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[wj_gibson]

I must admit, I simply don't discuss my passion for this sport with anyone any more. I feel embarrassed by it. A lot of people I know regard it as a money-grubbing dinosaur with pre-crash finanical models that is completely irrelevant in this day and age.

[FredF1]

I must admit, I simply don't discuss my passion for this sport with anyone any more. I feel embarrassed by it. A lot of people I know regard it as a money-grubbing dinosaur with pre-crash finanical models that is completely irrelevant in this day and age.

 

 

When I read threads on here about how important F1 is etc, etc, I always think back to a former colleague of mine who once asked me "Formula One? Do they still do that then?" 

 

It's a minority interest (alleged) sport that won't cause outpourings of grief if/when it finally dies. 

[FerrariV12]

F1 has always been a minority sport. Back in the early to mid 90s I'd be forever getting made fun of in school for being the only one in my class with any interest in the sport.

 

Although funny enough, checking out some of those same classmates who took the piss out of me on faceache, they're actually more into the current Pirelli/DRS-era F1 than I am.

[oetzi]

The financial situation is pretty poor, even though now we're climbing out of the problems of the crisis.

Revitalising tail-end F1 teams probably isn't top of the agenda when recovering from a financial crisis.

[RoutariEnjinu]

The amount of these sensationalist headlines is enough to put anyone off the idea of ever watching F1.


If I never watched F1, and out the corner of my eye, in a related ljnks section, saw all this panicing about how to save F1, I'd subconsciously write it off and assume it's dead.


If I was interested in cars, or extreme sports, and saw a headline mentioning 1000bhp+ coming soon to F1, I'd click the **** out of it.


But knowing the FIA, it will probably be 950bhp, with limited revs, fuel, air, throttle actuation angle, calories used per throttle depression, and a ban on anything being too insane.

If the modern tracks can take it, and the safety features of the cars are improved, I think they need to be insane.

F1 has been historically popular because it was insane. Not because of close racing, or equal cars. I think F1 needs to be bonkers. The cars shouldn't be conservative. There should only be a few parts of a track where you can ever be at full throttle. Anyone tempted to do so when inappropriate should be fighting the back end.

F1 needs to be excessive. Even if it's not very sensible, or practical. It's the spending that needs not to be excessive.

I agree fully with Lauda.

A nobody should either be massively off the pace, or in a gravel trap.

[superden]

... being the only one in my class with any interest in the sport.

Same here, being massively into motorsport (of any kind, not just F1) and having absolutely zero interest in the standard issue obsession that is football meant that, from a sporting interest perspective, I was the exception rather than the rule.

V10/12 beasts at full chat, or 22 men in shorts play acting ... it wasn't a tough choice for me. Having been to a football match (once, back in the 80's) where the other teams 'fans', one step away from foaming at the mouth, were trying to vault the fences separating us to start a riot, being trackside at Brands Hatch seemed positively idyllic. The fact that it seemed a bit 'niche' just added to the appeal really.

Sorry, a bit OT there.

Edited by superden, 04 February 2015 - 12:31.

[Burtros]

F1 doesnt need fancy engines.

 

Its needs lots of teams at the sharp end. Not one team building an awesome car so a Hamilton or Vettel can collect a title thats basically a formality. Drama gets made of small things because there is no drama otherwise. The rest playing catch up or relying on heroics simply isnt that exciting.

 

Another round of changes wont work, its simple stunning to see so many people think a 1000bhp engine is the solution.

 

It'll be a shitty solution if one manufacture does a much better job than the rest, that I can tell you.

Edited by Burtros, 04 February 2015 - 12:45.