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myimaginarywonderland · 1 year

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So, this is going to be a different posts from the ones that I usually make.

Everyone who knows my blog knows I have only been following F1 since 2019/2020. But I knew about it way before than.

When I was younger I remember coming over to my grandparents and when my family got too much I would sit down with my grandpa in the living room and enjoy whatever sports he was following at the time which sometimes happened to be F1 (but this was before I really proceed it so I was way too young to understand what was going on probably.)

And once I got into F1 I talked a bit to my grandpa about it when he was still alive. He wasn't really following it anymore (probably because it was already hard to watch it at that time and he enjoyed other sports more) but even then it still was something that I felt truly connected us and was one of only memories I still have.

And when I got into F1 my lovely best friend would sometimes let me come over or come over to mine and watch it with me even if she wasn't interested.

Now, this cannot happen anymore because we'll I have to find a stream first, see that it's a good one etc.

And I feel like for younger fans especially ones who have motorsport interested families there is such an opportunity taken from them.

We all know how people come together for football and honestly, I would love nothing more than to have that for F1 because even those small glimpses I had with two people I cared about where such a cool experience.

But we can't have that anymore because we'll, F1 isn't on Free TV.

I also remember when it was that my parents would sometimes sit down with me and joke about the German commentators because eventhough they weren't fans that was such an integral part of TV in a way. That's just not there anymore.

And I know many fans have those stories where someone in their family watched it and then they watched it together and grew into a fan and well that just doesn't happen for new fans anymore and it feels like a punch in the gut because while it may be romanticized, it was true for quiet a few fans.

But younger fans will never be able to make those memories because F1 has in most countries decided to become blocked completely by a pay wall and is now even considering bombarding us with more races.

And maybe it's just me but not only does that take away the small opportunity to experience F1 the same way football fans do but it also makes F1 so uneventful or not special.

F1 used to be something that was like a nearly monthly accurance and now I have like 3 races per months. It takes away this excitement that surrounds it this opportunity to make it a community event because it feels like it's now nearly every week.

There's just something about trying to make something like motorsport which was always so different from other sports because it didn't only rely on the driver it also had this huge engineering aspect, this unique combination of driver and car, into something like football (a sport that only relies on the players) not working.

F1 or motosport isn't as popular as football or as easily able to be commercialised because we'll there's only one season. Football has different leagues, championships all year but in motorsports it's a season and it's done, then you have a break and you go again.

It just isn't the same and over time the unique experience of F1 has morphed into something completely different than I feel like what most people associated with it.

And I feel like F1 is losing its charme more than anything else.

Remember when the Monaco GP was this really prestigious thing that was so different because it was so glamorous? Because while in other GPs it felt like there were the common fans, Monaco was full of celebrities and rich people and that's part of what also made it special? Yeah, that's what every GP feels like because it is nearly unaffordable to visit now.

F1 wants to be like other sports so bad but then also wants to be seen as this prestigious thing which just doesn't work and therein lies the exact problem. Motorsport will always be different because you can't follow it as easy as you can football. I bring this up because I feel like football for sure is just the most popular sport for most people. The difference is while I might need some basic knowledge for football to fully understand many decisions I can still follow it blindly because it's easy to pick up things, to piece it together.

F1 requires so much more. There's DRS, there's different strategies, there's tyres, there's penalties etc. It needs way more knowledge that other sports because there's three sides, the driver, the car and everything else (let's call it outside factor's.)

So yeah. A community would definitely help you if you started being a fan as commentators often will not be able to explain certain things.

And by trying to commercial F1, this hope for community and I guess a sense of familiar/generational fan building is losing any hope of being a possibility for new fans.

#f1 #weird rant in many places hope some of you understand me #personal stuff #personal i guess #but where else can I overshare about personal things expect Tumblr.com

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formula-what · 4 years

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Hey with all due respect, you can say you enjoy speculating about people's sexuality without having to justify it with your struggle, I'm pan and I'm older than most people on tumblr but I've never felt the need to justify my engaging in fandom speculation with my desperation for representation or whatever? you risk diluting the lgbtq+ experience when you equate it to trivial projections. And in any case, this is a minor point but cuffing your jeans and such are funny stereotypes but they are just physical signifiers and that's a harmful way to categorise queer people.

Aight, huge tw for homophobia. I’ma talk about f1 and how much it sucks and I know a lot of people hate acknowledging that part

I get what you are saying. But I wasn’t “using my struggle to justify my speculation”.

1) My “speculation” was a joke. It wasn’t speculation at all. It wasn’t based on any valid facts. Im not saying “oh I think for sure Lando is bi and when he’s says otherwise he’s lying” I’m just joking around. Me “justifying” was actually just me ranting about how the community treats lgbt people, im not using that as an ‘excuse’ and i dont need to

2) hmmm “struggle” weird wording. I can’t find the words right now but like, that just sits weird with me. I was talking about a fact. There’s never been an openly gay f1 driver. That’s it. Fact. I don’t think I would call it “my struggle”. If anything it should be f1s problem not mine.

1) you say “trivial projections” as if that isn’t what makes up my whole blog and entire personality

2) okay so, I’m sorry but part of the “lgbt experience” whilst being an f1 fan is being increasingly hyper aware of the fact that no one is this community wants you here. Tumblr is a huge exception. That’s why I like this site, go literally anywhere else on social media or in the real world and you will face bigotry almost immediately

F1 announced the We Race As One campaign during pride month and they didn’t even mention the lgbt community. Which yeah pissed me off a bit but I’m used it, what is really fucked up? Is that the comment sections on every social media was full with blatant homophobia for weeks and no one did anything about it. No official member mentioned anything at all, or even removed the comments. Just because f1 used a fake rainbow that isn’t even lgbt colours and “fans” got heated that there was a slight chance that maybe f1 might start supporting us.

And god am I fed up with having to put up with constant hetronormativity and casual homophobia

There’s never being a gay driver because they’re terrified that coming out means that they will definitely lose fans, but they could also lose sponsors which could lead them to losing their seat in the team or place in f1. If sponsors start pulling out then they have to let the driver go, even if the team has no problem with the drivers sexuality. We don’t really know the repercussions because no ones been brave enough to try. The potential back lash is that big. A driver in the junior series or just starting out karting wouldn’t dare come out because that could be the only thing that stops them from making it to f1 and finally living their dream.

And holy fuck whenever someone brings up the lack of gay drivers, they are always told that “f1 is full of the best of the best” “maybe they just aren’t that good” “there’s just not any gay people that can drive well” “there’s just not enough gay people trying to get into motosport, maybe if more tried then someone will actually succeed” and they genuinely don’t understand that that is 100% complete bull shit. And I’m fed up of people acting like this is our fault because we don’t try hard enough

so please dont start acting like this is ‘my struggle’ or ‘trivial projections’ this isnt me saying “oh boohoo this mean old man wouldnt let me try go-karting because im gay :((( f1 is so homophobic lets boycott it for being problematic” this is happening in real life and is impacting so many people. not just drivers but also dictates how the whole world views f1, its fans, and motosport as a whole.

Yes I know. That was the joke.

#y’all are so good at driving people away huh #maybe becase your 'older than most people' on here that you have learnt how to put up with shit like this #but that doesnt mean that i have to #and it doesnt mean that i cant complain about it constantly #tw homophobia

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