Drive to Survive and F1.

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  • mjp
    Bulldog Team of the Century
    • Jan 2007
    • 7363
    #1

    Drive to Survive and F1.

    OK.

    My 16 year old is obsessed with DTS and by extension the F1 season.

    My thoughts? The fastest car wins, car racing is boring and I don't care...but I'm trying to watch the races with him/be a semi-decent parent.

    Anyway, I've been whacked pretty hard by illness over the last couple of weeks and given I have had a sudden abundance of time and no ability to even sit upright for an extended period, laying on the couch has become a 'thing'. So I watched the latest season of DTS which he assured me would 'get me hooked'. It sort of worked for a bit until I found out that was about the LAST season of racing...so now I'm confused again and all the drivers signing contracts with a new team/still racing for the old team just seems sad and distasteful...but there you go.

    My DTS takes:
    - Ferrari need to sack that curly headed dude running the team because he makes loads of mistakes. Even I know that having two cars pit at the same time seems to be a flawed strategy.
    - The Schumacher guy who keeps crashing his car is just a bad driver.
    - The Japanese guy who never ever gets a point and his team-mate always beats him is just a bad driver.
    - Daniel Riccardo is slow and deserved to lose his job.
    - The fact that the driver for Red Bull not called Max gets called a name other than his name and everyone is supposed to just roll with this and know who they are talking about is confusing and weird.
    - The Gunther guy who everyone seems to like - his team always comes last and I don't know why anyone cares.
    - Why do the steering wheels have so many buttons on them? Why does no-one ever explain this?
    - When the Red Bull boss (and other team boss guys) talk about their drivers doing work and working hard...what do they actually mean? All they seem to do is sit around and plot a move to a new team.
    - The warm-ups that the pit crews do are weird and irrelevant to the task at hand.
    - The McClaren cars look weird and that seems un-necessary. If you're going to be weird, you had better be good.

    Anyway - now he wants me to go back and watch DTS from series 1. I'm not sold (at all) on that plan.
    What should I tell her? She's going to ask.
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    • jeemak
      Bulldog Legend
      • Oct 2010
      • 21814
      #2
      Re: Drive to Survive and F1.

      I found the first series to be relatively interesting but couldn't get through the second or third.

      A few of my mates are right into racing (some are Australian/ world kart champions) so listening to them talk about F1 whilst it's happening makes it more interesting to me, as they really have a deep interest in it.

      The best drivers get the best cars, mostly, and because of that team success is genuine team success.
      TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.

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        • Boots
          Rookie List
          • Nov 2020
          • 435
          #3
          Re: Drive to Survive and F1.

          I've been a WRC fan on and off for years and love my cars so was drawn to the F1 show. I thought the first season was excellent, turning it into reality TV. Watching them make Sergio Perez into a bad guy in S1 and then rehabilitating him in S3 is interesting. Christian Horner is such a ready-made bad guy, it's great.

          I couldn't be more bored by the sport though. The cars are interesting as a technical marvel, but after watching them do one lap and being excited by the speed it's just waiting for a crash or mechanical failure.

          The buttons on the steering wheels adjust various settings on the car - differentials, brakes, etc. I'm unsure exactly what they all are.

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            • angelopetraglia
              Bulldog Team of the Century
              • Nov 2008
              • 6838
              #4
              Re: Drive to Survive and F1.

              A response to a few DTS takes:

              -Ferrari did indeed sack Binotto (curly head dude), however it hasn't helped them and they have gone backwards this year
              -Just because your Dad can drive, doesn't mean you can drive, hence Schumacher was sacked
              -Riccardo just could not get the best out of the McLaren, that was supposedly catered more for the driving style of Norris
              -Max's partner? The Mexican Minister of Defence?
              -Gunther, I think everyone just loves the character and the frankness, he results have been questionable. The cult status from DTS has probably prolonged his career!
              -It is remarkable that they can do 300 km/h and hit a little button the steering wheel (basically there is a button for everything, e.g. pit lane speed limiter, DRS activation, race start mode etc.)

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