David O'Reilly
A bad quali means I can go forwards in the race.
and to that cutting edge technology we add more torque so the cars are tougher to handle on throttle, less rear wing, no clever exhaust blown diffuser of faux diffuser technologies. The result is a more challenging car to drive.
Mistakes get made, opportunities occur.
When I think back to the era around the year 2000 when a young teen Jensen Button arrived. The following car got within 75 metres and lost all grip so just sat there.
This era was where Murray Walkers ability to get excited about nothing happening really became a huge asset to F1 as outside of wet races iterally the only passing happened in the pits.
By contrast the advent of DRS/KERS means the faster car/driver combination can once they catch can actually get past the slower car. We see in one race more passing than happened in 10 races in 2000. We see on track battles for position rather than a procession.
So with respect to any one else that has also been watching F1 for 30 years the racing isn't broken. Its as good or better than its ever been.
The same car might keep winning but that could be said of the Senna / Prost years at McLaren. Was that boring?
In 1976 a Cosworth V8 cost £5000 and a rebuild cost £1000. A top driver cost £50,000 a season.
The thing that's broken down is the revenue/costs relationship.
The new engine technology costs a lot. Team budgets are too big. Its too costly and hard to enter and survive.
It needs to be fixed before we have a petrol powered World Championship Wrestling with a tiny number of heroes, few possible outcomes and a tightly scripted play environment.
Mistakes get made, opportunities occur.
When I think back to the era around the year 2000 when a young teen Jensen Button arrived. The following car got within 75 metres and lost all grip so just sat there.
This era was where Murray Walkers ability to get excited about nothing happening really became a huge asset to F1 as outside of wet races iterally the only passing happened in the pits.
By contrast the advent of DRS/KERS means the faster car/driver combination can once they catch can actually get past the slower car. We see in one race more passing than happened in 10 races in 2000. We see on track battles for position rather than a procession.
So with respect to any one else that has also been watching F1 for 30 years the racing isn't broken. Its as good or better than its ever been.
The same car might keep winning but that could be said of the Senna / Prost years at McLaren. Was that boring?
In 1976 a Cosworth V8 cost £5000 and a rebuild cost £1000. A top driver cost £50,000 a season.
The thing that's broken down is the revenue/costs relationship.
The new engine technology costs a lot. Team budgets are too big. Its too costly and hard to enter and survive.
It needs to be fixed before we have a petrol powered World Championship Wrestling with a tiny number of heroes, few possible outcomes and a tightly scripted play environment.
