Totally agree. F1 fans should be like Alonso fans. Disappointment should be normalised.
“All the time you have to leave the space (for failure)” -Frank Aloe
idk, half the fun of being an F1 fan is, during silly season, trying to determine whether driver X would win against driver Y in the same car
if there are fans out there not doing that, though, yeah, Nando’s right
Kevin Magnussen is better than Max Verstappen in the same car.
I think Nando is primarily talking about the crowd that drive to survive pulled in over the past few years. Most of them don’t seem to dig as deep into what makes F1 tik as the older fans. I think a lot of them don’t really try to understand the technical side of F1, and that’s ok, but there is definitely a shift in how drivers and their accomplishments are perceived.
Yeah you can’t really follow and understand F1 properly if you just do it in a vaccuum, there’s on-track strats, off-track politics, factory personnel changes, learning the history, F1 feeder ladder, even how a team’s F1 program fits into a company’s strategy, etc etc.
Completely agree with, you need time to understand this sport and some of the new fans new more time to understand it.