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Originally Posted by Peter Mallett
But you miss the point. They tested pretty much every week. There were test teams so they could drive current cars regularly before hitting the tack in a race weekend.
That doesn't happen now so how does one explain this? Palmer was also pretty quick in testing when he got the chance. Now he's being possibly sidelined.
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I don't understand the point here. Cars are too easy to drive, as shown by Palmer in testing, that's why Palmer is being dropped? If they were so easy to drive, surely he'd be kept because it's easy?
Ex-drivers can claim the cars are harder, but who has actually driven them? Again the one that sticks out for me is Niki Lauda making some insane comments, and then being pretty terrible. Did Schumacher test the Jordan before his race?
The only argument for the cars being too easy to drive seems to be "it's obvious". Well no offense to anyone, but that's weak sauce. What was the gap between F2 and F1 in the 60s? Smaller tyres, smaller ICE, less sophisticated cars? Sounds identical to F2 and F1 now - except now they have the MGUK to deal with too.