The 2024 F1 season begins next week and I couldn't be less excited

I didn't even realize the 2024 Formula 1 season starts next week, that is how out of it I am right now. I just happened to be watching some YouTube videos and one popped up about pre-season testing in Bahrain. 

So I watched a couple of videos and basically fell asleep while watching them. 

First off, the paint scheme on the cars this year, with the exception of Ferrari, are ugly as hell. Why can't multi-million dollar race teams come up with decent paint schemes?

Haas, Alpine, RB2, Mclaren, Williams, Aston Martin, all ugly.

I highly doubt I will watch even one race this year. That is how unexcited I am about the upcoming season.

If Ferrari can win a race or two within the first month or so of the season, if they can take the fight to Red Bull, I will start watching.

If not, I'll give F1 another look in 2025.

I really only watch rally for the trucks

 

(from topgear.com)

Trucks, by their nature, are generally rather large, quite useful for carrying things and as slow as waiting for a YouTuber to get to the point.

But then an unofficial race within a race kicked off: who’d be first to set up camp at that day’s bivouac? After all, you’re not going to be a support driver for a rally raid without some kind of affinity towards racing, so if the opportunity to blast across the empty desert presents itself – and your mates are in similar trucks – who isn’t going to give into temptation?

Thus the Truck category was born. If anyone could be considered its creator, it’d be Jan de Rooy, who started experimenting with the truck layout in the 1980s, resulting in a 10-tonne, twin-engined, 1200bhp DAF – with a total engine displacement of 23.2 litres and a top speed that outdid Ari Vatanen’s rally car. Holy moly.

Even now, the sheer numbers – and the spectacle – are every bit as staggering as they were in the late Eighties. But, being an FIA-certified category, even this level of lunacy is classified and shoehorned into a rulebook.

T5 is for all trucks, with decimal-pointed suffixes nailing down the detail – T5.1 for series production, T5.2 for modified and T5.3 for support trucks that are allowed on the rally route itself. Oh, and the bigger support trucks that actually perform the original truck role – supporting the racers from the bivouac – are technically classed as T6, but they take easier routes to each day’s destination to set up camp and put the kettle on. Bet they still have their own, unregulated competition though…

Dakar 2024 has begun