“Alexa – define bollocks.”
“May I refer you to Christian Horner who runs the Red Bull motor racing team who has said that the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is “bigger than the World Cup final”. It’s bollocks on stilts and bollocks on steroids. Basically bollocks.”
Thanks, Alexa. I thought as much.
It’s all about the last F1 race of the season, which like all the races before, is hidden away from the vast majority of the public on the Sky platform so given that the vast majority won’t be watching, I am not sure how you can compare two blokes driving fast cars fast better than the League Cup final, never mind the World Cup final.
The novelty this year is that there are two cars that are quicker than all the others instead of the usual one, with only 18 cars making up the numbers instead of 19. You can hype up the Hamilton/Verstappen rivalry all you like but I’m not sure a motor race between two blokes week in week out, increasingly in places where human rights are not even so much as an afterthought, is particularly interesting at all.
I confess to sometimes watching the start of a race just to see who wins. We know that if Hamilton reaches the first corner in the lead, he will finish the race in the lead. The BT commentators fake commentary orgasms as someone climbs from 14th to 13th place but F1, if we are being honest, is a billion pound procession and not an actual motor race.
So, will I watch it? Does the Pope shit in the woods? No, just kidding. I couldn’t give a toss. That’s why I’ve blogged about it.
