2009 rules and their failure to produce better racing

I have to agree with truefan72!

2009 is a failure for the following reasons:

1) KERS - A system which completely managed to compromise cost-cutting measures. The whole thing is a sham and an embarrassment to F1. This year was supposed to showcase the drives' talent, but what we have seen is the complete opposite. KERS cars have just made F1 more artificial. I've never enjoyed watching an inferior car scuttle the chances of another driver.

2) Double Decker Diffusers - What happened to lowering the amount of downforce so the cars can follow one another? The rules misguided 7 teams on the grid and now they're playing catch-up, which is not only unfair, but unjust. I hate the fact that cars hit that wall of turbulence and turns into another procession.

3) Lack of Testing - Grand prix weekends have now turned into test sessions. Seems silly that teams can't make adjustments to make for more exciting racing.

Why do you think regulations are at fault if there is no good racing at the moment? Other than testing restrictions, I don't get it. Even if you took all the wings, diffusers away so that cars would be able to overtake each other at any corner, it wouldn't make any difference. The Brawn of Barrichello would have passed every car in Turkey and then the snoozefest would have continued. The problem is not the regulations themselves, it's Brawn. In the past it was Mclaren 1988 etc., Williams 1992.... Ferrari with Schumi etc. When somebody has a superior car, the regulations are not going to help. It doesn't matter if you can follow somebody bit closer if the fastest car starts on pole and disappears into the distance from there.

Honestly sometimes it is good to see a dominant winner like Mansell and Michael, even better of you support the guy. I am enjoying the season tremendously and will love to see Jenson winning the championship convincingly.

I think the racing has been good, but, I'm still tending to record the race and ffwd through the part between the final stops and the end of the race!

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Originally Posted by ioan

We got another rather boring race today with no real fight for the top position once they all got through the first lap.

I was thinking that we didn't have such a dull season since 2004, with 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 keeping us on the edge of the seat until the end this season we may all just take a break from F1 2/3rds into the championship.

IMO this is mostly due to the development restrictions in place in the very first year after big technical rule changes.

It's obvious that if someone got it right straight away the others don't really have the possibility to catch up anymore under the new regulations regarding testing, wind tunnel usage and CFD usage.

What's your opinion?

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I'd largely agree with this - the last few seasons have ended up being pretty exciting and this season despite all the rule changes it's starting to become very predictable much like the MS/Ferrari days - all that's changed is there's two different teams up the front.

The biggest problem is the testing ban as you have no chance of catching up as you say, so that Friday becomes a glorified test. I'm not a massive Hamilton fan but to see the world champion and someone with so much talent at the back of a field in a dog of a car that looks like it's doing its best to fire both drivers into the barriers and with no chance of it moving forward is not good for F1.

However, nobody expects Brawn to be at the front in 2010 too. They are winning this year because they were very smart in building their new car and thought of things the other teams did not.

The big teams will not allow this to continue into 2010.

DDD's.

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Originally Posted by ioan

What's your opinion?

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Hell has indeed frozen over :mark:

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

DDD's.

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This is where the FIA might have shot their rule changes dead.

I agree with ioan. After lap 9 I switched over to Supersport 2 and watched the South Africa vs Scotland 20/20 cricket match. It was far more entertaining than the F1. Watched the F1 highlights package later in the evening.