The car ahead gets no such advantage and so the trailing car immediately picks up about 12 to 15 miles per hour in speed and swoops by while the announcers scream about the skill of the driver who completes a pass. So the guardians of the sport have invented a ludicrous work around known as DRS, which stand for “drag reduction system.” At certain parts of every track, if a driver is close enough to the car ahead, he can press a button that causes a portion of the rear wing to flatten. The cars are so aerodynamically sensitive, it’s impossible to pass on most tracks. It is stage managed, like professional wrestling or roller derby. Then the drivers dial it back for the majority of the remaining time so they can conserve fuel, conserve tires, and conserve their engines and transmissions. The rules forbid carrying enough fuel to race flat out for an entire race and so there are titanic battles in the first few laps. Today the races are mostly snooze fests in which drivers are merely technicians controlled by legions of engineers who dictate how to drive the car.
He sold the sport to national leaders as a way to advertise their countries to the world. Ecclestone decided to focus solely on “the show” - the hype and hoopla that surrounds the racing rather than the racing itself. While television made the teams fabulously wealthy, it also slowly killed the sport. That arrangement has made Ecclestone one of the wealthiest men in history. The deal gave 47% of the revenue to the teams, 30% to the FIA, and 23% to himself. In 1978, Bernie Ecclestone, a failed racing driver but forceful business executive, concluded a deal that gave him the exclusive right to negotiate television contracts on behalf of the sport.
Monza, the so-called Temple of Speed, was where Ferrari began to assert itself as one of the top teams in the sport. Suddenly, all the countries in Europe got along like long lost brothers and Formula One races proliferated across the Continent. The end of World War II signaled the beginning of the modern era in Grand Prix racing. The politics of the sport were never more evident than during the run-up to World War II when the incredible Silver Arrows from Mercedes came to symbolize the preeminence of the nascent Third Reich. Originally, Formula One was a contest between nations, with each car painted in the colors of the country it represented - green for England, red for Italy, blue for France, and so on.
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