All they had to do is look at the cars from earlier years. Narrower front and rear wings, narrower tires. Throw in ground effects on a smaller car and you can get more overtakes. A huge fucking car with huge fucking wings and huge fucking tires doesn’t make a good car for passing, and I wonder about the people that run F1 that can’t grasp that. Nobody gives a fuck how fast you’re lapping the track. The faster your lap times, the harder it is to pass anyway.The biggest disappointment this year is that the new rules and regs categorically haven't worked, however much anyone tries to spin it.
If Merc hadn't shat the bed, the running order is almost exactly the same as last year, with Ferrari making a bit of an improvement which has nothing to do with the new regs and simply to do with their long term dev strategy. We have less overtakes too than previous seasons. I just can't see the positives.
As I say the only difference is that Mercs dev team got too big for their boots and too used to using computer simulations and shat their bed on a concept that should never have existed.
Looks like they played Car Curling at Daytona this afternoon.
Is it safety regs that demand a bigger heavier car? Why else would they make them so damn big?
Ending was pretty solid tho. George big brained strategy defeating Lewis lolFirst on-track pass they show is on lap 10. Ugh. Great track, but not for this car. You need a smaller car with less speed to make for a good race here.
Mercedes learned nothing from Abu Dhabi.Ending was pretty solid tho. George big brained strategy defeating Lewis lol
I think it's painfully clear they do not care given everything that's happened in the past year. As a newer fan I can't tell if this is new or if it's always been this way.
Also the penalty for going over the cost cap is a fine lol like that makes a difference. The penalty for going over needs to be less development time/point penalties/something that the team would actually care aboutF1 is definitely becoming WWE. You can't let a team pretend it broke the cost cap because it spent too much on sandwiches and expect your sport to be taken seriously. Do you think they know this or just have their heads so far up their own asses they can't see it?
Also the penalty for going over the cost cap is a fine lol like that makes a difference. The penalty for going over needs to be less development time/point penalties/something that the team would actually care about