lil_coz
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I just ****** well hope Hamilton doesn't move to Red Bull - proves nothing driving a faster car. Button and Hamilton are quality drivers; it's Vettel and Webber need to be put back in a slower car and that will prove something!
I disagree. Any racing driver in the world, whether it be in karting, or racing in F1, wants to win. The end. Nothing else will do. You do it to win. So that means you want to be in the fastest car to enable you to win. Thats why the top teams have the top drivers. If it wasn't the case then everyone would be fighting for a drive with Hispania. Going to a team with potential is different. Like when Schumacher went to Ferrari and with the help of Todt, Brawn, Byrne, they turned a dog of a car into the dominating force that it was 11 years ago.
You can argue Vettel did the same with Red Bull. Bought out from Jag, took a few years to find their feet and then they are out there killing anything with 4 wheels... over 1 lap anyway. Yes Vettel went to Red Bull just as they were getting in their stride but he was with Torro Rosso as they were finding their feet.
The one way a driver will show how good he is, regardless of what team he is in, is how he does against his team mate. Vettel beating Webber, and the same with Hamilton and Button. Forget the last 2 races where Lewis hasn't had his head screwed on properly, he's regularly been outpacing Button.
If F1 suddenly decided to make all cars equal, then I'd stop watching. And I'm sure millions of others would follow suit. That's not F1. F1 is supposed to be different teams, with different minds, pushing each other to be the best. A lot of other race series that have got equal cars are promoted saying that it's like that for close racing. That's all horse ****. The close racing is a by-product. The number one reason they have the same cars is to keep costs down to have people in their series. 6-7 years ago, to race in Formula BMW was best part of £250-300k. And that's an absolute minimum! If you start having crashes, then you can add more on top! God knows what it is these days. People tend to go there straight from Karting. That's not easy to do WITH sponsorship, let alone without. If the teams could do what they want like they do in F1, then nobody would have the money to race there in the first place.
Also comparing it to BTCC saying that there is close racing/bumping etc is a bit moot too. They bump/push/scrape along eachother in BTCC because they can. Their car will come out the other end still capable of doing another lap. I don't need to say what'll happen if you try the same in F1!
The other issue is KERS and DRS - you may aswell fit NOS to tourung cars. I know its all about advancing technology but its not raw racing. Bring back days of Senna 12000BHP raw as **** manual gear changes with rear wheel slides none of this 'let's try and involve more overtaking by ususing technology. Hamiltpon tries to overtake and yet he get's penalised. I know it's a not contact sport but it's not as if he's trying to cause an incident, he's just determined to win.
I half agree with you there. Now I'm all for new technology. KERS I have no problem with because at the end of the day, everyone has it to use when they want so they are still equal from that point of view. I think they can do without the DRS. The tyres have given us the overtaking we need (well it has for me anyway!) so there's no need for it. It makes the guy in front completely powerless against the guy behind and I think thats a bit unfair. Had they stayed on the Bridgestones for this year, then yes, they would have needed it. I think maybe they underestimated just how much the tyres would spice up the show so we're sort of stuck with the DRS now.
I quite like the systems used across the pond. A boost button which you can only press 10-15 times a race. So strategy comes into it a bit as well. Again, I see that as fair because everyone has the same amount at the start of the race. If one driver decides to use the boost 10 times on the first lap, then tough tooties for the rest of the race.
So for me, I like seeing technology (even if I can't fully work iTunes...) in F1. Just the right sort of technology though.