Learn to Love F1
I have lost track of the number of times when telling someone that I am a passionate F1 fan that they announce ‘Oh F1 is boring; I only watch the starts’ or ‘the crashes are the only good bits.’ My response is normally to tell them they are watching it wrong; with this article I hope to explain how even new fans can find the whole Grand Prix interesting, even when not much is happening on track. Get to know the larger-than-life personalities It feels like some of Liberty Media’s efforts to attract new fans to the sport are working and one of the most successful of these new initiatives is the excellent Drive to Survive documentary on Netflix. F1 has always been famous for its larger-than-life personalities. There is a long list including the likes of Fangio, Ferrari, Hunt and Senna to name a few. It is hardly surprising then that the current paddock includes more than a few big personalities and the behind-the-scenes style of Drive to Survive reall...