The media has started the countdown for, may be the biggest and the costliest sporting event, the Formula 1 Race in India.
To generate the euphoria, the media, as usual raising the curtains to the biggest event with stories about speed of the cars… their Makes … F1 Racers and their bred…their Indian connections, if any, ...endurance capabilities of gear and the helmets they use… what not…for coming three weeks we see all this interesting stuff!!
To give a feel of how an F1 car roars…smell of its burnt fuel and rubber…beauty of its foot prints at every turn it takes… to season your cervical muscles to pan with the matching speed of zipping F1 cars… and …to practice zooming the eyeballs on to keep track of your favorite F1 racer… last Saturday, on the Rajpath, where the country’s most proud and spectacular carnival walks along on 26th of January every year, one of the sponsors of a F1 Racing team demoed, their F1 Cars live to Delhites.
On that 2-Km stretch the racer touched 250 km speed on F1 Race cars. Along with, there was display of synchronized car maneuvers and bike stunts.
But, as far as the Delhites are concerned, may be the F1 cars are new…but not the speed, and definitely not the car maneuvers or bike stunts. We see them quite often on the busy Tilak Nagar, Bangla Sahib and Rajpath roads, by some rogue bikers.
And as we all know, the Delhi speed makes headlines every other day. Just the next day to the F1 Car demo on Rajpath Roads…on the very spot four Air Force staffers lost their lives. A speeding Skoda shoved them away at the intersection. Here, the culprit driver jumped the Red Signal. The general perception is that, the Red causes the Rage with the beasts.
If we see brands wise…BMWs, Honda’s, Maruti-s, Hyundai’s….all of them have ‘accident-al credits’ to their names. Some of them are ‘historic’…and their ‘racers’ are ‘famous’.
As a nation, we take sports easy and change the rules at our convenience. We bring them to our gullies. As we all know, a big ground oriented sport like cricket could fit in to our narrow 'galis' and bylanes. By playing it we made them famous too! But, gully cricket is dangerous only to the windowpanes.
Earlier this month, a bike accident killed former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin's son Mohammed Ayazuddin, 19, and his cousin in Hyderabad. It was this week only, in a tragic incident in Delhi a boy while playing police-thief shot his friend, with a country-made pistol from his father's room, who suffered two bullet injuries on his head and died on the spot.
Now, you just imagine, if somebody take the racing sport to our roads...how fatal it could be to the self and public in general !!
To generate the euphoria, the media, as usual raising the curtains to the biggest event with stories about speed of the cars… their Makes … F1 Racers and their bred…their Indian connections, if any, ...endurance capabilities of gear and the helmets they use… what not…for coming three weeks we see all this interesting stuff!!
On that 2-Km stretch the racer touched 250 km speed on F1 Race cars. Along with, there was display of synchronized car maneuvers and bike stunts.
But, as far as the Delhites are concerned, may be the F1 cars are new…but not the speed, and definitely not the car maneuvers or bike stunts. We see them quite often on the busy Tilak Nagar, Bangla Sahib and Rajpath roads, by some rogue bikers.
And as we all know, the Delhi speed makes headlines every other day. Just the next day to the F1 Car demo on Rajpath Roads…on the very spot four Air Force staffers lost their lives. A speeding Skoda shoved them away at the intersection. Here, the culprit driver jumped the Red Signal. The general perception is that, the Red causes the Rage with the beasts.
If we see brands wise…BMWs, Honda’s, Maruti-s, Hyundai’s….all of them have ‘accident-al credits’ to their names. Some of them are ‘historic’…and their ‘racers’ are ‘famous’.
As a nation, we take sports easy and change the rules at our convenience. We bring them to our gullies. As we all know, a big ground oriented sport like cricket could fit in to our narrow 'galis' and bylanes. By playing it we made them famous too! But, gully cricket is dangerous only to the windowpanes.
Earlier this month, a bike accident killed former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin's son Mohammed Ayazuddin, 19, and his cousin in Hyderabad. It was this week only, in a tragic incident in Delhi a boy while playing police-thief shot his friend, with a country-made pistol from his father's room, who suffered two bullet injuries on his head and died on the spot.
Now, you just imagine, if somebody take the racing sport to our roads...how fatal it could be to the self and public in general !!
We are still to learn a lot about how to treat machines and their power... how to use them safely or for safety.
We all are free to take the spirit of the game/sport …if at all you want to show it to all …find a ground for it and play within the set rules. Tailpiece: After two rounds of F1 Car demo we were expecting a third one… then came the THIRD… but, with a relatively familiar roar…a mini truck …to collect any fallen things of the event. F1 is rare and a sport…and what followed that was a reality. Let's Play Safe. ;)
No comments:
Post a Comment