I do the same, I try to watch as much different series as I can, since last year I can also watch IRL races (live) on tv. I’ve to say that oval races isn’t really my preferred form of motorsport but from a technical point of view is still interesting (a couple of years ago I spent about half an hour with a Dallara guy talking about IRL design, it was a very pleasant chat) and certainly the driving is far from easy. Undoubtedly thought the real challenge (and spectacle) of oval racing is the fight between cars and it’s the same nature of the track that makes them to stay close. On the other hand I doubt many people would find enjoying to watch a single car doing hundreds of laps alone in the track. On the contrary road racing is first of all a fight against the track, and then a fight against other drivers; other cars are a disturbance you want to get rid of to set the best laptimes, in oval racing you can also exploit other cars to be faster.DaveKillens wrote: I do watch many other racing series, each have their own unique flavor.
I’m really looking forward for IRL races on road tracks, I’m curious to see how cars originally optimised for a given kind of track can cope with a totally different challenge.
Both.bcsolutions wrote: ... which of the two arguments best defines proper motor racing?
We have a motto, in dialect, here, in English it sounds something like “100 heads, 100 opinions”.
You can’t satisfy everyone with a single motorsport event, simply because everyone, in the same town, has different tastes, let alone in countries distant thousand of miles. That’s the reason several series exists, each one can pick the one he prefers. Problem is that, to maximize the ratio between money gained and money spent, in the recent years all the eggs were put in the same basket in term of advertising and generally investment annihilating other series because they could take away potential audience, the aim was to make the casual viewer think that motorsport = F1, but as much as I love F1, that’s an idiocy. As a consequence in the recent years they continuously attempted to make F1 appealing to people (most of them casual viewers) with totally different tastes and, even worse, they used tv audience figures as a measure of how good the spectacle was...