I’m getting sick and tired of Formula 1.
Not because of the sport of racing itself, but because of how the FIA (and the teams) always manage to shoot themselves in the foot.
A few years back, there was the McLaren-Ferrari “spygate” scandal, then there was the humiliating “liargate” scandal in Melbourne this year which McLaren was involved in, then there was the whole fiasco over the new regulations this year, including the disastrous introduction of KERS.
And now, as if it weren’t bad enough, we’ve come to the straw that breaks the camel’s back – the FOTA teams are threatening to make good of their promise of starting a rival series.
Which effectively throws away decades worth of precious history and heritage associated with the sport…the marvellous achievements and feats of the Fangios, the Sennas, the Prosts, the Hakkinens, the Schumachers, etc, and the proud heritage of the Ferraris, the McLarens, the Williamses, the Renaults, etc…all thrown out the window.
By splitting up, they’re effectively ruining what is unquestionably by far the biggest and most prestigious racing series in the world.
How crazy is that?
It’s farcical, to be honest.
One only needs to look at the American CART series split in the mid 90′s into IRL and Champ Cars to realise how nobody ever gains when a premier series is split into two.
American open wheel racing has never been the same again ever since the split into IRL/Champ Cars.
And Formula 1 will never be the same again either.
But anyway, to be honest, I think that this season is the start of the decline anyway.
It’s not as if we’re having a vintage season this year, a la ’07 or ’08.
We’re having a joke of a season this year (in my opinion), whereby the rules are completely changed, and the cars look hideous, and the traditionally dominant teams are totally caught off-guard, and the former has-beens are fighting for the championship, and some of the best pilots in the world are struggling in the mid-field pack just to score a single championship point…and fans over the world are struggling to even make sense of this new world order in Formula 1.
It’s just a ridiculously surreal season this year.
Which is just as well…cos this might be the last year we actually get to witness Formula 1 in its proper sense.
