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Sounds like F1 has truly been 'fixed' in New Zealand then......
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Yes now we get to watch the best racing series with evenly matched teams racing and passing each other like it should be.
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Alternative driver perspective regarding the "ease" of driving current cars...
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/r...years/4488869/ My reading of this is that... If the car is good, it's easier to drive. That it's more about having a good or bad car and less about the era of the car. So... car and setup specific and not era specific. As teams get better and better and design and setup, the cars should be easier to drive. Which should be an obvious conclusion. Richard |
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I think the problem is it’s got a little bit over the top in terms of penalties and track limits. As well as the fact the car design has gone the wrong way in terms of aero, ruining the racing.
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I think that driving the cars less than their capabilities to conserve tires and fuel is a real issue, but ANY car driven less than 10/10ths is easier to drive.
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"Fixing" F1 is always going to be a circular discussion. To me the more pertinent question should be "What is F1". Once that is answered then "fixing" it becomes a lot clearer as many of the "solutions" can be ignored as they aren't F1.
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Well that’s a good start, because we have that now. Even the teams try and secure that first.
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Sue Adam, and this is why we have muppets sitting in the 2021 strategy meetings saying that they fear that if the drivers become an important performance differentiator, driver centric, then the driver's salaries will get out of hand?
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Give Dixon, Rossi, Hunter-Reay, Newgarden, and perhaps a smattering of the others, an actually decent car on the F1 grid, and I'd put them up against any current F1 driver.
We knew IndyCar was going to be slower at Austin, (duh!). Then again, that's in no small part because it was designed for cars that make the most absurd amounts of downforce, and only those specific cars (pretty much just LMP1 and F1 presently). Bringing out yet another d*ck-measuring stick isn't helping anybody. Yes, F1 has the World Drivers' Championship, but at the same time, it's not the only FIA World Championship that has a Drivers' Championship on offer; so there has to be more to it than that. Also, it's the Constructors' Championship that actually pays the money. But anyway, I don't think you could just plunk someone from F1 down in WRC and expect them to automatically do well there, or vise versa. To the Drivers' Championship, I'd add something like: ---The series featuring the fastest open-wheel, open-cockpit racing cars on paved circuits, excepting oval speedways. |
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If it going to be primarily a driver's championship is it necessary to remove all artificial aids and remove all radio comms from the team and let the driver get on with racing the car using his talents and brain? It sure is an arguable point as now he receives a huge amount of help from the pits to manage the car.
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I’m liking all this, more driver emphasis, agreed. Let’s have a little context though, or rather look how far we need to go?
Drivers are still a differentiator nowadays. I give you Hamilton and Verstappen v. Bottas and Gasly. Cars are the primary differentiator, as they always have been, I give you Lotus 79, Lotus 33, Williams FW14b, McLaren MP4-4, Ferrari 500, etc... and of course every other year to a lesser degree. We want the best drivers. Other drivers from others series may be better than some F1 drivers. I can’t see how this is any different from any other era of F1. To limit some of this, because eventually the objections to this reached a critical mass, we have the current system that limits this. Good intentions. So what exactly are we asking for? How would we know this has been achieved? Are we asking for something that F1 never been? I’m all for it, but I’m conscious as to what Johno is asking. Perhaps this is one reason why it is hard to achieve. Who should the people running F1 listen to? Not the teams, not the drivers and certainly not (directly) the fans. They should listen to no one. However they have measure were they indirectly listen to others. Don’t listen to what the fans want, they are not a collective voice, are not coherent and don’t actually know what they want. Make changes and see if the people come to the tracks or turn on the telly. Don’t listen to the teams, but make sure they are healthy and you have a decent number or quality entries. Listen to the drivers, but don’t worry about ignoring them. Last edited by Adam43; 7 Jul 2019 at 13:28. Reason: sp |
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I think too often F1 over complicates itself. They should find simple solutions to whatever problems they have, instead of putting in quick fixes like DRS. Then it would be easier to watch and more potential for excitement
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I’m no DRS fan (although judging by the last race’s rating a lot of people are ), but one thing it is is a simple solution to a problem.
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A simpler solution though would be to reduce downforce
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Not really, Again, I find that an oversimplification, and honestly, I find the assessment inaccurate as the influence of the aero is consistently overblown. Frankly, aero has become a proxy to blame everything that's wrong with a series on it, and that's obviously a load of you know what.
Anyway, as you go faster, aero gives bigger returns, unlike every other area of the cars, so the engineers will always go for the aero, because the laws of physics dictate it as a necessity to go faster by a greater margin. Also, the lawyers and insurance adjusters would declare an aero-neutral car to be an unjustified hazard. It's an exaggerated example, but you watch in the racing games how those '60s F1 cars will roll and tumble, because they don't have the drag and downforce production to provide a self-damping mechanism. And even putting all that aside, the tracks are now designed for extremely high levels of downforce. Taking the downforce away, without re-working the tracks first, will just create a much greater number of harsh compression and expansion zones thanks to the accordion effect, which will increase field spread substantially by default, and thus hurt the racing that way. I wouldn't expressly limit downforce. I'd actually allow the teams to make it in cleaner ways, and institute a battery of wind tunnel tests, with the requirement of an aggregate minimum L/D, a minimum aerodynamic efficiency, something like, say, 4.0:1. So, if you're making 4,000 lb of downforce, you have to do it in such a way that you make no more than 1,000 lb of drag. |
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The new "F1"....https://airspeeder.com/
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“Who wouldn’t watch that?”
Well, it is too reliant on aerodynamics. |
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