F1 expected to cancel Bahrain and Saudi GPs due to Middle East conflict

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/13/george-russell-pole-china-gp-sprint-race-mercedes-lando-norris-f1

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Trebuchet@europe.pub · 19 pts · 166d (10 replies)

Good, they're shitty tracks in shitty countries.

blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 165d

The Bahrain circuit is decent I think and produces memorable races, but yeah I agree with the rest.

Hegar@fedia.io · -9 pts · 165d (8 replies)

See i was gonna say good because all motorsports are boring and gruesome displays of misused wealth.

Decq@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 165d (6 replies)

I mean.. Can't you say that for basically every form of entertainment that costs money, when you're personally not invested? For example, how are all the marvel movies not a boring and gruesome display of misused wealth?

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 165d

Or other peoples children

Hegar@fedia.io · -4 pts · 165d (4 replies)

I personally find marvel movies boring, and a misuse of wealth, but marvel films aren't boring in the same way that cars going around in a circle is boring, and they're not gruesome in the way that eagerly waiting to see real people injured is gruesome.

bumblefumble@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 165d

That's not really what motorsports are. Anything can sound boring based on how you describe it. And no one is eagerly waiting for crashes, that's an absurd assertion.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 165d

So true. Stupid moving pictures don't show anything imagination can't do cheaper, easier, and more realistically. Such a dumb waste of people's own resources that they would otherwise hoard and never use, depriving society of the value and thus starving people of resources. They should just sit in their high castles and ivory towers enjoying their wealth to themselves. Fuck other people. Fuck letting them have fun.

Wfh@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 165d

eagerly waiting to see real people injured

Tell me you don't know a single thing about F1 without telling me you don't know a single thing about F1.

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 165d

Motorsport isnโ€™t about waiting to see injury. Vast amounts of technology go into preventing injuries. Motorsport isnโ€™t just cars going in a circle either. It seems you maybe arenโ€™t familiar.

BassTurd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 165d

I would suggest not watching motorsports if I were you then.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 165d

But how will they sports-wash their appalling human rights violations?

xc2215x@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 165d

Smart move from F1.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 165d

We cancelled the 2020 opener because someone coughed in pit lane. No way are these races going ahead.

ms_lane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 165d

F1 at The Bend then?

Akh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d

Nah man, nothing like dodging bullets and bombs at 200 mph

dotCody@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 165d

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