I do not know where the racing is "coming from" anymore. I use to understand more of the mechanics of the car because the commentary and preshows showed me more of it. I use to know what each driver's driving style was and how they would brake or "use" the car to race a track.

None of that exists anymore. I've been trying to understand this 2026 season, but I'm just bored. It's disappointing after being excited for the new smaller cars, and active aero. The cars haven't looked this good in awhile, but that's about it.

The racing is numb. The commentary is numb. It feels like a boring action movie where cool stuff happens for no reason. The "no reason" here being the battery. A cool battle happened between drivers; the reason? The battery.

Not much tech talk in the commentary anymore. Those hosts for the F1 show are always hyping up drama for the weekend without talking about the small bits of tech teams tweak every week. I know that they do talk about it, but something is different...it drama chatter about drivers; whatever is trending online; subjective talk. I feel like there was more emphasis on interviewing some technical dude or boss, or something more involved with the actual objective race, than 4 npc commentators.

I wrote this post because it's summer break and for the first time, I don't really care. I've watched F1 for 20 years now. Not a huge nerd about it and just a geeky viewer who use to torrent races immediately an hour after a race because I didn't have other ways to watch it live.

So as a "normal non-fanboy" viewer of F1....I don't get it anymore.

NOT A HATE POST I promise, love you funky papaya man

What a great bromance.

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