This week I by chance saw some news on the internet the subject of which usually is not at all a topic that I think about a lot. Today however, I talked with Ramona about it and we agreed that it may be interesting to know the opinions of our diary readers, too.
A driver of the Formula One, Robert Kubica, some days ago had a horrible accident. He was actually not driving a formula 1 car but was participating in a rally.
Nevertheless, he was driving a very fast car in a race and on a wet piece of road lost the control over the skidding car, which crashed into the safety fence that then pierced the car. In the end the car crashed against the wall of a church.
Miraculously the co-pilot had no injuries but the pilot’s complete right side of the body has been injured badly. He was bleeding internally, his leg and arm were broken in several places and his right hand was like smashed. He was immediately brought to a hospital where doctors and surgeons managed to stop the internal bleeding and made every effort to place the bones of his leg, arm and hand again into the right places. For some time they thought they might have to amputate his right hand but then managed to place the bones and muscles together again. They are still not sure whether he will be able to use his hand again with its full functionality. He will however most probably never again drive in a formula 1 car.
Well, why am I writing this? Each time when I hear about motorsports I wonder very much why it is called sports and why such a thing even exists.
First of all, what is the sport in this? Are they physically very active in this? Of course, people say the drivers need to stay fit and are training every day before these races but actually during the race, what is the sport? Is it only the competition? I don’t understand why people have fun in watching that. Are they actually waiting for an accident to happen, is it just the craving for sensations that makes them watch?
It is dangerous to drive with speed of 300 kilometers per hour or more, even if you are trained and even if you have driven on that racetrack many times before. There can always be some kind of mistake in your car, something on the road, an unpredictable move of another car and your car starts sliding and you lose control. People have broken all bones of their body, have carried away permanent injuries and disabilities and people have even died.
You may now say that the drivers are well aware of these risks and everybody working near the racetrack knows that he can get injured or even die if an accident happens. Another point, a very important one, however is that they are not only harming themselves, they are harming every single one of us through the pollution they create. I really don’t understand, with all the measurements that are taken against global warming all over the world, why have motorsports not been banned yet? With each race they use that fuel which is getting rarer in this world and thus more expensive everywhere. We hear everywhere that oil is getting less and less but here they just blow it out for fun and in this way create pollution, simply for driving in circles for several hours. This sport is harming nature, harming our environment and contributing in our deaths in the long run! They pollute the air and millions of people sit in front of their TVs watching them and cheering for them.
If humankind really wants to change something, this kind of ‘sports’ have to stop! You have to stop destroying our planet just for that short-sighted kind of fun. It costs lives, not only those of the drivers.
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Very good words, I totaly agree!I did very often said just the same, but anyhow to whom you talk about this topic with that kind of view you get a lack of understanding. You even could get into trouble with the people. In Germany this formula One stuff is extremly popular, if there is such a race shown in TV all the roads are empty, it looks like everybody is sitting at home to watch some guys driving one circule after another. If a german Guy wins the championship of driving circules he will be celebreated like a big hero.
As after complaining about this races answer you will always hear that this is just a little bit of polution compare to the world wide polution. But it is a compleatly useless polution and it`s not just about the race itself. All this racing cars and the equipment will be transported to another continent after each race. Because there are races in europe, asia, Australia, Africa and America done with the same cars.
I sadly don`t have much hope that this kind of polution will be stoped very soon.
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Armin
I remember that as a child my father and brother invited friends over to the house whenever there was a race. There would be ten to twenty men and boys sitting in our living room cheering on the TV for hours and the horrible noise of those cars driving would sound through the whole house. I have always hated it and have always told everybody exactly what you are writing there.My father actually got tired of watching it in his old days. I am happy about that, so I can visit him also on weekends when they are racing again because he won’t just stare into TV.
They should really stop any kind of motorsports!
I remember times when Ralf or Michael Schumacher won nearly every weekend and everybody was celebrating, every Biergarten was full of people and it was really as if they had just saved the world…
I have been following these news ever since I heard about it because I am just interested to know what Kubica will say about his accident when he gives his first statement.Until now they are still fixing all his bones together but he is not anymore in the ICU.
Let’s see, I just want to know whether he will keep on driving or if he had enough of it. Crazy sport, bringing you in such danger!
When Kubica will wake up you will only hear him say that he is looking forward to the next rallye. He won’t leave the sport, this is his profession. Even if his health does not allow him to drive anymore, he will become a trainer, a helper, simply in some way connected to car races. There is not really any other way for him.
I think what attracts a lot of people to participate in race car driving is the adrenaline rush and excitement of the action. They love the feeling of going very fast… especially because it is risky and dangerous. They can’t reproduce this excitement and exhilaration in their normal lives, so they need to push the limits of their safety in order to get this rush. I don’t really understand why people enjoy watching cars driving in circles…unless they vicariously imagine the feeling– or perhaps they bet on the winner of the race and like watching because their money is involved. But it is harmful to the environment… there are much less wasteful ways of feeling adrenaline and risking your safety…