Nah, it’s just most common denominator ubiquitousness. They’re taking something great but foreign and pairing it with tacky familiarity for increased viewership. The Miami Vin Diesel preview made my skin crawl.
Cota's $300 GA deal is hard to pass up Too bad I'm locked into the Canadian grand prix You know ever since they started pushing the dirt around Back when tex was posting the first photos I suggested they call the track up to turn one Phil Hill
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/norris-calls-for-harsher-f1-penalties-amid-suspicions-of-deliberate-rule-breaches/10536212/ Norris calls for harsher F1 penalties amid suspicions of deliberate rule breaches Lando Norris believes weak penalties in Formula 1 for overtaking cars off circuit are encouraging drivers to deliberately break rules to gain track position. Author Jonathan Noble Updated Oct 22, 2023, 4:16 PM The McLaren driver thinks it is “silly” that a lack of harshness from the FIA in dealing with such rule breaches means it can be better for drivers to get a five-second penalty for illegally jumping a slower rival they can easily pull clear of, than lose time by getting stuck behind them. Norris’s comments come in the wake of his team-mate Oscar Piastri losing a position to George Russell in the Austin sprint race after what the Australian felt was a “blatant” move by his Mercedes rival to pass him off track and take a penalty hit. Speaking at the Circuit of the Americas, Norris said that drivers had tried to hammer home to the FIA about the time punishment of gaining positions off track not being enough of a discouragement, but the message had not appeared to have got through. “The thing I find a bit silly about it, is that these things have been brought up so many times in the drivers' briefings,” said Norris. “It is a point we bring up every time and it's a point that George brought up himself in Barcelona, where, with the fact that you can commit to the outside line in Turn 1, and just kind of overdoing it, you can get past two cars and commit to just going off, like we saw people do in Russia, as well in T1 and T2. “It's something you can easily prepare yourself for. And I'm pretty sure we came up with a conclusion that people are going to do it on purpose. “We discussed this exact thing. And we discussed that you can easily do it. If you're quicker you could get past someone, and you're easily going to pull away five seconds. Like in Monaco, for example, if you cut the chicane.
I just hope the race will be better than the sprint. Not that I have much hope. I'll record it, just in case I have to fast forward to the end.
