I think the safety message you have purchased worked really well. My maccas anolgy might have slipped through, so here's a more expanded version. For this who still think F1 isn't one big ad.tuj wrote:So here is the thing I don't understand: you want the cars to get faster and faster every year? Well that comes at a price; you will have more driver deaths every year or statistics-wise. It's a simple fact, speed kills. No matter how heavy or strong you make the monocoque, someone is going to die for your lust for speed.
If we consider Motorsport as being breakfast, F1 was porridge.
It was a simple thing - rolled oats. People added honey, brown sugar and cream to it and yep, made it better. It was still porridge underneath but improved.
Then, a farmer came along and said "swap to bran. It's still breakfast food and it's easier, more healthy and we make more money on it". So they did. So now we all started eating bran for breakfast. In an effort to get more farmers involved, they changed the packaging to say "contains 50% of RDI - full of natural fruit". Rather than attract more farmers and heaps of fruit, we still have only 3, banana, apple and cherry. But it's not like there's a fruit buffet in there - certainly not like the photo on the box. Ahh, because in small print (and look for yourself) it says "part of a complete breakfast". So they're not giving you everything that's shown on the box.
Sales are dropping. Idea. Call it "lite". Only problem was it was not more healthy - they just changed the colour of the bran. That's an old trick but works a treat for a while.
Meanwhile, sales are still dropping. People are going off fruity bran. Some smart person says "what about kids? They like breakfast". Sure enough they go and dump a cup of coco pops and a cup of fruit loops in the box. Now we have fruity bran with coco pops and fruit loops.
Well, I took one spoon of that and spat it out. The kids don't eat it. The health nuts don't eat it. It's not "healthy" with all that added sugar either.
But that's what we have now. Sure it's still 'breakfast', but how many enjoy eating it?
For me. I liked rolled oats. It was simple, easily explainable, healthy and value for money. We could add things to it while still keeping the original ingredients. Which is why I miss it.
F1 was porridge.
