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Originally Posted by Purist
Greg, that's an interesting thought about the length of F1 races. That leaves me with a question though. Why wasn't this thing going on with the tracks back in 2002-2005, when the races were faster, because of horsepower, and the cars weren't carrying so much fuel?
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It was going on though. You had China, Bahrain, the neutered Austria, the neutered Imola, etc.
I remember a few races at Monza ending in 1 hour 10 minutes. That is over way too fast. But what F1 has been doing is instead of building another classic like Monza and adding an extra 10 laps, they'll build another Monza and then add about another 3 extra chicanes on top of it to get the cars to complete ~190 miles in 1 hour 30 min. Whereas the better solution is to built a roadcourse with a good natural flow to it and add extra miles to the race if necessary.
To all the NASCAR fans, that would be like NASCAR saying "Okay, the Loudon race is 300 miles, therefore regardless of the track size, speed, or banking, every race will be 300 miles." Then Daytona and Talladega would be 300 miles and over with way too fast. So instead of moving them to 500 miles, they run a chicane on the backstretch and on the frontstretch to slow them down and make the race last in the time window even though it completely ruins the track.