Sport keeps you young.
It's always a nice experience.
So take a look: Doesn't Fernando Alonso look like he did 15 years ago when he won his last World Cup?
Now the Spanish racing driver is 40. And not a bit tired of hanging out in Formula 1 for another year in the fountain of youth of the sport.
Fountain of youth?
It always looks the same in the paddock in the morning as it did on the first day.
Everything polished, everything as if freshly painted, yesterday's car has already been completely overhauled today.
All wrinkles like ironed away, the quirks of life plastered over, and where it was no longer possible, there are spare parts.
Anyone who thinks that these sentences are an attempt to draw conclusions from the use of machines to the use of people is correct.
Certain modification work, i.e. very expensive antiaging procedures, can certainly be observed in the environment of the optimization specialists.
Whether carbon or silicone, the greed for eternal youth is seldom as tangible as in the premier class.
These days, the next 18-year-old tax artist is being called, while Alonso is supposed to explain why he categorically declared to the FAZ twelve years ago that he would no longer drive Formula 1 at the age of 40.
The answer is simple: Because he has matured - and because he can.