Robin
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I was just watching 'A Question of Sport' which is a sport quiz with teams of people who 'know about sport'.
Ask any question about the most obscure sports even regarding events 50 years ago and they are likely to get it but why is it when they ask any motorsport question they always get it wrong. That's if they even bother to ask a related question in the first place.
They showed a picture of Adrian Sutil in his Force India get up and simply asked who is this.... 3 wrong answers they gave! all of whom don't even drive for that team
And then there's other examples like the news, they will dedicate hours a week to all sports bar F1 which gets a 3 minute mention at the end of the night.
It seems motorsport is always entirely separate from the rest of the sporting world, people who claim to be great at general knowledge in sport will likely know nothing about motorsport.
And even personally, most of my mates who are mad about 'normal' sports will say motorsport is boring and they don't know anything about it. Its like the motorsport enthusiast is like an entirely different breed not compatible with the rest of the sport loving public
Why is it like this? I've noticed it for ages. Is it because the participants don't actually move under their own power that most are not interested?
Robin.
Ask any question about the most obscure sports even regarding events 50 years ago and they are likely to get it but why is it when they ask any motorsport question they always get it wrong. That's if they even bother to ask a related question in the first place.
They showed a picture of Adrian Sutil in his Force India get up and simply asked who is this.... 3 wrong answers they gave! all of whom don't even drive for that team
And then there's other examples like the news, they will dedicate hours a week to all sports bar F1 which gets a 3 minute mention at the end of the night.
It seems motorsport is always entirely separate from the rest of the sporting world, people who claim to be great at general knowledge in sport will likely know nothing about motorsport.
And even personally, most of my mates who are mad about 'normal' sports will say motorsport is boring and they don't know anything about it. Its like the motorsport enthusiast is like an entirely different breed not compatible with the rest of the sport loving public
Why is it like this? I've noticed it for ages. Is it because the participants don't actually move under their own power that most are not interested?
Robin.