Formula 1: Is Formula 1 a farce? (Part 1)

Author : cmunroe

The account you are about to read was written a day or two after the German GP and after Sunday’s GP in Hungary, I find its relevance startling!

Did you watch the German GP? I sincerely hope you did. Were you impressed or disgusted by what you saw? Do not clutch at straws, I will rescue you!

Exiting Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton’s triumph on home-soil, strengthened by Rosberg’s stroke of bad luck, gave him an early Christmas present. The 2008 World Champion was only 4 points from his main rival, his teammate Rosberg! Hamilton who was trapped in despair’s web prior to the British GP, could be forgiven if after he collected the victor’s trophy at Silverstone, he thought that his dark clouds were a thing of the past and a change in fortune awaited him at GP’s to come.

Like soccer fans worldwide, who were willing to bet, rather foolishly, that Brazil would win the World Cup, Hamilton was wrong. Riding on buoyant momentum, Hamilton sought to upstage his German teammate, in his backyard! His attempt was brutally assassinated immediately after it was conceived! One of Hamilton’s flying laps duing Q1 was violently interrupted by uncooperative brakes. His wayward rocket went in search of a gravel trap and a tire barrier and when it found both, the resulting impact left the dark-skinned Briton disoriented briefly. His involvement in qualifying was postponed until the next GP!

Rosberg

Rosberg was merciless. He rubbed salt in the wound – he claimed pole. Hamilton’s botched plan was to suffer another excruciating blow. A gearbox change flung him to P20! We all thought all was lost. When the red lights took flight and the race began, the carnage followed eagerly. Massa’s miscalculation allowed Magnussen to serve a tasteless dish. Mass out – corner 1- lap 1! Hamilton’s charge to the front was underway though and he exercised zero-patience. He was ferocious!

Hamilton started at P20. When the Safety Car joined the parade after Massa’s escapade, Hamilton had already gained a couple places and when the Safety Car returned to its fully-furnished quarters in the paddock, his self-serving tirade resumed.

Formula 1 is regarded as the pinnacle of all pinnacles in motorsports! F1 is still a discipline which harnesses unknown to the public, exotic metals and fuses them with NASA based technology to generate incredible feats of speed and adventure. But what was on display at the German GP was the fact that the gap between the ‘superior’ teams and the remainder of the chasing ‘inferior’ pack was as even wider than the gap between the rich and the poor in Jamaica Land We Love! It was, to put it mildly, embarrassing!

Cecil Munroe Gleaner On-Line Writer

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