Topic: Formula One - Do you like it? (Read 39490 times)

J@zV6 · « **on:** December 22, 2008, 23:47:15 PM »

Following recent discussion on F1 on another thread, what do you think of it?

callyse5 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2008, 23:55:20 PM »

I think its like any sport...you will always get people who will slate it...it's like me and snooker!! really cannot see the point!

Quote from: J@zV6 on December 22, 2008, 23:47:15 PM

Following recent discussion on F1 on another thread, what do you think of it?

J@zV6 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2008, 23:57:36 PM »

I've done it again, haven't I Trigger...

Went back to change it, but it's too late... I have suggested that the time allowed for Modifications/corrections & Removals is increased...

MrCrusher · « **Reply #3 on:** December 23, 2008, 00:11:25 AM »

Shouldn't it be called "Formula 1/2" now?

redgriffen · « **Reply #4 on:** December 23, 2008, 00:18:46 AM »

I would rather over paint a wall and watch it dry for 3 hours while watching the drips run. More or less the same as F1.

Ash, · « **Reply #5 on:** December 23, 2008, 01:15:43 AM »

I'm an F1 fan,

However the sport is badly run/governed.

I think its overdue a drastic overhaul, And should start again with no advantages for certain teams.

barrachops · « **Reply #6 on:** December 23, 2008, 12:00:17 PM »

Quote from: J@zV6 on December 22, 2008, 23:47:15 PM

Following recent discussion on F1 on another thread, what do you think of it?

Which one, there seems to be a new F1 thread every other day

I am sure ALZ1307 will be here soon enough

redgriffen · « **Reply #7 on:** December 23, 2008, 12:02:07 PM »

OK, I must admit i used to watch it in the mid 80's to about 92, but it all went to pot with rule changes etc.

ALZ1307 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 23, 2008, 12:03:12 PM »

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

And a few Billion around the world that watch every race do to

ALZ1307 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 23, 2008, 12:04:48 PM »

Quote from: Barrasexual on December 23, 2008, 12:00:17 PM

Which one, there seems to be a new F1 thread every other day

I am sure ALZ1307 will be here soon enough

Damn right!! I shall read on with interest!

Shifty · « **Reply #10 on:** December 23, 2008, 16:26:59 PM »

no doubt these few billion wouldn't mind watching my sons scalextric go round for a few hours ? I would have thought nowhere near a "few billion" would like F1 ! theres about 6.75 billion people on the planet so i doubt HALF of the world like f1 ?!

Theres nothing wrong with loving a sport but theres a difference between love and obsession ! Again back to the football scenario, it is up to the players to develop their skills to earn their place in a football team. I have had trials for millwall fc and when i started i thought i was pretty good until i saw the other guys at the the trials and soon realised i would have to practice alot more to earn a place in the first team. If i had just played for a little sunday league football team and then got hired by chelsea, that would be an unfair shortcut to success. This is how i see Hamilton's success. Instead of joining F1 and "earning" his place at the top, he walked straight into Mclaren and has the easy route. IMO he is f*ckin wreckless and will have no guilt in pushing other drivers off the track to get his title.

I prefer watching championship footy (league 1) as the players really have a desire to be the best they can, formula one drivers are only successful if they drive for the right team.

If F1 isn't so boring and predictable as i say it is, who wants to bet £100 against ferrari or mclaren not winning the constructors championship and one of their drivers winning the title next season ?

Thought not

DanSE4 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 23, 2008, 16:51:11 PM »

I used to follow F1 in the late 80's/early 90's when it was a drivers race. Now I feel, as has been stated on other similar threads, it's all down to money & IMO the driver skill is massively overshadowed by the technical advance in the cars.

Not dissimilar to BTTC, which I would always attend at Brands Hatch in the mid 90's. Then, you would witness real racing when the drivers would put the win before the financial impact of wrecking a car first. Since many of the manufacturer teams pulled out of BTTC & the privateers came along, the races became as dull as those we've come to love & sleep through with F1.

F1 - R.I.P.

ALZ1307 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 23, 2008, 16:53:23 PM »

Ferrari or Mclaren will prob win yes, they have the most money and put an awful lot of time into testing etc but that can't be too differant from larger football teams who have more money and are able to buy better players?

I'll try and source some viewing figures but it is a huge audience worldwide.

Shifty · « **Reply #13 on:** December 23, 2008, 18:41:51 PM »

so formula 1 is all about money rather than skill then NanaALZ ? In simple logic, if your team has sh*t loads of money then you deserve to win and if your team isnt so well off then you should rightly lose ? F1 is simply not about driver skill anymore but rather an engineering exercise. The Bugatti veyron was built just to prove it could be done, doesn't mean that if i raced against your calibra in a veyron that i should rightly win because i spent near on a million rather than a grand.

Considering the cars are so expensive and such amazing machines, they are very unreliable and a good percentage of the time dont even finish the race.

I bet if you put jackie stewert in a ferrari in his prime against Hamilton, jackie would wipe the floor with him. The nearest this Hamilton muppet has come to "man and machine" racing was his go karting days.

ALZ1307 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 23, 2008, 18:54:57 PM »

Well to a degree yes it is down to money, if you have the money you can buy in skills but you also have to be good in the first place to attract major sponsors, the same with most sports?

It wasn't by chance Hamilton was spotted by Mclaren all those years ago, they saw he had raw talent and took advantage of it, wouldn't anyone in the Hamiltons position of taken up with a major player in there chosen field if they'd had the chance!

J@zV6 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 23, 2008, 21:24:50 PM »

So far 62.5% in favour, 25% against and 12.5% indifferent. Even if we include the 'indifferents' in the antis, that's still roughly a 3:2 majority in favour so far...

ALZ1307 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 23, 2008, 21:57:20 PM »

The average audience for a live Grand Prix is 650m, that was from a 2007 article so I would assume due to Hamilton fever

it was more this year and will be more again next, and I'll be one of them

Shifty · « **Reply #17 on:** December 23, 2008, 22:11:45 PM »

you can't take polls on this forum seriously. For example look at the conspiracy theory thread where the 3 choices were;

*yes it was a cover up
*not really bothered
*no it wasn't a cover up

Unbelieveably some people chose "not really bothered" ?!! how the f*ck can you not be bothered ?! you either believe it was a tragic terrorist attack where innocent people died or a tragic staged attack on the innocent people by their own government ? how can you not be bothered either way ? i can answer that, the people who arent bothered are pricks !

with regards to F1 being in a poll on a "CAR" forum, it is always likely to have more F1 fans than F1 haters, maybe if you put the same poll up on a football forum you might have a different outcome

Maybe a poll on what do you prefer - footy or F1 ? you may get a more conclusive poll.

The football players only get paid as much as the fans are willing to pay to see them. If people could be bothered to turn up to F1 (bearing in mind that there are less F1 races in a season than footy matches) then Hamilcock would get paid alot more.

The atmosphere in a football stadium is out of this world, all the drama of watching your team winning one minute, losing the next, the tactics of the managers etc.. i cant say listening to a high pitched engine noise whizzing past once every few minutes really does it for me.

If F1 was all about driving skill and not sponsors, ass kissing, money, dumb rules and biased decisions then i might have more time for it but as it stands, the sport should just come to an end.

What is Hamilton fever ? i think i may have it ? are the symptoms wanting to stab yourself and drink battery acid rather than see him on TV ? if so whats the cure ? probably counting the blades of grass in your garden

ALZ1307 · « **Reply #18 on:** December 23, 2008, 22:20:13 PM »

The cure would be not to watch BBC1 every other Sunday between March and Nov, or the news, he's so damn good he should be on it a fair bit next season

dave955 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 23, 2008, 22:24:06 PM »

i love it but as some have said i have my reservations about how its run now

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