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Awesome indeed ;) . The last lap though? none probably. Reutemann would probably have been by then well clear of Laffite having flicked the switch early in the race to get past Gilles, with Watson,...

BBC Sport - Jacques Villeneuve tired of Formula 1 'borefest'

Finally - someone within the sport having the guts to criticise DRS - Jacques Villeneuve has gone up in my estimation here. Apologies...

Really enjoyed watching this today. Different looking cars, no DRS or commentators tossing themselves blind over tyres that deliberately fall apart after a few laps, it really beat the F1 hands down....

Definitely a nice surprise this - will be good for Cosworth (who I hope stick around) to have some competition in the customer engine stakes like back when Judd and Ilmor (pre-Mercedes) were...

It's NEVER added anything to the sport to be honest. The last time tyres were interesting was2001-2006.

Still not a fan. The slipstream is/was a naturally occurring phenomenon and wasn't restricted to a computer-controlled FIA-defined zone so there can be no comparison here.

I actually think the...

I must admit I've probably digested less F1 news the past year as my interest level has begun to wane somewhat with these new rules, so did a quick Google search to refresh my memory.
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I'd normally be elated that we weren't going there, although obviously the reasons themselves behind the cancellation mean I'm not.

Still, the loss of the Bahrain GP is no loss to F1 and neither...

While yes it's true in a way that it's not Pirelli's fault, it's the fault of the rules with the control tyres, at the end of the day Pirelli knew the rules and the "brief" when they signed up, so...

...and hopefully turned off for good after the session. If not before.

How this idea ever came to pass is beyond me. They are usually passed off as one of Bernie/Max's "over the top" ideas as a...

What others have said - the development race through the season is half the fun.

I can see this rule coming in though in the near future - from the same prats that brought us frozen engines and...

This story has been broken by autosport.com before.

On the 1st April, 2000 (might be a couple of years out with the year, but meh)

Only now to be honest it's gone so far beyond a joke it's not...

Liking the huge numbers, they'll probably disappear when some sponsors show up though :(

Yeah definitely.

That airbox used by the Tyrrell-descended Mercedes team last year is the sort of thing that they might have tried in today's heavily-restricted F1, so maybe a bit of the old DNA...

I see your point, although feeder series, as well as preparing drivers for the big time, could also allow engine and chassis (or aero-kit) builders to get a foothold in.

Having said that even in...

But it's better, when it's over-subscribed, to let competition on the track weed out those who aren't good enough, than the alternative.

"The alternative" being, of course, the un-transparent FIA...

I think the best nod to Lotus' heritage (this applies to "Lotus"-Renault and Team Lotus) would be to find a sponsor, any sponsor, willing to pay large money to paint the car in their colours. Team...

That is a very good point, and to be honest I've resigned myself in recent years to the fact that F1 is clearly setting it's stall out as entertainment first and a sport second (and technology...

On the cost argument, teams will basically spend what they can anyway.

And coming up with a clever idea costs nothing. It's all the multiple aero iterations required to develop under the current...

I was and am the same actually but with Italians rather than French (names, not necessarily nationality - e.g Regazzoni), and they are getting a bit thin on the ground too. I'm working on a computer...

Drivers used to have to drive around Monaco one-handed in the days of manual transmissions, none complained they were too busy in the cockpit then.

If the more hectic cockpit increases the...

All penis jokes aside, when it comes to the DW I'm firmly in the camp that I'd have no problem with it competing against more conventional cars in a more open rules package that allows both to...

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Winter testing - I mean the proper stuff where teams would run their own programs, all winter long, giving news and lap times to discuss during the off season.

The...

Speaking of Minardi - another small thing I've missed since the end of 1992 is their black and yellow colour scheme (bar a brief resurgence in 1997, but Mild Seven logos and too much white space kind...