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Originally Posted by HHW
Ya, I'm a fan, as fate would have it...
We grew up 30 minutes from Zandvoort, and my brothers and I used to attend the Sunday club races with our dad. My dad would go watch the F1 races too and we really wanted to go but we were a bit too young for a full-on GP experience. The Dutch GP was a madhouse even then. We did go to one of the Dutch GP qualies one year, back when it was just a timed free practice. That tells you how far back this was, btw :-) I remember the days when Murray Walker (RIP) still made sense.
I've followed it off and on (mostly on) ever since. The racing has not always been too exciting, but once in a while your get a race (or season) that just makes your jaw drop. DtS shows a bit of the circus that surrounds the sport, which is entertaining in its own right, and the sense of globalism that is in the sports DNA. You can talk to fans from all over the world, and we share that passion.
I also now mentor a Robotics team which competes in a "gamified engineering" competition. And, as I like to show my students, that is exactly what F1 is. The amount of technical expertise, mechanics, physics, data science, coding, simulation, and plain old problem solving that is involved is inspiring!
PS: Yes, I lurk in the Other Sports F1 thread, and really should join the annual competition.
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Awesome work on mentoring a Robotics team, lots of options that can lead into motorsport. There simulators are incredible, puts my home racing sim rig to shame.
I forgot to add that if they're at the UofC, get them to check out the Formula SAE team there. I was on it from 98-01 and we put a very good friend into F1 (lead integration eng for Alpha Tauri) and I worked a season in Grand-Am.