Spanish Grand Prix

[TheArsenal]

Who will be watching today?

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

They still race F1?

[TheArsenal]

Of course...

[TAFKA Castroneves]

I wish I hadn't, life long F1 fan but now - seriously fuck F1. Monaco will be the last race I watch.

[TheArsenal]

Why??

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Watching the races themselves are dull these days. Which is why they have to spend more and more time with the "cockpit" cameras and with the speedometers on the screen in a desperate attempt to make it look more like a console game which I'd rather spend time playing.

Y'see, Senna/Prost/Mansell when they used to hammer around with turbo chargers exploding on the last lap and frankly ridiculous manuveurs, that was enjoyable.

This stuff isn't.

[TAFKA Castroneves]

Exactly CSAMH, F1 has gone down the shitter. I remember the days past when people could actually overtake each other and races werent processions - and the FIA has the nerve to blame the tracks, well if you used to be able to pass on Cataluyna, San Marino and others then it can't be the track can it?! They've butchered Spa's last chicane, Monza next year is getting butchered by the guy who designed Bahrain, Malaysia, China etc and its all just far too shite. Today was the icing on the cake for me of a last few years of absolute shit. At least at Monaco some drivers will crash.

[TheArsenal]

I'll agree there isn't as much excitement within the races as there used to be. There are less incidents, crashes, etc. Nowadays it's just mechanical faults if anything is going to happen, and they re hardly exciting. And I agree that qualifying is more important than racing these days, because track changes and car changes have made it a lot harder to overtake than it used to be.

But we live in hope.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

It's being made as safe as possible each and every year.

Without danger F1 isn't all it can be.

[TheArsenal]

A think a lot of that came after Senna. And it just keeps on coming.