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There's an old saying in sales:
"you always screw over your best customers".
This is usually uttered immediately after a strategy meeting.
It means a business inadvertently ignores or neglects it's established,
best customers by shifting too much focus onto attracting new customers.
F1 is following that model to a T.
They are screwing over their loyal fans in hopes of
attracting newer, younger fans.
They do it with rules like getting rid of fueling,
hybrid technology, fuel usage rate restrictions,
V6 engines, and hundreds of other dumb regulations
designed to put less emphasis on performance and
put it more on everyone getting as participation trophy.
They are trying to do it with DEI but it hasn't taken hold yet
(except during FP1 aka DEI Friday).
The cars have become HUGE, complicated, expensive, and frankly boring.
Can't afford to compete?
We'll put spending restrictions on the good teams.
Can't keep up?
We'll slow the good teams down.
They are deathly afraid of being irrelevant with
coming generations so they are killing themselves before that
can happen by ruining the "brand" for loyal fans.
The beauty of F1 is that is evolved from gentlemen racers
who races for the love and thrill of it.
They, along with certain manufacturers who participated
to prove how good they were, pushed the state of the art
in performance.
Not woke, not green, not PC, just pure performance.
But somewhere along the line it ceased to be racing and became
a show designed to generate money.
All that matters to those in charge is increasing the flow of money.
And that is what will ultimately make the "brand" irrelevant.
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