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Comparing it with F1 is scary. I used to enjoy watching F1 when it felt real, like teams trying to build the best car and then drivers trying to race said car as fast as possible. But it has become complete bullshit because it needs to be more "entertaining", tyres that disintegrate on-purpose to make it more exciting, kers, DRS etc.
Imagine something like DRS in cycling, a manufactured way of making more overtakes because it allows those behind to go faster. I can't imagine what the equivalent would be in cycling, maybe a motor that gives you a few extra watts if the audience votes for you, or tyres that randomly explode if you go over the wrong cobble. Fuck it, why not send half the peleton into the race from the other direction, arm them all with paintball guns, and make it a race to the opposite end.
Whenever you talk about cycling to fans they always talk about the history of the sport, if you start fucking about with it too much that history becomes something obscure and quaint rather than something that is being written in front of our eyes race by race and year by year.