Out of all the street circuits, I'd say only about half of them are good. Canberra and that Street Circuit in NZ are horrible (and was pleased with Pukokohe replacing it) but then you have Adelaide and Townsville which IMO, are fantastic race tracks. Surfers Paradise, I only really liked when it was longer and KL City doesn't look like a bad track, a shame it had to be canceled.
The BTCC has lived off the Plato and Neal fanbase for a long time. It's carried it through the 21st century. When one goes, you will leave a big void - the rivalry is just about the biggest the championship has had. They've defined the era. I am in no way a huge Plato fan, but when the day comes where he is not on the grid, it's going to be a very weird feeling. In a way, it's not going to feel like BTCC for a while - ever since I was a toddler I've associated him with the thing I love most. Regardless of how much you like or dislike either of the two, they've become so synonymous with what we watch it's very hard to imagine them not as part of the show.
It's not. RC cars are human controlled. They're just like normal cars, except a driver operates controls remotely instead of controls fixed to the car. Roborace is for autonomous vehicles. They have no human input, they think for themselves and race based on how they're programmed and what they can sense around them. It's far more akin to traditional robot sports.
You forgot the 0-0 score baseball games that are at the bottom of the ninth.
I don't think that making the sport more interesting is the plan. Formula One hasn't embraced social and digital media the way it should, and it desperately needs to.
There has been alot of rumours about the streaming service, i think at the moment, the stumbling block is tv deals, quite a lot of companies including sky uk have paid a lot of money for exclusive broadcast rights and their deal does not even start until 2017, I for one would cancel sky tv if it meant that i could stream F1 in hd/uhd live and on demand at a reasonable price. It is working for the wec in the uk, motors tv, Eurosport and bt sport all show live races and we also have the official stream too.The wec is nowhere near as popular at the moment over here and they are maximizing their tv time to gain a wider audience, in a few years time though, i can see it being channel exclusive. Change is coming to the F1 and its about time too !
would have agreed up to about 2008. The "punt off to pass" JP hasn't been around for a number of years now. Those who criticise him have a certain level of hypocrisy because if Ingram, Cook, Sutton, and so on did the same move that JP would get criticised for it is "great racing".He never really had great, or even good teammates though. I mean, Jarno Trulli, Pedro de la Rossa and Marcus Ericsson aren't exactly what I'd call top drivers. Sure, he had Sergio Perez, but Perez was just starting out in F1 and hadn't established himself yet.
It was pretty comparable to Perez though, Kobayashi really only had 1 more season of experience in the two years they where team mates, and both showed their best at the time in 2012 showing more was to come.
