F1 Fanatic

Ok i’ve been a on off viewer of MotoGP for a couple of years, never really took any notice of it. Never really interested but provided something to watch other than Songs of Praise. Now I watched the race in Qatar earlier today and was completely underwhelmed. The race was a bit of a bore and even the commentators sounded bored and were trying to drum up some imaginary action by staring at a graphic pointing out the quickness of the Honda’s gear change.

The race mainly involved the 2 Honda’s swapping places twice and Pedrosa losing out to Lorenzo with no way back at him. After about Lap 10 I wanted to switch off, now don’t get me wrong i’ll watch any racing if there are good battles but this was terrible. If the Honda didn’t have so much straight line speed the race would’ve been very stagnant (Or more so than it already was).

But what do other fellow race fans think of it? Does it interest you? Do you get bored? And what do you think of the racing in general?

It’s actually OK, by far the best thing on Freeview this evening – maybe their desert race in Qatar is just our Bahrain borefest – because it’s usually better than that.

Stoner was always going to win though, he’s phenomenal at that circuit – I’m hoping for a repeat of 2007!!(That’s Stoner for the Championship, for non-viewers)

I watched the Qatar race as well, and switched off after 20 minutes. The first 5 mins were okay, but after that nothing happened. I won’t be bothering with it again.

you guys missed out on the V8′s at the clipsal 500.. awesome race! it was wet, then dry.. the front guys had a massive duel.. and at one point there was a freight train of 7 cars at the front of the field! youtube it now!

as for motogp.. i find its only exciting when there’s a duel on at the front.
Google Rossi v Gibernau
Rossi v Stoner
Rossi v Lorenzo
Rossi v everyone actually!

i respect the riders a huge amount! but it still doesn’t bring great racing

Any race except Qatar is good. Last season was good but only when Rossi came back, it was just Lorenzo constantly winning.

MotoGP races can be pretty tedious, there is a lot of field spread and you need 2-3 rides going for it at the front to keep it interesting.

I much prefer watching Moto2 becasue those guys literally knock lumps out of each other from lights to flag, with 6-7 way battles for the lead not being uncommon!

Sometimes it’s the amount of overtaking that puts me off, it just seems ridiculously easy. I know it might seem a bit rich an F1 fan complaining about too much overtaking when our sport has none, but bike racing is a bore-fest for me – there’s no defending an overtake if the guy behind is faster. Doesn’t make for exciting racing.

Nothing happened in Qatar, but so did in Bahrain in 2010 (F1), but you don’t say F1 is boring. There have been spectacular races in MotoGP, like Rossi’s and Lorenzo’s duels in Barcelona and Motegi in 2010. Even so, the races are a lot shorter than F1 races and I think if there were 50 laps the races would be dull, because no one can drive competitively for so long and duels can’t last forever. So there are nice duels, frequent and beautiful, but I still prefer F1, maybe because caring more about it I notice every single aspect and that entertains me.