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End of the day, everything is slow compared with LMP or F1. I don't really understand the obsession with investing so much energy into making slow cars a bit faster at the expense of fun?
TC, ABS and semiautomatic gear shifts may get you closer to the ultimate pace of the car, but that's hardly the point. F1 cars should be noisy, ill-tempered beasts which are difficult to drive quickly and will bite hard if you make a mistake.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Paddle shifters versus manual gearing is like comparing those people who batted in the 1970's against quick bowlers without helmets to those batsmen now who are well protected. Whilst I can admire the bravery that those batsmen demonstrated, I'm not sure I'd want to return to the old days of risk.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
An F2 car was quicker than Senna last Saturday...
https://youtu.be/xbrKA6IwgcM
And the difference, I can watch Ricciardo’s pole lap and think to myself “Yeah, I could do that” (I couldn’t, but that’s hardly the point). Whereas Senna’s lap looks clearly beyond the capability of any normal person.
"There wasn't much overtaking" is as valid a bitch as "There were no goals in that local derby end to end thriller" - ie stupid.
And if the E series become fast and challenging to drive and have complex outcomes and team relationships etc etc that makes F1 as compelling as it is then that will be great - it will be rightfully a top formula. But right now it's flimsy skittish bumper cars going "eeeeeeeeeeeeeee" and it does nowt for me.
But, and this is worth noting for those who only come on this thread so to do) I don't go around chasing down those folk who do like it and moaning at them about their shitty sport.
The minority filling comments sections with anti-Monaco whining are the same ones moaning hat that they don’t want the sport to become open-wheel-NASCAR whenever rule changes that might allow drivers to fight are mooted. I suspect these are the same commenters who also don’t want the sport to drop all the classic venues in favour of modern racetracks with viable business models that maximise safety for participants.
There will be no pleasing these people. Liberty know that, and as far as I can tell, don’t care.
I look forward to the proposed 2019 changes and the 2021 ones even more so.
All i want to a see is great drivers in cars that have more power than grip, and are able to drive just as quick when within 0.5s of the guy in front as they can when they’re in clear air.
@TimmyO I agree with some of your comments but when Monaco is given such hype, all the 'jewel in the crown' bullshit, and culminates in a) a chap ends up winning it despite a seriously fucked up car because it is impossible to overtake him and b) the current reigning champion saying how slow and dull it was, then F1 has to address that. The unpredictable start to the season with safety cars throwing up odd results doesn't detract from the core issues that have blighted F1 for ages, namely the cost of competing, the unfairness of the rewards system, and the difficulties on track with overtaking.
The more I see of Indy, the more I like the push to pass system. Instead of having a DRS zone, having 60 seconds of boost per Grand Prix per driver would be a splendid thing. I was sceptical but being able to use such a system in online sim racing last year converted me.
DRS is predictable for the most part: a driver being able to figure out when and where to use his boost would add an element of unpredictability to races.
I'm not sure about that. There was a lot of criticism at proposals to drop older venues (it wasn't so long that Spa was threatened, Germany's been off and on for ages and it's fair to say Bernie had a few other reasons to be pissy for years at Germany, Silverstone is an ongoing saga) and new tracks came along. The old tracks felt the F1 model was greedy: F1 thought the new tracks would bring in the coin. Several didn't: India, Turkey Malaysia, Korea. So the question of the viable business model is an interesting one when F1's deal with tracks doesn't look particularly viable when you consider how the fee escalator works.
I'd agree with the last paragraph. Whether it happens...
Yes that is true.In 2016 Silverstone had the lowest fee of any European GP bar Monaco which paid nowt. Silverstone also had no government funding. So I think it's fair to say that Bernie was accommodating to some tracks and quite happy to sell out to however bid the most money for the RoW venue side. Some survived like Singapore, some didn't. It's similar to watching county cricket venues outbid one another for international Test matches.
F1 is frequently it's own worst enemy as you pointed out with the 2013 fee situation. One day I hope it isn't.