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Yep. No need to watch qualifying for the next race. It will be a Merc.

 

Did you mind when it was all red cars then blue cars? I whined a bit, but realized the tide would turn as it always does. The same will happen with the silver cars. Maybe this is Manor's turn. FWIW as long as there is good racing I'm OK with whoever wins.

 

The team with the fastest car wins. It's the potential for upsets that makes the drama.

Though I agree with the drivers, somethings' gotta change if the sport is to survive. Maybe get it off pay TV, allow more innovation and variation among the cars, stop messing with a qualifying format that worked?

 

^^^^ Please just go away

 

King Bernie is really the court jester.

 

Terrestrial TV, what is that? /s

 

what F1 doesn't realize is that each year they will have less and less people follow their show. I cut the cable more than 5 years ago, and pretty much got by with some Euro streaming sites that recently got shut down. Now, combined with the obvious decline in entertainment value offered by the series, I don't even care that I can't watch any longer.

Meanwhile, my kids and their peers, even though they are some of the few who still care about cars and motorsports, have never watched cable television, will never get cable in their lives. If you can't watch it on a computer or phone, it doesn't really exist for them. Unless F1 becomes available online and free, they will become a small footnote in the 21st century entertainment ecosystem. It just seems F1 is so full of itself they don't see that writing on the wall. Just look how NASCAR has dropped off - their audience is dying out and few young fans are being added. TV ratings dropping, empty seats, unheard of 15 years ago.

There's a lot of competition for the attention of young people, and with most of them happy to have a Uber app on their phone rather than to own a car and pay outrageous insurance rates for it, it's difficult to see how the motorsports industry is going to keep drawing an audience, at least in this country.

 

^^^I think sad but true.

 

My kids are the same way. But I like sitting in a comfortable chair and watching stuff on a big screen in high resolution. With a lot of ISPs limiting bandwidth streaming hd won't be wide spread for a while.

 

I like Buxton's idea, but I'd give them two laps, outlap - one qually lap, then the last one.

Do or die.....