It pains me to admit, but you’re 100% right on motorsports. Try as I might, I cannot help but be bored by much of it, and I want to love it. It needs to have an interesting element that it’s lacking, just like Red Bull and Hoonigan as you mentioned have infused their niche with excitement that attracts eyeballs. You’re also painfully right on the manual. I think, though, it provides an interesting niche for a company to jump into specializing in manual transmissions and conversions. Unfortunately only the rich could afford something like that, but it could allow it to live on. As the Everyday Driver guys have said, one day people will look on engine and manual transmission enthusiasts like we look at people who ride horses: very niche, mostly rich, and relegated to the back country trails.
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