There are ten teams with two cars each. Some teams seem to be part of the same family.
Some of the drivers are familiar names: Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen… well, maybe that’s about it. From the old days we remember James Hunt, Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Niki Lauder, Jackie Stewart, Piquet, Mansell… there’s a long list.
The drivers get paid well now. There is a lot of money in the sport, not just from admission tickets but sponsorship and tv rights and other things we probably don’t know. The drivers often seem to have glamorous female partners, some well known in their own right (eg Hamilton and Nicole Scherzinger).
We assume that drivers are required to represent their sport (eg doing interviews) and to promote it. There is we guess some kind of drivers’ code of conduct or behaviour, to show the sport in a good light. Recently, some drivers have taken to deliberately swearing during live interviews, then complaining when they were fined for inappropriate language. This is a sport that appeals to young boys (not just to them, of course) and telling them that swearing is fine is just not good.
We also don’t like the drivers who resort to dirty tricks on the track. They will squeeze another car off the track to gain an advantage or possibly even force the other car to crash. Yet, if it happens to them, they are the first to complain. Always the victim.
Why is F1 so boring?