Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "NASCAR Fan Learns Interesting Formula 1 FACTS" video.

  1. I don't mind 3 races in the US per se, F1 has always been a business posing as a sport and it's a big market to conquer, and there have been two or maybe even three races in much smaller countries before. But it has also always been the biggest show coming to town, or to a country, like a big circus in a small town. It has to be THE event, with head of states attending and stuff. I like the idea of Vegas, but nevermind the track itself, the parking lot in Miami with a view on the highway and a fake marina are simply not good enough to host F1. F1 is a whore far too classy and expensive for a back alley like that. Hamitlon is good, but he's also very flattered by a unique situation of a supreme Mercedes that was protected against regulation changes and catch up. Other good drivers only got one or two years in a superior car, he got 8 years and lost 2 of them. F1 is dominated by the British and the English language though, and as you are relying on English too, you might get biased reporting on him. Lella Lombardi actually didn't score a point. The race was stopped early, and only half points were given and her 6th position was good for one point. She was a good driver though, well respected, but you had to be really good to make it to a team capable of winning first and a lot of F1 drivers didn't manage to score any points at all before they were replaced or died on track.
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  2. They had fewer races otherwise the drivers couldn't attend the funerals of their collegues.
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  3. No, it isn't. The French came up with F1 for the Italian manufacterers and were nice enough to organize the first race on one of the many airfields in Britain. If it's relevant were the teams are based Italy is the home of F1, if it's important were the races are held the UK has only one race. I respect the UK's contribution to F1 but the sense of entitlement gets annoying. Mercedes has been by far the most superior team for by far the longest time in the history of F1. Era's of car supremacy used to last no longer than 2 years. Hamilton only had to beat Bottas to get his records, a hastily found replacement driver. Bottas got 4 poles last season in a car Hamilton managed to beaten with fair and square. Now Bottas is back in a regular car, it's shows how mediocre he was and how terribly fast the Mercedes had been all those years.
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  4.  @OblivionGate  This is not about glory. This is about the fact that the British can't do what all the others can, celebrate your national glory in an international sport. The British feel entitled to make it their sport and moan about their dead royal on the podium of an international even in Italy. The British can't just have a national favourite, it has to be everybody's favourite and everybody has got to adore him. They have to claime the entire sport as theirs just because they have been very good at it for the past decade or the not so British Mercedes has decided that it was better to have the F1 team away from the factory. A WDC always is to some degree up to the car but not to the same degree. It's not that hard to roughly determine to what degree by looking at the cars and the drivers. When a mediocre driver like Bottas drives his car to 4 poles in 2021, that Mercedes must have been a very fast car. We also can simply establish that the Mercedes era was unique in F1 history in how the rules and the only little rule changes protected the supremacy of car for 8 seasons, while in the past the supremacy of a car maxed out within two seasons. Schumacher only ended up in a superior car after making inferior cars into title challengers, and even winning 5 WDC's with them. It's not like his teammates were ever only outqualified 6 to 4 like Hamilton did, that was 9-1 or better, same for the races. His teammates didn't get 2nd in the WDC either until the last 2 WDC's when the car finally was indeed superior. Vettel is far less impressive as a supreme driver, but the stole WDC's in good car from what was a small team before the claws of the big guns of McLaren and Ferrari with Hamilton and Alonso. Eventually he had a superior car for a season, but even then his teammate didn't manage to come 2nd in the WDC any time. Hamilton never managed to come 2nd in the WDC against Vettel in the Red Bull, his teammate Jenson Button did become 2nd in the same very good McLaren. The Vettel years were actually quite brilliant because we had 3 matching cars and 4 matching drivers, but the youngest driver in the low budget car ran away with them all, snatched the titles without being superior in 3 of 4 seasons. Shame you couldn't enjoy that because your national favourite didn't perform well. That's different from a supreme car like the late 80's McLaren, the early 90's Williams, the 98 and 99 McLaren. Really dominant cars with the 2nd driver also driving to many poles and wins. Drivers used to start in some backmarker and show themselves, then get in a car that could maybe win but not challenge for the title, and then get a seat in one of the three teams that could possibly win a WDC, in which they enjoyed only one or two years of a dominant car. Hamilton is a good driver, but without this uniquely long supremacy of a car, he would have been a 2 time WDC winner probably. He underachieved at McLaren too after his excellent debut year. He has had the best cars of any driver in history, by far. Best prepared young driver for F1 in history too, privileged, protected and groomed since he was 13. It's almost like the entitled British made sure a Brit got in this unique position for his whole F1 career. I can accept the first race was at Silverstone. I accept there's a wonderful legacy of the garagists. I accept the British are big in the sport in several ways. I don't accept this makes it a British sport just like the Elgin Marbles, capitalism and the sandwich aren't British but simply appropriated by a culture that has a sense of entitlement at it's core.
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  5.  @OblivionGate  That's the point, it's like the Germans claiming to be the home of football because they have been good at it lately. From the time of the garagistes the English have build a nice little infrastructure, industry and environment for high end race cars where foreign companies have a factory too to profit from that. And that's great but the claim that this somehow makes the UK the spiritual home of F1 takes an entitled toxic chauvinist Britain as are many to come up with. Looking for confirmation by what other British people wrote in the English version of Wikipedia is a bit sad in it's unawareness of how things work. I'm sure you didn't check the Italian wikipedia, did you? Why can't you just appreciate how the British have conquered themselves an importan position in F1 in several ways over the decades while the Italians and the French have lost lots of ground and Mercedes dominates again? No, not Williams or McLaren, the teams that embody British F1, so the British lost ground the past decade too. We saw something similar with the EC Football. In 96 it was fine but last year England didn't host the tournament, it just had an unfair home advantage through covid and wasn't a very good host for those matches at all. Then to claim football is coming home and England somewhat entitled to win it again allthough it would be the first time was entitled, arrogant and plain rude. I can't decides whether it's the narcissist of psychopath of countries.
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