Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have worked in motor racing all my life, F1 mostly. During the last fuel crisis there was much heart searching about whether it was appropriate to race cars. A quick calculation showed that all the cars in all the races of the World Championship in a year consumed a touch more fuel than -one- transatlantic Boeing 747 flight... It turns out that sport using the biggest amount of fuel, amongst those checked, was Soccer, and it is the fan's cars driving to a huge number of matches per week worldwide which consume it, not the participants. BTW you perhaps unwittingly made an interesting point about the demographic of sports fans. In the USA motor sport is a "blue-collar" sport, NASCAR and Drag racing, in other countries it is a "white-collar" sport, and means Karts followed by single-seaters. This is -very- noticeable when you travel worldwide in the business, and is the main reason for only sporadic World Championship events being held in the USA. It is too expensive for most US racing fans to stomach, and too "low-class" for Americans who can afford it to consider. Having said that there is a tiny but very knowledgeable and enthusiastic core of F1 supporters in the US! cheers, Frank On 4 May, 2010, at 05:02, Vince Passaro wrote: > And finally, Nathan, people who fly a lot contribute to vastly more CO2 > emissions than people who go to auto races. Ahem. You can green up your > whole life but if you take two planes a year you're part of the problem, > not > the solution. We might not like this fact, because despite our good > intentions we intend to keep flying, but it represents the facts so leave > the poor monster trucks out of it.