What bores you about motorsport

[RMi Release Group]

hadnt seen Indy in a few years but I have been in Sweden for 2 weeks and they are replaying the whole season... epic fail... boring boring boring.

F1... love the tire this year. Now all they need to do is kill KERS and DRS

[frapp]

Actually Kers & DRS are fine. I don't like the way in which DRS is implimented. Everybody should be able to use DRS anywhere; leading, following, whatever. No DRS zones - open season anywhere on the track. I think that would make it much more level and interesting.

[Paul_in_DC]

Originally Posted by RMi Release Group

NASCAR and Indycar
wtf is with Indycar anyway... this is not a prety thing to look at:

Pretty?? Who gives a rip about pretty? I'd love the ugliest car in the world if it was also the fastest and handled the best.

[skiffle]

Originally Posted by Shinzah

I am fine with discussion, I don't mind good stuff like coherent "I don't like this because.." and then something logical.

Its the harping, I hate the harping, and the shots. Like I'm watching an ALMS race and they have Don on and he just goes off in the middle of discussion and says something like "Oh, not like that redneck nascar stuff" or something. Or when someone just blindly says "The 80s were better then ANYTHING" and continues to fight with nonstatements like that. Or when I hear D.W during a nascar race describe the days when there was no power steering and how much harder it was, because earnhardt senior, and then (even though hes a commentator) he'll proceed to say something to the effect of "Casey Edwards is leading the race and Marcus Johnson is second". Its stuff like that that bloody irks me.

Thank you - I, likewise, am sick to death of bitter, snarky comments along the lines of things such as "The 80s were better then ANYTHING", or bitching about modern pay drivers that ignores the fact that pay drivers have always existed.

The complaints about pay drivers irk me sometimes because I feel that some drivers, even those with evident talent, are being cheaply dismissed as pay drivers as a lazy attack on modern motor sport as a whole. One poster complained that Jim Clark would only be accepted today if he brought sponsorship, yet history has shown that even some of the great drivers of the past also relied on sponsorship cash to break into the sport - as a quick example, Lauda, a three time F1 WDC winner, was a pay driver at the beginning of his career.

[zud the spud]

Schumacher paid to get a Jordan drive in '91, look how that turned out.

The problem is when you have drivers that seem out of their depth. Milka Duno is the best example I can think of, I believe record holder for the longest Indycar career without a top 10 finish.

[e30dtmdriver]

Drag racing is the most boring for sure. I can stand NASCAR before I can watch drag racing. Going to either is a different story but sitting on the couch watching drag racing is about as entertaining as sitting on the couch counting each strand of my arm hair.

I also find motorcross/supercross very boring, I can't even really get into any two wheeled racing, I like watching replays of close battles but I can't just sit and watch an entire race.

[fisheracing]

Question: What bores you about motorsport?

Answer: Any 'motorized' vehicle without a drop of fuel in the tank......

[ongias25]

Tractor pulling.........

[e30dtmdriver]

Originally Posted by ongias25

Tractor pulling.........

Dang I completely forgot about that.

It's like drag racing but far worst. lol

[joaoa13pt]

Formula 1

sorry..

[Spike]

Originally Posted by e30dtmdriver

Drag racing is the most boring for sure. I can stand NASCAR before I can watch drag racing. Going to either is a different story but sitting on the couch watching drag racing is about as entertaining as sitting on the couch counting each strand of my arm hair.

I also find motorcross/supercross very boring, I can't even really get into any two wheeled racing, I like watching replays of close battles but I can't just sit and watch an entire race.

Originally Posted by ongias25

Tractor pulling.........

Watching them on TV I guess is a bit boring but but being there in the stands feeling the rumble from the powerful engines is amazing .

[Copyright]

Originally Posted by Spike

Watching them on TV I guess is a bit boring but but being there in the stands feeling the rumble from the powerful engines is amazing .

+1

and walking around the paddock talking to the drivers and mechanics, checking out the cars.

[dartguy]

Originally Posted by Copyright

+1

and walking around the paddock talking to the drivers and mechanics, checking out the cars.

Yep. I've been to F1, Nascar, Indy 500 and many other smaller races. The NHRA in person is awesome!! Followed closely by the 500.

So many classes, running all day and into the night, pit access and the smell and sound in unbelievable!!!


TV, not so much.

[markspeed]

TV does tend to make some motorsports seem flat and unexciting. I've seen lots of drag racing in person. I've seen dirt circle track racing in person. Mostly Pro-Stock and Sprints as I recall. I grew up listening to them every sunday in the summer back in New Jersey. I saw atleast 10 races or so. My favorite of all is my local event the Coronado Speed Festival. I've seen some dirt bikes and BMX(admittedly not motorsport).

I can't really say for certain what I think is the most boring motorsport. Generally speaking I like all forms of motorsport to some degree, because I'm a absolute fuel injected motorhead. But as far as watching motorsports on TV, I'd have to say motorbike racing is the least interesting to me. I know there's a few people I know who will be disappointed in me for saying so. And it's weird cause I love motorcycles. My father has a Harley, Two BSA's and Yamaha. My late brother had a Honda Nighthawk 750. I've known people who've ridden everything from Ninja's to Ducati's. And while I've yet to own one myself, I've ridden a couple of dirtbikes a little bit. The first of which was a Honda CR80.

But for some reason I've no real interest in watching bikes on TV. I can't put my finger on it. I've seen bikes drag in real life. And that's excellent. I've seen em jump 30 feet in the air. I've even nearly been killed by one riding my old Diamondback on a trail and nearly rolled over by a guy on Yamaha. But I just can't watch em on TV.

Coverage maybe? I can't say. But even time it comes on speed I find myself looking for something else to watch. It's probably the last pure form of motorsport left. In terms of man and machine, without the modern electronic assists the I believe delude the man machine interface to some degree. Making the world of motorbikes the last pure form of motorsport, and yet I can't watch it on TV. Go figure!


Sorry TicToc!

[IWE]

Originally Posted by vassalfada

Boring sounds !!

Modern racing cars are quieter and quieter.
And the worse : Audi stating that a proper race car should be silent, and making their totally silent E-Tron LMP !
Scary !!

I prefer to have silent race cars racing on proper race tracks like Monza and Spa Francorchamps instead of having any kind of loud cars racing on bore-fest tracks like Valencia or any other modern Tilkedromes.

For example Monza and Spa have been in trouble with locals complaining about too loud noises.

[Spike]

Originally Posted by IWE

I prefer to have silent race cars racing on proper race tracks like Monza and Spa Francorchamps instead of having any kind of loud cars racing on bore-fest tracks like Valencia or any other modern Tilkedromes.

For example Monza and Spa have been in trouble with locals complaining about too loud noises.

Screw the whiny locals similar thing happened in one of the small towns about an hour from here. Some developer built some fancy look-a-like condo/townhomes near a dirt track a few years ago. The idiots that bought the places KNOWING there was a dirt race track near there complained about the noise and of course the stupid town council gave the track owner an ultimatum so now all racing has to stop at 10pm. Bad enough a bunch of those ugly look-a-like developments are popping up everywhere ruining the countryside landscape, now the whiny owners have to take all the fun out of racing @ the local tracks. Heard on the local news that attendance is down quite a bit there now since there are fewer races.