[GreenLantern2814]

I’ve been rewatching old F1 clips, everything from Senna/Schumacher to Hakinnen, Kimi, Alonso in his Renault days, and wondering why they look better and feel more exciting 15, 20, 30 years after the fact than a race that happened two weeks ago.

I think a large part of it comes down to where they’re putting the cameras and how long they hold on shots.

A duel between Schumacher and Senna at any given moment will have a shot that lasts 7-9 seconds. A modern race will be closer to 5-7 seconds per shot, and it’s zoomed all the way in. You have no sense of how much ground they’re covering, where they’re going, where they came from etc.

Comedy lives in the wide shot, and so does racing.