How drivers are trying in vain to influence the future of the circuits on the calendar

I also forgot Suzuka, Jerez, Road Atlanta, Sears Point, Watkins Glen, Zolder or Interlagos...

Vincent, you're forgetting the most extraordinary of circuits...Francorchamps, and on this subject all the drivers agree!

Liberty Media isn't the only one responsible for the massacre of F1 as a sport. The mainstream manufacturers who have taken over (thanks Bernie...) are using it to open markets in certain countries, which even conditions the recruitment of certain drivers, and to sell their technology instead of the sport being a field of innovation. In this context, the opinion of the drivers is even what matters the least. As for that of the spectators, they are targeting young people with no knowledge of legendary circuits who don't care about seeing the cars spin on the insipid track lines lined with 5-star hotels. They won't be the ones to turn their backs on them, preferring hilly tracks with "real" curves, like Brands-Hatch, Mugello, Zandvoort, Donington, Jarama, Estoril, Le Castellet, Imola, Barcelona, ​​which will disappear (with all due respect to Alonso), Dijon, Assen, the Sachsenring, etc. Not to mention the fabulous American circuits like Mid-Ohio, Laguna Seca or Elkhart Lake. The circuit as a human and technical challenge will unfortunately disappear.

When we see that with a four-time active world champion, the Netherlands are stopping Zandvoort, how can we still think that an active driver can influence the continuation of a GP in his country of birth! Dollars, show and entertainment, that's Liberty Media F1 with some greenwashing and a lot of sportwashing...

Only dollars matter! Liberty Media and the FIA, to a certain extent, don't care about the drivers' opinions. F1 has become a platform, a business, an "entertainment", a show... but it is no longer a sport, even if some less democratic countries (Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, China, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, and perhaps tomorrow Rwanda, which invaded its neighbor the DRC to become a gold exporter without having any deposits on its own soil) are doing sportswashing thanks to their more or less bloodied dollars. After the "Blood Diamonds", soon the "Blood Grand Prix" thanks to Liberty Media? It is surprising that Belgian legend Jacky Ickx is becoming the ambassador of a Grand Prix in Rwanda rather than in South Africa or even in Morocco with the Tangier project!