Sooner or later we will get to every deadline date and every time we are in debt, like the old saying. Maybe that’s why you are just a few minutes away. The second Gran Premio de México for this new era is only a few days away.
Formula 1’s races are real battles where each rival takes all weapons at his disposal, trying to prevail during war in peace. It shouldn’t be surprising if the best candidates for victory are barely a real selected cast among others competitors. Just like it happens within different existing eras, which is why it’s worth scrolling out throughout the different periods of racing on this odd formula witnessed live in Mexico.
A very old age when Italian drivers used to impose in 1950, shortly after on the next decade with the British drivers led by Jim Clark and Graham Hill. And later, with the applause given to Nigel Mansell; although idolatry laid on the Frenchman Alain Prost especially with the affection dispensed to Ayrton Senna.
Spinning sad events was essential to keep on building an knitting the four-wheel encounter legend, as well as the importance of your country as venue for those previous epic battles witnessed in Mexico City and also the local fans: with the symbol of the so ill-fated Bonetto, Rodriguez Brothers, Solana and Ayrton’s deaths which have been paradigmatic characters, whose departure at the top: marked those times which gave this sport the true soul of entrepreneurs, seen from half of 20th century to our present days.
If it is true, that very little has been said about cars in this quick previous trip, which it is unfair, since at the end it is all about racing cars, as the vital core in this competition.
Alfa, Ferrari, Porsche or Maserati in previous years; facing Dallara, Jordan, Benetton or Minardi of later years, to end with Red Bull, Sauber, Toro Rosso and Mercedes today.
Actors who also look for primacy and that, even though we have to face the fact that: there are hegemonies. Those few who imposed and the rest left behind, like Lotus did in his time; not to mention Ferrari during those seasons when it shone as a wonder never seen before; same happened with McLaren and Williams; as they were a few years before thanks to Adrian Newey’s creation with his invincible red buffalos, as they are now the Silver Arrows.
If you attend any further beyond those names and emblems that those racing cars hold, you will find that what underlies its importance is: ingenuity, skill, dexterity and the amazing intelligence of men.
With a number of hallmarks featuring this era as the most innovative, today’s trend: for music that comes from the leaks and that is less ostentatious than it previously was. More of something and less ado.
New methodology to create drivers is now hybrids, with internal combustion engines, in pairing with energy recovery, which make of racing cars: battery cars.
The regulation to which they are subject these days borders what is still misunderstood, more penalties than in any other sport discipline. And the mysterious number of new gadgets, such as steering wheels that are computers, the lack of cables, the absence of a clutch pedal, the almost complete disappearance of shiny metal; eight-step gearboxes; the DRS and even the tires in colors which are woven in an indecipherable esotericism, and also commissioners-drivers.
The GPS for telemetric control of behavior to the millimeters, cars and millionaire dance of money which is raffled between team bosses’ salaries, the supernal “aerodynamicists” and of course, drivers of our time.
To top of it with a Mexican racetrack which being the same, is a different one, of the new millennium.
Attending Formula 1’s races these days is a carnival for the privileged, because if it wasn’t enough with all technological implementations, a radical change is coming. New owners of the business have in mind to take this entertainment category to what will actually be: witnessing and experiencing races of this new millennium.
So it has been a wise move on your part, to meet each other last Sunday of October, in what will be the new roar of the highest speed missiles with the best room of maneuver.
A F1esta that will surprise you, and that you already own…
