Another nail in F1’s coffin has been announced with the advent of in-race betting. This is from the company which took over Formula One and banned grid girls, starts races at 10 minutes past the hour, DRS and other nonsense.
Other “sports” which allow the use of ‘in-event’ gambling are now tainted (or covered in it), with corrupt practices. How difficult is it for individual drivers, or complete teams, to have a long pit stop with a troublesome wheel, or even stick it in the wall to help another driver, as has been done before. You help me and I’ll help you next race. How long before a new dial appears on the dash showing four aces in a row when they are where the best betting result will be?
We have already been told that F1 is ‘entertainment’ not sport, so we get the Singapore GP headliners being some singing budgies, instead of Hamilton and Vettel. As F1 becomes more farcical, the closer I get to MotoGP. For me, the only problem is I was a lousy motorcycle racer, where I was good on four wheels and I relate to cars more than bikes. I also never fell off my race cars, which is more than I can say about my race motorcycles. That reminds me of an Enduro I ran in, and after half an hour I saw I was catching the bike in front. Summoning all my (nonexistent) bravery I drew up alongside and looked over to find that the other rider was a girl, and I promptly fell off. She never even stopped to help me, so you can forget about the #MeToo lot.
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