Sunday, June 11, 2006

Cars: British GP

The British GP was not a great spectacle and am not sure how much longer I will be bothered to watch any GP. In my view, there is more drama, spectacle and tension in the Qualifying now than the race itself. The only vague interest was Button's drive to make up places, which although cut short by an engine blow up would probably have finished at around P9 anyway.
Something needs to be done to make F1 more exciting. At the moment it is more like watching Chess and although I quite enjoy watching Chess, compared to other formula, F1 is tedious.
The FIA attempts to level the playing field has clearly not worked. Michael Schumacher/Ferrari may not be dominating anymore, but Alonso/Renault certainly have been and likely will continue to do so this season.
So what is the answer ? OK, in practical terms there is not likely to be much the FIA can do as they have to pander to the teams business realities and politics... but it would be nice to see something simple like making the engines 2 litre turbos and take away refuelling. This would likely introduce more unreliability, which makes things more interesting itself, but more importantly gives drivers a choice to turn up the boost to overtake but have to balance this against fuel consumption. I am sure this would make the whole F1 experience much more of a racing spectacle.
At the moment I am tempted to spend my Sunday afternoons attending Touring Cars or 750mc races than sitting half asleep in front of the TV watching F1 (even cutting the grass is starting to seem more alluring)

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