F1 Fanatic

I agree, there should be one oval race a season. It would be awesome to have it at Indy, maybe Indy 300 or something like that, so that the race would last a normal amount of time. It’d be a great addition and a great chance for a backmarker to surprise – just like we see Red Bull struggle at Monza and Force India usually performing well there – such things would happen to a much greater extent, which can only be good.

One oval race a season, yes, but no more.

Of course, once upon a time the Indy 500 was part of the F1 world championship, with the FIA moving towards a one-design F1 car the 2 series may well adopt a single rule and bring the 500 back to the championship.

I’d love a bit of variety in the tracks F1 visits, and an oval would be brilliant. Whether it would be at Indy or somewhere like Daytona, Charlotte or Pocono I wouldn’t mind. It’d add another dimension of skill to the championship.

Last night I was also toying with the idea of a ‘paperclip’ style circuit, maybe 4 or 5 huge straights connected by tint hairpins. I’d just like a bit more variety in the types of circuit we visit.

It would be a great idea and that means it’s never going to happen. It would have to be at Indy. Can you imagine oval racing on Pirelli tyres! They’d have to bring the medium and super-hard compounds of course.

Early in the last century many race tracks had a banked semi-oval as part of the course, would be interesting to see again.

i think it would be of great interest to the fans, and to also see f1 cars hitting insane speeds 360KPH PLUS

f1 should be the fastest motorsport in the world!!

I think ovals would be very interesting to see, although I’m not sure I’d pay attention for a whole race distance.

What I would really really love to see is a feature event that had a series of short races that depended upon some different skill sets of the drivers. For example, you know in the Race of Champions they start at different ends of the circuit? I’d love to see two F1 racers go head to head on a similar theme, on a circuit something along the lines of the part-road part-oval circuit that PM mentions above. If they started at different ends of the course then noone could complain about dirty air slowing them down etc. If the course played to different driving characteristics, then we might see them pushing each other to the limit. Perhaps they could do some quick qualifying to decide the pairs.

Similarly, I’d like to see them in a challenge that was specifically about overtaking. Eg in ‘Need For Speed: Shift’ there’s an online challenge where you do the same short course three times. Once starting together, once starting a little behind the other car, then once starting a little ahead. So, to win, you’re probably going to have to overtake at some point. But I’m sure something quicker or more entertaining could be made up.

But it’ll never happen :(