Why don't Americans watch Formula One?

Serious answer:
That shit is on too early for most of the races here in the states

>>76960873
It's not broadcasted very widely. In turn, it's not talked about very often or really ever. NASCAR is only popular because it was born and raised here, but it's redneck stigma keeps it in the south.

Saying you like formula 1 in America is pretty similar to saying you like football, but then having to say you meant soccer. Most people don't the difference between Indy car and formula 1

too many corners

Because MWL and VWL killed the sport and the last relevant American F1 driver was literally decades ago

>>76961218
also this, if I wasn't a useless freeloader who can use my parents' DVR I probably wouldn't have any way to watch the series

>>76960873
We do, but it's not very popular here, in fact, even Tennis isn't that popular here either because they lack dominate Americans. Get a good American on a F1 car, and BAM, it suddenly becomes the talk of the town.

>>76960873
Weird hours for us, enough other domestic sports/motorsports when this one only gives you one home date a year

sometimes in F1 they turn in directions other than left, this confuses the amerifat

>>76961252
>>76961218
F1 is not very user friendly especially with cord cutters

I would gladly pay a monthly subscription directly too f1 to get the races and stuff. But there is no such option. You have to pay for huge packages with probably only 2 channels you watch, the exact reason people are cutting cords.

Comfy Sunday race day is the best

>>76961222
>but it's redneck stigma keeps it in the south.
NASCAR left, and most of the drivers are from the midwest or the west coast

>>76961303
Not talking about the drivers. It's the fans

>>76961340
Yeah, there actually isn't a whole lot of NASCAR in the south anymore, no one goes to the big races at Charlotte/Atlanta/Daytona.

>>76960873
It's not ours
It's not competitive on the race track
It's hard to watch live

In that order

>>76961431
>It's not ours
I'll never understand this mentality. The point of sports is competition. What's the point if you aren't competing against the whole world?

>>76961412
No one goes to NASCAR races anywhere anymore, period. Most have taken out seats(places like Charlotte and Daytona have taken 50k-70k seats out) and are still half full.

>>76961446
I'm not saying I agree with it totally but the fact is America is a very insular nation.

>>76960873
if you live on the west coast all the european races start at 5am. which is basically half of the season. the asian races start at like 11pm on saturday night. there's like 5 races that come on at a reasonable time.
what is the point of ruining your sleep schedule to watch MWL.

>>76961446
We don't have any drivers in the series.

>>76961624
If next year half of the F1 drivers were magically American it would get a moderate bump short term and slight one long term, but it would still be a meme here. The problem is it isn't ours and doesn't take place here(outside of one race) and we just are generally apathetic as a whole to anything that takes place outside our borders.

>>76961559
It's hard for people to understand just how large the US is by itself.
They see one country, but a single state is larger than most of Europe.
There's huge demographic divisions too, so while the Midwest may be mostly German/Broadly European in ancestry, the East coast is this mixed race conglomerate, while the west has a large contingent of Mexicans.

>>76961279
This.

>>76960873
I'm usually sleeping when the race starts. I wake up to catch the end.

Not having an American driver is one thing, but how the hell are you gonna get people to watch when the F1 cars nowadays sound like vacuum cleaners?

I'm a die hard F1 fan who has watched every race I can for 20 years. Yet even I struggle to wake up and see it most weeks because it's at 5AM. I can't imagine why anyone other than the biggest fans would watch it.

normies dont usually watch sporting events between 11pm and 9am, which is the time f1 is usually on.

>>76961904
mostly prime time 8pm for me.
:^)

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>>76961715
When it comes to size I understand because my country is just as big.

>>76961942
>not staying up all night to watch third world bandy tournaments and Indonesian junior badminton
It's like normies don't even know the internet exists.

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I like to eat spaghetti while I watch Ferrari win, and it's really hard to have an appetite for pasta at 5am.

>>76962027
That sauce has no meat.

>>76961715
We are poorer but I wish USA stopped with the meme that only they are diverse. Sure you guys are the most diverse but everyone else isn't homogeneous:
>Brazilians are mostly descendants of variously colonial settlers, post-colonial immigrant groups, African slaves and Brazil's indigenous peoples. Along with other immigrants of who arrived in Brazil, from the 1820s well into the 1970s, most of the settlers were Portuguese, Italians, Spaniards and German speaking nationalities, with significantly large numbers of Japanese, Poles, Ukrainians and Levantine Arabs.[33]
We ousted our female president which had a bulgarian father and the guy who took her place descends from lebanese people.

>>76962061
Your fucking meat has no sauce you ingrate

>>76961991
stop chopping the amazon.

>>76962245
I would if I could. It's outside my powers. I don't want the amazon to be destroyed but I don't like outside powers bossing us around about it.

I watch it every week. I can tell you why other people don't though:

>bad time slots for americans
>most drivers are smelly euro trash or south americans that normal people cant relate to
>tv doesnt advertise much for it
>relatively recent US races have sucked ass
>US track sucks ass
>Haas has no american drivers
>fanbase is preteneious and obnoxious
>americans already have Indycar and NASCAR which are infinitely more entertaining and have better racing

F1 could be popular here but you'd have to make it much less gay.

>>76961991
except like half in unhabited jungle and most of the total population is either niggerish favela monkey or typical european descendants

in America you get white americans, niggers, mexicans, muslims, canadians, chinks, africans and maybe a couple more races i can't remember

>>76962466
It's so funny seeing someone from guatemala talk like they came out straight from stormfront. Ok I understand you Adolf Txuhualcal.

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>>76960873
I've only ever seen one F1 aired here. NASCAR is shoved down our throats. At the same time I don't understand how F1 works.

>zoom car goes left
>straight
>left
>RIGHT
>left
>RIGHT
>RIGHT
>left
>HARD LEFT
>RIGHT
>straight
>HARD STRAIGHT

Also I heard each team gets TWO cars that represent their country of origin.

???

>>76962563
Haha this is a good fake dumb post

>>76962563
>Also I heard each team gets TWO cars that represent their country of origin.
What do you mean by that?
Yes each team has 2 cars. Thats one of the most basic pays of F1. As far as country of origin, drivers helmet colors, car colors, and team names often reflect their countries but there's no set rule on displaying where you're from. They just do that out of pride and tradition.

>>76962563
Whats the difference between straight and hard straight?

Heres how it works
>qualifying happens
>the cars qualify in approximately the same order every week
>leigh diffey and the obnoxious british announcers make a big deal out of the same lineup that happens every week
>race happens at 5:30 in the morning
>will buxton barfs out some commentary from the grid
>leigh diffey says "lewis hamilton" over 9000 times
>cars on the grid
>3 of them break before the race
>start
>"best drivers in the world" crash on the start weekly
>field is strung out
>same running order as every week with slight permutations
>3 overtakes the entire race
>leigh diffey shouts LEWIS HAMILTON a final time as he inevitably wins
>drivers do awkward autism celebrations when exiting their cars
>fans and crews fake cheering
>drink disgusting fluid out of shoe
>play national anthems for 45 minutes

>>76960873
I guess it depends where someone grows up here in the States. I grew up in a fairly rural part of the US so there's quite a chunk of NASCAR fans there but... still 70% of the people you talk to mock NASCAR for being a boring sport of driving and turning. I can imagine the same logic would be applied to F1. I don't personally care one way or another, I'm curious to watch but timing matters. I seem to see more F1 while I'm in the UK than when I'm back visiting the US.

>>76960873
just replace the F1 Cars with monster trucks and you're good

>>76962563
Nascar teams have multiple cars too you know

>>76961274
Exactly. The same happened to Bobby Fischer in chess

I do. Also attended Nurburgring in '04 and Montreal in '05.

they turn right too, much complex for burgers.

>>76962617

This. At least NASCAR you can get more lead changes despite turning left the entire time.

>>76962617
>play national anthems for 45 minutes

Which is preferable to getting a tuneless nobody to belt it out for twenty minutes at the start of every game.

>no american drivers
>no american chassis
>no american engines
>no passing
>many races are at dark o clock in the morning
>expensive as fuck ticket prices so nobody attends
>and even if they weren't expensive cota is the shittiest roadcourse in north america

>>76961252
>the last relevant American F1 driver was literally decades ago
*last good one

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>>76960873

1. Motorsport is a niche sport and is an acquired taste. Most people think motorsport, as a whole, is boring as fuck, and F1 supports that belief with it's predictability and little to no passing on the track.

2. Shitty coverage. Since Americans don't much care for motorsport, let alone F1, the coverage is lacking. The fact that start times are international doesn't help the cause.

3. F1 is the worst series in all of motorsport. People that do like motorsport generally enjoy it for the racing, and not just to see cool cars drive around a track in a procession. The outcome of an F1 race is settled during qualification over half the time, which means there is no real competition on the track, so why bother?

>>76961218
I wake up 4AM to watch, faggot

>>76960873
because it is a capitalist sport.americans watch socialist sports, with salary caps, and drafts

>>76975777
4am is still possible for autists.
but at 5/6am it's too late to stay up and too early to wake up

>>76960873
would german watch formula one is there were no german team competing and no relevant german pilot ?

neither

Americans have a team since 2016 season, they should watch it more

>>76976017
*though

>>76976017
only dorftrottels would

>>76975777

That's because you have no real joy in your life.

Trips confirm this too be true.

>>76976017
We have soccer teams too, but nobody watches that faggotry either, dude.

americans can't drive manual, it triggers them

>>76976197
We have a rugby league too and no one watches that shit either

>>76976382
>americans [can afford to purchase automatic transmissions unlike their 3rd world and socialist yuropeen peers]

FTFY, dude.

>>76976382
Yeah, shame we're not a poverty ridden shit hole that can't afford an automatic

>>76976490

That's because it's a pretty boring game compared to football.

They like to try and claim that, unlike football, rugby is a continuous game....except for the fact that union is basically a line-out / scrum fest, and league is like watching autistic children doing the same shit over, and over, and over....

I've had friends try to convince us to play rugby, but why bother when you can play football?

>>76975777
Because you are a NEET with no job/schooling. Weekends are for sleeping in.

>>76976510
F1 is as rich as it gets though.

>>76976657
So's horse racing, but nobody gives a shit about that anymore either.

>>76961218
This. Most of the races are in the middle of the night here.

Also, it's not generally on network TV, or even basic cable.

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Why watch Formula 1 when Nascar is THE worlds most watch spectator sport, and the entire events are centered around making the fans happy and giving them a show.

Formula 1 is not a spectator sport. There is nothing about Formula 1 that's made for the spectators in mind.

>>76962091
Wow youre butthurt for no reason. No one ever said that ONLY the US is diverse. It just is. And far more so as a country than European countries.

Not like it matters. Theres no grand diversity prize even though the liberals would like to think there is.

Are you agitated because its the anniversary of 7-1?

Most Americans aren't aware Formula 1 even exists. Or that 24 Hours Le Mans exists. Even Indycar Series outside the Indy 500 is pretty niche. The only series that gets publicity here is NASCAR because ESPN bought the tv deal for it and spams it.

I'd say lack of an American presence. There is now an American team, and if they continue to improve and you can squeeze an Amerifat in a car, I bet ESPN will jump on the bandwagon and find a way to get their masses to give a shit

>>76971635
I'd pay what ever they wanted to watch one at Road America

>>76995883
ESPN hasn't had NASCAR in years

>>76971848
>People that do like motorsport generally enjoy it for the racing, and not just to see cool cars drive around a track in a procession

I think a lot of them would change their opinion if they gave F1 a go. A fan of any form of racing will at least appreciate how skilled the drivers are and the immense speed these cars go at.

>>76960873
I do I even enjoy watching the practices while I eat breakfast before work comfy desu

>>76961991
Huehue pls, most of that is fucking jungle.

Why did we give you people internet?

Australians are the same way, the inhabited zone is basically just California.

Watching modern F1 is like edging for hours without being able to cum afterwards.

>>76962411
>US track sucks ass
Texas is one of the better circuits though.

Do Americans watch MotoGP or is it even more niche?

>>76962411
>tv doesnt advertise much for it
>relatively recent US races have sucked ass
>US track sucks ass
What are you talking about?

>>76962411
>F1 could be popular here but you'd have to make it much more gay.
ftfy

>>77001080

I couldn't say for the average Joe but many of my friends do. I currently race locally in the states and most fellow racers are very into MotoGP, but also MotoAmerica.

Not really WSBK though.

I personally don't watch any of them too much because I don't get it on TV...

>>76961218
Shit's made for asian and european viewers

Do European-Americans prefer boobs over butts? What is your favorite kind of boobs?

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Team Haas should be getting more attention in the US media. It's so hard for new F1 teams to break in and be successful, it's amazing we're not last right away. Gene Haas is doing a great job if he sticks with it.

Nascar broadcasts sometimes try to mention the Haas F1 team more often but at Monaco they didn't even mention Haas scoring double points.

>>76961412
>no one goes to the big races at Charlotte/Atlanta/Daytona.

Thats bull shit Esp the Daytona ones. Daytona races has almost always had near to full or full capacity.

>>76963320
Drivers win races and championships not really Teams though.

>>77001080
MotoGP while small is growing pretty fast right now.

>>77015327
Honestly, I'd prefer the American crowd, aside from the few actual fans, to stay away from F1.

I like the fact that an American team is there, though. Gene is doing a good.

>>77000348
You personally didn't give anyone shit. Other people invented it not you. You have no choice in the matter.