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7 hours ago, Quiet One said:

And finally, F1 has recoverd  (really, was it lost?) some respect itself, though many still think it is some sort of isolated Mt.Olympus of motorsports demigods. These has brought back memories from when F1 was actually the best among other motorsports, and not just an exclusive club of mediocre drivers with money, a couple of brilliant drivers and a bunch of old farts in a sanitized circus. F1 should (why? like half grid can disappear whenever it strikes them in mid season and race elswhere?) embrace its ties to other motorsports, not look down on them.

You must be in pain, and one wonders why are you still tuning in, be it TV, or the F1 forum. 

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11 minutes ago, Sakae said:

You must be in pain, and one wonders why are you still tuning in, be it TV, or the F1 forum. 

Ouch :cabbage:

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Alonso came back, and first what he said (nice payback to Honda for US trip), that he didn't made his mind, but if Mercedes or Renault should place a call, he will consider switching teams.

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4 hours ago, Sakae said:

Alonso came back, and first what he says (nice payback to Honda for US trip), that he didn't made his mind, but if Mercedes or Renault should place a call, he will consider switching teams.

LEAVE McLaren already you overblown D1ckhead !! Who wants to hire an over hyped, over paid, over the hill,l over blown head?

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Who the fvck cares ! leave F1 already Alonso! Takuma Sato beat your butt in INDY !!

F1 does not revolve around Alonso. Get TFO already !!

 

Alonso warns: 'If we get 25 races, I'll retire!'

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Anyway, the reason F1 should be more open to working with other racing series is illustrated at least in America, and while the world does not revolve around the US, I just use it as one example because it is a country with many alternatives to F1.

On Sunday, F1 raced at Monaco, IndyCar raced at Indianapolis, and NASCAR raced at Charlotte.  All three are big races to their respective series.  Indy is the home of IndyCar, Charlotte is the home of NASCAR, and Monaco is home of all the tax avoiders who drive in F1 while people in their home countries die of hunger and preventable illness.

Here are the U.S. English-language (all three do air in Spanish) TV numbers from Sunday (all races aired on over-the-air TV, so it is a fair comparison):

IndyCar: 5.4 million viewers

NASCAR: 4.6 million viewers

F1: 1.5 million viewers (most-watched LIVE F1 race in the United States EVER)

F1 was the only one with more viewers in 2017 than in 2016.  Hmm...this is just speculation, but don't you wonder if talk of Alonso made some IndyCar fans check out the F1 race he was skipping to see where he came from?

But, more importantly, consider this number from Nielsen: only 18% of viewers of the Indy 500 and Coke 600 (NASCAR race) watch both.  Only 2% of viewers of the three watch all three.

This means that 230,000 people in the United States watch all three races.  230,000.  We know that between NASCAR and IndyCar, there are 8.2 million unique viewers.  Imagine if F1 could find a way to get all 8.2 million to watch Monaco.

Working together in the U.S. gives F1 access to the big numbers in America, while it gives the American series access to F1's better demographic—including, though not reflected in these numbers, the Spanish-language audience, where F1 does pretty well.

Long Beach's city council will be voting soon as to whether the Grand Prix should stay with IndyCar of go with F1.  Imagine IndyCar racing a double-header (they're doing that in Detroit this weekend) with a race Saturday before F1 qualifying and a race Sunday before the F1 Grand Prix.  That'd be a ticket worth buying.

I do see the compelling argument that F1 shouldn't allow this, of course; Indy got 443,000 viewers in Spain while Monaco got just 212,000.  Both aired on Movistar pay TV channels.  And in Britain, the Indy 500 scored 203,000 viewers, a humongous increase not only from last year, but a big departure from the usual 12,000 (not a typo) they get.

But I think you can make those gains a positive for everyone, and I'm sure the possibilities exist not just with American racing, but with other series (Supercars in Australia, Le Mans, Super Formula/Super GT in Japan, Stock Car in Brazil, etc.).

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