Philobiblon

Not only is it the most boring “sport” on earth (a procession of screaming cars with almost no overtaking or interesting dicing of the type you find in simpler motorsports), not only is it one of the last refuges of the use of women in swimsuits carrying placards advertising cigarettes, but Formula 1 is also a serious climate villain.

Over 17 weekends this year, Jensen Button’s car will emit more than 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide:

The cars emit around 1,500g of carbon dioxide per kilometre, which is almost nine times more than the amount of the average new road vehicle.

And then of course there’s the flying of the whole circus around the world every week… not you would have thought, what a decent, ecologically aware manufacturer would have wanted to be associated with.