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Originally Posted by Dbacksbaseball
As one of the original 15 or so F1 fans on this site pre-topps cards, I told everyone the same thing. 2020 will be massive 2021 will show signs of fall off, and it will go down from there.
People arent excited about Yuki and Schumacher, the only rookies in the set. Everyone else is a second year card. This year we get another pay driver RC. Next year we figure to get Piastri who is a semi exciting prospect but you are looking at 3-4-5th year cards. It ends up being like NASCAR where you can pull some really cool stuff but it doesn't move at massive prices. Mix that with the current economical pull back and it should fall below MSRP in reality.
The guys who started 'watching' F1 when they made money off 'Hewis Lambleton' or 'Max Verflappen' say thats not true because of the European Markets......which allegedly dont have the ability to see the same thing all american sellers and buyers see.  |
As one of the new guys to F1 that came over through Topps products' introduction, I've found the sport massively entertaining to follow. Lots of facetime/interviews of the drivers and they do a great job marketing them, even showing them at their worst only to have them be pleasant in post race interviews despite their tough days on the track.
I've been amazed at the strength of the collector base. People will scream it's all a bubble, pumping etc and it's only investor money but with some 2nd year cards selling for more than their first year counterparts (Red Refractors /5) I think there are clear signs that it's not typical "investor" money. Seems like a legit fan base with either a decent amount of expendable income or a starved (for 28 years) collector base that's been saving up for these releases.
Anyway, I've been an avid sports fan for decades and have only recently gotten into F1. Love the sport so far and think it may have a bit of staying power and retain fans if it can attract enough new ones.