What a boring race

I think it is hard to judge after one race to be honest.

The Bahrain GP is notoriously crap, and a terrible place to start a season. They really shouldn't be racing there at all.

If the Australian GP is a bore, then we have problems. But I expect a much more exciting race.

Bahrain in 2004-2009 were all poor races, so by comparison - we are pretty much the same. Everyone just expected some sort of magicly fantastic race, but this will never happen until they reduce some downforce and decrease the braking potential of the cars.

I'm glad Bahrian is out of the way, and now the season can start in Melbourne as it should have done in the first place!

My 2 cents.

1. The overtaking problem was poured in concrete when the FIA allowed the Brawn double diffuser last year and it was set in concrete when they didn't ban it for this year.

2. No one is talking about quali. This race we only saw 4 out 10 cars do two stints in Q3. I for one don't think it will be too long before we see cars not even coming out in Q3 if they don't feel they can do well. Better to sit in the pits not turn a wheel then pick your preferred tyre for the race. Another great rule decision which degrades the sport of F1!

3. To those that think refueling will be back this year, keep dreaming. To get it back in it will need the agreements of ALL the teams which just won't happen.

4. Didn't F1 bring back refueling many years ago to make the sport more interesting?

5. It was depressing to hear many drivers post race say how easy the race was on the body because they weren't pushing 100% for pretty much the whole race. :confused:

6. What happens when we have a saftey car because of a 1st corner incident. All the top teams (read top 10) on the soft tyres will come in and change to hard and then complete the race with no more stops. Geez, can't wait for that one!

7. Pray for rain!

8. Pray for more rain!

Answer: Short term, the tyres must be shockers to use, thus forcing the teams to employ strategy.

The biggest problem is that every team ran the same strategy. If we had one trye that was quicker than the other one to the extent that a 2-stop strategy would work for some teams then it would have spiced things up. We would get the 2-stoppers catching the 1-stoppers towards the end of the race, making for a grandstand finish.

But Bahrain is a boring track and I feel almost all the drivers were very conservative in their approach. Button said he should have pushed the tyres more in the first stint.

The back markers were excitng to watch, the new fuel regs stink. Keep the large tanks as madatory, but let the teams put in fuel when they want, during the race. They can run a full tank they can run half a tank. They were all slow and looking after tires, no fun, no speed no one pushing on qualifying laps like Lewis did in Monza last year, lets see people push and make mistakes.

Whether the track contributed to the lack of overtaking I can't say, but that new middle section looks totally pointless, and made the track ridiculously long.

Bridgestone (and whoever takes over from them) should to be forced to produce at least three different compounds that are substantially different, and teams given free reign on how many they use. From what I could see there appeared to be b*gger all difference between the hard and soft compounds, except for about the first five laps on a soft set.

Mind you, my favourite option for improving the racing was suggested a while back (I forget who posted it - sorry)

1. Get rid of all the aero regs
2. Remove all technical restrictions except traction control.
3. When the teams arrive at the circuit, each car is allocated six sets of tyres and 250 litres of fuel for the entire weekend, and told to go and race.

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Originally Posted by truefan72

I can;t recall a race in recent memory that was as dull as this race was. yeah,sector 2 is not ideal, but honestly if cars were lighter and faster, you would have seen some overtaking here.

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YOu must be suffering amnesia

The European GPs @ Valencia

Last year's Singapore GP

On a side issue, can I request that the F1 forum is moved from the 'Racing' sections, as I feel that this is being unduly optimistic?

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Originally Posted by Bezza

Bahrain in 2004-2009 were all poor races.

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2005- PDLR was driver of the day with his crazy overtaking moves

2006 - Schumi and Alonso battled hard for over 2/3 of the race

2009 - Button made up for a poor start with a stonking pass on Hamilton who had the advantage of KERS

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Originally Posted by wedge

2005- PDLR was driver of the day with his crazy overtaking moves

2006 - Schumi and Alonso battled hard for over 2/3 of the race

2009 - Button made up for a poor start with a stonking pass on Hamilton who had the advantage of KERS

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Yes but one pass doesn't make a race and neither does one battle.

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I've never understood why in recent years some F1 fans cream themselves over 1 overtake in an otherwise boring race :mark:

Ah, Dijon 1979.

If that happened today the FIA would have race bans for dangerous driving slapped on both Arnoux and Gilles for that. Having said that they'd both have been forced to change to a different compound of tyre at some point during the race so their afternoons may have had different trajectories from there and might not even have met on the track.

And it would all have been academic at the end as the FIA would have excluded the Renault for having a turbo and the Ferrari for having too many cylinders, and both for having Michelin tyres. Both teams would then have been ordered to turn up at the next race running the 1967-spec rev-limited Cosworth DFVs used by the rest of the field or face having their V6 and flat-12 "equalised" by the FIA.