Mogster wrote: ↑09 Mar 2024, 21:08
DChemTech wrote: ↑09 Mar 2024, 20:43
fourmula1 wrote: ↑09 Mar 2024, 20:38
Free to your opinion @dcchemtech as are we that this is more boring than other eras of domination.
Happy to see Oli do well.
Mcl so slow with drs, but Piastri couldn’t force Ham into a mistake, good experience.
Hope Tsu learns from those exchanges, but he probably played it right as Magnussen would have made contact.
Max and Perez just cruising.
Don’t get pulled back into the close quali or track is different narrative, no one is close.
Of course you are, boredom is subjective. Yet it is always interesting to see an MB fan (like the person I originally responded to) bicker and moan how this season is unwatchable, while the same applies for many others in the period 2014-2020, when this person seemed perfectly happy. If you are happy when your team dominates, don't complain its a disaster for the sport in general when another does.
You can’t just lump those years into 7 years of total domination. 2016 we had one of the greatest teammate battles for the WDC, 2017 and 2018 Ferrari had a fast car and led the WDC till mid season before imploding. 2019 Ferrari were very capable of winning on power tracks, RBR at a few venues also.
Anyway… Behind RBR there were some decent individual battles today, enough to hold my interest.
I'm not. Neither are RB dominating for 7 years.. this is year 3 of the current reg set. If we look at 2014, 15, 16, MB hardly had competition. There was the occasional snatch (sometimes because ham and ros hit eachother), and due to the choice of drivers there was more intrateam battle, but for inter-team, things were rather poor. In that respect, 2022 was better than 2014 until a TD ruined the season, and 2023/24 (so far... just 2 races in) remnisc of 15/16, minus the teammate battle, but with a closer rest-of-the-field. And still, long season ahead, maybe things get closer to the front, maybe there will be the occasional crazy race. And maybe, like 17/18, 2025 will be somewhat more exciting. We will see.