Zynerji wrote: ↑13 Aug 2021, 16:24
Just_a_fan wrote: ↑13 Aug 2021, 16:17
Zynerji wrote: ↑13 Aug 2021, 15:04
Dumbest. Idea. Ever.
Why would you get rid of THE off-track attraction of the F1 circus?
Woke F1™ is becoming an exercise in self-harm, and its ridiculous!
The motorhomes behind the pits are team only (people directly invited by the team) so they're not relevant to the general watching public. They are a nice place to retire to for a quiet coffee and cake, however. I remember the early 2000s so I have no doubt the the current ones are palaces compared to the nice things they had back then. I enjoyed myself quietly watching a well known TV personality having a good stare at the young lasses performing the waitress duties one day. Even funnier when said person caught my eye and then looked very sheepish.
Sadly, I no longer know anyone in the paddock so couldn't get anywhere other than the public spaces these days.
Its not a glamour sport if you remove the glamour
Yeah, I guess you're right there. Perhaps they could introduce more fan-oriented stuff instead. I remember, for example, going to Silverstone in '96 for the GP. There was a massive amount of stuff to see/do, lots of food vans, lots of merchandise shops both official ones and general shops, etc.. Went a few years ago and all there was were some official merchandise shops - one for each team and the FIA basically, and some very expensive food vans. Add to that the high price of the tickets and it felt very much like a case of "you're here now so put up with what we can be bothered to give you". It felt much less special an event.
I wonder if they'll dump the F1 Paddock Club. I bet not. Now that is where the real glamour stuff is - the teams have chunks of it to entertain and you see a few "names" in there.
As for the accusations of being woke, in a world where the environmental damage of cars, trucks, planes, etc., is questioned almost daily, it's quite hard for F1 to excuse themselves such things as this:
When F1 races in Austria, Budapest is just 400kms away. But instead of heading straight there, F1 first travels to Silverstone and then back to Hungary - a round trip of some 3400kms.
The difference between those 375 F1 and support event trucks travelling 400kms or 3400kms equates to some 1.125 million kilometres of extra diesel usage.
Now some of that is just down to scheduling, but it's much easier to sell F1 to a sceptical public if you can show that it's not (apparently) bad for the environment. And there's no good the fans crying about it, it's the world we live in now - the vast majority of the world has no interest in motorsport - most of them are too busy trying to feed their kids and not get shot/blown up in conflicts.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.
