Sad but true
March 20th, 2007 by calinescuvm” The Formula One season used to be full of life. Now its just a bunch of characterless clones racing around the track.
‘Michael Schumacher may well have been the greatest driver of his generation or possibly ever. But he was so, so terribly dull’
Formula One has died for me. My peak of enjoyment was seeing the Brazilian Grand Prix live some years ago. Already by then my interest was waining but that live performance in the rain jerked my interest back to life.
A year before, I would have known everything. Every rule change, every driver move, when the new aerodynamic packages were due and who had designed them. I knew the names of engineers working to develop engines and when they moved between teams. I knew what an idiot and liability Murray Walker had become as senility took hold and that he had to, loved as he was, go.
The problem, as it happens, is that the personality has been systematically weeded out of the sport. No Eddie Jordan, no Jean Alesi, no Aryton Senna, no Eddie Irvine, no one actually any fun. A bunch of clones, essentially, with every word censored by sponsors where a little misbehaviour out of the cockpit gets a driver dropped so fast it makes the cars going down the main straight look pedestrian.”
Read the full story here : http://www.sportingo.com/more-sports/formula-1-no-personalities-no-romance—has-the-fun-formula-gone/1001,2760
No pilots. No real racing. I’m sad.
Posted in 2007, F1 related |