Vroom Whine Squeal Zoom

I tried formulating (hurhurhur) an anthropological reading of Formula One earlier today. I got as far as thinking about how the drivers can be seen as portraying a seemingly physically immobile ('just sitting in the car' - an erroneous impression, in actual fact), and yet highly mobile (high speed racing, jetting over the world) form of masculinity, and was thinking about the equation of men with shiny, fast machines. I was vaguely wondering if any of this represented a shift from any perceived so-called 'traditional' forms of masculinity. Then my brain gave up, and I decided to happily devote myself to trying to memorise the drivers' helmet covers. Shiny lights, ooooh.