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HAL9000

thumpingrug said:

Lots of action

Yep, Brazil's normally a good race. My own pet idea to make F1 more interesting is to stage every race at Spa, Montreal, or Sao Paulo...

chillidoggy

Or the old Nurburgring?

stickyfiddle

Jesus en bicylette!

Maybe he'll learn how to drive straight from RoGro?

chillidoggy

At least RoGro has learnt something.

Fretwired

This could spice things up - F1 drivers will be forced to make two pitstops, as well as face a strict limit on how long they can stay out for, if proposals for new 2014 tyre rules are accepted by teams next month. No more tyrre strategy ...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111657?

boogieman

Maldonado got the Lotus seat
Understandable as they need his finance but what a travesty. Wonder where Hulk is going?

Fretwired

boogieman said:

Maldonado got the Lotus seat
Understandable as they need his finance but what a travesty. Wonder where Hulk is going?

Hulk's apparently gone to Force India ...

Ianpdq

With all the messing around with fuel and tyres next year will it be another crap year I just want to see the drivers race not be held back by fuel and tyres they will have enough problems with the engines and how many they can use

Fretwired

Ianpdq said:

With all the messing around with fuel and tyres next year will it be another crap year I just want to see the drivers race not be held back by fuel and tyres they will have enough problems with the engines and how many they can use

@Ianpdg In fairness it looks like the tyre issues will go away with a madatory two stops and a maximum number of laps you can do on one set without getting a drive through penalty.

stickyfiddle

I don't think the 2-stop thing is likely to go ahead, but I don't think it'd be a bad idea. 

With the new engine and aero regs I'd like to see them just racing properly. If they've done it right they won't need DRS anymore so that could be ditched after next season maybe?

Nitefly

Why don't we have something radical here: tyres that will last the whole race so no need to change them, fuel tanks big enough to last the whole race, so no need to refuel, and NO QUALIFYING!  Where you finish the last race is where you start the next one - simples!  Noobs start at the back and work their way forward!

I am being (slightly) tongue in cheek about this, but I am royally pissed off with the current state of it.  I've been watching it since about 1975, and it's not getting better.

holnrew

Qualifying should be one car out at a time, one chance.

thumpingrug

holnrew said:

Qualifying should be one car out at a time, one chance.

They did that for a few years, was very dull to watch.

thumpingrug

Nitefly said:

 NO QUALIFYING!  Where you finish the last race is where you start the next one - simples!  Noobs start at the back and work their way forward!

No.  The grid should be reverse order of where they finished the previous race.  Make the good drivers work for the top positions..

holnrew

thumpingrug said:

holnrew said:

Qualifying should be one car out at a time, one chance.

They did that for a few years, was very dull to watch.

I remember it, I liked it more than the faux-spectacle they have now.

stickyfiddle

A good clip of Vettel at the Autosport awards. Red Bull PR mode had clearly swapped for "beer" mode, and much better for it

NSFW for language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Symx3LfehHk

fretmeister

Double points for the last race of the season from now on.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111795?source=mostpopular

Crap idea.

Fretwired

fretmeister said:

Double points for the last race of the season from now on.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111795?source=mostpopular

Crap idea.

@fretmeister totally agree. Crap idea.

CabbageCat

Yeah. Artificial excitement. It will probably work but it feels like they are admitting defeat - as if they can't make the sport itself exciting so they'll play silly-buggers with the scoring system. It's watering down the racing.

stickyfiddle

Total balls. 

They're also attempting cost cutting again, which will never work. RB, Ferrari and Merc will just have their own "outsourcing" companies to do the work and bill it to the race team at a cheap rate. 

Fixed driver numbers would be good, on the proviso that those numbers have to be displayed large on the nose and sidepods/rear wings