My boyfriend is super into Formula 1 so I'm here to learn. Can you tell me why you love it?

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It’s like reality TV mixed with action sports mixed with cool science/engineering. Only 20 names to remember so it’s much more manageable than other sports. Lots of off-track drama to keep things spicy. Easy meme-able moments. Netflix drive to survive is a good entry point if you’re curious

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Just stating a fact.

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a car that identifies as a car

The competition is so intense, to even get on the podium is extremely difficult. The strategy and engineering is pretty complex and really interesting the more you get into it. It’s only on the weekend & only 20 drivers so it’s easier to keep up with compared to other sports. Each team having 2 drivers that are also competing against each other makes some interesting situations

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Got hooked on drive to survive first and then I had a kid so was up insanely early every weekend and it was a perfect thing to watch. Now I plan my weekends around race day and qualifying

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F1 is great, but God loves us and gave us video on demand to ensure we get proper sleep.

Did you see the new Top Gun with him? Formula 1 is basically like Top Gun except in cars instead of planes, and it plays out in real life instead of the theatre.

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Cars.

Speed.

Crash.

Vroom.

Adrenalin.

Engineering.

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What D1 said + predetermined strategy execution and live strategy development, massive data analysis, insane engineering, professional wrestling-style personalities

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Watch drive to survive and then grill the grid on F1 YouTube

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Motor sports. Smell of tires and fuel and roar of engines. Have to be at a track to experience it all. The sport is also pinnacle of technology with engineers fighting to bend every rule they can to squeeze, invent and extract maximum performance , the rule makers always playing catch up to plug the gaps the next year. The history goes long way back with great drivers and car makers fighting it out every year. Liberty media acquired it recently and has made the sport more fan friendly with more exposure to strategy and team communications. The recent lot of young drivers are likeable and fearless and very talented. All of it adds to the fun and excitement. Ofcourse drive to survive brings in the drama factor which is also a huge crowd puller.

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It's a sport that has a 'game' that's being played over years, over a season, over a race weekend and over a session.

There's a long-term aspect of shaping the team and influencing the rules to make sure that your team is competitive as possible. It's about getting the personnel you need, including the drivers and engineers, that will make you successful.

Within the season, there's how well you can develop your car as well as stay within the financial regulations that are now in place.

Over a race weekend, it's how well you can set up your car and plan out what you prepare for/execute in the race. There's also a significant amount of operational excellence that has to into executing the plan.

Over a session, including a race, it's how well you can execute your plan to with the driver and mechanics throwing in a little something extra to keep things interesting.

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Recently I was watching it with parents who were watching it for the first and said - What’s so fun just to see cars go round and round? (Great that they have never seen a NASCAR race). Lol, anyway this reminded me the first time I was watching F1.
Took me a couple of years to get completely hooked to this sport. The more technicalities you know about this sport the more you will understand and love it.

What helped me was taking notes of all the terms/things I could not understand- literally list them. Then immediately after the session I started googling /YTing (Thanks Chain Bear) those terms. Within a few races I was accustomed to most basic terms - undercut, oversteer, understeer, importance of downforce, lol I even googled why f1 drivers dont drift😂 (got to know a great deal about importance of tyre health from this stupid question).

I don’t think there is an end to knowing what you you can know about F1 and that’s what I love. Every race there’s something new. And I don’t think there is any sport other than F1 where even hundredth of a second is so important. The thrill!

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I’ve been a fan of motorsports since my best friend went to the 1991 Indy 500 and he introduced me to that Indycar season.

What I like is every race is different. Some races are boring with no passing. Some look like that for 75 minutes and then all hell breaks loose in the last 10 laps. Others are insane for 5 laps before the running order is set for the rest of the race.

That kind of variety is great.

Car guy, but F1 isn’t my favorite series and hasn’t been for a while. Last year was fun though.

Been a fan since I was 9. The scream of the V8 and V10 engines is what got me into it; used to give me goosebumps, especially on the classic circuits. Then there were the driver battles - Mika v Schumi, JPM/Kimi/Alonso taking on Schumacher. The cars began looking like crap from 2009 and sounding like crap from 2014 so I’m hoping 2022 onwards gets better.

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