Formula 1 – The King Of All Motorsports

Among all the racing events in the world, Formula 1 is in a class of its own. Why is Formula 1, commonly known as F1, so popular? One reason could be the highly priced, custom built cars with powerful engines used in the races. Another reason could be the really strict rules that all cars and drivers have to comply with so as to participate in the championships there ensuring a fair winner.  Maybe it is the flair associated with the drivers and principals of each racing team. In any case, what started as a small racing event has now morphed into one of the most sought after sporting events in the entire world. Perhaps the biggest tribute to the F1 is that when a race is going on it attracts attention of viewers from world over sometimes even reducing their interest in other sports news.

F1 is organized by the international level racing body Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, or FIA, that is headquartered in France. It consists of several races each of which is known as a Grand Prix that is run on strategically designed roads. F1 races held in various circuits around the world consisting of numerous deep right and left turns. Some of these circuits are specially designed race-tracks while others are carved out of the streets of various big cities around the world. There are usually many different prestigious cars and engines competing in these races such as Mercedes-Benz, McLaren, Ferrari, BMW, Renault, Lotus and many more. 

Formula 1 racing started in the early 1900s with the European Grand Prix. This race had a "formula" of rules for the vehicles that could be used as well as for the drivers. Soon after the Second World War, an even stricter formula was devised. This new set of rules was known as Formula 1, to indicate that it was the most challenging set of rules. F1 Championships have since been divided into two parts - one for the driver and another for the constructors of the car. It uses a point’s based system to decide the winner. The very first F1 Championship held in England in 1950 and won by Giuseppe Farina from Italy winning an Alfa Romeo attracted quite a bit of attention. Since then, F1 news has been one of the sought after items every year.

Normally F1 racing circuits consist of at least one straight length of road. This stretch is called the starting grid for the race. The rest of the course consists of a series of turns and curves to both right and left. Multiple laps are run to finish the race and decide the winner. The 305-kilometer F1 race takes up to 2 hours to finish. Every year various television channels and sites offering F1 videos vie for the rights to telecast the event live. F1 racing has a huge fan base all around the world which has made this an instant hit with sponsors who use the events to advertise their products.

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Cricket – A Sport Or A Religion?

Cricket is ostensibly a simple sport, played using a bat and a ball, by 2 teams of 11 players each. This is how Wikipedia explains a game: “One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings.” The immense popularity of the sport is apparent in the fan following at all levels – whether it is for the national side or professional leagues or even for small kids playing cricket on the streets with rules adapted to work around the limitations of resources and space.

Cricket is a truly unique game, in that, it is a blend of individual and team sporting skills.While each team is united in trying to defeat the opposing team, each of the batsmen, bowlers and fielders are battling it out in the middle, in their own inimitable styles. This unique nature of the sport makes it second only to football in popularity ratings all over the world. When a cricket series is being played in any corner of the earth, it is fair to say that a huge chunk of the world’s population would be brought together cheering for their favorite teams. While there is plenty of live coverage on television for these fans, those who cannot watch the matches live, will have to make do with cricket highlights or in other cases resort to news articles.

 The impact that cricket has had on generations of sports lovers all over the world can be credited to the sportsmanship associated with the game. The integrity of each player is also heavily scrutinized apart from the way they play the game. Moreover the game itself has evolved over the years, with shorter, faster-paced formats augmenting the longer version of the game to accommodate the current lifestyle of most of the fan base worldwide. Whatever the format of the game played, cricket news is the most sought after news item whether in newspapers or the internet, and each has its set of die-hard fans. To the uninitiated, Test Cricket is the long format of the game played over five days and is considered the highest standard of the game, while One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 are versions of Limited Overs Cricket. It is a matter of great prestige for the nations that have international cricket teams to win the Cricket ODI World Cup that is held once every 4 years by the highest cricketing authority, the International Cricket Council (ICC). It is not an exaggeration to say that in many parts of the world, especially the Indian sub-continent, the West Indies, Southern Africa, Down Under and the British Isles, cricket has become a religion with a cult following.

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