F1. I just dont get it. (1 Viewer)

I just like it for crashes and overtaking in silly places!!

I enjoy motor racing but not F1, there's no excitement in it for me, you know the same 2 or 3 drivers will fight for the championship and the one with the best car wins. More of a BTCC fan, it's action packed and very fair, like if you win a race they give you a weight ballast to slow you down slightly. Although saying that. I went to watch it live a few years ago at Silverstone and it was boring as fuck.

Rally was the only motor sport I ever took interest in. As someone's already said, F1 is simply a whole afternoon of 'Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroom'-I get more thrills from a prehistoric chemistry textbook than that.

It has everything that F1 doesn't-a far more entertaining, unpredictable, and technically difficult sport.

F1 has been ruined by the law makers. Back in the 80's, drivers like Senna, Mansell, Piquet made all the difference. It was more about driver skill. These days, they have to design the tyres so that they fall apart after a certain number of laps to provide excitement. The sport has become dominated by teams who can provide the best aerodynamic set up. To the point where the drivers role is nothing near as important as it used to be.

If you watch races of Formula 1 from before the late 90's, you'd see a far more exciting sport where drivers could overtake, because aero setup played a much less pivotal role. These days, if the car isn't planted to the track, you can't race properly. To see an on-board video of Ayrton Senna wrestling his car around any race track in the world is to watch real F1 racing.

Are footballers just rich wankers who outgrew their subbuteo?

I did like the Senna film, does show how corrupt it is also!

Nick said:

I did like the Senna film, does show how corrupt it is also!

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I was shocked to discover just how corrupt it was back in those days! Jean Marie-Balestre was the big cheese, and the quote that sticks in my mind was "The best decision is my decision".....The absolute farce after the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix showed the kind of dealings that went on behind the scenes. Mind you, some of the dodgy dealings that go on today with Bernie the Bolt probably aren't too different.

The other thing that has really ruined F1 is track design. The guy who builds all the circuits nowadays (Tilke) repeats the same blueprint over and over, which does provide a good spectacle, but does not provide for good racing. Take a track called Hockenheim. It used to be three long straights through the forests of Germany, with three tight chicanes and a stadium section, which offered plenty of overtaking. In 2001, the track lost its forest straights, where all the overtaking happened, and the circuit was drastically shortened to pretty much just the stadium section. It's had it's soul completely ripped out of it, because it became a tight and twisty track, and with the aero designs on the cars in modern F1, they just can't follow each other closely enough to overtake. Throw in the modern tyres which burn up so quickly, and it's not racing anymore, because none of the drivers ever drive to the limit, they're too concerned about looking after their tyres to drive on the edge.

Hmmm, I appear to have gone on a little bit of a nostalgic rant here. But I'm a massive fan of F1, and over the last ten years or so it's gone from a hard graft racing series to a freak show. The only man who seems happy with things is Bernie Ecclestone, because he makes so much money out of it....

I used to look forward to the old Hockenheim forest track, even though it was a bit of a drag race a lot of the time. The closest to that now is probably Monza I guess. I'm not familiar with pretty much any new track post-2000.

I guess either Monza or Spa are about as close to old Hockenheim as you can get. The sad thing is when they rebuilt Hockenheim, they had to rip up the old track so there are only trees and grass there now. It's a sad sight if you get to see pictures of it. The best of the modern tracks probably was Istanbul, but that got dropped from the calendar because F1 wasn't well received in Turkey if I recall. Other than that, none of them really provide any good racing. They all have at least one long straight, but the other half of the track is just corner after corner, so you only get one real chance to overtake per lap.

I learnt a lot of them via the F1 games. My specialist track was always Hungaroring, which I later heard described as suiting a slower car. I'm still not sure if TV had conspired with gaming to mock my pedestrian racing style.

Only good tbi g about it is that Georgie Thompson presents it on sky!

Driver has just run over his pit crew. I don't think they are seriously hurt so it is ok to giggle!

Was that Kobayashi? I heard Brundle call him stupid but didn't catch it.

'mon Webber, earn me some quids!

Yeah, went flying in and took them out!

I do enjoy a good crash and accident when nobody's hurt. I remember Jos Verstappen having a pitstop where fuel splashed on the car and then a HUGE fireball engulfed the car. Everyone was alright thanks to their swanky suits, so it was just nice and spectacular.

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Oh yes.

ajsccfc said:

I do enjoy a good crash and accident when nobody's hurt. I remember Jos Verstappen having a pitstop where fuel splashed on the car and then a HUGE fireball engulfed the car. Everyone was alright thanks to their swanky suits, so it was just nice and spectacular.

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I use to only watch the F1 for all the crashes on the first bend.

ajsccfc said:

'mon Webber, earn me some quids!

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Just after this he overtook Alonso. Cash money y'all!

ajsccfc said:

Just after this he overtook Alonso. Cash money y'all!

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How much????

£25, so not exactly high rollin'. I'd only put the bet on as my final go with Ladbrokes after my £3 on Gomez to finish top scorer at Euro 2012 returned £4.50 I'd forgot was there until today.