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Posted on October 22, 2017 by Jeff Gluck
Formula One Diary: Sunday night
I’m following the American-owned Haas F1 Team through its weekend at the only Formula One race in America: The United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in Austin. This post is the sixth in a series.
I’ve spent the past four days documenting some of the differences between Formula One and NASCAR while experiencing my first F1 event. At times, it seemed very foreign — not just the accents, but the racing itself.
But fear not: Sunday’s United States Grand Prix actually showed how similar F1 and NASCAR can be.
Don’t believe me? Check out these quotes below and see if you can tell which were from the NASCAR race in Kansas and which were from the F1 race in Austin:
1. “The rules have got to be consistent. You can’t apply them differently to different instances. That’s our frustration out of today.”
2. “The problem is, we all spend an awful lot of money going racing. You want it to be consistently refereed — professionally refereed. And when you get decisions like today, it’s difficult to understand where the consistency is.”
3. “Where do you draw the line? For fans and casual viewers, it needs to be clear.”
4. “Don’t say everyone else can run off the track anywhere you like and never give any penalties — then I do it, and you give me a penalty.”
5. “I don’t know what any of the rules are. Seems like we’ve got a lot of stuff that kind of gets changed so often I honestly can’t keep up with it.”
Think you know the answers? Let’s see how you did.
http://jeffgluck.com/formula-one-diary-sunday-night-usgp-2017/
Formula One Diary: Sunday night
I’m following the American-owned Haas F1 Team through its weekend at the only Formula One race in America: The United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in Austin. This post is the sixth in a series.
I’ve spent the past four days documenting some of the differences between Formula One and NASCAR while experiencing my first F1 event. At times, it seemed very foreign — not just the accents, but the racing itself.
But fear not: Sunday’s United States Grand Prix actually showed how similar F1 and NASCAR can be.
Don’t believe me? Check out these quotes below and see if you can tell which were from the NASCAR race in Kansas and which were from the F1 race in Austin:
1. “The rules have got to be consistent. You can’t apply them differently to different instances. That’s our frustration out of today.”
2. “The problem is, we all spend an awful lot of money going racing. You want it to be consistently refereed — professionally refereed. And when you get decisions like today, it’s difficult to understand where the consistency is.”
3. “Where do you draw the line? For fans and casual viewers, it needs to be clear.”
4. “Don’t say everyone else can run off the track anywhere you like and never give any penalties — then I do it, and you give me a penalty.”
5. “I don’t know what any of the rules are. Seems like we’ve got a lot of stuff that kind of gets changed so often I honestly can’t keep up with it.”
Think you know the answers? Let’s see how you did.
http://jeffgluck.com/formula-one-diary-sunday-night-usgp-2017/
