![]() The weekend sped up and maybe dumbed down. I have huge respect for the history of grand prix racing – because none of us would be here without those who went before – and here we are trashing three quarters of a century of tradition, of riders and teams working towards winning Sunday’s Grand Prix, the BIG PRIZE.Īll the secrecy and subtleties of two days of pit-lane and racetrack strategies, slow burning towards the big day, gone in a flash. When we got to Red Bull Ring last week and heard all the rumours I didn’t greet the idea of Saturday-afternoon MotoGP sprint races with great enthusiasm. The idea is more people will turn up for races on Saturdays and more people will turn on their TVs and scroll through their phones on Saturdays. Which is why touring cars, World Superbike, Formula 1 and now MotoGP are trying to deliver more thrills per weekend.Ĭonsidering the fact that all the other major racing championships had already gone down the road of offering multiple races, it was pretty much inevitable that MotoGP would follow. Thanks to TikTok, Twitter and every other social-media platform, motor sport fans, like everyone else, want more thrills. We need excitement.”Ī century later the internet is here, churning away 24/7/365, inundating us with too much information, changing the way our minds work and making us hungry for more and more vicarious sensations. We are becoming incapable of subtle sensations. Sign up SubscribeĪ hundred years or so ago the world was accelerating faster than ever, thanks to the arrival of the internal-combustion engine, the telephone, electricity and other new technologies that turbocharged people’s lifestyles.Īt that time Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova wrote that the new ways of living (and of dancing, from sashaying to the waltz to gyrating to the fast, syncopated beats of ragtime music) was, “The outcome of the present-day need for excitement, like the telephone, car, photography and cinemas. ![]() Sign-up now for access to a limited number of articles.
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