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Originally Posted by 917_Langheck
The cars are the wrong size for the track, and f1 has been a conserve everything endurance race format for too long. Stop saving fuel and stop saving tires! If overuse of resources is an issue in f1, stop racing, period. WEC has better flat out racing, and it's supposed to be an endurance race.
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Yup. F1 is (was) supposed to be absolutely flat-out from lights out to checkered flag. We even heard things like "this isn't F1" and "F1 is supposed to be flat out" as various teams backed up the field to help with their pit stops. While I agree with those announcers' sentiments, let's face it - that simply has not been true of F1 for over 20 years.
For far too long it's been about first tire management, and now tire and fuel management. Artificially induced "strategy". Maybe justifiable up until just a couple of years ago, when the aero packages did not allow cars to follow one another for more than half a lap before burning off the tires. Now that they can actually follow one another and race for lap after lap, I say unleash them and let them race. Get rid of the tire rule and let them run as many sets of whatever they want, with no requirement to run multiple compounds. Let them burn as much fuel as they possibly can, as long as they can do so without the need to pit. Flat-out, start to finish. Back to "real" F1.