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3 Apr 2014, 08:19 (Ref:3388190) | #76 | ||
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Which is its beauty too. You'd think that this wouldn't need saying and we'd be able to develop the conversation a little. Especially as this has been self evident since the beginning of motorsport 120 years ago.
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Life's more immediate, people expect more and our attention span's shorter. Not enough of us are still willing to sit through a 2 hour high speed procession. From an technical perspective, F1 engineers had the freedom to innovate to a much greater extent. Their quest for greater speed produced intriguing and interesting contraptions. In recent years, innovation has all but gone - a casualty of suffocating regulations - and consequently everything's the same. ... it's a double whammy really. In the year 2014, it's neither entertaining nor interesting... which is why we have these artificial [and superficial] gizmos to try and band aid over both ends of the problem. |
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3 Apr 2014, 19:42 (Ref:3388411) | #79 | ||
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The thing is if the engineers had free reign, I'd bet my life savings (which being a student comes to about £3.50) that the cars would be so fast and have so much downforce there wouldn't be a single overtake the whole season and on a more serious note, driver safety would be compromised for car development, probably resulting in a number of deaths since Senna. Even Jackie Stewart said that there isn't much difference between the cars going 220 mph than 190 mph. He was talking about indycar, but I think the same applies to F1.
Yes, some of the racing is artificial, but I still enjoy the majority of the races, especially this year with the changes over the last couple of years. |
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... I'll bet those who conceived and backed these changes are doing a rain dance right now ! |
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Perez hardly said anything that denoted major unhappiness. |
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That said, the innovation by regulation is never a great way to progress and the FIA have a notorious track record of getting things wrong. The biggest debacle in recent years has been their move to transform karting through the introduction of major new regulations around 10 years ago. There was a need for change but the direction they took was completely wrong and began to backfire almost immediately - very similar to what's happening in F1 now. Their perseverance has led to the destruction of the elite level of that sport. I appreciate that F1 had to change and given the need that platform has to innovate and pioneer, maybe they should have opted for an all electric vehicle with minimal regulation... to unleash engineers to do interesting things. Alternatively if they must continue to look backwards and burn petrol, then focus on entertainment only... devise a spec. type vehicle that's exciting to watch and listen to... and provides for great racing. |
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