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I'm a huge fan of Formula One and have been all my life. I love everything about it, especially the works technology that they fully exploit. I love the international flair of the series and the national pride and emotion shown in the faces of the drivers on the podium every time they win, no matter how many times they've won. Every event is like a MXoN and I love the FIM MXGP events for the same reasons, though only the des Nations gives me the same kind of chills that an F-1 round does. I imagine I'd feel differently if I'd ever stood on a World Championship podium...but I'm speaking as a fan.
That said, I just finished watching the F-1 Italian Gran Prix at Monza and the behavior displayed by the crowd during the podium ceremony was so fucking far beyond rude that I just had to say something. I totally get the whole Italian/Ferrari passion and how rabid the fans are and how much they love their fucking Ferrari drivers. Fernando Alonso summed it up when he said that everywhere in the world people come up to him and refer to him as a two-time World Champion, but in Italy he's a Ferrari driver. What I don't get is how an unimaginably huge crowd of classless fucks could stand there and boo while Sebastian Vettel was interviewed by a legend like John Surtees, a man who has won seven motorcycle World Championships, in addition to his 1964 F-1 title. Hell, he won at Monza twice!
Somehow, he managed to stay fairly composed and Vettel was cool as fuck, knowing that his utter domination of the series is enough of an unspoken "FUCK YOU" to the Neanderthals in the crowd. The whole scene is absolutely spectacular and it's sad (to me) that the Italian crowd ruins it by not being civil enough to STFU during the interview. It would be different if it wasn't the entire throng of maybe 20,000 people gathered around the podium that were booing.
Before anyone gets their balls in a bunch and takes too much offense, my daughter is half Italian and I love her more than life itself...thankfully her German half is dominant and was able to pull her a few rungs back up the evolutionary ladder.
Thanks, I feel better now.
Semen D. "Master Race" Bauer
That said, I just finished watching the F-1 Italian Gran Prix at Monza and the behavior displayed by the crowd during the podium ceremony was so fucking far beyond rude that I just had to say something. I totally get the whole Italian/Ferrari passion and how rabid the fans are and how much they love their fucking Ferrari drivers. Fernando Alonso summed it up when he said that everywhere in the world people come up to him and refer to him as a two-time World Champion, but in Italy he's a Ferrari driver. What I don't get is how an unimaginably huge crowd of classless fucks could stand there and boo while Sebastian Vettel was interviewed by a legend like John Surtees, a man who has won seven motorcycle World Championships, in addition to his 1964 F-1 title. Hell, he won at Monza twice!
Somehow, he managed to stay fairly composed and Vettel was cool as fuck, knowing that his utter domination of the series is enough of an unspoken "FUCK YOU" to the Neanderthals in the crowd. The whole scene is absolutely spectacular and it's sad (to me) that the Italian crowd ruins it by not being civil enough to STFU during the interview. It would be different if it wasn't the entire throng of maybe 20,000 people gathered around the podium that were booing.
Before anyone gets their balls in a bunch and takes too much offense, my daughter is half Italian and I love her more than life itself...thankfully her German half is dominant and was able to pull her a few rungs back up the evolutionary ladder.
Thanks, I feel better now.
Semen D. "Master Race" Bauer
Sadly, that type of behavior is all too common in any sport. Seems to me the crowd was booing at one those International Golf Tournaments in the U.S. a couple of years ago. Badly enough that the American golfers commented on the classlessness of it.
Ryder Cup or Davis Cup maybe, not sure. Seems it just people's shitty lack of sportsmanship in general these days is everywhere.
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Living here the Italian reaction is normal, and not surprizing at all.. belgium was the same,.... Italy was Italian pride ( lets face it they havnt much to cheer about sports wise) in belgium the resentment is more political ( not much love still between belgium & germany still due to the "thing" in the 40's.) and while i love everything about F1 i still think Motocross & Sx is the best sport ever. sadly like MX gone are the days of unobtainium parts and truely one of a kind works parts. next year they take a step down to V-6 motors gone are the days of the supercharged V12 motors of ferrari ( an amazing sound if you've never heard it) good news is HONDA are coming back to F 1 !!!!
oh and ive met Sebastian Vettel and talked with him casually and that kid is a class act and 100% racer. People just hate on him cause he wins all the time. personally im Kimi Reikonnen fan... hes 100% racer as well.
I think BAMX hit the nail on the head. He certainly comes from the Schumacher school of racing, but it gets results and thats what matters I guess, I doubt the boos bother him too much.
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hey, I like Red bull, i drink a couple a week, but they really have no business in F1 at all (they sell drinks, they aren't a car manufacture), and they are somehow allowed two teams instead of one, meaning something somewhere has always been fishy/paid off....
Brawn had a little trick one year that allowed them and button to win the title, it was quickly squashed to make sure the big name teams were back on an even footing..... Red Bull has had a little trick that has been allowed to live for 3 years... money talks, bullshit walks, and consumers/viewers are tired of an energy drink company dominating their favorite form of racing....
...and let me remind you, this guys wants to start a F1 website!!!
There is some lame people on this planet, Im not a big Lewis fan, but have SO much respect for how these guys put their lives on the line, and you wont see me flipping him off or posting stupid shit like that. Just lame.
btw: Horner posted that Seb thrives on that negative stuff. He is a good kid, ever see him on Letterman? hilarious!!
https://youtu.be/A3hr2PV40z0
Crazy drivers though.
Obviously some of you dont know shit about F1. Go do some research on Seb as he came up as a driver.
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