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Lewis Hamilton enjoyed driving this year's Ferrari in the Sprint (media.piefed.zip)
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[โ€“] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Driver skill is far less important this year.

Guaranteed DRS passes required so much special skill. Sure, sure.

Leclerc has the same car, deployment programming, etc. as Hamilton but Leclerc got past Hamilton and hold him off (before the pit stop). It was a great battle between these two and the one who managed the situation better came out ahead. That's racing.

Ever since the very first F1 race, drivers relied on good cars. That a part of the overall package is engineering by the teams is nothing new. In fact, if you dislike that aspect, maybe F1 isn't for you.

There are plenty of spec / BoP'ed series around the world. I follow WEC and DTM, for example. Many people rave about the racing in IMSA's Mazda MX-5 Cup which streams for free on YouTube and IMSA.TV.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Guaranteed DRS passes required so much special skill. Sure, sure.

    I don't know if you are aware that this regulation has the same shit, only much worse. Drivers 1 second behind have extra energy deployment+recharge over the whole lap. This IMO generates a greater speed delta with respect to DRS, which is why you see the constant position swapping.

    You still have a DRS-like system, it simply became electrical instead of aerodynamic, which makes it harder to spot.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    only much worse.

    Except it's much better, not much worse. DRS led to guaranteed passes (unless there was a much worse car behind, then to a guaranteed DRS train). The current rules lead to wheel on wheel action.

    If you don't like it, again: Watch something different. Those series exist already, I gave a couple of examples. Making F1 into yet another one of those would make little sense. Just be careful not to follow IndyCar or Super Formula because both have push-to-pass.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    If you don't like it, again: Watch something different

    It feels like you are insisting that F1 should be free of criticism? That's literally all I'm doing, agreeing that those overtakes are simply yoyo due to the car behind being given a massive advantage, and that driver skill is less important now.

    As a sport, I think F1 sucks, but as a spectatle is somewhat great. As an engineering competition is very amazing

    EDIT: gotta admit that Ferrari battle was pretty fun to watch, made me dislike the regulation a lot less.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago

    It feels like you are insisting that F1 should be free of criticism?

    Criticism is fine, I do it myself plenty. You naysayers want to turn F1 into something it never was.

    As a sport, I think F1 sucks

    Again: Watch something else. Nobody's forcing you to watch something you hate.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago

    EDIT: gotta admit that Ferrari battle was pretty fun to watch, made me dislike the regulation a lot less.

    then why are you complaining about it? maybe watch some more before making up your mind.

    I admit I barely understood the whole thing before watching... what I know now is that there is more passing, even if it's yoyo we get to see 2 passes to end up the same (assuming they are both perfectly executed) instead of watching one car following another for a lot longer (sometimes forever, looking at you Monaco)...

    Even better, it looks to me that cars do stay closer to one another for longer... last year, half the races were not worth watching after the first 3 laps

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Drivers 1 second behind have extra energy deployment+recharge over the whole lap.

    which provides the entire track for passing... as opposed to DRS where you could go get more coffee knowing that passing was all but impossible except on certain DRS designated areas

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