No matter how hard I try I cannot get excited about Formula 1. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind others getting excited but there is no element of this show that means I would prefer to sit inside and watch on a beautiful sunny day rather than be outside enjoying myself. I know we are good at it! I know we have world champions. But it still leaves me cold. I suppose that is the great thing about sport & human nature. We all get excited by something and I fully understand why you wouldn’t automatically get excited about rugby. Each to their own.
I guess much of it comes from my lack of interest in cars, motoring or being a petrol-head. In fact the stupid money spent on F1,like the football, is what annoys me. Perhaps I believe the super-money involved takes sport away from the grass roots I love.
My other annoyance is the amount of money the BBC spent from it’s limited sport budget on F1. Just think how many proper sports we could have got for that!
There I have upset enough F1 fanatics for 1 day. By the way who won today. I didn’t really care much anyway.
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