It's just cars driving around in circles for hours.
I never got watching professional sports. It's boring. Nothing ever changes (always the same rules, people, teams, etc) and it's just a medium for ads.
When you've grown up with the sheer variety that video games have to offer it seems so simplistic and bland.
As someone who was pretty interested in sports I think for me it started as something to do, particularly outside of the house with friends. When I started gaining interest I was a young 20-something in a new place by myself. Choices I had to not be a friendless homebound hermit come to bars/clubs and sports mainly. You can find things like nerdy groups, but I tried that a couple times too and in my experience I didn't really like any of those people (too much left lean).
There's also a lot of obsession there. I'm not into that level of obsession over things whether it be MtG or a sports team. So I ended up with some friends I liked going to games with. I tried playing some sports a bit too, and I did for a bit but the combination of years of being the worst player on the team and getting older and injured sort of did that in.
I've lost a lot of interest since 2020, but I'll still go to a game here and there for the same reasons. Even at the height of my interest though, I didn't watch much on TV but would just look at scores and stats after the fact.
Part of the issue with F1, at least since before I was born, has been the focus on aerodynamics. It produces fantastically high-performing cars ... that lose great big chunks of that performance the moment they get close enough to the car in front to even think about overtaking.
I used to find races like BTCC far more interesting, as those can actually do stuff like drafting - or WRC, as you've said, which normally has interesting stuff happening. F1 is largely watching a series of concurrent time trials, with the winner decided by who utilises the pit-stop gap to craft a punishing lead the others cannot claw back while they themselves are in the pits.
Nope, I do enjoy it occasionally (sometimes even going to see races when they're nearby) but I am unable to develop the detailed knowledge required to be an F1 superfan. But I'm that way with most sports. It's better as a group activity. When I'm by myself I have better things to do.
Racing is one of those sports that are fun to do, not so much watch (at least in my opinion). When you are doing it you have the adrenaline from the speed, the close calls, the nail-biting turns etc. When you are watching it...well...unless you are very very good at imagining yourself as being in someone else's place you will get none of these feelings.
It's just cars driving around in circles for hours.
I never got watching professional sports. It's boring. Nothing ever changes (always the same rules, people, teams, etc) and it's just a medium for ads.
When you've grown up with the sheer variety that video games have to offer it seems so simplistic and bland.
Watching sports = Boring Playing sports = Great
EmpLemon has a great video on NASCAR and worth a watch, but the main draw is/was (as morbid as it sounds) the potential for death.
I guess people need their kicks now that Liveleak is gone.
Love me some EmpLemon
As someone who was pretty interested in sports I think for me it started as something to do, particularly outside of the house with friends. When I started gaining interest I was a young 20-something in a new place by myself. Choices I had to not be a friendless homebound hermit come to bars/clubs and sports mainly. You can find things like nerdy groups, but I tried that a couple times too and in my experience I didn't really like any of those people (too much left lean). There's also a lot of obsession there. I'm not into that level of obsession over things whether it be MtG or a sports team. So I ended up with some friends I liked going to games with. I tried playing some sports a bit too, and I did for a bit but the combination of years of being the worst player on the team and getting older and injured sort of did that in.
I've lost a lot of interest since 2020, but I'll still go to a game here and there for the same reasons. Even at the height of my interest though, I didn't watch much on TV but would just look at scores and stats after the fact.
First few laps, first 3 corners in particular, to see some crashes
I'll go to a few minor league baseball games a year but that's about the extent of my sports fandom.
Never understood the attraction of watching people turn left for hours at a time.
Part of the issue with F1, at least since before I was born, has been the focus on aerodynamics. It produces fantastically high-performing cars ... that lose great big chunks of that performance the moment they get close enough to the car in front to even think about overtaking.
I used to find races like BTCC far more interesting, as those can actually do stuff like drafting - or WRC, as you've said, which normally has interesting stuff happening. F1 is largely watching a series of concurrent time trials, with the winner decided by who utilises the pit-stop gap to craft a punishing lead the others cannot claw back while they themselves are in the pits.
Nope, I do enjoy it occasionally (sometimes even going to see races when they're nearby) but I am unable to develop the detailed knowledge required to be an F1 superfan. But I'm that way with most sports. It's better as a group activity. When I'm by myself I have better things to do.
F1 used to be just a high-speed parade. Maybe it's changed since them but I haven't watched it in a long time.
Racing is one of those sports that are fun to do, not so much watch (at least in my opinion). When you are doing it you have the adrenaline from the speed, the close calls, the nail-biting turns etc. When you are watching it...well...unless you are very very good at imagining yourself as being in someone else's place you will get none of these feelings.