One of the worst things about watching recorded Formula 1 race and qualifying session is spoilers. I would think this applies to everything meant to watch live.
Yesterday, around noon time, I was on the phone with my parents in Ukraine. I had had a chance to watch qualifying yet, but did have it recorded for later viewing. Somehow on the phone my sister started saying something about Felipe Massa. I immediately interrupted her saying that I don't want to hear it as I haven't watched the qualifying yet. But I already felt bumped since I assumed she tried telling me that Massa took the pole. That wasn't the case though, Massa had a huge accident and was airlifted to the hospital for an urgent operation.
Today, after I watched Hungaroring qualifying session, the actual race had already happened. But I planned to watch it later today. Later in the day, in a shopping center parking lot, I met a random person driving Subaru STi, who pulled over to talk about Subarus. Then, he asked me if I liked Formula 1 and told me that he was happy that Felipe Massa was fine. "Please please please don't tell me anything about the race", I pleaded with him, "I haven't watched it yet". So he said "Ok I will not".
This was a crazy weekend for potential spoilers, but I managed to not get it spoilt this time.
Normally, I really have to cease going to twitter, facebook, and other news websites that will potentially deliver spoilers. On average I am about 1 day late in watching F1 sessions, but I don't mind this since I can chose when to watch it.