The sad state of leading motorsports... worldwide

Its another sad ending to another series ruined by boredom. In F1 you have Redbull dominating and making it dull for all but Redbull fans. Viettel is great driver and deserves the win. In British Touring Car Championship you have Honda dominating and making it boring. Alas the winner in BTCC is Neal, who is everything that is bad about race car drivers, he is the type that runs people off the track instead of racing them. The guy won the championship despite driving his team-mate off the road in one race in the middle of the season. BTCC has done their best to ruin their series with badly thought out regulations that have handed domination to Honda and to the turbo cars. You would have expected an exciting race as the final trio of races today at Silverstone. Instead Honda made it dull and predictable.

Special recognition goes to the BTCC race marshall who allowed Boardman to deliberately wreck Jason Plato at Knockhill and then let him keep his race win. The guy doesn't deserve to be in BTCC and handed Neal the championship thanks to his incompetence. Boardman also caused another wreck in the same race that put out another car, but no sanctions.

Of course in NASCAR they have the daft "Chase" which means you can win the most races in the "regular" season and not win the Championship. If Jimmy Johnson wins again it will show how unexciting NASCAR has become. I cannot understand why NASCAR decided to introduce this "post-season". If they just wanted it to be twelve drivers competing for the title then have just them in a play-off style series. Nationwide and Trucks are still ok it has be said, partly because there is no "Chase" in their seasons.


Lets hope Speed will broadcast more V8 supercar races next year, not just two as they are this year. That is an exciting racing series that still retains the excitement you used to see in BTCC. I wonder if there is any chance of Speed broadcasting the World Touring Car Championship.

It would be nice if race sanctioning bodies stopped meddling with their series in ways that make them predictable, boring and seemingly lacking in competition.

RIP Dan Weldon after a horrid crash in Las Vegas in IndyCar. All motor racing fans mourn a solid racer.