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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
And footballers just kick a ball around a field. Tennis players just hit a ball back and forth. Darts players just throw little missiles at a board. Rugby players just carry an egg about. Runners, literally, just run.
Every sport sounds stupid and non-sport like when you deliberately dumb it down into simple language.
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I think its because you can actually see the effort during the performance of a runner, a football player, etc. while a F1 driver is pretty much hidden away inside a cocoon with only a helmet and occasionally some hands to be seen, the cars themselves look like they ride on rails as well.
I think this is also why F1 in the past had looked so interesting, because you could actually see the drivers struggling inside their cars while the cars themselves seemed to be alive, bucking, oversteer, understeer, powerslides, etc.
Plus the enormous disparity between one team and the rest doesn't help either.
In other sports it's usually because one athlete/team found a way to use PED's that are not yet traceable.
But that's another discussion.