vvaannmmaann said:
What is the point of it?
Nice to see the "Pit Lane Girls" obviously.
Glad the boy Hamilton won and all that,but otherwise why do they bother?Do they not realise the amount of fuel they are wasting?
Any petrol heads in at the moment?
Yes.
It is or was the pinnacle of motor sport offering the very highest form of racing. Of late, itâs become the background activity to the corporate schmoozing and huge money spinner for TCE (That Cnut Ecclestone).
Although Hamilton has revitalised the sport a little bit (as well as the other young chaps who are making it more than a one horse event), itâs still a hit and miss affair as an entertaining form of racing. The problem is the huge amounts of money involved. Firstly the teams to be competitive, need to chuck the equivalent of a large countries deficit to be even remotely in the running and secondly, the utter distain for the real motorsport fans. The event is put on for the TV sponsors and not the viewing public either watching at home or actually at the tracks.
There are far more entertaining forms of four wheeled motorsport around. For example; British Touring Car Championship and one form of motorsport I've only recently been to watch; Top fuel drag racing at Santa Pod. By fuck, is that amazing. Unless youâve been next to 8000 hp setting off from the start line, hitting 100mph within 60 ft and doing the 1/4 mile in about 4.5 seconds at over 320mph, you aint lived! Both those events are around £20-30 (even for championship events), you can freely walk around the paddock chatting to the teams and drivers and the whole thing is still fan based. Its there for the fan, not for some suited cnut who owns a dodgy front company selling tampons to Bangledeshi warlords.
I refuse to pay Ecclestone nigh on £400 to briefly glimpse a 200mph advert trudging along behind another 200mph advert and be treated like a fcuking leper because I'm not one of the few 'beautiful people'. Fcuk him and fcuk the whole circus. I'm only interested in F1 due to the skill of a few of the drivers.
As for wasting fuel? A top fuel dragster chucks 22 gallons into the atmosphere warming up, doing a burnout and racing for 4.5 seconds.

(plus it feels as if someone has brought fast air in danger close to you as your whole body jumps out of its skin).