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29th December 2015, 10:02 #1
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I have noticed that ever since the introduction of new regs in 2014 we haven't had significant in-season improvements. Perhaps related to the 'frozen' engine regs. Everyone expected McLaren to move forward during 2015, but it never happened.
The main things I can remember is that during 2014 Williams became slightly better, so that they were pretty consistently second fastest at the end of the season. And during 2015 F.I. improved, but that's because they started the season with an outdated untested old car and introduced a completely new B-car mid-season. Yeah... and Sauber fell back a bit during 2015 also.
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31st December 2015, 13:01 #2
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Which makes me suspect that all the engine reliability requirements have made racing worse these days. To be interesting, racing must be unpredictable. To interesting, the fans must know there is a chance of an engine failure for any of the leading cars up to the final laps. Remember the races from 80s and 90s where something like a quarter of cars, including the leading cars, retired due to technical failures? That was very good racing, but today we never see this happen because nobody is pushing their drivetrain to the limits because the engine must function for five races.
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31st December 2015, 13:54 #3
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2nd January 2016, 14:32 #4
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YES. Formula 1 is business and an entertainment, like most other sports. You cannot ignore the fact that running the machinery at the very limit of the possible has usually been the part of ALL top level motorsports. After the decade of engine reliability regulations in F1, we have been denied trhe treat of seeing acing that's on the limits of available technology. Neither in 2010 nor right now, we can enjoy seeing teams and factories pushing engine tech to its limits just to win another race. My reference point is seasons like 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, etc. There was very good racing, engine competition and so on (I skipped 1994, because that was the most controversial season after the championship-deciding Prost-Senna crashes).
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