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[chrisb]

that is even nicer Rob, i hope when we can travel you have a wonderful time 

I have just bought a book by Mark Whitelock called: 1.5 litre Grand Prix racing 1961-1965 which has some wonderful descriptions of the circuits, amongst everything else, but puts Stirling as number one and Jimmy as number two, don't get that

[Carl]

Is it just me, or has anyone else sensed a surfeit of racing since the floodgates have opened?  I never thought the day would come that I would feel this way.

This weekend had Formula One and all its attendant practice and qualifying sessions, even a 90 minute race preview (a first in America). Indycar was more modest with only qualifying and race coverage. Also in the top tier was MotoGP at the Sachsenring. All excellent series and seriously tempting, but an overabundance of great racing is still an overabundance.

Less tempting, except in deep South sports bars and nursing homes, was NASCAR from Nashville. In the totally dull category was the Ferrari Challenge, the challenge apparently to determine which paunchy driver has less talent.

[René]

Jun 21, 2021 1:09:52 GMT Carl said:

Is it just me, or has anyone else sensed a surfeit of racing since the floodgates have opened?  I never thought the day would come that I would feel this way.

This weekend had Formula One and all its attendant practice and qualifying sessions, even a 90 minute race preview (a first in America). Indycar was more modest with only qualifying and race coverage. Also in the top tier was MotoGP at the Sachsenring. All excellent series and seriously tempting, but an overabundance of great racing is still an overabundance.

Less tempting, except in deep South sports bars and nursing homes, was NASCAR from Nashville. In the totally dull category was the Ferrari Challenge, the challenge apparently to determine which paunchy driver has less talent.

I agree Carl, it was too much. All three, F1, Indycar and MotoGP produced great races but I would also prefer to have one or max two races in a weekend. Just how much can one absorb? 

I even watched the first 10 minutes of the FE race at Puebla, Mexico. Don’t know why I did that and even less so after those 10 minutes. Yeez FE is so boring… Glad I didn’t watch NASCAR! 

[Carl]

René,

          I remember when there was very little racing on television. Along with a few thousand others, I went to a special venue to watch the 1968 Indy 500.  It was projected onto a screen too large for the quality of the film and the images were overblown and dulled, but nobody complained.  Beginning in the early 1960s, ABC would occasionally feature the Monaco Grand Prix on its Wide World of Sports (curiously never the U.S. Grand Prix) because of the glamorous location. 

         Everyone watched the Daytona 500, the one race on CBS every year.   In the distant past, race fans in America were on a starvation diet and stock cars on a banked oval were better than nothing.  Nowadays I only watch NASCAR on the road courses at Sears Point and Watkins Glen because many of today's drivers excel on a road course.

         I dread a future of Formula E and other silent series, but don't doubt that race fans will adjust to what's available, as we all did in the past.

Cheers, Carl

[mikael]

I found this video interesting: Robert Kubica asking to rent a car to enjoy a couple of laps on Nürburgring.