Wired: "10 Geeky Reasons You Should Be Watching Formula One"

[BobHWS]

Here's a good layman's explanation of part of the appeal of F1. From now on when some of my friends who don't "get" F1 ask me what the appeal is, I will refer them to this article. Of course, there's a lot more to the sport than the high tech stuff (like the F1 babes, for example ), but I do find the techie stuff very appealing (even though I don't understand it all).


10 Geeky Reasons You Should Be Watching Formula One
wired.com
Dave Banks
July 19, 2011

This weekend’s Grand Prix of Germany will mark the halfway point in the 2011 Formula One World Championship and if you haven’t been watching this year’s season, you are not only missing out on some of the best races in recent history, but you’re also being left out of what is, arguably, the geekiest sport this side of the Quidditch Cup.

Year after year, the Formula One World Championship is the most watched sporting event in the world, with more than 525 million people watching over the course of the season. Only when the World Cup or the Olympics come around, do more people tune in for sport. F1 fans love watching the incredible speeds of the machines, their physics-defying nimbleness at the hands of the drivers, and the high strategy of the competition, but beneath it all are some incredibly geeky people – and reasons – that should have you DVRing every practice, qualifying session and race...

[wnut]

So its official now F1 is the sport of GEEKS my how far we've come since the cigarette companies were forced out of the most glamorous and dangerous sport in the world.

[ChrisPage]

Yup, that's right - whenever I see a cigarette I think of glamour and danger. Definitely F1 has lost these because of tobacco being forced out (by laws unlrelated to F1)...