when you spend £millions on these Cars but they cant follow the lead cars because they overheat and lose grip then something has gone wrong. They need to be able to sit up the exhaust of the driver in front and pressure them. Its becoming less and less of a race and more of a time trial these days
I feel like we overreact way too much to uneventful races. Those complaining that 'f1 is dead' or 'f1 isn't what it used to be' seem to have been phrases that have been bandied about for the last 20 years or so whenever a bad race happens, conveniently forgetting that the last two Grand Prixs at Silverstone and Hockenheim were absolutely world class events. For me, last week's German GP and April's Azerbaijan GP were two of the best races I've seen in the last 10 years.
Changing the cars doesn't work for me. The thing is they did that back in 2009 with an overhaul of the technical regulations, ridding these machines of all the little winglets and the overly fancy/complicated front wings so that cars could follow each other much more closely. And yet, despite the sheer dream that was Brawn GP and Button winning both titles, who could seriously stand up and say that the racing and the championship that year was better than the years 2007 and 2008? As well as that, the cars were slower which is always a shame. For me F1 is as much about the pursuit of speed as it is about 'entertainment'. I think it's terrible when they introduce new regulations to make the cars slower! When these cars are maxed out and we still get close racing then it is pure racing - perfection almost achieved in an imperfect sport.
I look at these cars and I love the aggressive, high downforce look and speed of them. They are beastly machines in comparison to the GP2 impersonators that infested the sport when the new engine regulations came into force (seriously just look at a pole lap time from 2014 and compare it to a 2018 pole lap time from the same circuit. It makes it far more dramatic and because of their much more physically demanding nature, far more rewarding when you see a driver to great things with it. On the technical front I'd say don't change a thing (even though they will be changed from next year). Yes - a few of this season's races, like today's have not been up to scratch but there have been plenty of brilliant ones that have excused the bad weekends. As a bonus, the championship is absolutely fascinating. Swinging one way and then the other. It may be in Hamilton's favour at the moment but if this season is anything to go by you can expect it to swing back in favour of Seb.
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