El sobrepaso del mes (SPA-ENG)

Overtake of the month

I remember the years of the 1970s when I would get up early on Sundays to watch or listen to the Formula 1 race. I say watch or listen because not all the Grand Prix were broadcast on television, which here in my country was still in black and white; the technology of that time allowed it thanks to geo-seasonal satellites, but sometimes technical problems appeared and all you could do was listen on the radio and imagine what was happening.

Those were the years when Carlos Reutemann was driving a car in the top category and many of us were excited about his performance and hoped he could be crowned champion. He had an extremely high bar set for him, the memory of Fangio and his five championships was still quite fresh, poor Reutemann, what a burden he had on his shoulders.

The tests were not broadcast, nor the classification or the warm-up that took place a couple of hours before the race to check everything and get the car as ready as possible for the main event that would follow.

These were times when mechanics had to work at night to get there on time for an engine change, and if there was any incident in free practice or qualifying, they had a muletto, that is, a reserve car because any more or less complex repair took hours.

Everything has changed and technology, monetary resources, and the extreme specialization of mechanics and engineers mean that a car destroyed in practice or qualifying is ready to race fully repaired in a brief period.

Also, the diffusion, promotion, and exposure of the F1 circus for as long as possible is today something natural that no longer attracts attention, or almost.

Adapting to survive is the motto.

At least it is the motto of the fans who are bombarded, and saturated by true and false news, advertising, subscriptions, contests, merchandising, and fights on social networks.

The "overtake of the month" vote has been in place since last year, this month among the 5 pre-selected ones corresponds to our local credit Franco Colapinto, it was an overtake on Alonso's Aston Martin, the poor Spanish two-time champion of the category is having a car that in each race is worse than the previous one and this is demonstrated by the fact that he is overtaken in two of the five cases chosen for the vote. It is far from the times when he was among those selected and won this award 3 times. From hunter to hunted.

This shortlist of 5 cases (I don't know exactly what the reason is, but every set prepared to choose is called a shortlist, which refers to three, I saw it in the election of the Golden Ball mentioning the nominees and there were 30, also in the Oscar awards that began as a choice between 3 and as it was too small for them now they preselect 4 and even 5, but they still call it a shortlist.

I don't want to distract myself from the subject; I entered as one more curious person the official F1 site where you can vote and I found the news that the young Argentine driver is leading the vote with 80% of preferences, surely the promotion that the local press has done about this election caused all the fans of South America, following that DNA of competitiveness and pride that characterizes us, to turn massively to vote for Franco. Among us, since we were there, I also voted for him.

Of course, this vote is promoted by one of the main sponsors of current F1 which is nothing less than a company of great weight in the crypto ecosystem. After voting, we are invited to participate for the chance to win something, after signing up, of course.

The most experienced like me adapt to the changes trying not to miss the train of development that moves very fast and we already feel pain in the circumstances; it is not easy, but here we are, holding on as long as we can, especially without dying in the attempt.