Carbon footprints and scorched tyres...!


Amazing really. If you try to work out the "carbon footprint" of something like the World Grand Prix Series (F1), you will, like me, rapidly give up.
To get a true idea, you have to start at the beginning, the trials in the various different countries of the world, just to try and develope a vehicle which SHOULD go faster (not at all FURTHER nor more CHEAPLY/ECONOMICALLY) than all the others, who are trying to do the same thing at the other end of the world!
Then you've got to get all these things together, on a Tuesday or Wednesday, wherever they have to go, by whatever means possible. All the equipment, all the drivers/technicians/mechanics/petrol and oil tanks/tyre supplies and who knows what else!
Then they all have to get installed, and spend 3 days driving round in "trials" - before the actual real thing..!
Even before that, the Country responsible has already left a gigantic carbon footprint in changing roads, circuits, installations (as in the latest bombastic buffoonery at Singapore - where just the electricity production for the lighting produced more carbon footprinting than I could ever use in a dozen lives) - and on and on and on it goes.
THEY call it "sport" and lots of little men can work out their fantasies with howling motors, oily smells, burning rubber and sexy ladies..! They make a fortune at the same time!
Of course the "sexy ladies" and even the "ladies" simply watching, also have their "thrilling" moments, and it's "A hard day's night" that awaits hubbie - on return to the conjugal nest..!
If somebody out their would like to try and work out the carbon footprint count and let me know, I would be grateful...!
Of course there are always the occasions which would have to be discounted, or nearly, from the overall score:

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