Vettel Takes Hungarian Pole in Another Pathetic Formula One Qualifying Session

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Published: July 30, 2011

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I wasn’t going to talk much about the disgusting deal that the BBC has done with it’s Formula One rights for the United Kingdom. But, after yet another pathetic qualifying session and coverage that failed to mention the new deal once, I’ve simply had enough.

Formula One has been my sporting life since I was about six or seven years old, but as I’ve grown older I feel I have received a fundamental lack of respect from the sport. It seems Formula One seeks less and less to entertain me and more and more that my purpose as fan is to keep the sport running, through extortionate products and a sort of blind faith that at least the teams care about me.

NO! I can’t believe that after all these years of empty promises and back room deals Formula One will no longer be on free to air television in the country of it’s birth! I swear right now that I can not afford nor will I ever buy Sky.

With this deal comes the end of my blind support for what has become a farce of a sport—and I fear that the death of Formula One will follow.

I do not blame the BBC for it’s decision, as it simply can’t afford to pay the ridiculous fees that Formula One demands. The fault lays firmly at the feat of the "money men," Mr Ecclestone, and the Formula One teams for not fighting this.

I hope and pray the teams will do more for their fans. But when you hear Williams saying that any money lost by sponsors can be made up by the money Sky have paid, you’ve got to believe all is lost.

I will continue to report on the qualifying and races for 2011, as I feel I would like to see out the sport I have loved for so long. I still want to write for Bleacher Report, but after 2011, I can’t see myself following a sport that shows so much disrespect for its fans.

It was perhaps fitting then that such terrible recent news should be followed by yet another unif...
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