TO the people who said they prefer F1 of the present rather than the past..what age are you and are u on crack

Question

I just read this question http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkaV_xAis_1OxPwefKPUWcfsy6IX?qid=20070828072822AAjF6i0&show=7#profile-info-IRReETboaa

And my question is WTF is wrong with those who said the present?How could anyone prefer f1 of the present over the past?I can only assume everyone who said they prefer present day f1 is quite young.Espiecially robert268...F1 was boring and easy in the past?Are you insane?1500bhp cars with no driver aids, manual gears, zero safety and very little aero grip was easier to handle?

ive been following it for a long time and anyone i know that used to love it now is barely able to sit through a whole race anymore.

Read that summary and watch these videos and tell me how it is better these days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Formula_One_season

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzCqY8Wg5So
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAmbIdwcmSo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYWFl6TjfLg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3xEFCul34

and only 6 different drivers have been on the podium this year with the same 4 taking all the trophies at all but two races.

Schumacher was not chit at starts, he wasnt exceptionally good at them like villeneuve or Irvine but he wasnt bad.

I dont think the car behind should be given a technical advantage just so we have passing for the sake of passing. The best way of making passing easier is to free up the aero rules but to ban those little fins that are all over the cars. being very close was never a huge problem until 2004.

Its all the regulating of things that is making it suck. Before when they had more freedom they didnt have to spend such huge amounts of money finding a tiny fraction of a second in performance.

Answer 1

Well, aside from your question being a little too aggressive, I missed the other question to which you refer.

I started to have an interest in motor racing in 1982 and grew to be the type who never missed a race (on TV) by 1984. Heck, as a young teenager then, I was charting races while I watched them, doing my best to keep track of who was where after each lap.

Now, yes, F1 was exciting then, and it can be now as well. It depends on what you take from it.

Grand Prix racing has been rife with complaints from drivers and fans that there are no chances for passing since they went to race on the "shorter" circuits. Monaco of course has always been the place where passing was challenging and always been the place with the strongest whine about passing.

Every era has its excitment.

There is no way teams or drivers would want to return to an era when they had 1500 hp, less safety, and so on. Look at the tragedies of 1994. There had not been a death in Formula One (in a race weekend) since 1982! They got too comfortable, and some have even criticized drivers like Senna and Prost for those Suzuka moments, for example, because they felt the cars were safe enough to pull off a punt and no one would get hurt.

Todays cars are the safest they have ever been and that is brilliant. Who on earth would have wanted to see harm befall Robert Kubica with that shunt at Montreal this year? You want to see the horrid side of Formula One, get your hands on a film from the early 1970s originally named "One by One" (and later released as "The Quick and the Dead"). As much as I love the sport and the history of it, you cannot tell me seeing all the crashes makes it more exciting.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071942/

F1 is exciting each year for different reasons. This year the excitement centres on Lewis Hamilton, the most amazing rookie F1 has ever seen. Last year it was on first the speculation Schumacher would retire--and then the fact that he would--included with him still fighting for the title until the end, and even putting in one of his most brilliant drives ever in that final race in Sao Paulo.

It comes down to a similar thing to anything else: you take from it what you want. And you can like it, love it, or hate it. Not everyone loves the Mona Lisa just because it is one of the most famous paintings ever.

Sure, there were days when there were better battles for position on track, but that doesn't mean those who like F1 now are nuts or "on crack." Aren't we who like it--now, or then, or whenever--allowed to?

RP

Answer 2

What about the Senna/Prost battles?

Every year there is something to enjoy.

I think this year is the same.

However, to make things more interesting, bring in a device that distrupts the downforce on the leading vehicle, with some sort of transmitter from the following vehicle and then there's more opportunity given to overtake in more corners - Once the following car gets within 10 metres say.

Then ban traction control, launch control (brought in to help Herr SchMACKER, cos he was sh*te at starts) and bring back manual gear-changing.....

Answer 3

Simply... as of present, its become even more of a mega-money sport, and the drivers are more consciencous of kurbing the wheel than scoring points, look at BTCC (ok i know BIG difference) but they go wheel to wheel, its hard racing where its exciting because they get so close to each other, its almost a contact sport, F1 is all strategy nowadays

Answer 4

F1 is good now and it was good back in those days as well. But F1 at the present is getting a little boring. There's so much lack of competition and overtakings.

Answer 5

i think its a little of both, the on track racing was better in the older days no doubt, BUT!!!, even with added chicaines, higher ride hights, narrow wheel basses and smaller engines with less horse power, all the lap records are 4 years old or less, so the cars and technology are better today,

Answer 6

oi i was best answers for that !!!

i said present because i was born in 93 ! so i couldn't see the past with senna or mansell etc !!! So instead i watched it on youtube and it was very brilliant i must say !!! but that was a clip at least 5 - 10 minutes long ! So thats why i said present !

Answer 7

I never watched old F1, too young, but those videos are better i think than the ones now, i like the Hakkinen v Schu and Villeneuve v Arnoux, thanks for links