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

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's just a quirk of culture, something that slipped under the radar and never made it back into vogue. No American drivers, previously no American tracks, no American teams, there's little to get a fan hooked in. F1 suddenly got a lot more coverage in the UK when we had a couple of drivers, and oddly more coverage still when we had drivers doing well, maybe having one really good American driver would change it.

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).

I think there are a lot of people in the US like me, but we don't spend enough money to get sponsor/advertiser attention. When was the last time you saw F1 tee-shirts, or F1 drivers on beer cans? Which events are offered is all about the almighty dollar.

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.

"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.

If you don't have Javascript enabled that's a conscious decision you've made, fully aware of what the tradeoff is.

Either turn it on for websites you want to read properly, or just accept the fact that it's 2013 and the vast majority of websites use it.