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      11-21-2022, 05:22 AM   #218
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*Looking at the '63 Belgian GP, nearly 5 minutes gap between winner Clark and second placed man and the race lasted two and a half hours in precarious cars with no safety equipment or even seat belts, when men were men in the true sense.
Jim Clark is an F1 legend. The cockpit as a work place with 3 pedals, a gear shift and steering wheel on bumpy roads. As Jacky Ickx witnessed during the F1 race this weekend (occasional co-commentator on Belgian TV): back in the day you started, not knowing if everyone would make it to the finish line alive (he remains amazed that he survived his long racing career, unlike many other drivers). Clark died young during a race.

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Looool
That's someone that's started watching formula 1 this year.
Every year the front runners will gap the field. It's the combination of a good car and driver. The champion drivers and their rival will normally be miles ahead of the rest of the field.
It's completely normal and it's impossible to change it.
Sweet, watching a 20 car race with 7+ second between each car is watching a parade. Will be the last year watching F1. Would rather watch IndyCar or NASCAR with this sort of action.
Sign o' the times:
"The average attention span for the notoriously ill-focused goldfish is nine seconds, but according to a new study from Microsoft Corp., people now generally lose concentration after eight seconds, highlighting the affects of an increasingly digitalized lifestyle on the brain."
(source: https://time.com/3858309/attention-spans-goldfish/)
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