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Well, it's Monaco, so you know there will be a missed turn at Sainte Devote during the third session....

 

Bring back the rear tires from the 70's, now they were tires!

 

I'm kind of conflicted. I don't like the idea of "designed to fail" tires, but on the other hand, it is nice to see teams swap tires not just because they're obliged to at some point by the rules.

Really what I would like to see is slightly wider cars, wider rear tires, fewer restrictions on body design (just keep it safe), and a more open formula overall. Put spending caps in place so that garagistas can get a chance and have a single unified testing facility that all the teams can use under FIA scrutiny. Put more of the prize money into the hands of all the teams and out of FOM. Also, fewer of the cookie-cutter courses, lower ticket prices, and a more open broadcast option and internet streaming.

 

I know the essay was only about the tech regs, but I put in my opinion about getting it streamed on the internet anyway.

At least they asked if Bernie should stay. I feel that'll be a fun result for him to read.

 

It was working better than the other solutions. Now if they can apply the same kind of thinking to the car.:devil:

 

An in-car film (I'm guessing) from Graham Hill in 1970 - with a manual gearchange.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTw6BhFxYE"]F1 1970 Monaco - Graham Hill Onboard Lap - YouTube[/ame]

Interesting to see the circuit with a short tunnel, a high-speed waterside chicane with a barrier waiting to take your life, and no track kink round the swimming pool.

The driving looks fairly leisurely but apparently drivers used to end the race with a blister in the palm of their right hand from the 2,000+ gearchanges.

 

Maybe the victory laps Hamilton's been running after his recent 150 Mil award didn't set well with team owners. A horrible gut check if so... A fitting victory at home for Rosberg.

 

Some good racing in the middle there, Massa had some nice moves.

 

13" to 18" is a big jump. But 13" is ridiculous. At least go to 15" or 16".

Bigger wheels would allow bigger brakes made from less expensive stuff. Yes a bit more weight but cheaper. It would be a good cost saving rule.

 

Yes, well it wasn't Pirelli's idea to make tires that fall off the performance cliff in 9 laps, that was Bernie's idea......they just did what he asked.

 

I wish that F1 could do something to make the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place racing better. It seems that the person who leads the first lap is greater than 90% likely to win the race with little or no competition from the rest of the field. It's kind of sad when the best racing is for tenth place.

 

It should be really fast around right hand corners now! :biggrin5:

 

Rupert Murdoch taking on Bernie Ecclestone - it's wrinkly wrestling gone wild!

 

Allow me to condense.....

Nearly 90% of Formula 1 fans want the sport to be more competitive, according to a survey conducted by the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA).

More than 215,000 fans from 194 countries took part in the survey, which ran for two weeks following the Monaco Grand Prix.

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was the most popular driver, while 60% wanted refuelling to return.

GPDA chairman Alex Wurz said the most striking result was a lack of new fans.
"We know that refuelling is probably not the answer to increase the action on track," Wurz told BBC Sport, "because we have other data from the teams.
"But it is interesting that we have people who followed F1 for the first time in the 2000s, when there was refuelling, and they hark back to that era as the best - as all of us do for the times we first became interested in a sport - and there are no new fans to counter-balance their views."

F1's stakeholders have been considering reintroducing refuelling, which was banned at the end of 2009, but this is likely to be overturned at a key meeting on Wednesday because data proves it reduces the amount of on-track overtaking.

Other key findings of the survey were:
- After Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button were the next two most popular drivers
- Ferrari was the most popular team, followed by McLaren and Williams
- 32% of fans said the 2000s produced the best-looking cars, with the 1990s the next favoured era for aesthetics at 20%
- Ayrton Senna was voted the most popular driver ever, followed by Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost
- 88% said F1 needed to feature the best drivers in the world, but only 45% thought it did
- 74% said the rules should be relaxed to allow greater diversity of cars and technology and 73% said the sound of the engines was important
- 80% wanted more than one tyre maker
- 60% said in-race refuelling should be reintroduced
- 86% wanted the drivers to be more open and honest with the fans
- More than half of respondents were between 25 and 44 years old, with an average age of 37 and more than 75% had been following the sport for more than 10 years.
- Twitter was the number one social media outlet for F1, with Button the most followed driver among respondents, even though both Lewis Hamilton and Alonso have more followers overall

Wurz said the GPDA would now spend some time analysing the detail of the data before meeting to discuss the findings and the next steps at the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend on 24-26 July.

A total of 217,756 people took part across 194 countries, with the UK, France and the United States the top three respondent countries.

The respondents voted F1 websites as their number one source for fan information, with 55% picking that medium and only 50% television.

And more than 50% of respondents said they had stopped watching races live since the sport moved to pay television.

 

I find it interesting & watch. One has to pay close attention or you'll miss the action when & if it happens. If they'd have the drivers get out of the cars at pit stops & run around the cars 3 times it would improve the show. Better yet have the drivers change their own tires. Yep that's it!!! Bernie feel free to use my ideas.