Philthy82 wrote:
codename_47 wrote:
westracing01 wrote:
Well, hypocrite I am. I don't dislike Mercedes because they won, I dislike Mercedes because of Hamilton and Wolfe. Insufferable twats. Unquestioned skill, but twats all the same.
That's the thing about F1, it's twats all the way down.....you just replace one set of twats with another set of twats with each regulation change
This cuts to the core of my issue with F1 at the moment... I just don't have any strong desire to support any one team. I know there are no nice guys in competition, but every team at the moment is led by two-faced sociopaths that would say anything to get the slightest whiff of an advantage, backed by corporate monoliths that don't really stand for anything beyond shareholder returns. If the form book suddenly got flipped and a backmarker started winning, it would be refreshing for a few races, then it would just be another set of twats saying more generic or terrible things to the media to further their own interests. The closest I come to backing a team atm is the hope Andretti will be on the grid at some point, just to piss every other team on the grid off.
The trick I worked out very early on in my F1 watching career is to realise we're not here to watch a soap opera of personalities arguing pre/post race. I take it as read they'll all see things from their own perspective and only do what is good for their team, not the sport itself (how this sport hasn't gone full CART/IRL at any point is a mystery to me because they're far more self involved and myopic than any other sports teams on the planet, IMO)
All I care about and will judge them over is their performance between the green and chequered flag (yes, even their performance on the parade lap
)It's a motorsport, not a reality show.
Pre-Post race is good for memes or jokes about the podium procedure or whatever, but the interviews are a wash because the winning team will say how great they are, the losing team will bitch about why they didn't win, anyone who crashed will see the incident as 100% someone else's fault despite the reality of the situation and there's just no "oh well, that's motor racing, we're all here for the love of the sport" passion any more
I'm just watching from the 5 min to go (or maybe 8 mins including the gridwalk) and post race I'm rushing off to watch another series starting if possible. Feels so much less.....toxic
