls the GANZ version of I Want U by Alison Wonderland, which suddenly is interrupted by a television presenter. The selection of the song from the Horizon Bass Arena soundtrack of Forza Horizon 3 was controversial because of Bixler allowing Qatar to buy the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the video being criticized, and caused some to call the video in question controversial along with the initial plans for the song to finish giving way to a sudden interruption which causes Hitler to tell the presenter that she has interrupted the song. Cat Deeley, who was the presenter of Britain's Got the Pop Factor when the song was selected, later remarked that interrupting the song was a mistake because of a controversy in 2015 that caused The Joker Chaos Coaster to be cancelled. Although the video where Hitler calls The Chainsmokers features a conversation between Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall who talk about Don't Let Me Down with Daya, Taggart stated that he first created the drop during a flight. The duo later added a "big, echoey guitar sound" to the song which was inspired by Explosions in the Sky, and Emily Warren and Scott Harris convened with the duo to create the melody and lyrics. The vocalist was not chosen until Taggart heard Daya's "Hide Away," after which the duo enlisted her to record the vocals. The song was originally for Rihanna but her team rejected the idea. Taggart and Pall finish their conversation with Hitler after they explain that their computer crashed when the song was done and Hitler asks whether that kind of criticism bothers them, but there is controversy when Michael Scott yells "NOOOOOO!!!" and The Chainsmokers play a sample of Roses with ROZES on the vocals which ends with "Say you'll never let me go" and Hitler asks the duo what made Michael yell and them play the song, which caused a total of 5 people to complain about the scene. As well as the launch of the Ferrari Cup of Cars being delayed after the controversy the company said that the tournament will be held at the start of August and that it will feature the Enzo, a 12 cylinder mid engine berlinetta sports car named after Enzo Ferrari, which had been part of the tournament at the time. The opening ceremony of the Cup of Cars was originally supposed to take place in autumn 2016 but because of a student interrupting a game between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United it was delayed. Ferrari was not to be outdone and revised the ceremony to January the following year which saw George Russell collaborate with Louis Tomlinson in a video called George Russell & Louis Tomlinson Look At Frame Toby, which received a lot of criticism by viewers watching it. The ceremony was delayed again after it was claimed that Russell was fined £4 million for the video in question which led some people to consider whether Ferrari would hold the inaugural Cup of Cars at all, which the company eventually denied in a interview. The ceremony was revised again to 23rd May during Reagan's sponsored iPad day which was marked with controversy in a video by Charmx which saw the presenter yell "F\*\*king shut up!" to Peppa Pig and George, resulting in the ceremony being delayed again. Ferrari apologised for the controversy and said in a interview that there was no way the Cup of Cars would be held at all. In doing so the ceremony was revised to 20th July which it said would herald in a new era of Ferraris, with the 288 GTO, the 599XX, the Daytona, the Enzo, the FXX, the FXX-K, the LaFerrari and the Testarossa all in contention for a spot in the tournament. After a thunderstorm hit Gravesend in the early hours of 19th July, Ferrari said that all 8 cars were waiting to have what it takes to win The X Factor after the Rolls-Royce Dawn before them at the start of 2017, which had resulted in people calling for the cost of the FXX-K to be raised in 2012; the ceremony was delayed on 20th July after Ferrari got very angry and upset over a lorry being engulfed by flames, which caused drivers to face hours of delays. Team mechanics were forbidden to work on the problem while Ferrari was having a outburst over the lorry. This forced the ceremony to be delayed again and Dawn Hayes to get angry with the Maranello based sports car manufacturer, the outcome of the latter coming after Reagan slammed the door of the lounge, which had been the cause of the problem on the A2. He was so angry over the fire that he decided to turn off the Victoria Derbyshire programme which had been on the BBC News channel for only 5 minutes. In response, the Ferrari chairman and CEO apologised and stated that the inaugural Ferrari Cup of Cars would not take place and that it had been cancelled, which was the reason for the outburst in July. This resulted in a protest being held in the streets of Maranello as Ferrari was sorry about getting angry and upset over the lorry catching fire and had all its hopes and dreams of hosting the tournament extinguished. The company said in a statement that the tournament would not be the same again after the fire and that it was looking forward to the opening ceremony. It also said that unless normal traffic conditions were expected, it would have to reconsider the launch of the FXX-K at the cancelled tournament, which had been delayed on 20th July. The notion of cancelling the Ferrari Cup of Cars was controversial since it would have interfered with Reagan's regular schedule of uploading cars around the world. Commentators have noted that the clash with the introduction of the Mercedes-Benz X-Class would have been unlikely to cause disruption while there is concern about how short the tournament would have been. Owing to the X-Class's introduction, concerns have been expressed since the reveal of the X-Class on 18th July about uploading the truck during the inaugural Ferrari Cup of Cars, which was cancelled because of the lorry catching fire. A report quoted Reagan as stating that other car companies would have made their debut during the tournament but no specific cars were named in the report. He added that a decision must be taken first, with Volker Mornhinweg telling the BBC that the introduction of the X-Class would have helped to incorporate the pickup truck during the tournament, but although Reagan had not yet finalized the number of cars that Ferrari must have ready for the tournament it was expected that there would be eight, with the FXX-K leading the way for the opening ceremony with the K in the car's name referring to the kinetic energy recovery system which is used to maximize performance. The FXX-K uses a range of modern innovations that will ensure maximum performance anywhere. A Ferrari FXX was exhibited on the BBC's Top Gear show on 21st June 2009. Driven by Michael Schumacher, the car completed a lap of the Top Gear test track in 1 minute 10.7 seconds. The episode ended with the FXX in first place on the board, beating the previous record of 1 minute 17.1 seconds which was held by the Gumpert Apollo S. The record was removed from the power board by the production team the following week because of the lap being completed on slick tires which are not road-legal and the car not being able to clear speed bumps. NoCopyrightSounds' videos are accompanied by a audio visualiser on the right side of the screen. It is in the shape of a circle, and pulses in and out to the music, as well as reacting to different frequencies by the size of the circle, and the circles and lines that move around inside of the circle. The visualisers are different colours; the colours show which genre the song is. Most are presented by NoCopyrightSounds and have different colours for their respective audio visualiser. There are a few exceptions. Future House and Future Bass share the purple visualiser, and the same for electronic and Hardstyle. Sometimes, this changes, e.g. modern future house uses white and future bass has used yellow. Bob the Builder was parodied in the Cartoon Network episode S'UP / Mouse MD. In the episode, when Mickey Mouse portrays Gregory House, he goes to perform surgery on Bob, who smashed his thumb while asking "Can we fix it?" Mickey replies no and orders for it to be amputated. He later appears in another episode when Bob and Manny from Handy Manny get into a fender bender and get into a argument with Bob saying "Stop copying my show!" He leaves and then someone tells Manny that he just got built. The object of Pointless is for contestants to provide answers that are not only correct but also as obscure as possible. The programme is presented by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman and previously featured five teams to begin with, but this was later reduced to four teams. Prior to each show, 100 people are given 100 seconds to provide as many answers as they can to a series of general knowledge questions as part of a pre-conducted survey. Armstrong provides contestants with the rules that they must adhere to as well as the category of the question while Osman elaborates on what answers they will accept with the question and showcases a list of all the Pointless answers that a contestant has provided or would have used and the top three high-scoring answers for the question. The format of the show consists of two elimination rounds to begin with in which teams must achieve as low a score as possible. The winning team that survives both the elimination rounds and the head-to-head receives a Pointless trophy that they are allowed to keep, regardless of what happens in the final round, and now attempt to win the game's jackpot. Armstrong will usually remind viewers of the amount, including if it is a rollover from previous games. In order to win it, the team first choose a category from a list given to them, whereupon they are given a question connected to it, and have 60 seconds to confer amongst themselves on which three answers they will use. Contestants may freely end the debating period early if they have decided on which three to give. If any individual response is a Pointless answer, the team wins the jackpot, otherwise it is rolled over to the next show. For the 1000th episode which aired in 2017 Armstrong and Osman traded host/assistant duties and four previous couples who had distinguished themselves in various ways were invited to compete; the jackpot for this episode began at £2,500 and every pointless answer during the main game added £1,000 to it. 1 year earlier it was announced that the show had been recommissioned by the BBC to make 165 more regular day-time editions along with 45 primetime celebrity specials which will see Pointless continue to air on BBC One until at least the end of 2017. CJ de Mooi was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 21st September in connection with claims that he had punched a mugger and thrown him into a canal in Amsterdam in 1988, which he had reportedly made in his autobiography. de Mooi was detained under a European Arrest Warrant issued in Holland although a judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court declined the extradition request because of him saying that no arrest warrant was issued; on Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right 2 couples alternated who went first on each question. The questions were based on surveys of 100 people. The first couple would guess how many of the 100 gave a certain answer to the question, and the second would guess whether the actual number was higher or lower than the other couple's guess. If the second couple was correct then they gained control of the cards, otherwise the first team played. Unlike the American version, the questions usually had some comedy value, for example: the question would be, "We asked 100 tattoo-artists - if somebody came in asking for a tattoo of Bruce Forsyth, would you try to talk them out of it?" The first couple would joke around with Bruce and then decide on a sum of, say, 64. The second couple would say "higher," and Bruce would pretend to be offended. If the answer was, say, 26, the second couple were wrong in guessing higher. Among Forsyth's other quips he would say "What a lovely audience! You're so much better than last week" at the beginning of some shows. Bruce started each show with his trademark "It's nice to see you to see you nice," whereby the audience join in on the last "nice." When a pair was revealed, he'd say, "You don't get anything for a pair, not in this game," and the audience would join in with the "not in this game" part. Guinness World of Records dropped records within their "eating and drinking records" section of Human Achievements in 1991 over concerns that potential competitors could harm themselves and expose the publisher to potential litigation. These changes included the removal of all liquor, wine and beer drinking records, along with other unusual records for consuming such unlikely things as bicycles and trees. Other records, such as sword swallowing and rally driving on public roads, were closed from further entry as the current holders had performed beyond what are considered safe human tolerance levels. For some categories Guinness World Records has declined to list some records that are too difficult or impossible to determine; its website states that "We do not accept any claims for beauty because it is not objectively measurable!" After all the athletes enter the stadium the final medals ceremony of the Olympic Games is held. The organizing committee of the respective host city consults with the president of the International Olympic Committee who is Thomas Bach, and determines which event will have its medals presented. During the Summer Olympics, this is usually the men's marathon. Traditionally, the men's marathon is held in the last hours of competition on the last day of the Olympics, and the race is won just before the start of the closing ceremony. Recent Summer Olympiads in Atlanta, Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro staged the marathon in the early morning because of heat problems in the host city. 2 other national flags are hoisted on flag poles while the national anthems are played with the flag of Greece to honour the birthplace of the Olympic Games, and the flag of the country hosting the next Summer or Winter Olympic Games. The Olympic Flag that was hoisted during the opening ceremonies is lowered from the flag pole and carried while the Olympic Hymn is played. In what is known as the Antwerp Ceremony, the mayor of the city that organized the Games transfers a special Olympic Flag to the president of the IOC who then passes it on to the mayor of the city hosting the next Olympic Games, who waves the flag eight times. The next host nation then introduces itself with artistic displays of theater and dance representative of the country or city. The Organizing Committee president makes a speech and the IOC president then makes a speech before closing the Olympics by saying, "And now, I declare the Games of the [ordinal number of Summer Olympics] Olympiad/[ordinal number of Winter Olympics] Olympic Winter Games closed. In accordance with tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in [name of next host city], to celebrate the Games of the [subsequent ordinal number of Summer Olympics] Olympiad/[subsequent ordinal number of Winter Olympics] Olympic Winter Games." Finally, the Olympic Flame is extinguished, marking the end of the Games