Agreed. You have the Haas' for instance who did extremely well in qualifying, only to lose positions today. Had Hamilton and Gasly not collided, Ham would probably have been through a lot sooner, and possibly Bottas as well. So a brilliant qualifying effort is undone but 23 laps of "racing".
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Would you rather have watched FP3 or the sprint?
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Neither. I'm annoyingly "forced" to watch qualifying, sprint and the race instead of just the qualifying and the race.
Sprint + Race in the current format is just a very long race.
I would rather allow the Teams to have 3 Practice sessions to set up the cars optimally and then a Qualifying Session that has a meaningful result.
Most of us can't watch Qualifying live on a working day , FP2 is pointless as the setup can't be changed after Qualifying and the Sprint is a useless race that cuts the scarce Testing/Practice time even more.
I watched the Sprint but probably give it a miss in future, it was just a waist of time.
The F2 Sprint with a reverse grid at least poses a challenge.
After 25 laps there is a mandatory red flag that lasts 22hrs.
I'm all for no practice. With simulators these days you don't need practice for the drivers anymore. And the less data teams have about the track, the more exciting it tends to be.
Give them saloon cars and let them bump each other off track, It would be less dangerous and more exciting but it wouldn't be F1.
The more the teams know about the cars and the Track the faster, safer and closer the racing is.
I disagree with the closer the racing will be. We've seen it in the past couple of years how clinical boring it can become when teams know almost everything.
In the past couple of years you have seen how F1 has been dumbed down by by American gimmicks, Hermann Tilke track designs, Street Circuits and Oil Money.
The innovation and envelope pushing cars of the 70', 80's 90's have all gone and would be illegal now.
Do you want F1 to evolve into Euro Indy Car or remain, as they try to claim in marketing, the Pinnacle of Motor Sport.
Close racing is a result of knowledge, skill and engineering, not rules and restrictions.
Yeah, close like Mansel winning race after race, often a lap ahead of most of the other cars... Even overtaking the whole field at Monaco! That was not boring???
Feels like you're going on a bit of a tangent. All I wanted was less time for "practice" because "practice" isn't that anymore but a data gathering exercise. And I think decisions made on the fly because of unknowns makes for more interesting racing.
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Drivers who don't trust the car or understand the track are not going to push the limits so how is a lack of information going to make for more interesting racing?
I see you found yet another thing to criticize Hamilton on... shocked
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I see you found yet another thing to criticize Hamilton on... shocked
You got the wrong guy. Try again.
No no., you're not the worst, but you're definitely in the club
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No no., you're not the worst, but you're definitely in the club
You cannot honestly look at him off track and not think he is a bit of a cnut. He chooses to be in the limelight and so he shall be judged by the things he wear and say.
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The same Hamilton who said fans were wrong for booing Verstappen?
Lewis Hamilton defends Max Verstappen and tells Silverstone fans to stop booing
Verstappen has received a hostile reception from many fans at the track this weekend, with the Red Bull star clearly not popular among the Hamilton-supporting Brits in attendance
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