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Originally Posted by Peter Mallett
Yes the cars are harder to drive this year due to the changes. But, they aren't difficult to drive. There is a difference. And if an inexperienced driver, or a number of them, with zero miles in a particular chassis can get within a few hundredths or even a tenth of the regular driver, with only a half day of testing, then yes, there is something fundamentally wrong with the entire formula.
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Completely disagree. If it's all about making the car difficult to drive, then just make them rear wheel steering and be done with it. A racing car should never be fundamentally difficult to drive - if it is then the engineers did a very bad job, because that car is just going to crash. The hard bit in a racing car is getting the last little bit.
They may not get the miles in the chassis, but they'll have done more laps in a simulator than the race driver gets in the car. Whilst these are not perfect, they are far from Playstations. It's a bit silly to use testing as evidence for anything at all - ask Prost how that went for him.
We demand higher standards than ever in F1, we have more complicated cars than ever, we have less testing than ever, and we cycle through drivers at a record rate. And then we sit and say it's too easy based on some testing times? Seems a bit insane to me.
Palmer is another example of that. He's probably going to be dropped soon. Drivers previously got more testing over the winter than he's had driving in 18 months, but because he's not hitting marks now, he's out. F1 cycles through some very capable drivers at a depressing rate nowadays.