So Long Hey Thanks My Friend I Guess I ll Try My Luck Again
HEY, WILLIE!
For me it does not matter if the race itself is action-packed with crashes, overtakes, safety cars or not.
A standard "boring" F1 race for me has a good base of operations level of suspense and elevated heart rate — from not knowing if a flat tire or a blown engine or pure bad luck volition prevent my commuter from winning/finishing the race, and it is different for each position.
The problem with NASCAR is that it's great when you are in that location with a adept pork production nearby, because everything earlier the last xxx laps is simply a warmup and a set-upwardly change opportunity.
Leading the race at stage 1 and 2 does non mean as much equally leading a race in F1, so a 400-mile race is a iv-hour warmup and fifteen minutes of suspense.
With NASCAR you lot can miss a lap or xx and with F1 you cannot miss any lap because losing lap time, losing a 2nd, tin can be the difference between winning and losing.
DJP
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HEY, D!
Well, I'm guessing you don't have to look far to find someone who'll argue your betoken about the lap-by-lap excitement of a Formula One race.
And not far at all to detect someone to agree with yous about the joy of a nearby pork product.
This e-mail, past the manner, is in response to a Sunday column nearly Formula One's electric current infatuation with the U.S., which includes adding a second American race this year (this week's Miami GP) and a third scheduled for next twelvemonth (in Vegas).
You strike while the iron is hot, and that truism dates back to . . . where is it . . . in that location it is … it dates dorsum to the invention of iron (and fire, of class). My guess is, three U.South. races won't be a long-term thing, and not because they'll be calculation a fourth or fifth.
More on this below . . .
HEY, WILLIE!
I read your commodity and concord with your thesis. In add-on, dissimilar other tracks around the world, the U.S. F1 promoters are pricing out the boilerplate fan.
This is true in Miami and Austin. A few years agone I went to Shanghai instead of Austin because it was cheaper when I figured in all the costs.
I am an F1 fan but F1 volition price out the average U.S. fan.
HERB
HEY, HERB!
Cross Shanghai off your 2022 agenda. You'll take to laminate yourself head-to-toe to try that trip.
Meanwhile, 3rd-party tickets are closing in on $600 for Lord's day'south F1 debut in Miami, which is existence run effectually the Dolphins' Difficult Rock Stadium. And that's General Admission, which won't get you close enough to smell Daniel Ricciardo's cologne, by the style.
For what it's worth, they're non targeting the "average" American fan.
HEY, WILLIE!
I thoroughly enjoyed your article on my favorite driver, Dale Earnhardt, on what would have been his 71st birthday. The 71 facts were very interesting.
Keep up the good piece of work. I also turned 71 last month.
GARY
HEY, GARY!
Maybe I'm lonely in this, but frequently I discover myself examining some big shift in the NASCAR orbit and wondering, "would this take happened if Earnhardt was here?"
Poo-poo that if you want, merely Dale had that kind of pull within the sport.
Equally Earnhardt reached middle-age and beyond, his business apprehending grew quickly. He saw big-picture stuff likewise as he "saw the air" at Daytona. He became pretty infatuated with the business side of the sport, to hear his confidants tell it.
As he transitioned from racer to squad owner, he would've however carried outsized stature with the fan base of operations. Not certain how unlike information technology would've been from 2001 to today, simply I guarantee yous information technology would've been different.
HEY, WILLIE!
With reference to your Apr 24 contribution to my pathetically meager weekend entertainment, I think information technology germane to point out some of the demographics that very well may accept contributed to Hartford'due south lofty place in NASCAR's Television receiver ratings.
Jerry Nadeau, Randy LaJoie and Joey Logano are all from Connecticut, and rumor has information technology, they take large families.
Half of the population is employed by Stanley Tool Works, Home Depot or that insurance company (the name escapes me at the moment), all of which have been interested parties to NASCAR sponsorship over the years.
And 3. The other half probably work for ESPN, which is headquartered just downwards the road in nearby Bristol.
C.S.
HEY, C!
I recently pointed out Hartford'due south big weekly TV ratings for NASCAR races, and patently that shouldn't surprise everyone.
We're big on demographics here, so thanks for all that.
You lot know what? We're also (recently) large on golf jokes, so here you become . . .
HEY, WILLIE!
In the middle of the back 9, during a specially crude twenty-four hours of golf, Bob common cold-tops still some other 7-iron and this i trickles into a pond in front end of the green.
He turns to his buddy and says, "I'm so disgusted, I recall I'm gonna but walk into that water and drown myself."
"Don't bother," his friend says. "You could never keep your caput downward that long."
ART
HEY, Art!
I'll take it. Nifty.
Been so long since I heard it, it's new again.
— Achieve Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
Source: https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2022/05/04/heres-why-formula-one-racing-better-than-nascar-hey-willie/9606770002/
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