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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
Hah, I watched it last night in bed; I guess the last thing I remembered was that with a few laps to go he was a couple of laps ahead. There must have been pit stops with ten laps remaining while I sort of dozed on and off. (Feel free to correct anything else in that list that's not accurate!  ) |
its very often we look back on racing with rose-tinted glasses, thinking it was like today, but with more variety.
and the reality is that a lot of old racing, wasnt very good racing actually. at least wasnt very good if the fun part for you is two drivers going wheel to wheel to win ... there was a lot less of that back in the day. margins of victories in everything from le mans to F1, and even NASCAR could be whole laps. there might only be 2 or 3 cars on the lead lap at the end of these races. reliability, pitstops, and just bad driving to be honest ...
the reality is, that often the racing today is far better. far closer than it ever has been.
and at the end of the day, id rather the drivers on the track determine the outcome of the race, rather than the money off the track. and id rather have two drivers pushing to the absolutely limits within tenths of each other trying to win, than have variety of chassis (ie, most chassis suck then).