picture a situation where football’s Champions league final was chose on penalties, in spite of one team winning over the preceding 90 minutes. Or a world heavyweight championship boxing bout where one competitor gets awarded the title for winning the last round, in spite of consistently being knocked down in the previous 11.
You can’t, can you? as well as for a extremely great reason – since other sports treat their elite titles with respect. Not motorsport, though. This weekend we were dealt with with the absurd spectacle of chauffeurs contending for double points at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in a tricked-up attempt to produce much more rate of interest in formula One.
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It definitely worked. It’s been a long time because the sport’s profile has been rather so high as in the two weeks complying with the Brazilian Grand Prix, which of program threw the title battle into sharp focus. So in that respect, you may suggest the concept was some type of success. however I just can’t agree.
Yes, I completely comprehend the requirement to provide TV business across the globe the kind of spectacle they feel they are worthy of having shelled out millions for the best to broadcast races.
They do not want processional racing, or one chauffeur dominating to the degree that boredom sets in among the seeing audience.
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But F1 has to be much more than just home entertainment for the masses, with career-defining achievements handed out on a whim. It is the pinnacle of motorsport, a series which every racer as well as engineer wishes to win. It ought to not be cheapened as it was this year, with a last race situation that rendered much of what had preceded it redundant.
What a relief, then, that justice was served as well as the sport has its rightful champion in Lewis Hamilton. He’s been the very best chauffeur in 2014, won the most races as well as is worthy of his success.
The genuine winner, though, is F1 itself, which has somehow emerged from this debacle with its credibility just about intact.
Hopefully the ringmasters will realise exactly how close they concerned irreparably damaging the sport’s credibility as well as guarantee that it never discovers itself in such a farcical circumstance again.
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