
F1's risk of future irrelevance
With the world's passion for motoring seemingly dwindling and electric technology on the rise, Dieter Rencken suspects Formula 1 might have passed its peak...
A variety of studies undertaken of late suggest that car usage across the planet has peaked, that enthusiasm for the automobile is on the down side of the bell curve. In short, indicators are such that the car's time - and, by extension, that of motorsport - has seemingly come.
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