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As someone who's been a fun of formula 1 for the first two decades of my life (mid 80s and after), essentially since I was born, and then completely got bored of the sport, I'm astonished of how much action there is in a sport that nowadays fails to deliver any action to viewers, unless you count crashes, but that's not really a very good reason to watch the sport.

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You should have a look at MotoGP. 2 wheels as opposed to 4, but it delivers on many race weekends.

Seconded, MotoGP has been excellent lately

Agreed! I omitted this in my original comment, but that's exactly what I did many years ago :-)

For some years I would watch both, but then I just got bored of F1 and only kept watched 2 wheels. Now I don't have so much spare time and when I do I prefer to invest it I other things, but once in a while is always funny to watch a 2 wheels race (motogp, superbike or anything really)

you should watch the first italian gp this year

What a race!

Only really exciting because of Leclerc’s crash (and Hamilton’s pit lane penalty). Same story with Mugello. The following problems have been getting worse year after year, and it’s gotten to the point where nobody can get within DRS range of a Mercedes unless it’s having some sort of problem.

True. I find it terribly hard to give up, but now I find the 5 minute official F1 recap on Youtube is a much better use of my time than two hours of watching whatever Mercedes car is driving in clean air open up double digit seconds leads.

Was in a similar place but drive to survive (Netflix) got me right back into it!

Both seasons of that series are awesome, and actually made me an F1 fan.

Indeed, the hybrid era has been a complete washout. Hamilton is a great driver, but any mid level driver could win the driver's championship in a Mercedes car.

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