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Originally Posted by miatanut
F1 deserves all the criticism it gets these days. It sounds like a broken record because F1 keeps going farther in trying to make all the cars equal so it is all about the drivers and many traditional fans, like myself, are unhappy about it.
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You're saying sportscar racing isn't trying to make all the cars equal? In WEC alone you'll have
LMP1 - EoT
LMP2 - (by 2017) immensely spec-ified every way imaginable so... ...
LMGTE - heavy race-by-race performance balancing & rules breaking waivers & political behind the curtain fights
Admittely what they've achieved with P1 is much better than feared, and the fact they (factory cars) can only modify EoT changes once a year is a blessing, but still it's not perfection.
It's true that F1 is all about trying to make the drivers the stars, and you have the stupid Super Mario gadgets + entertainment tires + more-and-more spec components in the cars + when someone comes up with innovations they usually get banned. But there is technically no real balancing factor. Mercedes 2014-2015, RBR 2011-2013 and Ferrari 2002/2004 are living proof of that, just to give some examples of more recent domination periods.
What WEC does have supreme ruling over F1 of course, is the technological factor (in P1) and road car elements