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Originally Posted by mechman600
The race itself too boring, but they were sandbagging to save tires the entire time and that's what bugged me.
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They sandbag to save tires
all the time these days. Pirelli must be writing phenomenally large checks to the "Bernie's Next Vacation Island Purchase" Foundation.
I'm ambivalent about the artificial means employed to slow cars down, create passing opportunities, and so on. I became an F1 fan at a time when there were multiple car makers, multiple engine makers, multiple engine layouts, multiple engine cylinder counts... heck, there were even multiple tire counts! There was genuine innovation then, differences in approach that you could see and hear and feel, and really appreciate. But those cars got too fast for the tracks, and a lot of good people got killed by them.
So it seems to me that wide open rules aren't the answer either. Even so I'd like to see some kind of looser set of rules that would allow for stuff like the DeltaWing, which IMESHO is by far the most ground breaking race car of the past 25 years or so.