I've barely missed an F1 race in over 20 years, but this weekend is super interesting. F1 gambling BIG on doing self promotion at a new track with Las Vegas (their usual system is to get tracks/promoters/dictators to pay an ungodly and unprofitable amount).
First practice session and it's red flagged after 10 mins and not restarting due to a Ferrari sucking up a drain cover smashing up the car.
Not a good start. Popcorn time..
It's so weird how they can't seem to get F1 right. The previous owner, Bernie Ecclestone (literally the world's GREATEST used car salesman) did a great job at growing the sport but couldn't (refused to actually) adapt to modern media.
Now the US company Liberty Media own it and although there have been a lot of improvements, they're still completely tone deaf when it comes to marrying the European base with the all so desired and never cracked American one. The biggest influence has been a Netflix series but they weren't really in control of that.
When I see how they run the new US races, it seriously looks like they asked someone from Kazakhstan what they think an American would like and turned it up to 11.
The incompetence blows my mind.
First practice session and it's red flagged after 10 mins and not restarting due to a Ferrari sucking up a drain cover smashing up the car.
Not a good start. Popcorn time..
It's so weird how they can't seem to get F1 right. The previous owner, Bernie Ecclestone (literally the world's GREATEST used car salesman) did a great job at growing the sport but couldn't (refused to actually) adapt to modern media.
Now the US company Liberty Media own it and although there have been a lot of improvements, they're still completely tone deaf when it comes to marrying the European base with the all so desired and never cracked American one. The biggest influence has been a Netflix series but they weren't really in control of that.
When I see how they run the new US races, it seriously looks like they asked someone from Kazakhstan what they think an American would like and turned it up to 11.
The incompetence blows my mind.
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