Hard Times

I’ve actually started watching Formula One races again—that is, now that results no longer seem to be predetermined. While the finishers on the podium have refreshingly changed, I’ve quickly learned that much of the commentary really hasn’t. As Mike Lawrence insightfully pointed out in his column a couple of months ago, there seems to always be this urge to make today’s racing more significant and important than any other period in the sport’s history.

During one of the recent telecasts, one of the announcers marched into a brief soliloquy on the incredible physical and mental demands on the modern Formula One driver and how the demands of modern Formula One are far harder than anything any driver had experienced previously. As our friends in the U.K. would say, Bullocks!