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vovan
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Formula 1 racing... Who on Earth made the new rules? And who told him he knows anything at all about racing???
Okay, as you can probably already tell, this be a rant on the topic of the new Formula 1 Racing rules...
The are just stupid. I have been watching F1 ever since I was like six. And never in my life have I been so disappointed with it.
Granted, the last couple of seasons were getting kind of boring, and monotonous (and this coming from a Michael fan, mind you), and I was pretty disgusted with Ferrari when they pulled the stunts with having Schumi win when Rubens should have in the middle of the season, and vice versa towards the end. Hell, I even gave my word I would go over to the dark side of McLaren if they ever do it again. So, yeah, I agree, something had to be done to increase the competitiveness of the sport.
But... What the heck have they done? They've totally mutilated the whole idea of racing! You've got to agree (unless you are a Finn) that the way racing currently is, its just no good.
I mean, what's up with the new qualification rules? They might as well not have qualification at all, but just put the cars on the grid randomly! It's always been clear by statistics that with every consequtive lap, each driver's personal time improves, as well as the average of all racers due to the improved traction. Clearly, then, the people that drive later in the session have an advantage! Secondly, how many qualification sessions have there been, that the weather changes dramatically during the course of it? Well countless numbers! So, if that happens now, everyone driving during the rain is pretty much screwed.
One-lap qualifying? Not touching the car between the qualifying and the race? Give me a break. Might as well just include one more lap in the race, and forget about the whole qualifying business.
To add insult to injury, they now go around saying: "Hey, the new rules were successful! Michael isn't winning any more, see? Wasn't that the whole reason in the first place?"
* Grumble, grumble *
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vovan
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Okay, I guess I didn't make my point clear. The reason I think they are hideous is that now people's position on the starting grid depends 90% on chance alone. What order they start their qualification lap in, what particular weather conditions are there, etc. Hell, if something gets in their eye that one moment, that's it, that's pretty much the end of the race for the next day. One-lap qualifying isn't really serving the purpose of qualifying. Like I said, they might as well just pick the positions randomly.
As for making things interesting... Maybe. But look how many cars finished. There were by far more crashes than in any of the other recent races. The reason being, that by chance alone, the bad drivers (which isn't necessarily their fault - maybe they just have a bad car. After all, no drivers in F1 are bad) are put in the front of the grid, and the favourites have to battle their way through. Don't understand me wrong, I like people battling their way through. Otherwise, what's the point of racing? But it is by far more interesting (to me at least) to see the best drivers battle it out up front than try to weed through the slower cars and catch up with the leader.
Last edited by vovan on 10-04-2003 at 11:27
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Zopperoni
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No, Schumacher and Barrichello should dominate every race.
Besides, I don't understand the entire point of it. Throughout F1 history, there have been periods of dominance: before Ferrari, Mclaren dominated for two seasons, and before that you had the Williams reign and so on.
It's not like Schumacher and Barrichello have eternal life and Ferrari could have held on to their dominance up forever (under the old circumstances)...
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CerberusIV
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The one lap qualifying has worked for years in Superbikes BUT..
in bike racing it is (relatively) easy to overtake compared to F1.
It would have been better if they had made everyone do the qualifying with the same amount of fuel and not allowed work on the engines, just on the rest of the car. Then cars could be adjusted for qualifying but would not be that far from race set up and the grids would better reflect the true performance.
A lot will depend on how things go at the european rounds where the weather is generally less unpredictable.
Running the Brasil GP in those conditions was ridiculous anyway. The MotoGP bikes from Suzuka was far more interesting than watching skilled drivers forced to play dodgems in expensive machinery. If I wanted to watch powerboating I would.
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Zopperoni
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quote:
Originally posted by VetLegion
On a side note, have any of you ever been to a race? I want to one day, but still don't have the time/money combo. |
Yes, I visited the British GP of 1996 at Silverstone. It was good fun.
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