When fun was still allowed
04/08/2018
Racing has always been associated with a lot of mischief. There were drivers who were always up to mischief everywhere.
First and foremost the always laughing Stefan Bellof, the long Hans Stuck, the crazy Nelson Piquet and the imaginative Gerhard Berger. Absolutely nothing was safe from them, regardless of whether ink ruined the dress of the CEO's wife or whether the picture in the passport did not match the person present at passport control, dead fish in the helmet caused a bad smell or rubber snakes were hidden in the cockpit of the opponent. All stories that made the drivers of the time heroes.
Today, unfortunately, all that has been completely lost. The throttle foot softened by factory marketing has become too well-behaved and far too boring. The first F1 test in Spain was a clear example of the company's reluctance to improvise spontaneously, when unaccustomed snowfall thwarted driving for an entire day, as the desire to see an F1 car with snow chains on the white start-finish straight was awakened. None of the ten teams could be persuaded to do so. This image would certainly have gone around the world and would have provided strong support for the sparse sponsors. Where on earth has all the spontaneity and fun gone?
