Great moments in bad timing, #435:
Formula 1 is going to have to cancel the two Grand Prix races in April, because the venues (Bahrain and Saudi Arabia) have become an unwitting victim of Operation Kick Shi’a Iranian Ass.
This sucks big time….
…although strictly speaking it serves F1 right because they should never have given the Arabs so many Grands Prix in the first place.
The races can’t be rescheduled because the calendar is full and there’s no room at the inn.
But in the grand scheme of things, it’s irrelevant because the new “formula” in Formula 1 has turned the races into even more boring spectacles than they were before, which is saying something.
I have a simple fix for their “boring” problem, by the way (although they won’t want to hear it):
Ditch those pathetic half-Duracell / half-tiny-turbo engines (1500cc? WTF?) and replace them with gasoline-powered 2.5-litre V16s, screaming their lungs out and deafening spectators at 18,000rpm. And let the drivers drive, instead of forcing them to be battery-power managers.
And then I’ll show you all around my unicorn garden.
Quite. There was a time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvzVOZlXu4
No one ever watched F1 for the racing really. They watched it for the spectacle.
You’ve removed the Pit Girls
You’ve removed the roaring engines.
You’ve removed the spectacle.
I would dispute the assertion that No one ever watched for the racing, Back in the 60’s and 70’s when I started attending and later working F1 Races ( The Glen , Mosport, St. Jovite and Monaco ) most people were there for the racing. Because the only other way was a sometimes short piece on Wide World of Sports or Innes Irelands reports in R&T. but then there were only 9 races a year and no pro pit girls ( just wives and girlfriends )
…… OK — some of the people were at the Glen for the Bog and the out of control nightly Booze fests, but they were all passed out in their tents when the race started, so I’m not counting them .
But I’ll agree the spectacle is no longer the racing.