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NASCAR exists in its own special category in my head of "doing whatever the fuck it can to get bums on seats"
The stuff they admit to like the chase, format etc is nothing compared to the stuff just under the surface like faking yellow flags for a closer finish (just come out and admit it guys....you won't let a race stay green, we get it. The caution clock is B.S but at least it's honest B.S), giving their most popular drivers "special" restrictor plates or not disqualifying blatant cheating because it got a PR friendly driver a good result, etc.

So yeah, as bad as some things are, they could be worse.

BTCC just about has it right imo, it wears its need for entertainment on its sleeve but still feels like proper motorsport without too much eye-rolling levels of manipulation (Unless you're Plato then you get your own rule set )

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"They did their best"

You would think it's a joke.

That is some SERIOUS shade, and I can't even work out which one of them it is aimed at

These slogans that FOM come up with are so cringeworthy and, at times, patronising.

"Baku welcomed us."
"Well done Baku."
"Herbie, what will we do without you?"
"They did their best."

I wouldn't be surprised to see "Aww, bless him." appear on the screen after the first retirement in Australia.

Bloody hell.

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the actual slogan should have been "More blessed than the blessed"

dunno if they would place hashtags on that

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(Added STR and Sauber launch dates, and removed Manor from the entrant list)

Even "They gave their best" would have been better.

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Still concerned with Wehrleins neck after his RoC crash

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.ph ... -roc-crash

McLaren are a mess.

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/capit ... ys-871713/

Anybody with ties to Ron is on the chopping block, regardless of their performance.

Wonder if that includes Alonso?

He was there for less than 6 months

McLaren 2017 = Ferrari from early 1990's

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Stop picking on Mclaren, they are doing their best.

Jokes aside, I'm lost with things but I learned reading here that Ron Dennis is out now(for whatever reason it was), wouldn't it be much better for Mclaren to get rid of useless Honda? I know the Japs put quite some money into the team but their engine is almost like a guaranteed massive handicap.

I heard some people say the engine development is gonna be free again this year(don't know the actual ruling, tbh) but that could lead to Honda being even more of a joke

They entered later into this "game", I can't fathom just how could they come up with a PU that is so bad when they already knew the hands of their rivals.

Even without following F1, I still came across, from time to time, with viral memes of Alonso alongside the track watching the action because his car let him down again.

The original Honda PU was reportedly great, just McLaren insisted on it being smaller which required a redesign and things went downhill from there, Honda, like Merc, Renault, Ferrari etc. is also locked in with FOM and won't be going anywhere.

Max Mosley has expressed concern about the racing under the new rules, saying he would have personally gone for much less aero and more mechanical grip.

Max Mosley said that. Max 'grooves' Mosley.

he's trying to create that regret feeling by stating "it was crap when I ruled, but now is worse"

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I read a few articles on that and that's a myth. It was Honda who went all in, not McLaren asking them to.

Is it? Got anything I can read?

Meh McLaren were already shit for quite a while before Honda came on board. It'd be really interesting though to see how the Mercedes would perform with a honda in it though.

I think you can look to Red Bull in 2015 for a similar example of great car, shit engine