Canadian Grand Prix 2011, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve - Race 7/19
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Agreed.
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Acid test for the DRS comes next race Valencia has consistently been a hopeless race for excitement if like in Spain it makes no difference then it's a waste of time having it imo because tracks like Turkey and Canada don't need it anyway as they provide plenty of proper passing, all it's doing at those tracks is taking all the skill out of it.
Drivers seem to be losing a lot of their race craft as it is by only racing in almost dry conditions without losing the ability to make a proper pass as well!
Drivers seem to be losing a lot of their race craft as it is by only racing in almost dry conditions without losing the ability to make a proper pass as well!
Or no DRS and over taking, it is almost cure by banning of double diffuser anyway. If they went ahead with ground effect and removed winglets they would have literally been able to travel touching each other.
But that just doesn't make sense. How can it give an unfair advantage without at least negating the dirty air?
The faster cars win and the slower cars lose. I know it seems like the overtaking has been falsified for you, but I think it is entirely in your mindset. If the drivers were similarly dismayed with the system then they would be berating it every race.
Agreed, it's not like they are not well paid for the risk. These guys get paid off the reputations of the guys from the 50's-70's.
Did you not see the Red Bull of webber once he activated it behind MS, it was an unbelievable difference. I understand that it's a fine balancing act and they will often get it wrong, but had that been a dry race today I think it would have been as obviously easy as Spain.
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the race when it eventually re-started but I did chuckle when webber took MSC, it looked like the shuttle had kicked in the booster rockets
I agree, MSc drove very well today, shame his car ate the tyres because he deserved more. I still don't see him beating Rosberg regularly but it was a fine display. I'd have been happy to see him take one more win.
Because it doesn't negate dirty air, it does nothing to solve the problem and as soon as it shuts they immediately fall back in the dirty air. Solve the problem, don't introduce an unfair device.
Some do hate DRS, some don't, at the end of the day 22 of them are on a very short PR leash. As well as most of them being a little out of f1 standards, just look at the calls saying it's indri able. Then look at Lewis, MSC, senna, mansel and other f1 drivers of the past who leaped half the field in a couple of laps.
Le Mans is nothing like F1, you could argue that having masses of laps under a safety car was a joke, they didn't do that in motoGP. The simple fact is, DRS is making F1 more exciting, previously a car could make itself very difficult to pass, and even a skilled driver could not pass with some evenly matched cars. IF the car in front deserved that position, he would not have been caught (possibly) or, he would be able to use DRS on the next lap to regain his position. Sure he cannot use it to prevent a pass, but he already has enough advantages, mainly the dirty air his car delivers to the car behind in corners, is that fair? Maybe we should just ban wings altogether?
This makes F1 a better sport for spectators, and if you think F1 is about "Fair" then you should be campaigning for identical cars and tyres at all times.
Sure I get it, you don't like it, the rest of us do, so deal with it and stop whining about it, it is getting old now.
What?
So despite having a wet setup he flew in the dry and you think he was flattered?
Even with DRS Mclaren has struggled here for outright straighline speed and you think a wet set up flattered him when on slicks?
If you think that then perhaps Mclaren should set up for the wet at every dry track
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Lol just turned on radio five and a callers rang in moaning about Antiques roadshow and Coast being canceled for F1 because in his words 'they'd get much higher viewing figures than a minority sport like F1' 
Fail doesn't cover it tbh, bet the race got one of the best viewing figures on a Sunday night for years!
Fail doesn't cover it tbh, bet the race got one of the best viewing figures on a Sunday night for years!
Stupid comment, they all build to same rules, f1 is 70% car weighted and as it should be.
F1 is racing and you can get the spectacle without removing the racing. In fact fia already have solved the problem by 50% in one simple rule change.
I completely agree that there are better methods. But this is what we've got this year and it is doing exactly what it was designed to do. The fairness of the device could be argued either way. It is on every car, if you are fast enough to get in the zone and use it then you have a better chance to pass. If you get passed then do the same back on the next lap... if you are fast enough to keep up.
No, it gives an advantage in one (or two) area of the circuit to make up for the fact they have had dirty air for the rest of the circuit, mainly in the corners where aerodynamics massively benefit a car in front and penalise a following car.
It rewards a driver who has managed to catch and stay close to a very evenly matched car in an overtaking area, the payback being if he gets past, next lap, the car passed will have DRS to mount a challenge back.
Therefore it is completely fair if the passed driver has the skill to stay with the driver who passes him.
It can't be argued either way. It doesn't matter if it's on all cars. Only one car can use it, the one behind.
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So you what time trailing, that is not racing. Dirty air is more or less solved this year anyway and can be further improved.
