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Booing is a form of protest that has been in sport since it was started.
Most sport is seen as entertainment. Why? Because people pay to go and watch it either live or on telly. Some think they are watching pure sport, most want to see action, and be entertained. Even fewer want to be seen sadly, or thankfully.
Just like football, wrestling, boxing or rugby etc etc, and booing there doesn't get treated with pompous indignation and derision. It is accepted as a part of the show. The people involved might not like it, who would, but it is a perfectly acceptable thing to do.
Watch the Hunt vs Lauda thing, they don't let Hunt back on the grid in 76, the crowd boo, throw stuff on the track, buying McLaren enough time to repair the car, he comes on and wins the race, 80'000 go home happy and love F1. It's wrong yes, but it's part of sport and totally spontaneous. Has it happened loads of times since?
Booing a guy and team who are utterly dominating the sport is different, but it is a response to what people are paying for and is therefore a valid response from clients, not sponsors and gladragging suckers, but punters. They have never done it much before have they? Other than when Schumacher was being manipulated into wins by Todt. SO this is new, and you need to ask why?
I think a few folk need to get off their gentleman's sport pedestal and realise that for most punters and fans this is a way to voice displeasure. The more it's in the press, hey the more folk will do it.
I don't dislike Seb, he is a great bloke, just doing his job. But he is boring, the races are boring, and it has been that way for years and people are sick of it, this is the result. Like it or not. Snobbish rubbish about not being fans is simply not understanding why most people watch not just F1 but any sport these days.
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