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“If we take football as an example, fans are more polarised in terms of teams they support than in F1. Some teams win more often than others but nobody is clamouring to change the rules of football to make it more even for the lesser teams. ”
I’ve got no idea what your point was supposed to be :)
Nobody wants to change football rules, indeed, which shows you they are optimal. The playing field is perfect, the goal size is perfect, the size of the ball is perfect – but the key fact is that they’re all exactly the same for each team. They are fair.
But if you ever saw a team with barefoot players who couldn’t afford shoes having to score on a larger goal than the opponent team – nobody would be in favour of such contest, would they?“I get the feeling no matter what Liberty Media or F1 do, the direction it goes, or the rules it impliments will ever satisfy or quell fans desires for utopian motor racing.”
What you call “utopian” racing is a normal occurence!
Look at MotoGP – as far back as I can remember, it has always been as utopian as fans would like F1 to be. You’ve always had exciting races, you’ve always had a huge bunch of competetive teams, and you’ve never had huge careers being wasted by being stuck in a non-competetive team or seasons suffering from 1 team’s (=2 drivers) technical dominance.
Another examples? IndyCar in the 1990s – great tracks, beautiful cars, competetive cars, exciting races, if you were a great driver you were winning, if you were a young talent you always had a chance of proving yourself, no champion’s career was wasted by driving a 2018 McLaren Honda.“I used to look forward to sitting down on Sunday lunchtime with a roast dinner on my lap and watching the Grand Prix with my Dad. I wouldn’t have had that experience if it wasn’t available on free-to-air TV. I can only assume that children today will be missing out on this for the very same reason.”
But the reality of today’s kids is that they don’t watch TV. And if they do, they don’t watch it with their parents. They are modern consumers, who choose their content. I’ve heard an anegdote about how a teacher got laughed at by the kids for asking if they had watched sth on TV – because not only none of them watched TV, it was also perceived as sth only “old people” (their parents?) did.
As long as Hamilton keeps dominating, his under-performances kinda go under the radar as they can be explained/excused by Hamilton’s great performances. But the minute the Ferraris get a hold of Lewis, Bottas will be required to deliver the goods to fend them off.
And as regards your points.
2) An engine upgrade that Honda are quietly very confident about.
– In a situation where the engine has neither power, nor reliability, you’d need a completely new engine to improve both. If they only improve one of these aspects, it’s still going to be not enough.3) McLaren are very confident in their chassis and believe that bolting on a competitive engine would mean victories.
– Unless they have a 1998 McLaren or a 2009 Honda/Brawn chassis, they’d need a top engine to really compete against the Ferraris and Mercedeses.I think it has come to a point where the McLaren guys are straight embarrassed by all the Honda failures and just want to spent the rest of the season in a courteous manner as regards their commentary on the situation. And they will do all they can to get a new engine supplier for the next season, because they can’t go wrong with any other engine.
Just listening to the radio transmission between Alonso and his engineer after the car failure from yesterday (even though it wasn’t the engine) was cringeworthy. You could hear the destructive impact on the morale of the team this season already has had on them.
Doesn’t McLaren have the resources and technology to build their own engine? I’ve always wondered.
Beautiful!! The only major thing I’m not fond of are the still-large rear wheel covers. It is important for the visual of the car for the rear wheels to be visible from a frontal view. Other than that, it’s awesome.
Keith, how on earth did you obtain the pictures the moment they got out? I’ve been regularly (weekly or more often) googling any kind of news on that since the first ones appeared.
Anyways, EASILY, the best looking single-seater car out there, and much better looking than the current crop of F1 cars.
On a side note, a piece of trivia that those images evoke. For anybody who didn’t know Ferrari wanted to compete in IndyCar and designed an IndyFerrari – Ferrari 637 – back in 1986:
Woah! That’s surprising! Thanks for the correction :)
I used IndyCar’s official page for info, but failed to read down to the point where they add that Indy quali is indeed awarded the same way a reagular race is:
http://www.indycar.com/Fan-Info/INDYCAR-101/Points-SystemSo, there you go – quali is sure important in that particular aspect.
@piyush
The pole position is not so important. A good starting position is. You get a championship point for a pole position though. There’s more:
Pole Award: 1 point
Leading At Least One Lap: 1 point
Most Laps Led: 2 pointsIt’s certainly favourable to start from the front row, it’s also safer in terms of possible crashes, especially if there’s a gentlemen’s agreement among the top-3 to respect each other’s positions into the first corner.
Am watching Fist Friday session at Indianapolis and this comment made my day:
“Alonso at Indy “Something is ahh wrong with the car…it feels fast, no? What do you see on the telemetry. Is everything ok? It feels good…this cannot be…””
:):):):)
