{"id":4334,"date":"2010-04-12T07:10:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2010-04-12T07:03:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:03:17","slug":"hakkinen-look-deeper-before-slamming-boring-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hakkinen-look-deeper-before-slamming-boring-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakkinen &#8211; look deeper before slamming &#8216;boring&#8217; F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Formula one is not a sport of pure spectacle, according to its back-to-back world champion of 1998 and 1999, Mika Hakkinen.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of accusations that new rules have made the races even more boring than before, the 41-year-old Finn said it is wrong to judge F1 based purely on its appeal as a television event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have to have a deeper and better understanding of F1 and understand what the driver is going through and what the teams are doing,&#8221; said Hakkinen, who won 20 grands prix with McLaren and retired in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>When the pure spectacle of the Bahrain season opener was slammed, fellow double world champion Fernando Alonso also defended his chosen sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This (F1) is about technology, about how precise everything is in terms of driver, mechanics, engineering, everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So people that want extra show, maybe they should reconsider whether they want to watch formula one,&#8221; said the Ferrari driver.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Hakkinen urges critics to look deeper before dismissing the pinnacle of motor sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They should study it.\u00a0 If you just turn on your television and watch the grand prix and watch people go around and around, it&#8217;s boring and you change the channel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more knowledge you have, the more interesting it is,&#8221; he told the New Zealand newspaper Weekend Herald.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula one is not a sport of pure spectacle, according to its back-to-back world champion of 1998 and 1999, Mika Hakkinen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,149,5261,5340,310],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}