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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr
Your posts never offer up any valid suggestions on how to improve a sport you're obviously very passionate about
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really?
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Make it easier and faster to pit and they'd do it once in a while.
(references pit lane speed limits that are way too slow)
They either need to get rid of the restrictions that
cause the races to turn into parades,
or change the tires.
That could go one of two ways:
Make them last forever no matter how hard they push
so the drivers could race on them, or make them fall off
a cliff in performance after a certain number of laps.
I mean have them stay good until lap 15 and then lose
5 seconds a lap.
Heck, make them go flat after 20 laps for all I care,
at least it would make it interesting again.
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Tell them they have 5 or 6 (tire) options to pick from and can
run them any way they want,
and can use as many as they want.
That would help.
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Those sound to me like suggestions to improve the racing.
But you are right about one thing, I am passionate about F1 racing.
Have been since the late 80's and the emergence of
turbocharged 1400 hp 1.5L engines and ground effects.
Races were won by guts, not by pacing themselves.
I enjoy watching older races on the F1 channel.
Some of my favorites where when the ferrari would
dash into the pits for a quick splash fuel and 4 new tires
and then kill it for 15 laps.
He'd make up the time lost from pitting and then some,
and would do it over and over.
He could do that because he was really good at
running flat out and because the tires would fall off quickly.
It made sense to run flat out and wear to the tires
and then replace them with new.
The time gained outweighed the time lost and
the racing was great. Unless you didn't like Ferrari.
I also recall watching later races when Schumacher was at merc and
they had changed the tires (2009) among other "equalizing"
aero rules changes.
They became less of sprint races and became more of endurance-type processions.
He was no longer dominating but drivers like hamilton emerged.
Why?
Because MS was FAST but hamilton was better at
managing tire wear.
And fast was no longer as important.
That's when the sport started the current downhill slide IMO,
around 2009-2010.
Pretty much what I outlined in the above rant.
I'm not a big fan of DRS BTW,
It was well-intentioned but is a band-aid for a deeper problem:
While making it easier to pass on the straights,
it also discourages pitting and encourages cruising around for 40 laps.
Solve the real issue and DRS would not be necessary.
By that I mean allow ground effects but go back to small wings
that are less effected by cars in front of you so you won't NEED DRS.
I believe it would also improve the racing in the corners.
Huge wings help the car in clean air and hurt everyone behind.
So they get in line and hang back a several seconds to save the tires.
And we try not to get bored for a half hour until the next pit window.