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I recommend you give up watching, and especially posting on F1 if you fail to derive any enjoyment and think so poorly of it. You're in the (vocal) minority.
Look who's talking. Some Johnny Come Lately.. I've been following F1 since probably before you were born.
I still do follow but it's more out of 53 years of allegiance than enjoyment these days. You should have been around in it's heyday.
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I recommend you give up watching, and especially posting on F1 if you fail to derive any enjoyment and think so poorly of it. You're in the (vocal) minority.
Look who's talking. Some Johnny Come Lately.. I've been following F1 since probably before you were born.
I still do follow but it's more out of 53 years of allegiance than enjoyment these days. You should have been around in it's heyday.
i don't doubt the duration of your viewership. It's pretty obvious in the way you glorify the past. In the twenty some-odd years I've been watching, there's been some good and some bad. IMO, despite some change, last year was as good as any of it. Much better than the Schumi years for sure.
I feel like vintage videos won't do much to hook people on modern F1. What did it for me was watching various modern drivers do the reasonably priced car on Top Gear and being curious about how their actual sport works.
Apart from that, I have always found this impressive to show the vast difference in performance to even other highly spec'd race cars:
But now that I am looking at it, does the left side video look slowed down to anyone else?
acosmichippo wrote:I feel like vintage videos won't do much to hook people on modern F1. What did it for me was watching various modern drivers do the reasonably priced car on Top Gear and being curious about how their actual sport works.
I can see your point. Except for the Spa crash none of what I posted I witnessed live. My interest in F1 was kindled by the Schumacher Hill fights. One thing led to another and before long I knew all the champions by heart. One of the most engaging things about F1 for me was, and still is, its history. Most of the young drivers coming into the sport want to be the next Senna or Schumacher. So why not learn a little history before you dive into our gimmicky era?
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Hey, Strad, cheer up... This one's for someone who knows what every shot means (or for you), so it's not an introduction, or perhaps, yes.
Yes, it's corny, but I am corny:
There is a star that lights the road
Will it take me to the end well I don't know
But for one last time
I'll take this ride...
... and just drive
Now, Don Tuj, I'm all behind you: teaching people that Formula One exists, is very important.
Young people will face death when they learn to drive. Getting some hands on experience on driving and learning how to do it with some intelligence can save lives, because safe driving is all about experience and intelligence. The faster they learn how to drive (in a racetrack, of course, street racing is idiotic) and the most they try to learn about racing (in a racetrack! in a racetrack! in a racetrack!) the better.
... so you're teaching them much more than how to appreciate racing, if they race in a racetrack since they're kids
That's why Formula One and racing in general is much more important than some sports most of which are (for me!) kind of boring, which leads me to an important point:
Please, please, please, Mr. Tuj, if you succed and your friends come some day to this forum, teach them well the difference between being "super worked up" and being "amused and interested"...
... which is the difference between noobs and cool people
Any introduction to modern Formula One, which is a complicated sport, starts with a spiny point: how in heaven can you teach them that we all (not all? please, tell me!) hate the best driver in history because he was an insufferable prick:
Talladega Nights, the Ballad of Ricky Bobby show it very well, but meanwhile...
Now, this forum's name nonwithstanding (and Strad mumbling something in the back that I cannot hear right now, because I refuse to... ) Formula One is about drivers. This is an introduction, perhaps not the best, but one:
Yes, there is still people inside the cars and there are hearts inside these people
Now, we do not admire those drivers because of their big steely balls (well, that too) but Tuj friends must be educated on the fact that F1 is not only about testosterone: you need quite a bit of epinephrine.
If you want to understand with intelligence, Scarbs is the best engineering educator I've met (and I've met a few, working in the field). Here he will teach your friends a little about 2015 design subtleties.
... but, mainly, about Scarbs existence, and that's good
If, by a miracle, Strad checks this, please, before you die of boredom, check Scarbs five christmas wishes, they are in the same page. There he explains that F1 is in a state of fluidity right now, in a smart way and perhaps that's what's boring. However, who knows where F1 will take us in the future?
Well, of course I do know everything that's going to happen (that's my superpower... ) but I'm not telling. I don't want to create ripples in the space-time continuum.
"Explain the ending to F1 in football terms"
"Hamilton was beating Verstappen 7-0, then the ref decided F%$& rules, next goal wins
while also sending off 4 Hamilton players to make it more interesting"
) Formula One is about drivers. This is an introduction, perhaps not the best, but one:
