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      Actually everyone I knew who was watching F1 in Germany, stopped so once it went to pay TV.

      It’s not like football became unpopular when the matches were divided between three or so paid services (Dazn, Sky, and I believe some are even on Amazon) and only a fraction ending up on free TV.

      Btw: Some free VPN option like UrbanVPN and the races are free to watch on the Swiss TV’s streaming platform and I’m not aware of any spike in F1 popularity when Sky Germany had to stream two races on YouTube.

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    The green washing has also put me off the sport after 26 years. That and the Americanisation/enshitification of the show.

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      Don’t blame America for this one. We usually get the Sky broadcast from the UK. It’s Englishitification if anything.

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      What do you consider the Americanisation of F1? I don’t watch F1 but I do watch other American sports.

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        It’s becoming more artificial, and having DHL fastest pistop bullshit, Pirelli fastest lap etc. Everything is just an opportunity to increase cashflow. I know it has always been a business first, but I saw this stuff 20+ years ago on indycar/NASCAR and made me gag then. I’m just old school now, and prefer lower tech cars and a straightforward show without artificial drama.

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        It’s becoming more and more a dramatized event where entertainment is the focus and not a sports competition.

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    Meanwhile in F1: Cling to combustion engines at all costs and shout lies about “sustainable” fuels.

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      The cars are not the sustainability issue. If every modern car was as efficient as F1 cars then we would be in a much better spot regarding climate change. The issue is with the massive transportation effort involving planes, trucks, and ships required to transport materials between the races.

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        It’s about the perception, not facts. The general public does not know about transportation in F1. They know that F1 cars still make wroom when they sit in the growing number of VW id.3 cars that are making silent SciFi sounds.

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        They are very efficient yes. But at the same time they aren’t very reliable. If everyone was running an F1 style engine and would have to replace loads of parts constantly we would be in a much worse spot.

        If it was such a good system don’t you think we would already have such engines in regular cars ? There’s a reason why we don’t. Because these systems only work when that engine has to only run for little time in very confined scenarios.

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          They aren’t very reliable because they run at the ragged limits. It is a competition, after all. Motorsport has always been like that, nothing to do with current PU tech.

          The reason we don’t use them in regular cars is because it’s expensive to make, and combustion engines are being phased out anyway.

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              No, running engines at the limits makes things less efficient, which is why on fuel-limited tracks you see a lot of lift and coast and turning down engine modes when that was a thing.

              The efficiency comes from having two different complex energy recovery systems, which is what makes them expensive to transfer to the road.

              Still, you’d see more real world applications if countries’ carbon regulations were tighter.