[kayoone]

> Some might say it's not much of a sport anyway, but it seems popular

Yeah, that is another argument. Not many people understand that driving a F1 car is hugely physically challenging though and drivers need to be in top shape. Us mere mortals would be exhausted after 2 laps and could not hold our head straight for even one high speed corner.

[semi-extrinsic]

Never mind that we wouldn't have the technique and balls to be able to drive around one high speed corner.

Watch Richard Hammond, who's spent more time than 99.9% of us driving fast cars round racetracks, spend an entire day and not getting it quite right: https://youtu.be/EGUZJVY-sHo

[ricardobeat]

Exactly. Anyone who has driven a go-kart in an open track knows how incredibly tough and exhausting that is already, I can't even imagine scaling those forces to 300km/h+.