Isn't formula 1 racing the most mind-numbingly boring spectator sport?

Question

Round and round and round and round!

Answer 1

Round and round and round they go, why they all do it, we'll never know.

Couldn't agree with you more. It used to be good viewing back in the days of Senna, Piquet, Mansell etc, when there was a strong chance of a massive pile-up, accidents happened, overtaking happened, and the cars weren't as automated.

Answer 2

Well I'm an F1 fan but I know what your getting at. Every other motor sport has 2 or 3 race's at each track so there always jostling for position But in F1 after the start it's all about strategy with fuel loads, tires and pit stops. they really need to split up the laps better, in the middle of the race you don't even know who's winning. the most exciting thing about F1 is the constant rule changing (which isn't that exciting) It's like watching boxing, at the top level their to technical. When you watch the young guns there are punches going all over the place and there really slugging it out. But to answer you question, yea F1 is the most mind numbing motor sport apart from the Indy cars because their the same but on an oval track with the engines just screaming their nuts off the hole way round.
Give me tin tops any day!

Answer 3

Well, my dear friend, there are such things in F1 that escape the limits of those of such short understanding ( My guess is that you're very close to the top of that list, if you mind me) that you wouldn't understand such simple things as a pit stop in terms of strategy and timing in the very same way you dare to call football a sport you play with the hands.

Deggs, my unaccomplished friend, had you ever played a game of chess? Well, do you understand the basic rules of monopoly, at least? Have you ever played a poker hand? Did you win? Did you ever watched a golf game? All right, I know you've always tried to avoid those kind of games that need the exact analytic capabilities that elude you. I bet you're a big fan of minor motor sports in those what planning comes on a short term basis and improvising is highly adequate most of the time.

Go on my boyish friend, don't bother having opinions on something you don't understand, or at least think a bit before asking such questions because the answers can be kind of overwhelming to those like you.

Answer 4

Formula 1 has picked up nicely in the last year or so, probably from the excellent Japanese Grand Prix last year.

For the worst spectator sport, I pick basketball where it usually becomes fairly obvious who is going to win in about ten minutes as one team sloooooowly increases their lead bit by painful bit and we end up with an anticlimatic rigmoral of an event. And the players scoring baskets isn't exciting since they do it a hundred times every match, so unless someone gets a last gasp winner (think Olympics 1972) then there's absolutely zero emotion from a spectator in every point scored. Probably quite fun to play though.

Answer 5

Formula 1 is not boring. It was from 2000 to 2004, when there was a total Schumacher domination. People hate to see the same man winning over and over again.

But now, with 3 races to go and the battles in both championships going truly down to the wire, leads being shrunk from around 30 points to less than 5 (a win is 10 points), it has lost the boring side. It, however, has gained a dark side: DIRTY ST****N' POLITICS THAT RUIN THE SPORT.

Answer 6

I wouldn't categorize Formula One racing as a `mind-numbing boring spectator sport.' True, there have been some uneventful races over the years, but there are other sports that better fit your description and they would include golf, cricket and lawn bowling. Having said that, I'm sure the aficionados of those sports would vehemently disagree with me; we all have our likes and dislikes.
By the way, I think you are just fishing for a reaction and it seems you got it from a few people. :-)

Answer 7

No way soccer (aka football) is about 100 times more boring. The goals are a mile apart, they never score the games last 3-4 hours. Luckily when play stops the clock keeps running otherwise it would be even longer.

Answer 8

What about the Tour de France? At least Formula 1 is over pretty quickly...but to stand on the side of a road for an hour just to see a bunch of people pedal by, for abouyt 5 minutes, on the way to some finishing point seems pretty mind-numbing to me...

Answer 9

Its an improvement on Indy Car, where they just go round an oval track 10 million times

Answer 10

It never used to be, but the FIA have dulled down the sport to where even overtaking is nigh on impossible cos its against the rules! They need to bring the budgets down, let other teams start being creative with their cars (by starting a tech war!) and stop being so rigid about decision making (Indy last year).