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2020 Formula 1 Season Thread
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There certainly have!
I like Lewis but I find his fashion sense/interest incomprehensible!
Interesting grid. Cold be a good race between the top 3. Norris did a fantastic job but I can’t see him keeping up in the race
The Hamilton Straight. What fantastic recognition for everything Lewis is doing on and off track. He seemed to be genuinely moved by it
He’s on soft tyres so it does give him an issue compared to those around him. But a well timed SC could favour him.
I heard he might be getting a knighthood as well. But I can’t see it before he retires.
Some McLaren news.
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McLaren sell stake to US-based investors in £560m deal to help push to return to front of F1
US-based investors buying a big stake in McLaren, valuing the F1 racing team at more than £550m; McLaren selling a minority stake to investors including MSP Sports Capital, Sky News revealed; announcement formally made on Sunday ahead of final F1 race of 2020 in Abu Dhabi
Some McLaren news.
McLaren sell stake to US-based investors in £560m deal to help push to return to front of F1
US-based investors buying a big stake in McLaren, valuing the F1 racing team at more than £550m; McLaren selling a minority stake to investors including MSP Sports Capital, Sky News revealed; announcement formally made on Sunday ahead of final F1 race of 2020 in Abu Dhabi
Sad news but this be is the way it’s all going.
As long as it doesn’t continue to be Americanised and tailored just for an American audience. It’s never been a market I’ve been that bothered about for F1 as it’s a very European series. We’ll see what the future brings.
2020 is evidently not yet done trolling us.
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Maestri at least has some grounding in reality, though I cannot see him leaving Apple. And Ive? Not a chance.
Apple CFO Luca Maestri and Jony Ive Reportedly Candidates for Ferrari CEO Position
Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and former Chief Design Officer Jony Ive are reportedly candidates to be Ferrari's next CEO, reports Reuters, citing Italian media. Former Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri departed the company last week citing personal reasons, and potential successors...
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Maestri at least has some grounding in reality, though I cannot see him leaving Apple. And Ive? Not a chance.
Unlikely. I've been watching F1 since Niki Lauda beat Prost by half a point, and it's still a niche sport within the larger niche of motor racing.
At the most basic level, for Americans to be interested, there has to be an American competitor to root for. Haas, the purportedly "American" team, is often criticized for not hiring such drivers, and even with the clean slate next season, will be running a Russian(!) and a German.
There also has to be a certain level of competitiveness, if not parity, among the field, which encourages artificial gimmickry in the rules, like NASCAR, the most popular form of U.S. motorsport, employs. Needless to say, F1 occupies the other end of the spectrum.
Part of the reason Schumacher liked to travel in the U.S. was because he could do so in anonymity.
Ironically, while what the rest of the world knows as Football is a popular youth sport, it is still a niche as far as spectator sports go, except perhaps during brief periods when the national women's team does well in international competition (WC, Olympics).
Wealthy American businessmen have also invested in European football clubs, to no effect, and it won't be any different for F1.
Let's hope not.
I sincerely hope you're correct with only one slight alteration. I hope it brings a race closer to me.
I think the thing about the US and sports is they are often out of step with the rest of the world.
Football (soccer to you guys!) is the world’s number one sport. But a niche sport in the US.
It works the other way around as well. I couldn’t name 10 basketball players past or present. I couldn’t name more than two baseball players.
Maybe 5 American footballers.
F1 is based in Europe. Having outside investment or ownership doesn’t really change that.
But even I find it strange that a Russian will be driving for Hass. Especially when drivers the calibre of Perez are available.
Football (soccer to you guys!) is the world’s number one sport. But a niche sport in the US.
It works the other way around as well. I couldn’t name 10 basketball players past or present. I couldn’t name more than two baseball players.
Maybe 5 American footballers.
F1 is based in Europe. Having outside investment or ownership doesn’t really change that.
But even I find it strange that a Russian will be driving for Hass. Especially when drivers the calibre of Perez are available.
And we have to have a DEFINITE winner. lol
And we have to have that BIG GAME TO DECIDE EVERYTHING.
A lot, too many, of our sports look to the NFL as a role model.
NASCAR's first race of the season, their self proclaimed "super bowl, The Daytona 500 is in February.
Then they have a season long race to the championship which is in November. They have a over contrived points system which then turns into a race by race "playoff" for the last 12 races.
INDYCAR is pretty much the same. Idiotic points given out and "the BIG ONE", the INDY 500 is in May about 3 months into the season and with only about 5 months left to race...
I could go on but it only makes my blood boil.
And we have to have that BIG GAME TO DECIDE EVERYTHING.
A lot, too many, of our sports look to the NFL as a role model.
NASCAR's first race of the season, their self proclaimed "super bowl, The Daytona 500 is in February.
Then they have a season long race to the championship which is in November. They have a over contrived points system which then turns into a race by race "playoff" for the last 12 races.
INDYCAR is pretty much the same. Idiotic points given out and "the BIG ONE", the INDY 500 is in May about 3 months into the season and with only about 5 months left to race...
I could go on but it only makes my blood boil.
Don't get me started on the ridiculousness of the MLS. WAY TO GO CREW!!!
That’s very true. I have never watched an American football match, or a game of basketball or baseball in my life lol. Where America only really follows it’s own homegrown sports, I find those sports aren’t particularly pushed here in Europe either. Bernie always had the view he wasn’t bothered if F1 was popular in the US because it used to earn billions without it. I think now with the sport getting less viewers due to pay tv, the owners are looking to other markets to try and recoup the money rather than opening the sport back up to the masses with free to air television.
Yet if they moved it to free to air TV again, audiences would rise, sponsors would come flooding back (and those already there would be happy) and manufacturers would be happier to be part of the sport.
Sounds like win win win to me.
There has been resistance to it in the past because he is essentially a tax exile.
I agree with most of what you and Apple fanboy says about American sport. However, i am a big Basketball fan and subscribe to the NBA app to be able to watch all the games.Big LeBron fan also since he was in high school 20 years ago and watched all the Lakers playoff games even though it meant waking up at 3 am to watch the games.
It may have something to do with the fact that i lived in America for a number of years but never got interested in the NFL or Baseball. I have attended a number of baseball games at Yankee stadium but it was more social than being really into it.
As a US Citizen, further US ownership of F1 will be nothing but a negative. I don’t want F1 to be Indy Car on Steroids. Liberty has done nothing positive since acquisition IMO to increase competition.
Congratulations to Max on the win today. Yet another promising moment to be put off into a field once Honda leaves.
Somewhat ironic that Honda was the only engine manufacturer who did not have a power-unit failure in 2020.
Wonder how Carlos Sainz feels about going to Ferrari considering how easily he passed their cars all season in his McLaren. I guess the pay and prestige is good enough make it worth the jump.
Wonder how Carlos Sainz feels about going to Ferrari considering how easily he passed their cars all season in his McLaren. I guess the pay and prestige is good enough make it worth the jump.