3.2/10
Unless you’ve watched Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Then it is brought up 7.9/10.
Brimming with history and a cult like following involving the weird kid from your year 9 days, F1 has been the pinnacle of motorsport since cigarettes were considered healthy. Twenty odd cars flying around a track at high speed is expected to have you on the edge of your seat!
Except it doesn’t.
Watching cars go around a track 53 times is truly the cure for insomnia. Once I was woken by the sound of a driver screaming for joy because he placed in the top 50 or something, I immediately turned the tv off and waited for some poor intern to produce a highlights reel within the next hour.
Highlights normally show a plethora of overtakes that make the commentators more aroused than they should be. If you get excited by seeing someone overtake than try sitting in the left-hand lane of a freeway doing the actual speed limit. You’re bound to find a Hilux with a beaming new light-bar, and green P plates parked inside your boot. Never fear, this is just second year apprentice Trent giving you some encouragement to speed up before flying past to pick up his girlfriend from school. WHAT A THRILL.
Of course, one of the main pleasures is witnessing a crash. Because at the end of the day we are all sick people who get our kicks from watching a car flip over at high speed, as long as the driver is okay our secret desire for destruction is fulfilled. Thanks to advancements in safety technology, it’s rare anyone gets hurt.
There are some oddly sick people out there against the idea of the halo, which is a recent invention attached to the car that protects the drivers’ heads. It only took almost 100 years for F1 officials to realise the head is an important body part to protect.
Aside from the thrills and spills that make you go “shivers that doesn’t look good” as a car is folded in half, most of the action happens off the track, as shown in the critically acclaimed Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Admittedly, I jumped on the F1 bandwagon after watching the show and can now brag to my mates about how much of a loser I am.
After gaining insight into all the politics and drama happening behind the scenes in the racing world. I came to a few conclusions:
- Mercedes win basically every time because they’re rich.
- The manager for HAAS swears more than the average Australian.
- If your parents aren’t rich, you have no hope in the sport.
- Armchair experts in the sport who have a strong hatred against Lewis Hamilton because he wins…
- Most teammates have a weird tension between them.
TAH.
The Amateur Hour 