F1 Fanatic

It’s not really a a ‘formula’ is it when 95% of the influence comes from one ingredient.

Yes but ‘formula’ implies several ingredients needed to make the perfect combination, right now it’s all about one ingredient.
I can’t imagine how the Pirelli marketing department can get any benefit out of tjeir […]

dull,dull, dull
When the pole position car loses a second a lap during the race there’s something wrong with the formula.
Too much fiddling with rules and not enough genuine racing

But doesn’t it remind you of some modern rally stages, where the cars are probably going as fast as these F1 cars.

It could be argued that breaking the sound barrier in a car is much closer to the pinnacle of automotive technology than any form of racing.

Because via the internet you can watch any live sports stream from any broadcaster in the world in real time

I’ve seen fewer crashes in a 500 mile NASCAR race

F1 is already getting away from the concept of a single person operating the car, this would simply take it further into the realms of multiple people ‘driving’ the cars.

Boring race up to the safety car, NASCAR style bashing and boring after that. Pirelli tyres once more had a major influence on the result.

I only watch the race itself, I don’t bother with the pre or post race waffle. I also watch the ‘Sky-only’ races over the web via whichever broadcast I can get from around the world. So I’m still getting all the […]

That’s because Netball is more exciting than F1 at Monaco?

Yes but the regulations are so restrictive now that the cars are virtual clones of one another. Regulate by allowing each car a certain amount of energy to complete a race, no restrictions on the form that energy […]

Yes but the tension should at least give rise to some fulfillment of the expectations, otherwise it just ends up being another disappointing race.

Dull, dull, dull.
Thank goodness the Indy 500 was on later and showed what motor racing should be. More changes for the lead in one race than we get in a whole season of F1 and, shock/horror, they took place ON […]

There is also the wider context of the lack of spectators, not just here but at other circuits also. An excellent article on Eurosport summed up the prospects for F1′s […]

Dull, dull, dull 4/10
I reckon BBC would be challenged to produce more than ten minutes of highlights out of that.

Keith I remember renting Bernie’s dedicated F1 channel some years ago, I can’t remember if it lasted one season or two before Bernie shut it down because he couldn’t get enough subscribers!!!
Do you think that […]

and a lot of tech-savvy pensioners like myself who can’t afford Sky will be watching live streams on the web.
I subscribed to Bernie’s dedicated F1 channel some years ago, I can’t remember if it lasted one […]

Five for me and two of those were because somebody other than Vettel won the race. Not that I have anything against Vettel, just that the races have become predictable, boring processions.

Keith, how about starting with an analysis of total number of investigations/penalties per season. I suspect, as one or two on here have mentioned, that the stewards are getting much more involved lately and […]