Climate change impact has hurt F1’s image in Germany, says Hulkenberg

Actually everyone I knew who was watching F1 in Germany, stopped so once it went to pay TV.

Australian who stopped watching once it went to paytv
Actually everyone I knew who was watching F1 in Germany, stopped so once it went to pay TV.
It's not like football became unpopular when the matches were divided between three or so paid services (Dazn, Sky, and I believe some are even on Amazon) and only a fraction ending up on free TV.
Btw: Some free VPN option like UrbanVPN and the races are free to watch on the Swiss TV's streaming platform and I'm not aware of any spike in F1 popularity when Sky Germany had to stream two races on YouTube.
- I will never understand F1 fans reluctance to accept that F1 simply fell out of flavour. There's always some excuse.

The green washing has also put me off the sport after 26 years. That and the Americanisation/enshitification of the show.

Don’t blame America for this one. We usually get the Sky broadcast from the UK. It’s Englishitification if anything.
- Don’t blame America for this one.
  Liberty Media is US American, so....
- It's an English sport, or at least it was. It's not anymore.
What do you consider the Americanisation of F1? I don't watch F1 but I do watch other American sports.
- It's becoming more artificial, and having DHL fastest pistop bullshit, Pirelli fastest lap etc. Everything is just an opportunity to increase cashflow. I know it has always been a business first, but I saw this stuff 20+ years ago on indycar/NASCAR and made me gag then. I'm just old school now, and prefer lower tech cars and a straightforward show without artificial drama.
- It's becoming more and more a dramatized event where entertainment is the focus and not a sports competition.

I'm a vegetarian who doesn't use AC in the summer, doesn't drive... And I flipping love F1. I race in VR, I love the sport and I dig how they are trying to make it less destructive.

How about ban private jets flying into every race? That would be awesome. Just something stupid like that where Toto has to ride with the proles in coach.

Him smashing up those weak tray tables.. yeah that would be great

Meanwhile in F1: Cling to combustion engines at all costs and shout lies about "sustainable" fuels.

The cars are not the sustainability issue. If every modern car was as efficient as F1 cars then we would be in a much better spot regarding climate change. The issue is with the massive transportation effort involving planes, trucks, and ships required to transport materials between the races.
- It's about the perception, not facts. The general public does not know about transportation in F1. They know that F1 cars still make wroom when they sit in the growing number of VW id.3 cars that are making silent SciFi sounds.
- They are very efficient yes. But at the same time they aren't very reliable. If everyone was running an F1 style engine and would have to replace loads of parts constantly we would be in a much worse spot.
  If it was such a good system don't you think we would already have such engines in regular cars ? There's a reason why we don't. Because these systems only work when that engine has to only run for little time in very confined scenarios.
Combustion engines are "fun" so they belong in motorsports and hobbies.

Ironic for a country that closed their nuclear power plants to open coal ones instead

You act like anyone in Germany thinks that coal is greener than nuclear. Believe it or not, but no on does that
- They are also lying by claiming nuclear is being replaced by coal. How can nuclear be replaced by coal when share of coal is also declining at the same time as nuclear is declining.
  People don't care about facts. They just want to spread their uninformed hysteria about Germany.
You mean the country that had to ramp up burning fossil fuels because France can't use their reactors in the summer because of cooling water from rivers getting too hot? https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/warming-rivers-threaten-frances-already-tight-power-supply-2022-07-15/
Yeah, great argument for nuclear you're making there...
- I mean the only argument you need is comparing the emissions per capita of Germany to France or Sweden.
Why do people like you constantly spread lies lmao. Coal usage is dropping despite not using a tiny amount of nuclear anymore.
Funny how people are down voting my comment regardless that it is the truth.
Here for the uneducated people:
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/german-net-power-generation-in-first-half-of-2023-renewable-energy-share-of-57-percent.html#:~:text=Coal%2Dfired%20power%20generation%20also,to%2020.1%20TWh%20in%202023.
Coal-fired power generation also fell: Lignite-fired power plants generated about 41.2 TWh, a sharp decline of 21 percent from 2022 (52.1 TWh). Net production from coal-fired power plants also decreased by 23 percent, from 26.2 TWh in 2022 down to 20.1 TWh in 2023. Electricity generation from natural gas decreased only slightly from 24.3 TWh to 23.4 TWh. In addition to gas-fired power plants for the public power supply, gas-fired plants in the mining and manufacturing sectors also supply the industrial own consumption. These approximately produced an additional 24 TWh for industrial captive use.
Stats say coal share is dropping after nuclear shut down yet people online claim nuclear is being replaced by coal.
- Energy from coal production fed to the grid got to 33% in 2022 from 30% in 2021 according to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (+8.6% YoY)
Oh what a sursprise that a country who has no final storage for nuclear waste decided not to produce more nuclear waste instead of just putting it somewhere and hoping the barrels will not leak again.
The mistake was not closint down uneconomical and toxic nuclear power plants. The mistake happened years before. It was selling out our solar tech to China
- Nuclear waste is not the reason they're closing, it's purely political. You could fit all of the high-level waste Germany's ever generated on a football field, and be able to walk around without any protection, getting less radiation dose than in an airplane. Let's not spread disinformation.
- https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2023-02-24/these-countries-have-sent-the-most-aid-to-ukraine
  Germany is the second biggest supporter overall according to those numbers.
  Which country are you from and why is it most likely further down the list?
- Maybe instead of posting fake news on Lemmy you should inform yourself. Otherwise you just look like a fool. Germany is not replacing nuclear with coal. Germany is also a net exporter of electricity. And yes Germany opted to increase share of coal and gas in 2022. Guess why ?
  Because french nuclear was underperforming and the European electrical grid was at risk. So no Germany didn't replace nuclear with coal.
  Stats clearly show a decline in coal share that has been long ongoing. And no shutting down those last few nuclear reactors is not reversing that trend.
  https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/german-net-power-generation-in-first-half-of-2023-renewable-energy-share-of-57-percent.html#:~:text=Coal%2Dfired%20power%20generation%20also,to%2020.1%20TWh%20in%202023.
  Coal-fired power generation also fell: Lignite-fired power plants generated about 41.2 TWh, a sharp decline of 21 percent from 2022 (52.1 TWh). Net production from coal-fired power plants also decreased by 23 percent, from 26.2 TWh in 2022 down to 20.1 TWh in 2023. Electricity generation from natural gas decreased only slightly from 24.3 TWh to 23.4 TWh. In addition to gas-fired power plants for the public power supply, gas-fired plants in the mining and manufacturing sectors also supply the industrial own consumption. These approximately produced an additional 24 TWh for industrial captive use.

Simracing 4eva

Modded Asseto in VR, ACC, dirt rally 2, even EA F1... Yep VR simracing is mind blowing