sasquatch wrote:
If a Minardi hit a faster car, that would be interesting.
Minardi could make some money by have both cars driving side by side. Then Paul Stodard could do some revenue rasing from other teams to let them past.
I believe there are lot of differences between the way you look at motorsport and the way I look at motorsport and this makes me also believe that we could never reach an agreement on many things.
Lafora wrote:
slicks, no aero, no carbon brakes.
Slicks would change nothing (except for the fact that the cars would look better), steel brakes even less (modern pad materials for steel discs have braking capability even higher than c/c brakes, carbon disc are used only because they’re lighter) and about the “no aero” I already expressed my opinion in the thread about the elimination of wings.
Lafora wrote:
increase downforce back to early 90s level w/ slicks.
Actually current cars, in spite of the limitations, do generate more downforce than the cars of early 90s.
Moreover, a few months ago I’ve heard, , from an engineer who worked in F1 in those years and still has contacts in that world, that the aero disturbance while following another car was present also in 90s and according to some studies nowadays isn’t certainly worse than it was at the time.
Anyway for everybody suggesting ways to “improve the spectacle”, my advice is the same advice some people gave in the “I hate Nascar” thread :
F1 isn’t the only motorsport event in the world, there are plenty of motorsport series already incorporating what you want to see in F1, watch these (or also these) and stop complaining asking F1 to become F.Ford on steroids, these complains led to the senseless rules changes of the recent years.
If you don’t like rugby because players use the hands, don’t ask to change rugby rules, watch football.
In fact, in spite of what people with rose tinted glass love to say about the past, overtakes were never the characteristic of F1 and nowadays things aren’t lot worse than in the past were.
Obviously, when people show you some footage of the years gone they show you the best action, but you have to remember that Villeneuve vs Arnoux in Dijon ’79 was a rarity, the norm was a lot different. There’s a reason if people remember always the same moments from the past.
