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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

To make it more exciting they could award points for qualifying, 25 for fastest and so on, then reverse the grid so that the fastest drivers start from the back and have to fight their way through the pack to get the race points as they do now, 25 for first and so on.
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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

Originally Posted by d00d ->
The early 60s was the golden era, I was truly hooked at the age of ten. Surtees, Clark, Hill and Brabham they were on my bedroom wall.
Wot....no Sterling Moss d00d?

I started to take an interest in F1 at the time of Mansell, Stewart, Damon Hill and James Hunt.
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It very much is. The technical regulations apply to all teams so the cars are pretty much to a standard. They all have to have a 1.6 litre V6 engine, they have the same tyre choices by the one manufacturer, the same maximum amount of fuel that has to last the entire race, the same energy recovery system

There is one significant variable - the driver.
So how does that explain, probably the best driver on the track, Fernando Alonso, finishing way down the field for the last few years?
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07-09-2018, 09:06 PM
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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

BTCC far better. Formula 1 is mostly a procession.
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07-09-2018, 09:11 PM
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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

Originally Posted by Ray Cathode ->
To make it more exciting they could award points for qualifying, 25 for fastest and so on, then reverse the grid so that the fastest drivers start from the back and have to fight their way through the pack to get the race points as they do now, 25 for first and so on.
Sounds like a good idea that Ray, a sort of handicap system...
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07-09-2018, 09:18 PM
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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

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So how does that explain, probably the best driver on the track, Fernando Alonso, finishing way down the field for the last few years?
Not as good as he was? Better younger drivers? Different aerodynamics...........
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07-09-2018, 09:29 PM
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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

Originally Posted by Ray Cathode ->
To make it more exciting they could award points for qualifying, 25 for fastest and so on, then reverse the grid so that the fastest drivers start from the back and have to fight their way through the pack to get the race points as they do now, 25 for first and so on.
That might liven it up a bit ... I imagine most drivers do more speeding and overtaking on the motorway fast lane now than they do on a race track.
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07-09-2018, 09:41 PM
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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
Wot....no Sterling Moss d00d?
Him as well

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->

I started to take an interest in F1 at the time of Mansell, Stewart, Damon Hill and James Hunt.
Yes I was still partially interested in those day when every car was a cigarette packet.
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07-09-2018, 10:33 PM
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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
Wot....no Sterling Moss d00d?

I started to take an interest in F1 at the time of Mansell, Stewart, Damon Hill and James Hunt.
Me too ... but more for me ... Prost, Senna, Piquet. Now they were racers.
I always remember that godawful smash ... Niki Lauda wasn't it. And of course, later, Senna.
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07-09-2018, 10:48 PM
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Re: What's wrong with Formula one?

Originally Posted by Morticia ->
Me too ... but more for me ... Prost, Senna, Piquet. Now they were racers.
I always remember that godawful smash ... Niki Lauda wasn't it. And of course, later, Senna.
One of the major advances in F1 is safety.
Driver fitness is another. It has had to given the g-forces they have to withstand. They would make many people pass out.
 
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