[Greem]

Originally Posted by S griffin

Well you are watching the wrong sport if you want reverse grids, this is F1 the pinnacle of motorsport, where the drivers and teams who do the best job are rewarded. It’ll never happen thankfully. This is a sport, not some pure entertainment business.

If it’s introduced it will make a mockery of the sport. If you want some contrived entertainment, go watch WWE. At least people don’t take that too seriously

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Warning, what follows is a rant and does not necessarily represent the opinions of Ten-Tenths. (To be honest, it probably doesn't even represent the opinions of the poster when they aren't ranting.) F1 isn't really a sport. It's a massive hospitality, engineering, entertainment and media business with a tiny side-dish of racing. Bernie, love him or loathe him, knew which buttons to press on whom and when to extract maximum value from his empire - not just for him, but for the thousands of people inside the pyramid who could milk their little corner too. Like most big-ticket sports, F1 has a rabid - but dwindling - fan base who simultaneously demand change as well as stasis. "Can't do that, that's not F1" is usually heard alongside "F1 is too stale, it needs to change" from the very same person. I know I've fallen into that trap in the past. To coin an appalling political soundbite: F1 is F1. Reverse grids, DRS, cheesy tyres, changes in qualifying, hybrid engines, the DFV, stressed member chassis, ground effect, wings, swapping cars mid race, fires, deaths - they've all been a part of F1 or suggested as a part over the years (with the exception of reverse grids) and some still are, but whatever path it takes it'll always be F1. We now return you to our normal ramblings.