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So 38 000 came to watch the event and 500 to 3 000 came to try to ruin the fun for everyone? Instead of being proud of the accomplishments of Carlos Sainz, a s

So 38 000 came to watch the event and 500 to 3 000 came to try to ruin the fun for everyone? Instead of being proud of the accomplishments of Carlos Sainz, a spanish F1 driver? For what it's worth, it looks like it was only one street that was closed!? Remember that in the past in Spain there have been actual formula 1 races in the streets, in the Valencia (the 2nd biggest spanish city along the Mediterranean sea, after Barcelona) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8VToYhi0REs https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8VToYhi0REs These entitled people protesting for everything and anything are just sad.

squigz 2y ago
> For what it's worth, it looks like it was only one street that was closed!? Being as familiar with motorsports and events like this as I am, I find it terribly hard to believe that a single street was all that was affected, even if the main event was only on one street. Which says nothing of the fact that, you know, that's irrelevant to the protesters issues. Would you maybe like to address their concerns? > Remember that in the past in Spain there have been actual formula 1 races in the streets, in the Valencia (the 2nd biggest spanish city along the Mediterranean sea, after Barcelona) Relevance? I suspect the same people would have an issue with that too.
- ClumsyPilot 2y ago
  Relevance is that the window of what it permitted was very large in the past, and now it extremely narrow . It is really hard to do anything culturally new that is not a business
  - squigz 2y ago
    > the window of what it permitted was very large in the past, and now it extremely narrow It's... really not. They still have an F1 race in Spain.
efortis 2y ago
and Fernando Alonso
epolanski 2y ago
> These entitled people protesting for everything and anything are just sad. Not sure about where do you see the link between entitlement and protesting. Anyway, I'm from Rome, Italy, and I absolutely hate every time there's marathons, Formula E and stuff and they close large parts of the city. Formula E especially creates insane bottlenecks and everybody here hates it, thanks god this year they moved out of Rome. Would've not been surprised in protests if it came back again, but not sure where the entitlement would've been.
- wslh 2y ago
  Well, Rome is a really transit/space wise difficult city. Barcelona is much different (e.g. and it was just an exhibition). Barcelona is one of the best cities to move by public transportation.
afavour 2y ago
> So 38 000 came to watch the event and 500 to 3 000 came to try to ruin the fun for everyone? Even if the rest of what you’re saying is true, the bulk of those 38k watchers will have been visitors to the city. The 500-3k protesting are locals. I think it’s only right that local people have more of a voice in what happens in their city than tourists do, irrespective of how many there are.

squigz 2y ago

> For what it's worth, it looks like it was only one street that was closed!? Being as familiar with motorsports and events like this as I am, I find it terribly hard to believe that a single street was all that was affected, even if the main event was only on one street. Which says nothing of the fact that, you know, that's irrelevant to the protesters issues. Would you maybe like to address their concerns? > Remember that in the past in Spain there have been actual formula 1 races in the streets, in the Valencia (the 2nd biggest spanish city along the Mediterranean sea, after Barcelona) Relevance? I suspect the same people would have an issue with that too.

ClumsyPilot 2y ago
Relevance is that the window of what it permitted was very large in the past, and now it extremely narrow . It is really hard to do anything culturally new that is not a business
- squigz 2y ago
  > the window of what it permitted was very large in the past, and now it extremely narrow It's... really not. They still have an F1 race in Spain.

efortis 2y ago

and Fernando Alonso

epolanski 2y ago

> These entitled people protesting for everything and anything are just sad. Not sure about where do you see the link between entitlement and protesting. Anyway, I'm from Rome, Italy, and I absolutely hate every time there's marathons, Formula E and stuff and they close large parts of the city. Formula E especially creates insane bottlenecks and everybody here hates it, thanks god this year they moved out of Rome. Would've not been surprised in protests if it came back again, but not sure where the entitlement would've been.

wslh 2y ago
Well, Rome is a really transit/space wise difficult city. Barcelona is much different (e.g. and it was just an exhibition). Barcelona is one of the best cities to move by public transportation.

afavour 2y ago

> So 38 000 came to watch the event and 500 to 3 000 came to try to ruin the fun for everyone? Even if the rest of what you’re saying is true, the bulk of those 38k watchers will have been visitors to the city. The 500-3k protesting are locals. I think it’s only right that local people have more of a voice in what happens in their city than tourists do, irrespective of how many there are.