F1…Fuck off!

by Kevin Shepherd on 29/07/2011

In all my years as an F1 fan I’ve told the telly, various drivers and Bernie to ‘fuck off’ more times than I care to remember. But this time I mean it.

Due to the prices I’ve never seen an F1 race live. I’d dearly love to but at £300 for a ticket with a halfway decent view I’ve often fantasized but in the back of my mind I always knew this was never really going to happen.

Now that poisonous, bullshitting, evil, old cunt Bernie has gone and sold some (lets face it all) of the broadcast rights to Sky. I can’t believe I’m surprised him and Murdoch have so much in common the deal was a foregone conclusion before they’d even met.

So as I see it I have a choice pay for a Sky subscription (£487.00 per year for normal definition or £610 for HD) or cobble the season together with the scraps the intertnet, radio and various websites will have to offer.

FUCK OFF!

I love F1 I really do but this is just too much, I’m sure some will say that a true fan would pay the fee and get on with it. Well fine I’m not a real fan. In fact from the end of this season I won’t be a fan at all.

I’m bidding F1 goodbye, there are some really decent people working in and around F1 and thanks to this podcast I’ve had the pleasure of  meeting some of them.  I’ve met and conversed with people who listen to the podcast and they all seemed thoroughly decent too. So it’s not a decision I’m taking lightly.

I will instead spend weekends with my family who will be more than happy that whole weekends aren’t written off as ‘Daddy needs to watch the Grand Prix’.

I’ll miss it, but I’m sure I’ll also get over it.

I’m currently in Edinburgh performing my solo show Kevin Shepherd: Caronicle so in amongst the stress of getting it ready watching cars go round and round is the least of my concerns. If your in Edinburgh come and see it, unlike F1 and just like the podcast it’s FREE! I’m sure my mood will have improved  before the first show on the 4th August.

But once the summer break is done I will concentrate on enjoying this season and soaking up all it has to offer.

But come 2012 F1 can FUCK OFF!

 

 

 

  • ExF1fan

    Well said

  • Fandyboy

    Amen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/budgetbus Lyndon Chaplin

    Im the same fella.

  • Anonymous

    My sentiments exactly Kevin.

    Unfortunately, I plan to divest myself from F1 immediately.  My feeds have been deleted, podcasts (including, unfortunately, yours) are going through lack of relevance and twitter accounts are being unfollowed – my partner will be pleased that Sunday afternoons are back and I’m sure it will make no difference to Mr. Magicka and his money brigade, but most importantly, I’ll have no way of investing in my son via F1 as my dad did with me.

    A landmark bad decision that has coloured my opinion of the sport forever more…  call it cutting my nose off to spite my face, but even if FOTA veto it or Bernie does one of his senile about-turns of face, I won’t be resuming my viewing of F1.

    Signing off.

  • mattress

    Same here. This season will definitely be my last.

  • Paul C

    Come on Kevin, tell us how you really feel.

  • Toodleoo

    Why don’t you just make us pay for your podcasts instead? All these years of watching f1 and you still haven’t learnt anything from good old Bernie :/  Bah Please just keep the podcasts running till the end of the season I need you guys till then and well kick the chair away together after Brazil :(

  • Joe

    whats the problem? download the races. 

  • Phil

    Like Optimaximal says below, F1 is more than just a TV programme. I started watching F1 with my dad in the 70′s, watching Hunt and Lauda. It started as a way of spending more time with my dad, then, I got into it and started enjoying it. Through the Senna, Prost, Piquet and Mansell days, I took the sport as my own. I watched it all –  Senna’s death and the Hill/Villeneuve Williams resurgence. Mika Hakkinen, Schumacher’s dominant years through to today’s crop of kids, fucking it up.

    It is with a heavy heart, but I cannot bring myself to watch it on Sky. I can’t afford it, for one thing, but they are already promising “the full Sky treatment.” Oh dear.

    ITV’s coverage came at a time, where the racing was dull to be honest and commercial breaks rarely interrupted the (in)action. This is completely different, every lap is a drama, every overtake a balls shrivelling event. You couldn’t watch a series of “24″ by missing every other episode. This is the same.

    Like a beautiful, yet clingy ex-girlfriend, the benefits of having fuckbuddy sex is good, but it just serves to remind you that things aren’t as they once were.  

  • Phil

    Oh, forgot to mention – I am done with F1 (or F1/2, as it’s half a season) at the end of this year. I’m going to start watching “extended race highlights” of Indycar on Youtube, BTCC on ITV4 and GT1 on their website.

    If I see Bernie out, I will give him a swift kick in balls, because that’s what he’s done to the fans, the cunt.

  • Borg9r

    its ok people we will only miss a couple of years when the companies paying to advertise on the f1 cars and drivers realise that half the views in the uk have stopped watching they want pay and the whole thing will go tits up and a new f1 run by the main teams will come from the ashes of Bernie and the bbc and sky will be gone from the sport and the good old itv can air the sport for ever
     
     
     
    Let’s just hope all the UK workers that design and build the cars can keep there job
    Not that Bernie gives a s— about there jobs but for there sake lets just hope Bernie gets a good smack in the head and he comes to his senses soon

  • Scar5

    What a bunch of pussies!
    Nothing is set in stone yet and you can easily download or stream races.
    Go back to watching tennis losers.

    • Phil

      Scar5 – Everything is set in stone. It is a done deal. Yes, I can easily download or stream races, because I love the “buffering” message every second fucking corner.

      Hmm, so glad I can watch races with foreign language commentary on a postage stamp sized window on my PC. Glad I haven’t got a 50″ HD TV to watch it on, because otherwise, that would really suck.

      “Go back to watching tennis losers.”

      Nobody watches tennis here, that is the point. Also, I think you will find that there should be an apostrophe after tennis, otherwise you are telling us to watch “tennis losers.” I don’t think Tim Henman plays anymore.

      “What a bunch of pussies!”

      Careful with the sweary marys. You might upset one of us cunts. Scar – wasn’t that the name of a character in the Lion King? Did you name yourself after your favourite characters…ahhhhh. You also put your age after it. How sweet.

      Now, don’t go away mad. Just go away.