How do you experience the Formula 1 final this weekend?
It can hardly have escaped your notice that the last race of the season in Formula 1 car racing takes place in Abu Dhabi this weekend. It will be decided this Sunday whether Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton will become world champion.
The interest in this final is very high in the Netherlands, because if Max can stay ahead of the Englishman, it would be the first time in F1 racing history that a Dutchman becomes world champion. The whole of the Netherlands, including people who don't really like motorsport, will sympathize.
Of course the viewing figures on television will be high, but about 5000 Dutch people will be present in Abu Dhabi to experience the race live. Hopefully they won't be disappointed!
One could also travel to Abu Dhabi from Thailand, but the problem with that is the huge paperwork (visa, vaccination, quarantine) that is expected to go and return to Thailand.
How do you experience the Formula 1 final in Thailand? Just sitting at home in front of the TV or with friends in a pub….., sorry I mean restaurant! Do you only watch the race or do you also follow the training and classification? Who occupies pole position and who do you think will win?
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Bert Gringhuis (1945), born and raised in Almelo in the beautiful Twente. Later lived for many years in Amsterdam and Alkmaar, working in export for various companies. I first came to Thailand in 1980 and immediately fell in love with the country. Been back many times since then and moved to Thailand after my (early) retirement as a widower. I have been living there for 22 years now with my somewhat younger Thai lady Poopae.
My first experiences in Thailand as a kind of newsletter sent to family, friends and acquaintances, which later appeared under the name Gringo on Thailandblog. Many, many articles followed those first stories and that has grown into an almost daily hobby.
In the Netherlands still an avid footballer and football referee, but the years are starting to tell and in Thailand still avid, but the pool billiards is really of inferior quality, ha ha!
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I'm in Thailand myself, and I hope to be able to see it with a VPN with the Ziggo app on my tablet.
I'd love to watch it in the pub, but I'm afraid it won't work here.
If anyone has a good tip for a free vpn.? Then I recommend.
I think Mercedes will become double world champion.
Qualifying and racing
1Lewis
2 Max
3 fallsteri
Jan Willem
proton-vpn
Hesgoal.com. free no vpn needed
This one works well for me
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Hamilton will not win.
WILL NOT WIN
Hamilton goes off track, good or bad and Max will WIN!
I'm sitting on the couch at home. (Kamphaeng Phet Province)
Have the Ziggo channel from NL via the laptop.
View with a beamer on a very large screen…
In NL we were watching with a group of 5 people.
Here I watch on my own for the time being, sometimes my wife watches with me.
I follow the practice sessions, the qualifying and of course the race.
Hopefully we will enjoy Max for years to come.
Never seen 1 second actually, but it would be perfect if he wins..
Although Max has Dutch nationality, for us Belgians he is at least 50% Belgian (mother + country of birth).
I, and I think all Belgians, hope that “HE” becomes world champion and not that unsportsmanlike arrogant Brit who does not want to admit that Max is a much better pilot, in all respects.
I don't give a damn and I'm not going to watch. (Can I say that?)
Motorsport where the driver's contribution is maybe 20% and the remaining 80% (I'm just throwing a few percentages at it) is determined by the car manufacturer and the team around it, I personally don't think it's a real top sport. I personally prefer skating, cycling, athletics, some ball sports.
But everyone wishes their 'me' and fun watching.
Hopefully it will not be the same disappointment for those 5000 NLers who traveled to Abu Dhabi
two years ago, when Verstappen crashed after a few hundred meters: 25.000 (??) NLers for 'nothing' up and down to Belgium…tsssss.
You don't think it's top sport Sjoerd.
Then I advise you to sit in a kart for 2 hours. Preferably in TH nice and warm and driving around, we will talk again after those 2 hours..
Success!
For me Formula 1 is entertainment, top entertainment but not sport.
And for me entertainment which I don't particularly like, but everyone is entitled to their own taste.
For me, sport is an activity that can be widely practiced in society, where commerce is of secondary importance and where private initiative (clubs, unions) reigns supreme.
Of course there is a historical development. Where a sport started as a way of moving for the elite (applies to most sports) and later developed into a popular sport, there are clear signs that top sport is nowadays becoming more of an entertainment category where commercial interests predominate over the sporting ones. See the development of professional football worldwide, where (much too) highly paid players are traded as slaves (rented, vomited, fired, offered to other clubs). Even in normal business this would lead to lawsuits.
MrM said: "Then I advise you to sit in a kart for 2 hours."
Exactly, that's the 20% I mentioned
skates, bicycles, hurdles, pole vaults, trampolines, balls, etc. are therefore made and designed for 80% by the athlete himself?
(I'm only throwing a percentage at it)
You could also complain about the financial picture.
Expensive, wasted money, money better spent, etc.
I assume that you also do not use technology that has emerged from motorsport.
Have a nice day. (may I say that?)
Dear Dirk, Unfortunately, your comparisons are flawed.
The car has a motor that provides propulsion. The driver only has to operate it.
On the bicycle, on the other hand, the cyclist has to take care of the forces that realize the propulsion, just like the skater.
The track and field long jumper does not have a launcher that he only has to operate.
A 100m sprinter does not have a motor with an accelerator pedal.
In addition: Anyone (in the western world) can buy a bicycle or a pair of skates, anyone can buy a pair of running shoes, a swimsuit, anyone can play football. That is what millions do (especially in the case of running and football). Then all those people go to training and the very best emerge from that. Those are the top players, that's top sport.
In formula 1 there is a lot of money, there are a few car brands and only a few dozen drivers who decide among themselves who is the best. Not top sport for me.
Dear Sjoerd,
Of course you are partially right.
But those few dozen drivers are the best of the best, who have won everything there is to win since their youth.
Often started in the karts and kept moving up.
Of course anyone can buy a bike, but without the big money to have a real top bike made, no one is going to win the Tour de France.
I just mean to say that there are hardly any world champions with the big money behind it.
If only to be able to pay the support team.
Okay, maybe except billiards..
Racing drivers are also top athletes….
and korfball, hockey, swimming, athletics, tak kreaw, handball, gymnastics… do I really have to continue?
Sjoerd, you're right, because if you don't have that you're writing nonsense about top sport for so long, that every F1 fan has long since given up and will enjoy Max's victory and the world championship he had achieved, thanks for your explanation why YOU think it's not top sport.
Dear Sjoerd,
No one is interested that you are not interested in F1 and that you are not going to watch.
Is it interesting that Sjoerd is not going to watch?
No, that in itself is not very interesting. What is interesting is the question of what (for all) sport and top sport is.
How would you like it if the Thai government, in the context of encouraging everyone to 'get involved in sport' and increasing the potential of the Thai people to produce the next Formula 1 world champion, rewards speeding cars and introduces a extra reward for those who overtake left and right on the highway at least 160 km per hour without making a mess? With a 'regular' car and not with a Ferrari (from Red Bull) or Lamborghini because there are enough of them already.
I have been following everything from F1 for about 35 years and luckily I have all Ziggos and Sky F1 TV on my television here… just enjoyed the qualifying…
Been following it for years, will be an exciting race.
can see it at home on my computer, but also have an invitation to watch in a resort on a big screen, it is a challenge to go, at least 40 English are there, as the only Dutchman, I don't know yet. They're not happy if Max wins, and if Hammelton wins, I'm not happy, and with 40 drunken English resisting, isn't it fun!
Lots of viewing plea for those watching, gr Jan
I'm at home with my ex-boyfriend who leaves for Thailand on Friday and they are both crazy about motorcycles, both formula 1 and even more motogp, sorry I prefer Hamilton and Paul to Verstappen, but damn it can also be Verstappen, they both deserved it
Have fun
I'll probably forget to look... I don't really care either. Rather a good documentary about the universe and the stars or a fun series than sporting events. I never watch sports. I can't stand the tension!
Sjoert, then go for 15 minutes in a real racing kart with good tires and your arms will fall off after 7 1/2 minutes, or you will lie next to the track, and skating, cycling and athletics are also high-tech nowadays, aren't they? And F1 is indeed a team sport and the viewers enjoy that too with the preparation and the pit stops! But it's the rider who finishes it!!!
http://www.hesgoal.com/news/81903/Formula_1_GP_France_—_NL.html
Max congratulations on your championship in F1, just super! and that you can also become SPORT-MAN of the year, with that you also stop the reactions that F1 is not a SPORT!
Greetings, Max fan.
Although the achievement of the world title by Max Verstappen leads to national feelings for many (not for me, by the way; I also don't have that if the korfball team becomes world champion), the real SPORTS CONSCIENT must admit that purely on sporting grounds, Max absolutely does not want this victory in Abu Dhabi. has earned. Until lap 53 (of a total of 58) Max had to contribute, he got a little closer to Hamilton thanks to teammate Perez but owes his title to a colleague's crash (and faster tyres).
Without the crash, Max would have finished at least 10 seconds behind Hamilton.