The king is dead, long live the king.
Only 102 days to lights out for 2023..
If they didn’t have DRS trains and overtakes, we'd just have regular trains and very few overtakes at all. The only cars who would be able to overtake would be fast cars out of position like max was last night. No midfield battles would be possible because they're to close on pace. I wouldn't interfere too much. The DRS is a gimmick that works very well at solving the big problem but creates a smaller problem.
How about making the space for DRS less for the faster cars so like Red Bull? So they would only get half the DRS advantage that the slower cars get.
So the Red Bull would have a smaller slot gap when there DRS is open but have more drag than the slower cars.
There are probably ways to fiddle about with DRS rules. But it's really unlikely to go anywhere.
I've no idea how you'd set the rules for what you propose above. But it seems to work in principle with wind tunnel time.
It's a good gimmick and should stay.
I thought DRS was just about perfect at Miami, it got cars close enough to overtake in braking zones which is exactly what it’s designed to do. Almost nobody flew by on the straight, other than one or two out of position cars with big tyre offsets after switching to mediums late on.
It should be hard but not impossible to overtake and that’s what we got - back and forth between Leclerc and Kmag all race, a bunch of overtakes amongst Alonso, Sainz, Russell, Gasly, Hamilton, and even a late race overtake for the lead. Thinking about it, every single position in the top ten was decided by an overtake at some point in the race and almost none of them were simple drive-bys.
So there was plenty of good racing and overtaking, but it wasn’t so easy that drivers in fast cars could just automatically make their way through without a fight they way they often have in the past, which is exactly how it should be.
The problem with DRS is that it varies from track to track and they’re forever tweaking it using out of date data and you never know if it’ll be too powerful or too weak in a given race.
All I want is races that need more than 1 tyre stop and allow for more variation in strategy. That will spice things up more than anything.
but it wasn’t so easy that drivers in fast cars could just automatically make their way through without a fight they way they often have in the past, which is exactly how it should be.
Funny I seen Max fly by a load of cars including Alonso without a single fight. Very dissapointed in Alonso there. The only one who put it up to him was Sergio and well he was on the wrong tyres to win that one.
To be fair, the Red Bull is so much faster theres zero point right now in anyone actually trying to race or defend against Max or Checo right now.
Youd only end up delaying the inevitable and wasting some of your tires doing it.
If you set it up so Max in the much faster Red Bull has to really fight to overtake slower cars, then what chance do similarly matched cars have of ever overtaking each other?
Checo is giving Max a bit of bother at the moment but once we're back racing on regular tracks Max will open up the points gap. We need a few wet races it's our only chance of real excitement and unpredictability.
I wouldn't say Checo is giving max that much to worry about. On Perez best day and Max's poor weekend in Baku, Perez kept max behind with a couple of seconds gap all race. Decent job. On Max's strong day he came from 10th to beat perez by 5 seconds.
Without woeful luck, max just needs drive normally and he'll comfortably beat Perez.
That is some serious amount of optimism there pal.
Max is not one bit bothered by Checo right now, he will only get stronger once we get to proper tracks, that is when you will see the the gulf in skills.
My prediction is that by the summer break, people will look back and laugh heartily at the talk of Perez challenging Max for the title.
Boring George says RB dominance is bad for the sport.
Which translates to he's pissed off he joined Merc at the wrong time. 😂
You are probably right but you never know, as long as he is in the car that is the class of the field, he has a chance. A run of bad luck for max or if he had to miss a few races or whatever would make things interesting. Perez would need that as max will always have advantage within the team not to mention being faster.
You could limit DRS to maybe 3 / 5 per race
Hamilton said the same about Vettel during his RB years...they are well trained PR lads.
Well it is. Obviously doesn't mean as much coming from a Mercedes driver, but it's not good for the sport. However I would see it as more of a slight on the other nine teams than on RB.
I think one solution would be to ban Adrian Newey from F1.
I honestly think Perez has as much chance of winning the title as Charles LeClerc did this time last year.
About as much chance as Bottas in the Hamilton years. Botas 2.0, Bottas 2.0 again the next year. He occasionally beat Hamilton on pace over a weekend. He had a good strike rate in the first race of the season. And these threads wondered if he could do a Rosberg. He was the best chance we had of a championship fight, but he had almost no chance. Same with Perez.
Its fun to speculate, but reality is it won't happen. .
If anything, it just shows how good those cars were that Bottas could even win a race.
The cars were so good Russell could step in for Hamilton and almost win a race, he was a dead cert to win until the team messed up with the tyres.
Yeah. They were great. Similar to the Red Bull now that oerez can win an odd race too.
The point is that he could beat Hamilton on an odd occasion. Similar to how Perez can beat Maxnon an odd occasion. Doesn't mean either are serious title contenders.
Looks like a Honda/Aston Martin partnership for 2026 is going to happen. A works engine for the Aston if they continue their current trend could be what tips them over the edge to full on championship contenders...
Great news. Could have 6 engine suppliers at one point.
Ya, from the race's article in 2026 we could be looking at Ferrari, Mercedes, Audi, Red Bull Ford, Renault and Honda engine suppliers.
Hopefully we'll have at least an 11th team too...
Andretti Renault hopefully.
Alonso will be racing until he's 50 at this rate
Incoming 5 year contract extension, imagine!
Did Prost drive into his 40s or did he just look old? Lauda was a fair age by 1984 as well I'd say?
Looking at that I think Red Bull are or will be the Worst off. Everyone else will have F1 engine experience and Knowledge whereas Ford have not been in it in years so are new to the game.
