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Originally Posted by chapo
F1 used to be about men driving their machines to the limit, and the great ones beyond the limit. Doesn’t happen anymore. Too much monitoring and worrying, too many decisions made by engineers and directors. There are no more heroic drives through the pack or in the rain. The drivers would like to see this changed. The drivers in days gone by were truly heroic in the efforts, not now .
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I am truly mixed about the penalty, but would add the observation that in former days, the cars were much less safe and the drivers knew that...they knew that if they crunched into an opponent, chances are both of them would be in a ball of flame or crushed in the accident and so gave some leeway.
One of the unexpected consequences of the very safe vehicles we see now is that there is zero fear of an accident, the chances of consequence to human life is quite low, which makes them more willing to hold the line, run the risk of impact than in former years.
I don't like races decided by penalty....let them race is my point of view, but then again I also want to go back to far fewer rules, more engine choices (get rid of these crazy energy recovery methods), get rid of most aero and just let the best car/driver win.
Dennis