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Originally Posted by Zeke
It would be great to just go racing w/o the drama.
Commercials? What we are being sold here is professional wrestling ala WWE. I'm not big on motorcycles but MotoGP looks pretty real to me.
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I have a somewhat opposite view (except on MotoGP - I agree with you it's real, closer racing but I can't get into bikes as much)... But it's all good...
To me Nascar is more drama (fights, cheats, wall hugging trick) and indycar also too a certain extent (spec chassis, yellows all the time to bunch up the pack, IMSA to an extent does this too).
F1 for all its warts is more pure, "make your own car from scratch, make your own engine or buy one of those 4" and somehow those guys end up within 2/10th of each other most years, it's amazing. I wish tire wars came back into it also. The poorer teams that cannot build it all buy some parts from other teams (limited by rules) but never amount to much.
I quit on cable and pay for F1TV. At $80 a year that is not that much vs my cable bill that was 100+ a month, and I get EVERYTHING, interviews, pre-race stuff, great analysis, the tech explanation from that funny spanish guy, ZERO ads, post race, I can skip shouty Crofty who was really annoying me, and I also get Porsche supercup which is my favorite racing series after F1 and WRC.
The drama in F1 is fun to me, team managers defending their drivers blindly, being totally hypocritical, transfers, teams backstabbing each other, it's a a few notches above WWE in my book and keeps the off season entertaining... Drive to survive is trying to be more WWE, granted, and I like it less now, but it did F1 a lot of good I suppose. But hey, if I've learned anything on this board is we all have varying tastes, all good!