That's a description of motorsport all the way back to its origins (eg. the "Bentley boys"). If not interested, don't watch it.Debs wrote: ↑5 Mar 2024, 1:06am What i don't understand is how they're pushing us to give up ICE cars and to buy a very expensive and overpriced EV with money we ain't got, and meanwhile; allowing motorsport to continue completely unabated.
F1 has stagnated into utter glitzy boredom these days [ IMO ] a millionaires club of young men who drive powerful go-carts around and around in circuits burning rubber and fuel like there's no tomorrow.
The fuel burnt in a motor race is pretty much irrelevant to the planet. The fuel burnt by the visitors to the races is huge, most of them driving there. Just like the fuel burnt by visitors to the FA Cup final, Glastonbury music festival, any mega-music-stars current tour of large stadiums, or any other large event. Or the fuel burnt by people commuting to work. Or jamming up the M5 on bank holiday weekends. Or thousands of delivery vans going round dropping "next day internet orders".
The pressure to buy an EV consists of: you won't be able to buy a brand new combustion car in 11 years time. And that's it. We'll be able to buy a used combustion car after 2035. On the basis that combustion cars are still quite good at 8-10 years old, there will still be decent combustion cars on sale in 20 years time.