Monday, April 05, 2004
F1 Grand Prix has become a curious sport... something of a joke, even.Micheal Schumacher and Ferrari have become so totally dominant that they're now almost irrelevant.
Todays was an interesting and occasionally even exciting race. Lots of overtaking, a couple of shunts, a car eating it's engine for lunch, some mental passing moves, and Jensen Button on the podium again.
Very wisely the director/producer or whoever chose to almost entirely ignore the two front runners... coz they were just going round and round and round, very quickly, and who wants to see that?
Who'd have thought it though? It used to be that the crap teams at the back would be ignored, coz who wants to watch a loser? Now... you get less coverage for being the very best by a country mile and the cars at the back who're scrapping for the leftovers get all the coverage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining... I wanna see the action, wherever it is in the field... I just find it a bizarre situation.
It's even more bizarre when you remember Ferrari's record prior to and just after Schumacher's joining the team.
I remember praying they'd get a win, race after race, as Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi struggled with poor power and reliability in what were easilly the most beautiful cars ever built. Then Schumi joined and they brought out a radically different looking car... butt ugly by all standards, and the thing simply fell apart underneath him.
Anyone remember the race where the prop shaft fell out from under the car in the formation lap?
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Steve 2:02 AM [+]
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