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F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by objclxt »

nicholassmith wrote: post #2

As someone who's been an F1 fan for a while (although less so at the moment, but I digress), I've always found it curious that it's never really taken off in America like it could have. Americans love cars, and love racing, it's easy to mock the love of the oval and NASCAR but American teams show up in Le Mans quite a lot, and have a long history of racing on the long, winding and, well, non-American tracks. Maybe it…

> No American drivers, no American tracks, no American teams[...]

F1 was run at the Circuit of the Americas two weeks ago, in Austin. I think F1 is to the USA as NFL is to the UK: there's a dedicated, small audience in both (judging from my Twitter feed), and they're both trying to extend their reach - F1 with more races in the US, and NFL with more games in Wembley. I think F1 is planning a New Jersey street race in 2014 as well.

Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by pooriaazimi »

sabret00the wrote: post #8

"You don't have Javascript enabled" so let's show you just how badly we can make rendered HTML look. Great work there Quartz! As for the article, it's an article about racing, not sure why they mentioned football or the metric system at all, but to mention it in the context they have, they should've called it by it's proper name "Football" and then perhaps added "Soccer" in brackets.

Believe me, their "badly-rendered HTML" is sooooo much better than the stupid, stupid "thing" they show you when JS is enabled...

Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by sjh »

smoyer wrote: post #4

I'm American, like F1 and NASCAR but rarely spend time watching either (or any other television). I also prefer to drive on a winding country road in a European touring sedan versus more boring routes. I played soccer (shouldn't he have said football?) when I was younger and I'm fine with the metric system (the real question is why they taught it in elementary schools starting in the '70s, but didn't bother switching…

It's 'football' in the UK, but in most of the rest of the Anglophone world, it's 'soccer'. Australia has its own 'football', as does Ireland.

Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by zalew »

sabret00the wrote: post #8

"You don't have Javascript enabled" so let's show you just how badly we can make rendered HTML look. Great work there Quartz! As for the article, it's an article about racing, not sure why they mentioned football or the metric system at all, but to mention it in the context they have, they should've called it by it's proper name "Football" and then perhaps added "Soccer" in brackets.

wow, they are worst 'js for reading text' offenders than blogspot.

Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by nicholassmith »

objclxt wrote: post #11
nicholassmith wrote: post #2

As someone who's been an F1 fan for a while (although less so at the moment, but I digress), I've always found it curious that it's never really taken off in America like it could have. Americans love cars, and love racing, it's easy to mock the love of the oval and NASCAR but American teams show up in Le Mans quite a lot, and have a long history of racing on the long, winding and, well, non-American tracks. Maybe it…

> No American drivers, no American tracks, no American teams[...] F1 was run at the Circuit of the Americas two weeks ago, in Austin. I think F1 is to the USA as NFL is to the UK: there's a dedicated, small audience in both (judging from my Twitter feed), and they're both trying to extend their reach - F1 with more races in the US, and NFL with more games in Wembley. I think F1 is planning a New Jersey street race in…

Sorry I should have said 'previously no American tracks', was typing a bit too fast and I'll fix it.

Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by buro9 »

pooriaazimi wrote: post #12
sabret00the wrote: post #8

"You don't have Javascript enabled" so let's show you just how badly we can make rendered HTML look. Great work there Quartz! As for the article, it's an article about racing, not sure why they mentioned football or the metric system at all, but to mention it in the context they have, they should've called it by it's proper name "Football" and then perhaps added "Soccer" in brackets.

Believe me, their "badly-rendered HTML" is sooooo much better than the stupid, stupid "thing" they show you when JS is enabled...

Chrome F12... then delete the overlay and enjoy the article.

Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by [deleted] »

vishnupr wrote: post #6

Man, this website has the worst navigational experience ever. I accidentally flicked my magic mouse upwards and I was on another article, I tried to correct it by scrolling to the bottom but I ended up at yet another article instead of the original one. Before I knew it, I was just lost.

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Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by wheaties »

vishnupr wrote: post #6

Man, this website has the worst navigational experience ever. I accidentally flicked my magic mouse upwards and I was on another article, I tried to correct it by scrolling to the bottom but I ended up at yet another article instead of the original one. Before I knew it, I was just lost.

Agreed. Can't use my android phone to nav around. It just flips articles.

Re: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

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Post by nicholassmith »

zalew wrote: post #7
nicholassmith wrote: post #2

As someone who's been an F1 fan for a while (although less so at the moment, but I digress), I've always found it curious that it's never really taken off in America like it could have. Americans love cars, and love racing, it's easy to mock the love of the oval and NASCAR but American teams show up in Le Mans quite a lot, and have a long history of racing on the long, winding and, well, non-American tracks. Maybe it…

> it's easy to mock the love of the oval and NASCAR Check out Top Gear s18e02 (edit: now I see you're British, so you probably have watched it). Not that I'm convinced or will watch Nascar, but how they pictured it in the show was hell damn exciting. > F1 suddenly got a lot more coverage in the UK when we had a couple of drivers Imagine what was going on here when Kubica appeared.

If you've never watched NASCAR, you should definitely do it. I've not watched a race in years, but it used to be shown on Channel 5 around 10/11pm, it's perfect 'crack a beer' TV. Very fast, very aggressive, very loud, very full of crashes. The street brawl to F1's refined Queensbury Rules.

However, it is frankly ridiculous in many ways and it's very easy to pick on the fact it's beloved by red necks and so on.

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