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New I'll tell you what makes F1 exciting
Well, there's a few things.

1. Entirely custom cars. Knowing that the whole damn shooting match was built for 1 thing - go 200 miles as fast as possible.
2. Wet racing. A modern F1 car is a bitch to drive in the wet; it's what you get when you have >900BHP attached to ~600KG of car. A real wheat-from-chaff exercise.
3. Spa. There isn't another circuit on the planet to compare. Anywhere.
4. (Jingo alert) the fact that it's largely a sport driven by British technology and expertise; most of the teams have their factories in the UK. Even the BMW engine is designed and built in the UK, and Ferrari's wind tunnel was near Bristol for years. Ross Brawn, who's just presided over the most successful period in Ferrari's history, is British.
5. Ferrari. Love 'em or hate 'em, (I fall into the latter camp - Williams all the way, baby!) there's no racing team on the planet with the history or glamour that they have.


Peter
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New Yes, it's real racing still
More emphasis on technical skill than sheer balls. You take the speed out of oval track racing and you are left with nothing but a pack of identical, interchangebale boring cars with identical, interchangebale boring drivers. Back in the day, it was go as fast as possible and hang it out, and you had real personalities. It all died even before Earnhardt.
-drl
     Dale Junior wins Daytona - (boxley) - (9)
         NASCAR is dead - (deSitter) - (8)
             That's not racing. - (pwhysall) - (7)
                 its racing all right - (boxley) - (6)
                     Re: its racing all right - (deSitter)
                     Nah. - (pwhysall) - (4)
                         Re: Nah. - (deSitter) - (2)
                             I'll tell you what makes F1 exciting - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                 Yes, it's real racing still - (deSitter)
                         Racing of a different sort - (bepatient)

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