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Good old days where people dying was a part of the sport.
By the 80s, F1 safety had improved significantly and the fatal accident rate was on par with today’s rate. The 50s and 60s held significantly higher danger to participants.
F1, from an excitement point of view, suffers from the same issue as European footie: unequal budgets. Every team is only really judged against how much resource they brought. Witness Man Utd, everyone is saying what an awful season they're having. They're in 5th place. Watch an F1 race and it's the same, everyone is on a money ladder and are doing well when they're up a little based on where you expect from their bu…
There are now quite reasonable budget caps ($145m last year, $140m this year, $135m next year). This is about a third to a quarter of what Ferrari, Mercedes, and Red Bull were spending per year prior to the cap. Also, freezing the power unit formula until 2025 has evened the playing field on that front. All of the PUs have as close of parity as they have in the turbo hybrid era. Lastly, the new 2022 car regs have the…
I think this is speculation, and we wont actually know if this is true until tomorrow & Sunday.
F1 weekends are frequently extremely boring. They are 3 day long events where you're waiting for moments that last seconds and more than often don't occur. Confirmation bias tends to make people think F1 is an exciting thing, and the owners of the sport would like to keep it that way.
I spent the last decade shooting a photo project on this very thing, that F1 is actually pretty mundane, visiting 25 races in the process: https://www.formulanon.com/ # I'd followed the sport for 20 years prior to that, so had run out of enthusiasm for it, the project kept that interest going for a little while longer.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
By the 80s, F1 safety had improved significantly and the fatal accident rate was on par with today’s rate. The 50s and 60s held significantly higher danger to participants.
Yes. But the parent comment mentioned rallying. Group B was during 80s.
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80's and 90's was the golden age of many sports like boxing, rallying and football (the international one)
Good old days where people dying was a part of the sport.
― Ernest Hemingway
What I'd like to see is a race with more variation, and surprises. The only rules should be something like:
- The car must cost less than, say, $1 million in material
- The plans must be opened to competitors after some time
- You have to take care of the drivers' safety
And then just get from A to B or do the laps by any means necessary. The race courses would change regularly, so you would have to build new cars. One year they would be very curvy, next year they are short and straight so you need better acceleration, another year there are short stretches of rallye, and so on. I think that would lead to some very interesting cars. And it would shift the focus away from the shaving milliseconds aspect that I find so boring with modern sports, back to the exploratory feeling I imagine motorsports used to have.
I find Formula 1 boring. I think it is overreglemented. All cars are basically the same, and at the same time there are huge differences between the cars, if that makes sense. Only a few teams have a chance of winning. But the time differences are often fractions of a second. And the teams are nowadays mostly unlikable. What I'd like to see is a race with more variation, and surprises. The only rules should be someth…
- no weapons - no deliberate damage of opponents
or maybe even without those. We might get real life version of wipeout.
My favourite parts of F1 are the parts which don't occur anywhere near a track. The ingenious rule bending which goes into trying to get an advantage and the politics when people try to get it banned. Things like the f-duct where a driver used the back of their hand to close a passage which reduced the areodynamics drag of the rear wing because movable surfaces aren't allowed; the two pedal system which allowed diffe…
The best part about the fan example [1] is that they claimed it was there for "cooling" purposes.
What about the environmental impact?