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World's first Formula 1 night race.
patrickl:
Well I feared another Valencia since the track is rather similar (ie overtaking is next to impossible)
I have to say that most of this years races have been pretty nice. Mostly due to changing weather or safety car situations. There have been lots of different people winning races too.
Samstag:
It's a shame that such a beautiful track makes for such a dull race. Safety cars really spoil the race in my opinion.
shmokes:
I don't follow racing. It seems extremely boring to me. I'm sure it's not . . . bajillions of people love it. And I think watching tennis is all kinds of exciting, but I remember growing up feeling the same way about tennis when I saw it on TV as I currently feel about racing. I'm sure if I got into it, and learned the rules and understood how it all works, it'd be fine.
Rally racing is an exception. F1, stock car, that sort of thing is just a bunch of cars going in circles for a few hours. But rally racing is about the coolest thing on the planet. I'm always amazed that it isn't more popular in the U.S. I suppose it's just less popular because it can't be done in a stadium where tens of thousands of tickets can be sold
Samstag:
In the US you really need an oval to be successful.
Rallys are interesting for a little while, but it's hard to get excited when only one car competes at a time. What they do is amazing, it just doesn't make for good television (in my opinion).
As far as I'm concerned, it ain't racing unless braking is as important as going fast, there must be both left and right turns, and there must be more than one vehicle on track simultaneously. F1 is my favorite because it attracts the best drivers and engineers and pushes technology further every year.
vorghagen:
Samstag, I get exactly what you mean about Formula 1 pushing technology further but recently I think they're putting technology in just for the sake of it, Ferrari's new pit system being a prime example. Much more complicated and much more that can go wrong, as was spectacularly shown in Singapore. Lollypop man worked fine - why change it?
For me, the best racing is the European Touring Cars. About 6 or 7 different manufacturers on course with strengths and weaknesses for each car, very close racing with the lead changing 5 times every lap, plenty of overtaking and not much interference from management and committees.
Being Australian, I'm supposed to think the V8 Supercar series is the best racing but there just isn't enough overtaking. It's a single file line from start to finish and having only 2 manufacturers (Ford vs Holden) doesn't help either.
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