Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?

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The Penultimate Warrior said:
Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber is certainly an interesting choice for a team name.
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Either they are having an identity crisis or they just told buddy ol pal GPT to generate the team name for them.

So far we have two rebrands for 2024 and they both sound horrible. I'm going to call Racing Bulls "Racing Balls" from now on.
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber is certainly an interesting choice for a team name.
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It's not like it stands out particularly poorly against the likes of

Aston Martin Aramco Formula 1
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team

They tend to whore out the naming rights to some.company dumb enough to pony up only for everyone to ignore it. Guaranteed you'll never hear Sauber refered to as anything other than Sauber (or maybe Kick Sauber, which seems to be what they're trying to shorten it to).
 
Classic F1 on sky today, watched the 1994 Japanese GP. The shots actually showing the action, there wasn't a single shot of some goober in the stands, no retarded kids, no "celebrity" shots, and Walker actually knowing what the fuck is happening on the screen.

How did we end up with what we have now? 100,00 angles, 1 million data points and still we never see what the fuck is going on, have to look at some retard in the stands or garage while things are actually happening, and it takes Crofty 30 minutes to notice anything happening.
 
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Coccxys said:
Classic F1 on sky today, watched the 1994 Japanese GP. The shots actually showing the action, there wasn't a single shot of some goober in the stands, no retarded kids, no "celebrity" shots, and Walker actually knowing what the fuck is happening on the screen.

How did we end up with what we have now? 100,00 angles, 1 million data points and still we never see what the fuck is going on, have to look at some retard in the stands or garage while things are actually happening, and it takes Crofty 30 minutes to notice anything happening.
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A: International TV direction and B: Sponsors wanting lots of close-ups. Of course, they also want to emphasise the dramatic aspect instead of wanting to show the on-track action because they genuinely don't believe in the attention span of the average person. Then again, if they are going with the dataset of the average Sky F1 viewer then it is not surprising that they think the average F1 audience member is a barely sentient ape-man.
 
Coccxys said:
How did we end up with what we have now? 100,00 angles, 1 million data points and still we never see what the fuck is going on, have to look at some retard in the stands or garage while things are actually happening, and it takes Crofty 30 minutes to notice anything happening.
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The BBC losing F1 telecast rights started the downward spiral, and shit like DTS just finished the job.
 
Oops McLaren's "look we have a female driver too" just stumbled into a social media mess.

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For record the tweets she liked were implying Lance Stroll is autistic and that's why he sucks.

Of course the reddit and X mobs are in full witch hunt mode and not for accepting any PR written apology. Her pulling "my brother is autistic, so I cant be ablist" went about as well as the "I have black friends" defence.

Then she went full retard and posted a video with her autistic brother making another apology with him just sat there as a prop, guess how much thay calmed the mob...

Let's see if she gets yeeted, or at least a "we don't condone this shit" statement from McLaren like would have happened to any male junior driver.
 
Coccxys said:
For record the tweets she liked were implying Lance Stroll is autistic and that's why he sucks.
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She shouldn’t be commenting because it’s highly likely that Lance is faster than her, but it’s retarded to be outraged over someone being called autistic. Not to mention that she only liked a tweet, she didn’t write it herself.
 
Modern sports is a farce. The other day I watched older season reviews, and all drivers had so much character. Don't like a move another driver made during a race? Go suckerpunch him. Want to win the championship? Punt your rival off track in the 1st corner. I think that is part of the sport, characters and drama. Not this sanitized modern PR crap.
 
Heck if you think about it a commentator like Hunt who openly called drivers "idiots" would be canceled in a heartbeat today
 
Balr0g said:
Heck if you think about it a commentator like Hunt who openly called drivers "idiots" would be canceled in a heartbeat today
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Curious, when did he call out the drivers for being idiots? Which game was it?
 
blablabla said:
hunt is another overhyped british piece of shit. my boy niki lauda was the real deal
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I can vaguely agree with you and also agree that his scorching hot takes on TV were awesome.
 
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