F1 rule change 2017

about time because they were a bit ridiculous, mercedes were miles ahead but such were the rules, teams took 2 years couldnt catch up & honda have been screwed over because they for some strange reason had to follow 2nd yr rules in there 1st year
 
The whole grid penalty thing was so easy to solve I can't believe it never came up. All they had to do was award a nominal time per slot on the grid, lets say 1 second, then when a car gets a grid drop of 10 places but can only take 3 of them before it's at the back of the grid the car starts from the pit lane and is held for 7 seconds after the last car has passed. (Alternatives are stopping the car for 7 seconds at the first pit stop or adding 7 seconds to the cars time at the end of the race). That way the penalty is done and dusted in a single race.
 
This IS good news, but it smacks of Mateschitz appeasement doesn't it...

That aside, F1 wanted to entice new engine manufacturers, only one has so far been brave enough and was then penalised and in turn ridiculed for doing so due to their stupidly restrictive development.

Arse about face once more FIA. What was wrong with using the logical approach of three years open development followed by a considered, staged development restriction programme from 2017 at which point the (rather brilliant) technology would have been developed to a point of relative equality and actual benefit to the broader industry (which was of course your publicised justification for implementation, which of course also had the added bonus of assisting in bringing three small teams to their knees and killing at least one), good one!

So its taken:
  • Utter domination by one engine manufacturer for 2 (soon to be 3) years;
  • 90% of your audience (income stream) falling asleep;
  • Complete and utter fallout of two teams and their engine parter;
  • Continued threats from said teams of leaving the sport;
  • Ridicule of one of the largest manufacturers in the world (the only manufacturer to nibble the vegetable sushi) and;
  • Near collapse of most of the mid-back of grid teams, to make the change.
Well credit where credits due, you ****ing suck!




Ahh' crap sorry I used 'logic' and 'FIA' in the same sentence.
 
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I agree grizzly but 1 thing is f1 allover they would rather wait until f1 is nearly on brink til they finally make changes for the better. Take 2009 for example it wasn't til 3 constructors pull out tgey finally did some cost cutting

But I hope f1 were taking some notice of the formula e earlier because that was brilliant & what f1 should be because we di grassi buemi & bird all pushing like mad even better buemi could be up sam bird rear end for 7 laps no sign of any "dirty air" his tyres never gave up once, in f1 at the moment you sometimes cant finish a qualifying lap as by sector 3 tyres have gone off
 
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and this year we have extra super softy, wafty rubber which they are describing as a Q tyre. Let's see how well they do in the race.
 
Kimi tested the halo today:

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Don't think it looks too bad to be honest but must hurt driver visibility.

EDIT: Ok from this angle it's hideous:
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I'd settle for nothing.

I can't for the life of me see how that's going to be effective. It wouldn't have helped in the Bianchi accident and from the look of it, it wouldn't have helped Massa either so given that that is two of the most serious of recent head injuries and it would have been next to useless in both then what's it for?
 
Why not leave it the way it is, F1 is near enough the Kings of knee-jerk reactions.

This sport as much as I love it...is getting very hard to defend these days.
 
May or may not have helped Justin Wilson either, all depends on the trajectory of the debris. Really big overreaction to create such an imposing "solution" that probably has less than a 50% chance of helping in the case of bizarre accidents like that.
 
Has the FIA forgotten that safety is about minimising risk in everyday situations; not elimination of exceptional circumstances / accidents.

You can't stop drivers being injured.
 
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