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Rate the Race; Significant thoughts?
Topic Started: Mar 30 2014, 04:09 PM (591 Views)
John
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Rate the race.... well it was ugly cars that sound terrible trying to save fuel rather than race flat out.... with the podium decided after 3 corners....

But Seb made it to the end so not a complete bust, even pretended he could actually catch Rosberg (bless him for that)... 6ish
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Iberiafromoz
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F1 2014 rules predominantly "car specs" has been generated to attract car manufacturers (ERS, fuel eco, brake by wire, ...) and to reverse the order of dominance. The later has worked out so far but for how long? Although being a car manufacturer, the current economic uncertainty will counteract the intended effect resulting solely in an artificial spectacle driven by the power of money and by the same token fooling us the fans. To me, "The great circus" has become this year "The great farce"

Rate the race in Malaysia? 4/10
(Up to the 90's I would have given an average of 8 or 9/10).
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Norbert
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It's hardly a 'race' when:

The cars have 8 speed boxes, but all the ratios are set before the beginning of the season, so half the time they'll only use six or possibly seven of them.

The teams can use 15000rpm, but the drivers change at 12000 most of the time to save fuel.

The cars can burn 100kg fuel an hour, but only carry 100kg, so in theory are running at about 60% for most of the race.

The winning team's drivers were never really pushed, and still used less fuel than just about everybody else.

Engines have to last so long that after only a small portion of the race, drivers are told to 'save the engine'.

If you aren't faster than someone else, press a button to dump all the drag on your wing, and fly past the opposition.

I have to say I actually quite like the sound of the new engines, although they could probably do with being a lot louder - which won't happen when you are recovering as much of the energy in the exhaust as you can.

How many tens of millions of pounds, if not hundreds, will Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari have spent on the new units? How many homologated V8 or V10 engines plus gearboxes would that have bought? F1 is becoming endurance racing, the only difference is that the endurance test moves on from track to track to cover the mileage. I don't give a toss about road relevance. What is road relevant about an F1 grid? Nothing. Where in the world do you find one way streets with runoff areas, a pit lane and marshals where you can drive flat out? How many street cars have 1600cc V6 turbo engines? How many even have inside mounted header pipes on a V engine? They should have taken the V6 budget and built a shedload of the old style engines and gearboxes, and used one per race. Open fuel limit, open tyre choice. Race the whole sodding way, not spend most of it saving fuel and the engine.

The only saving grace is Team Smug not winning yet, but I am sure they will do better as the season progresses. Right now, it looks like last year, just a different colour team with the advantage.

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