F1 - Worldwide audiences in decline

[Rob W 0]

TV Audiences 2006 -2010

 

UK +40% 33mm in 2010

Spain -5% 31mm

Brazil -7% 88mm

Italy -10% 36mm

France -12% 30mm

Germany -15% 37mm

China -35% 76mm

 

WORLD -10% 527mm

 

Annual ticket sales fell from 3.7mm in 2006 to 3.2mm in 2010 = -15%

 

SOURCE - Formula One

[Toonpack 10396]

How long do you have to watch to be considered a viewer ???

 

I usually watch from the start through the first corner to see who's won.

Edited May 18, 2011 by Toonpack

[Kid Dynamite 7312]

I've tried to get into it for years but it does nowt for me.

[Ugly Mackems 134]

Its as boring as shite. Little wonder figures are falling. Even the bad crashes result in little more than a scratch.

 

It would be more entertaining if you got 18 Fiestas straight off the production line and used them for the race. At least we'd be sure it was the best driver that wins the title and not the cleverest (richest) teams.

[Tom 14021]

Classic Post!

[The Fish 11079]

Gotta say I find I dull, more of this would be fun (the drivers walk away relatively unharmed btw)

 

[LoveTheBobby 1]

Nope, never understood the draw either. Personally find it tedious and irritating viewing.

For the thrillseeker in me - might as well tie a bag of angry wasps round me head on a Sunday instead .

 

 

"Formula One is rubbish, admits Ecclestone.

 

BERNIE Ecclestone has confessed that Formula One is bollocks and he's sick of looking at it.

 

The world's longest midlife crisis has spent the last 30 years somehow managing to convince people to gawp at a 200mph rollerskate that weighs less than your dinner and costs ess than your dinner and costs 8 times more than your house.

 

The deception has made him one of the world's richest men under four foot tall and has been described by financial experts as 'a sporting ponzi scheme with lots of big-titted blonde women milling around for no apparent reason'

 

Now Ecclestone has finally admitted that Formula One is not so much a spectacle as it is an unremitting procession of eye-clawing dreariness enjoyed by people who need to have a right good fucking word with themselves.

 

He said: "Even if we make it rain spacehips onto the track every five minutes and tune the engines to sound like Kylie Minogue reaching a spectacular climax it's still going to be like staring at a stretch of the M25 but with an even higher concentration of tedious men with too much money sitting in pointlessly expensive cars"You can carry on watching in the hope of a really good pile-up but you may as well watch Eastenders in the hope that Arthur comes out of his allotment shed with Dirty Den's head on a stick."

 

Earlier this year Ecclestone drew up a series of ideas to make the sport more exciting, including the use of agent provocateurs to provoke a revolution in Bahrain and then attempting to stage grand prix right in the middle of it but the plan was abandoned when a feasibility study showed motor racing was better at quelling unrest than a job-lot of tranquilser darts. Ecclestone now hopes to spice up this year's British grand prix by stopping it halfway through for a poetry reading by Sir Ian McKellen halfway through for a poetry reading."

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-...e-201103013589/

[Matt 0]

Gotta say I find I dull

 

Not just you, matey.

[Toonraider 0]

Gotta say I find I dull, more of this would be fun (the drivers walk away relatively unharmed btw)

 

 

Having watched at first hand three race cars incidents where the cars were burnt to a cinder I can assure you it is not 'fun' at all. One of them, thankfully the driver got out of as the car went up, the next one the driver was pulled out and rolled onto the ground to be 'put out' and the third where a driver we knew was seriously burned to the extent he was left with very little use of his hands. Even where there are no injuries, fire in a race car is awful, our mate's car burnt to a shell, he had saved and worked hard for years to have that car and it literally went up in smoke in minutes.

My son and husband do circuit racing and the very thought of either of them being caught up and engulfed in flames terrifies me, it may be 'FUN' to watch even if the driver isn't harmed but try how fun it feels if your loved one was sat in it.

[The Fish 11079]

Gotta say I find I dull, more of this would be fun (the drivers walk away relatively unharmed btw)

 

 

Having watched at first hand three race cars incidents where the cars were burnt to a cinder I can assure you it is not 'fun' at all. One of them, thankfully the driver got out of as the car went up, the next one the driver was pulled out and rolled onto the ground to be 'put out' and the third where a driver we knew was seriously burned to the extent he was left with very little use of his hands. Even where there are no injuries, fire in a race car is awful, our mate's car burnt to a shell, he had saved and worked hard for years to have that car and it literally went up in smoke in minutes.

My son and husband do circuit racing and the very thought of either of them being caught up and engulfed in flames terrifies me, it may be 'FUN' to watch even if the driver isn't harmed but try how fun it feels if your loved one was sat in it.

I meant no offence TR, but I didn't say it's fun for the competitors, nor the owners nor the families of those involved. Maybe fun was the wrong word, exciting is probably more accurate.

[sammynb 3640]

Gotta say I find I dull, more of this would be fun (the drivers walk away relatively unharmed btw)

 

 

Having watched at first hand three race cars incidents where the cars were burnt to a cinder I can assure you it is not 'fun' at all. One of them, thankfully the driver got out of as the car went up, the next one the driver was pulled out and rolled onto the ground to be 'put out' and the third where a driver we knew was seriously burned to the extent he was left with very little use of his hands. Even where there are no injuries, fire in a race car is awful, our mate's car burnt to a shell, he had saved and worked hard for years to have that car and it literally went up in smoke in minutes.

My son and husband do circuit racing and the very thought of either of them being caught up and engulfed in flames terrifies me, it may be 'FUN' to watch even if the driver isn't harmed but try how fun it feels if your loved one was sat in it.

I meant no offence TR, but I didn't say it's fun for the competitors, nor the owners nor the families of those involved. Maybe fun was the wrong word, scorching is probably more accurate.

 

FYP

[Billy Castell 0]

http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=30424

[Toonraider 0]

Thats ok Fish, sorry too, I didnt mean to sound all preachy Its just I worry about fire more than anything, we're racing Mallory Park at the end of the month and Its particulary fast there

[Rob W 0]

Apparently the demographic in W Europe is mainly over 35 white, lower middle class males (eg Jeremy Clarkson)

[Guest alex]

Apparently the demographic in W Europe is mainly over 35 white, lower middle class males (eg Jeremy Clarkson)

The group you aspire to be part of then?

[Rob W 0]

too old, too rich young shaver