If Christmas eve is the to make sure everything is ready for the big celebration, FIFA World Cup eve must be a time for paying homage to the greatest moments in football. This is what we understand from McLaren’s latest promo effort, which sees the company releasing a Football vs F1 video one day ahead of the 2014 World Cup’s first match.
To be more specific, the Brits compare Grand Prix starts with Penalty Kicks. After all, F1 drivers, strikers and defenders are all athletes, so this comparo shouldn’t be that far off, should it?
It is worth mentioning that the timing of the two is a bit different. While the drivers have time to recover in case they loose ground while taking off, the footballers know everything depends on them when the match reaches the penalty kick phase.
Nevertheless, each has his own challenge - the drivers have to deal with stuff such as grip and clutch variables, while the strikers’ battle with the defenders sometimes has more psychological aspects.
The bottom line here is that while both football and F1 teams provide a ton of data to their protejes nowadays, it’s still the human who has to make the final call on which the fight depends. To illustrate this, McLaren turned to Jason Button, while the game with the ball is represented by retired German striker Oliver Bierhoff, who now leads the country’s team.
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