Hold on a second.
Three of them??
Three formulas???
I was on the F1 website on Monday, looking for thinly veiled threats between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, and I noticed a little F2 tab up on the top left. I knew about F2. Formula Stu. We’ve gone over this. But next to that tab…F3????
I am irate.
Actually, to be fair, this is brilliant. Minor league systems are cool in general, and F1 smartly realized it could have the best named ones of them all (especially now that Rob Manfred has murdered the Pacific Coast League). I’m impressed. But I do think there should be some comical sort of difference between these. Make each series’s car noticeably smaller than the one before. I know they’re a little smaller, but I mean noticeably smaller. Make F3 look like Mario Kart when you just got zapped by the thundercloud.
Oh man. There are many formulae! And each of these formulae host grands prix!
Off the top of his head, Mattia Binotto’s Glasses can think of the following formulaes’s. N.B. Some of these are quasi-defunct.
Formula 1
Formula 2
Formula 3
Formula Renault (which is subdivided into two additional formulae: Formula Renault 1.6 and Formula Renault 2.0)
Formula Ford
Formula E
Super Formula
Formula 3000
Formula Dream
Formula V6 Asia
Another fun thing: sometimes, cheeky F1 fans will drop the phrase “Formula 1.5.” This is used to describe all of the also-rans that participate in F1 and never really score points (i.e., Haas, Alfa Romeo, Williams, etc.). How rude!
Oh my word. That is far too many formulae. (Although I do like F1.5. That’s very NIT right there.)