F1 moments you feel have tainted the sport the most!

I concur with philipbain assessment of the 2005 US GP, as being a low mark for F1.

The sight of 6 cars trundling around the massive Indy complex will take some time to get over. That it happened at the home of such classic duels as Clark-Jones, Unser-Fittipaldi, or Villeneuve-Goodyear, makes it all the more absurd. The technical and legal reasons why the Michelin shod teams did not race are well argued elsewhere. It is difficult to believe that NASCAR in a similar situation, would not have found and dictated a solution which would have allowed a real race. Grumblings from some teams would have been ignored and the interest of spectators would have been the primary concern. Of course NASCAR ia a 1 or 2 country series and is not beholden to the FIA, so the situation would be much simpler.

Still, F1 management, or the sponsors claim to want to break into the US market, 330 m people obviously provide a motive. They want to do it on their terms, i.e. F1 is the pinnacle of motor sport in terms of public interest. USA is probably the only country where the best drivers engineers and sponsorship gravitate to sedan racing, rather than open wheel series. About this same time, Michael Schumacher stood in line at a racing circuit, waiting for a pay ride in a stocker, totally unrecognized by everyone. The entire current F1 grid could easily occupy a Holiday Inn lobby unrecognized.

Perhaps the new Texas venue will prove successful for F1 in USA, I don't expect the NJ circuit ever will. The chances of a successful niche market for F1 were greatly set back by the 2005 fiasco.

I have to agree about US GP in 2005. It was a farce in which Ferrari, Jordan & Minardi were all as much to blame as the Michelen teams.

Ultimately something could have been done by the teams and FIA and as it was it set F1 back 5 years in the USA

To those who nominated the Schumacher drop kicking Hill at Adelaide? Today is the 19th year anniversary! :o :smash:

The 2005 USGP was the lowest point if you ask me. It was a farcical error made by Michellin and then everyone tried to have a go at the Bridgestone shod cars for not giving in to their whining. Poor form and a poor weekend for F1 :(

Honourable mention for The Shoe for his move on JV and to Senna for taking out Prost in Japan. (People that mentioned The Shoe in OZ 94 is a no no, Hill drove into The Shoe, not the other way around).

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The 2005 USGP was the lowest point if you ask me. It was a farcical error made by Michellin and then everyone tried to have a go at the Bridgestone shod cars for not giving in to their whining. Poor form and a poor weekend for F1 :(

Honourable mention for The Shoe for his move on JV and to Senna for taking out Prost in Japan. (People that mentioned The Shoe in OZ 94 is a no no, Hill drove into The Shoe, not the other way around).

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I'll never agree that Hill was at fault in '94, never. It was a very low point for Schumacher and tainted his first title IMO.


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Ron Dennis - nothing was ever his or McLaren's fault, his constant whining was more than I could bare.

The biggest problem F1 has always had is predictability. It's boring when you know who will win and so viewing drops like a stone. It happened with Schumacher and it's happening now with Vettel.

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The biggest problem F1 has always had is predictability. It's boring when you know who will win and so viewing drops like a stone. It happened with Schumacher and it's happening now with Vettel.

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I'm too young to remember (wasn't hatched until the mid-late 60's), but was there the same feeling in the fifties when Ascari in 52-3 and Fangio were dominating?

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The biggest problem F1 has always had is predictability. It's boring when you know who will win and so viewing drops like a stone. It happened with Schumacher and it's happening now with Vettel.

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I'm too young to remember (wasn't hatched until the mid-late 60's), but was there the same feeling in the fifties when Ascari in 52-3 and Fangio were dominating?

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I very much doubt it as the sport then didn't have a fraction of the following it does now and barely touched the scales of popular opinion. Sport does become boring when it becomes predictable whatever the discipline.

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The biggest problem F1 has always had is predictability. It's boring when you know who will win and so viewing drops like a stone. It happened with Schumacher and it's happening now with Vettel.

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I'm too young to remember (wasn't hatched until the mid-late 60's), but was there the same feeling in the fifties when Ascari in 52-3 and Fangio were dominating?

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I don't think so. It wasn't televised, so apart from a few radio broadcasts it was a case of go to the race meeting (affordable then) or read about it in one of the magazines. That's why the reporting was so much better and general mags like The Motor and Autocar would carry race reports. There were fewer races which made each one kind of special. And sports car racing had a far higher profile. With fewer GPs there was more interest in national racing.