I'm absolutely shocked that you would spend all weekend watching F1.
Heyyyyyyyyy! lol
I love my F1. Drivers so good, that taking a slightly different exit point on one turn means the difference between qualifying 1st and 13th. Different engines, different chassis/tubs. All coming together and racing at the highest level of motor racing. All that aside, which is saying a lot, it really comes down to the coverage. I get to see a practice session. I get to see qualifying, I get to see the race. I actually feel like I'm getting it all. I get to see the highest level of camera work, with the highest level of production team, giving me the most amazing shots of cars. They actually let the hosting country bid on who is going to cover the race, so you get different styles of camera work from each country, but it all has to follow a set format. They all use the same tools to capture the feeling of F1. They have so many views, and types of cameras they use, but they never beat any one type to death. It changes. Lots of different tracks. Lot's of different tech being introduced. It's stays lively. Cover this whole thing with the fact that it's fronted here in America by a great group who knows their stuff inside and out, and a pit reporter that is Johnny-on-the-spot with good information, and offer it to me in a way that's obvious they're as excited about it as I am. Well, that's a great recipe for good racing television. I do love me some F1. I feel like I've seen a race, produced by racers.
It's tough to compare to drag racing at all, except once upon a time, Drag Racing and F1 shared the most cutting edge materials and science. F1 continued on, Drag Racing sort of stopped. Sure there's innovations still, but a whole lot of rules stop the true leaps that could still happen. It's tough when our track never changes. Face it. Besides us fans who love it, it's kind of hard to get folks excited about a straight track that's smaller than most racing's pit lanes, and it never changes. Take a picture of Joliet, and Pomona, without showing any thing other than the racing surface, and you would be hard pressed to say which is which. It's just one of the things that people that don't "get" drag racing, have a very hard time understanding why we get so fired up.
Now, what were we talking about? I forgot. I got all goobery-eyed.
Oh. Yeah, F1 attendance. I am rather sure that's why Bernie is selling his F1 rights. He probably sees the writing on the wall as far as growth, and since he's made a bazillion already, and he's older than dirt, he's selling. I hope it stays healthy, but I think like a lot of posts here, it just seems the interest in motorsports just isn't there like it used to be.
What do we do? I don't know. I watch old races. I "like" ideas like this one. A legends tour. Something. Anything to get that feeling I used to have when I watched drag racing, either on TV or from the stands.
