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All of these people saying that Formula 1 is now like Mario Kart. I don\u2019t think they played the original on the SNES; that was proper racing. There was none of this \u2018blue shell\u2019 malarkey and artificially being faster just because you\u2019re at the back. I think we need to get more specific with the metaphor. \u201cFormula 1 is like Mario Kart on the Nintendo 64\u201d is the proper form of insult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of these people saying that Formula 1 is now like Mario Kart. I don\u2019t think they played the original on the SNES; that was proper racing. There was none of this \u2018blue shell\u2019 malarkey and artificially being faster just because you\u2019re at the back. I think we need to get more specific with the […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/sunday-monday-driver\/","url_meta":{"origin":13664,"position":0},"title":"Sunday Monday driver","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"12 April 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a great day out karting today at Lydd International Raceway with my dad, two of my uncles and a cousin. 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