We have crappy cricket all year round. We have flipping football all year round. Why can't we have Formula 1 all year round?
I know what your answer will be. It'll be one of these: weather, car development, or give the drivers a break. But that's all, quite frankly, a load of fetid dingoes' kidneys. Listen...,
Weather: None (ping!). Nonsense. OK, so half the world has unpredictable weather from October to March, but another half has no noticable change in the weather from month to month, and the other half has good weather in those months. Er, that's three halves, but that's not the point! The weather's pretty unpredictable in Britain and Belgium at least even during our so-called summer, and a bit of unpredictable weather always makes for good racing. So, basically, what I'm saying is: weather? Pah!
Car development: Crap. If anything can be said from the last couple of seasons, it's that most of the important car development seems to happen during the season, not before it. Especially when you have teams like McLaren and Ferrarsi poncing about and introducing cars half-way through a season or not at all. I ask you.
Give the drivers a break: GIVE THE DRIVERS A BREAK??? Give ME a break! I mean (a) have you seen how much they're paid? And (b) they work all bleeming year anyway!
So, I hear you cynics ask: what's in it for us? Well, I'll tell you what's in it for you, pal.
1. Round the year racing = round the year fun. Need I say more?
2. If you had a race every 2 weeks, you could have 26 races a year; even if you had four one-month-long breaks in a year you'd have 22 races. Now that would allow all these Mickey Mouse venues like Timbuktoo and Xanadu to have a race, AND maintain some of our threatened old favourites, like the Buckinghamshire GP.
3. Because there would be no season, as such, you could have a rolling World Championship, where a new Champion could be declared at every race, based on their performance in the previous year's-worth of races. That would, obviously, devalue the World Championship, but I think everyone would agree that it would enable Fernando Alonso to smash Michael Scumwanker's record of six - but he could do it in a little over 12 weeks. Brilliant! If we'd been using this system a couple of years ago (and, frankly, I can't be arsed to look up the stats on this: just take my word for it), David Coulthard would have won a handful of world championships, which has got to be a good thing. He might have retired by now - that would have been the "my year" he's so looking forward to.
4. We could have a Boxing Day GP at a new St Stephen's circuit in Bethlehem. Possibly.
Roll on March.
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