Plus there's something about sport in general that can be applied to all sports. It's the spectacle of seeing people pushing their own boundaries (and in many sports excelling them) in order to call themselves the best, and all that is tied up with who they are as people. A lot of sport is pantomime, really - you have the bad guy who always enters stage right, and good fairies and cross-dressing (eg Beckham's Alice-band...). Sport has always provided a way of distilling human experience into a format that produces drama, with regular cliff-hangers and enough sub-plots to form a largish allotment. Not to mention unexplainable tribal loyalties (I mean, I support Coventry City, for crying out loud).

Which sport you choose to follow is a matter of personal taste. Carla gets excited by squealing tyres and the smell of burning micro-organisms fossilised form the Carboniferous period, Jon prefers Rugby League and Twila and Magda appear to be keen on the scratching of overly-padded versions of Torville and Deane...

Personally I find myself watching all and any sports, with differing degrees of knowledge. At the moment I'm hot on motorsports - Formula One as lots of my friends follow it and because I know the cast of characters, ann Rallying has the appeal of the cars looking fairly 'normal' - football, rugby and cricket, plus baseball. I've also been watching a bit of the snooker.

Carl;a's right in that the best way to understand the appeal of sport is to pick a team or sportsperson to follow, and then get ridiculously partisan about any competition they're involved in. I can't watch a football game without starting to favour one-side or another. I started watching baseball last year to see what the hell people saw in it. After ten minutes I'd seen someone throw a great double-play (don't ask) and I instantly took a liking to them and that made the game a lot easier to get hold of. If something goes for you it's brilliant, if not it's blatantly biased umpiring... It still took half the seasn before I knew exactly what was going on with the scoreboards, but hey...

I'll never be able to get excited about curling, however.



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Oh I'm not against sports - I love watching athletics and swimming - maybe it's because they are 'person' sports and not 'machine' sports if you see what I mean. Although some of them certainly look robotic......





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If you tried driving a F1 car you'd see it's also a lot of a person sport.
Not that i have unfortunately, but i have driven my old renault 5 in the Estoril track and saw how hard it was...

Now there's an image...

My siter's boyf is creating a drag racer out of an old 2CV and a rather large engine he's got lying about. The plan is to pull up next to boy racers at traffic lights and challenge them to a race...



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Not *that* I would love to see hehehhehehe

A 2CV outdragging anything faster than a donkey cart ! - And donkey's can accelerate smartish when they want to.

A group of us in two cars were going bowling one time. I was in Tim's car, and watched as Big Jim-Jam (once World Tetris Champion - Arcade version) set off in his car. After a few minutes, I felt forced to ask whether Jim-Jam always drove as though trying to lose someome tailing him.

Ah, good old digital driving...



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Ah F1. I've been working weekends and haven't got to see much of it this year. But I've been a Schumi fan since he was at Benetton, just cause his actual driving is way better than anyone else's then, except mebbe Senna who was in a crappy car, iirc. And also, all my friends supported Damon Hill, and I *hated* him. Still do in fact - he was on TV the other night with a really dodgy haircut, too. And Coulthard's a wank, despite being scottish.

Oh, how I laughed when Schumi moved to Ferrari, the team which the Damon Hill lovers and manic Schumi-haters had supported for years. Love of Ferrari won out over hatred of Schumacher, impressively.

Glad it's a bit more interesting this year, though shame about the lack of Eddie Irvine...

Oi I like Coulthard!
:-P

I hate Ferrari and always have... So i actually started disliking Schumacher more when he went to Ferrari... I have a nice photo with him in Bennetton gear from his first season though.

Ugh....
He's always so moany-faced, and he never takes the blame for anything... and he dumped his fiance because she was distracting him from the racing... (well, she was probably only after his money, anyway.)

he's been terribly unlucky, he was always nice to me when i met him, he even recognised me once outside the track.

Ah well, I am judging totally by media and first impressions here!!

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i was lucky enough to have a friend who was a marshall in Estoril. she used to take me to private testing and stuff.

Even schumacher was nice in the beginning, but my faves were DC and Ivan capelli.
Irvine was great as well

I like H-H frentzen, once described by Martin Brundle as "so thin he has to run around in the shower to get wet". He's never really lived up to his full potential; too laid-back to be really competitive, apparently. Probably something to do with being half-Spanish. His French GP win in the wet was fantastic though.

Curious how Damon Hill looks more and more like George Harrison. They were friends, you know.

Hmm. Graham Hill was so laid back he was practically horizontal, but no-one ever accused him of being uncompetitive. Ee, I can remember when we had proper racing drivers, like Jim Clark .....



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There was a book about F1 I read part of in the bookshop (ahem). The author described Graham Hill as appearing to be "The sort of man who could hold a cocktail glass in one hand while unfastening a woman's bra with the other."
I think the moustache had something to do with the effect.

I have a photo with hill and he had a really nasty beard, i actually had the courage to say "damon lose the beard" and a couple of days later he had shaved it off when he got to the track (this was 94 or 95 winter testing

Skiffle - holding a cocktail glass in one hand and undoing a bra with the other is easy. I'll demonstrate it for you, if you like ;)



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Skiffle; repeat after me; I must learn not to leave the goalmouth wide open.

PSD: yes, but Graham Hill could do it with his teeth.



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Ha! Nothing - I can do it with my toes. Admittedly at this point it stops being sexy, but....



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You can hold a cocktail glass and undo a bra with your toes? Have you ever thought of becoming a Librarian?



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