Bernies Christmas card. Bernie sends out Christmas cards with a cartoon of Max whipping the F1 team members. http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/081222090214.shtml Got to love the wee man.
Face it if an F1 driver himself says its pretty boring then somethings wrong, it could be coming from tail end charlie himself, usually drivers play the PC card for the most part he has the balls to say what he thinks, wish more drivers did that and didnt play the PC card but tbh i turned off plenty of races this year simply because they were boring as all hell, id rather be watching the superbikes & motogp tbh , more passing takes place in one race than in half an f1 season
I completely disagree, I think this season has been the most exciting for a very long time. Sure there were some pretty boring races (Valencia!) but there were several absolute classics this year (Silverstone, Spa and Interlagos to name but 3). I have to say I thought Motogp was pretty dull after Laguna Seca. Which is a shame because Rossi is just going to dominate even more with a control tyre next year!
They say that about rossi every year, and it doesn't always happen, if anything it'll be closer this season up front once things settle down a bit But really a few good f1 races out of how many? Thats a pretty sad statistic to me (compared to say world superbikes where just on every race has you on the edge of your seat) i honestly hope 2009 is better i really do if it stays so stale i honestly see me not watching it much anymore This year i got more excitement and entertainment out of the qualifying sessions!
I found all of the races in the latter-half of the calendar unmissable, Valencia was the most boring by far, but it's not always true that more overtaking=more excitement... I've been watching BTCC for a long time, and while that has the most overtaking of any touring cars I've seen, it can be dull as dishwater. Either way, I reckon this year will be even more exciting, the first half should be pretty special, as with all these changes made between seasons, it's anyone's game in the early start of the season for refinements after the first race or two.
I think that's spot on. I suppose it depends which aspects of motorsport interest you, and as you say there are plenty of touring car series for "pure overtaking". There were far more "good" races this year, just those three sprung to mind as classics that will be looked back on in the future. I also don't understand how you can be on the verge of not watching F1 anymore when it's been getting steadily better since Ferrari domination, with the last two seasons being great!
Don't get me wrong, I think more overtaking will improve the sport quite a lot, but there's more to be done.
Alright who tagged the thread' ferrari'?! You've got to look at why the last two seasons (overall) have been great. Last race deciders? Check. Politics? Check. etc. There were some great moments and a lot of bad ones, depends how you look at it all. Anybody got a link to the end of year ITV highlights (the last 3 mins of ITV F1 coverage basically)?
I grew up watching the australian v8 series, where there is over taking a plenty, the cars are usually close and its not uncommon to see 4 or 5 cars to try and take the corner at once, its pretty epic racing, its like dodgem cars at 200+ km/h Im not saying f1 is ****, i guess im just conditioned to a different kind of exciting where things are much closer run and you can never guess who is going to win or be up the top because things are just so close on track I guess i hate the predictability that i see in f1 and want to see that change, i don't really like that your pretty much going to have the same 4 people who are going to pretty much win the races and only really 2 winning teams (mclaren and ferrari) along with really processional racing and limited overtaking, that just takes the excitment out of the racing for me, and the stupid stewards decisions etc just really mess it up even further
Well yes, the main reasons they have been good haven't been an abundance of overtaking, and I'm certainly not trying to suggest that more overtaking is a bad thing! But I also think that trying to "force" overtaking into the sport is the wrong way to improve the spectacle. I would also make the point that there is probably far more going on than is shown on TV footage, I was at the Belgian Grand Prix this year stood at the straight before Les Combes and there were an awful lot of moves into that corner by the midfield drivers!
Well there are people out there that record and post online every overtake that happens in a race. If you don't include passes such as pitstops, the opening lap and any cars going off track, the real number of 'racing overtakes' is stupidly low in some races. Although looking at some data now the average seems pretty consistent. Code: 1997-2008 Grand Prix 2008 '07 '06 '05 '04 '03 '02 '01 '00 '99 Total Avg. =================================================================== 1. Australia 11 11 23 5 9 38 19 18 13 41 198 18.4 2. Malaysia 11 12 16 7 20 16 27 47 31 11 199 19.9 3. Bahrain 14 20 39 14 15 -- -- -- -- -- 102 20.4 4. Spain 3 5 7 3 7 19 10 10 4 4 120 10.0 5. Turkey 11 15 25 30 -- -- -- -- -- -- 81 20.2 6. Monaco 21 2 19 10 5 0 9 6 2 5 112 9.3 7. Canada 17 21 9 12 19 8 15 13 14 14 174 14.5 8. France 9 6 5 5 14 12 3 8 17 43 146 12.2 9. Britain 44 16 6 8 11 49 47 7 8 13 260 21.7 10. Germany 25 -- 21 9 29 14 25 15 42 16 220 20.0 11. Hungary 3 5 32 12 6 25 1 5 10 7 145 12.1 12. Europe-3 4 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 4 4.0 13. Belgium 29 15 -- 28 22 -- 5 8 16 15 200 20.0 14. Italy 33 10 12 14 38 5 20 19 18 14 215 17.9 15. Singapore 12 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 12 12.0 16. Japan-2 26 46 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 72 36.0 17. China 9 40 51 20 17 -- -- -- -- -- 137 27.4 18. Brazil 21 20 18 6 41 48 30 26 22 27 295 29.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Austria -- -- -- -- -- 20 18 17 20 30 155 22.1 -- Europe-2 -- 18 13 24 11 8 27 7 28 33 186 16.9 -- Japan-1 -- -- 13 12 21 20 2 17 8 4 125 12.5 -- San Marino -- -- 4 7 6 4 6 13 7 11 71 7.1 -- USA -- 14 5 0 16 36 21 21 51 - 164 20.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals 303 276 318 226 307 322 285 257 311 288 3465 16.8 No. GP 18 17 18 19 18 16 17 17 17 16 206 Race Avg. 17 16 18 12 17 20 17 15 18 18 17 Credit to Brian Lawrence
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wow, the reason why I always look forward to watching the Brazillian grand prix has been quantified! those figures pretty much span the time I've been watching "properley" too
¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! According to La Stampa and the Beeb, it might not be Dave to the rescue. It could be a bloke called Slim: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7801669.stm If true, good news for the team, bad news for Rubens.
It seems to be spreading across the net that Slim has made the purchase, I was really hoping for a Prodrive team. I guess with Slim's backing the team has more chance of survival at least.
That almost feels like a shame, but a Prodrive team wouldn't really be on the same financial platform as a team run by this new chap - I'll warrant that Prodrive will be tightening their belts a little now that Subaru have given up WRC...