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For almost every sport, there is a level of competition that is exclusively reserved for the best of the best to battle for supremacy. In European football it is the Champions League; in men's tennis it is the Masters Cup; and in motorsports, it is widely regarded to be Formula One motor racing.

Putting aside the glamour effect that comes with it being the richest sport in the world, Formula One exposes itself to be the embodiment of all things that define a competitive sport at the very limits of Man's capabilities. Whether it's the painstakingly disciplined level of fitness the 22 drivers have to maintain, or the commitment of hundreds of people who labour all year round to design, build and maintain a set of monstrously fast cars that represent the absolute cutting edge of technology - it all comes together to form a spectacular season of ultimate sport.

As every team transport their temporary homes, equipment and the cars from one race host country to the next, with an average of two weeks separating races, it is almost like setting up a completely new stage every time for a massive show that lasts all weekend. It is this that causes a real build up, beginning from the Wednesday before the race weekend - intense like a storm brewing. A buzz begins to develop that creates real fascination, whether you follow it through news reports, live timing updates of sessions on the internet, watch it unfold through television coverage or actually feel it physically for yourself by attending a race.

After a Wednesday awakening, then a Thursday bustle with drivers and mechanics all over the place settling into team preparations, and then the Friday double practice sessions lasting all day and putting the race weekend into full swing; the main events arrive with Saturday qualifying. That in itself is full of thrills and spills, separating the best from the rest, and deciding the starting positions on the grid for the following day's race. But then Sunday then arrives right at the height of anticipation. All set and ready to go, the gruelling continuous race lasting anything up to two hours begins. Watching it on a television is a pleasurable experience if the coverage and commentary is good. But tasting the air for yourself before, during, and after the race is something no amount of words could do justice.

Now don't be mistaken - this isn't a motor sport where cars simply go round and round a circuit. Unlike most motor sports, F1 makes the most of every competitive factor; from the characteristics of a track designed to challenge drivers' and cars' technical capacity and endurance, to the outwitting of rivals in race strategy or wheel-to-wheel in overtaking.

As five red lights turn on one by one, and then disappear to unleash 22 cars releasing anything up to 750hp from their V8 engines, roaring down the straight and scampering out of their orderly grid positions to beat each other round the first corner of the track - anything from then on till the chequered flag is unpredictable in every sense. So much is at stake, yet so much can happen: the weather, the car performance under immensely sensitive conditions, the timing and duration of the pit-stops to the millisecond, the slightest of mistakes to cause the driver to demolish their own car, spectacular crashes, engine failures and punished tyres, and even more spectacular wheel-to-wheel action and overtaking.

The instantaneity during a race might be exciting enough, but in the bigger picture, the rivalry that develops between teams and drivers throughout the season - whether contending for the championship title or simply to be the best of the rest - it unravels into a compelling story of psychological, technical and strategic superiority, set over 18 race weekends. One only has to take a glimpse at archive news stories of the 2006 F1 season to see how this happens at maximum effect!

Last but not least, there is a magnificent cultural charm to Formula One, which although is experienced in many international sports, F1 really embraces the constant change in culture and country as every race weekend shifts to a new place. The sport makes a great - and so far very successful - effort to highlight the host country's culture, people and hospitality. Again, one can get a feel for it sitting in front of the TV or following it through other forms media, but there is no doubt that you cannot match the experience of actually going out there to a new country and immersing yourself in the colour and vibrancy that takes over the place. Some of the more enthusiastic countries even make the coming of their grand prix into a mass celebration that they take to their cities and not just local to the racetrack.

Beginning with the now traditional glorious opening of the season in Melbourne, Australia, through to finishing with the marvellous carnival style finale in Brazil; a different racetrack, a different culture and different racing conditions - add the thrill of speed, racing, technological precision, and just pure sporting competition - and you are treated to 18 intensely vibrant, adrenaline filled, all-consuming, and not to mention star-studded, F1 race weekends that make up a season of great sport.

If you want a source to keep up with the world of F1: for news, reviews, results, F1-related events, image galleries, access to live timing of race weekend sessions, and much more, then www.enterf1.com is a fresh new and on-the-ball website that will bring you everything you need for the whole season and beyond. Most importantly of all, if you want to go and experience a race for yourself, then www.enterf1.com has tickets for sale to every race event - and the one thing that is for sure...a race weekend lasting 4 days of prolonged sporting experience makes it a very worthwhile trip!