I was just wondering how horse racing has managed to hold on all these years.
My head hurts let's try the kiss rule. Rule one it's a race you can pit for fuel and tyres ever lap if that the fastest way to finish the rase . Rule two no DRS passing someone should be hard if passing is easy the fastest car will almost always win on a wet track . Rule three if two driver's crash let them work it out racing for men ball sports are for kids . Rule number four have less rules rule five kimi is a joke and got blown away in the wet . Rule six I hate rules just make sure fans are safe and let's race how hard wad that I will add one more the front wing should half the trend width and only have one plane a one flap on any plane that's not more than 20 percent of front wwing width
Well, for fans of the good ole days, thankfully, McLaren has put the "no big deal" back into the concept of retirement.
Ouch! Very true, but still 'ouch!'.... I guess that's what we need to make it interesting again; More retirements! No spoilers, but Renault seem to be working on it too...... Cheers, Ian
Well, back in the "good old days", drivers had to race their car THEMSELVES without assistance, for a start. There wasn't telemetry back to the pits for teams to monitors all the functions on the car and tell their jockeys how to drive. Drivers used to rely on they information they could gather thenmselves by watching their instruments from the corner of their eyes, by looking at the state of their tyres, etc... There was no radio communication, and the only info you could get was the pitboard every lap if you had time to look at it. Cars were more difficult to drive: no power steering, no auto gearbox. Cars weren't bullet-proof then, but had to be handled carefully. Any missed gear used to over-rev the engine, bend the valves and destroy the engine. Drivers had to nurse their car to the finish themselves. Aerodynamic and mechanical grip was minimal compared to now, and controling acceleration and braking was an art then. Also, tracks didn't have massive tarmac run-offs. An excursion beyong the white line meant a trip on the grass and anything could happen from there, from a shunt on a grass bank, a spin, to a roll, or a stall, or else. So drivers made a point of staying ON THE TRACK then, unlike now when they can take liberty with its limits. Drivers were more approachable instead of being PR trained parrots then. Some were real characters, spoke their mind, shunned the press if they felt like it and were no show-business animals like now. Paddocks were not NO-GO areas then, you could roam there freely, speak to drivers and mechanics, share a cigarette or a bit of gossip. As for most of the field running DFVs and Hewlands, I couldn't see anything wrong with that. Of course, that combination eclipsed anything Maranello could build for many years! There was still a huge difference between the way Chapman and Tyrrell used to run their team, or how Mo Nunn and Gordon Myrray engineered their cars. The spectators are mostly interested in good racing, in seeing daring passes, in watching drivers taming difficult cars. That's why it was so much more interesting then. Could you imagine a team bringing a 6-wheel car now? Could you imagine hydraulic suspension? Would they allow ground effect? Skirts? a fan car?
