Poll: Canadian Grand Prix 2018, Montréal - Race 7/21

[GravyMonster]

These continual dull races are all symptomatic of F1's technical direction.

3 engines a year = turn the power down and make them last.

Unable to overtake because of the aero rules = No one pits for the counter strategy as track position is king, hence no one attacks.

Tyres could last 80% race distance = dawdle round with the drivers at 70% effort to make sure they don't have to pit again, but they're safe at that speed because #1 and #2.

 

[MooMoo444]

Yeah the early stop was forced and basically killed any chance he had of getting by the RBs. I feel if he had stopped on lap 30 odd like the rest, he'd have gotten by both Ric and Ver. He was getting in touching distance on the back straight. That little extra grip on the tyres would have given him the drive he needed from the hairpin to pass.

 

[jaybee]

Worst Canadian GP I can remember.
When the highlight is the chequered flag being waved too early in the race, there are issues.
Within only a few laps, the cars are already "areo gapped". Even DRS cannot break it because they counter act it with the battery harvesting extra power bursts to defend against it. The halo looks awful. The drivers have become annoying, like overpaid footballers that dive. The drivers now make a meal of every contact. Someone was moaning about another driver being black flagged due to contact when nothing happened.

We need more mechanical grip, less aero and less nursing the car having to constantly "manage" things. I want to see 60 laps of hustling a car as fast as you can.

 

[MooMoo444]

The cars need to be smaller and slower. They are approaching twice the size that they used to be.

 

[4K8KW10]

The cars just simply could not overtake each other here. In fact, i don't remember seeing many, if any on track overtakes

Did you see the gaps?! Between Sebastian and Bottas - good 6 seconds, between Bottas and Max - further 6 seconds, between Max and Daniel - also quite many seconds?
No overtaking was possible because the cars in front naturally arranged in their relative speed to each other.

 

[Flibster]

Hartley was sent to the hospital for a scan after his accident as during it, he hit his head on the halo...

 

[MagicBoy]

Nasty whack too...

 

[Deleted member 651465]

The cars need to be smaller and slower. They are approaching twice the size that they used to be.

 

[MooMoo444]

Width too. They are monsters these days. Yet the tracks are not any bigger

 

[GravyMonster]

Where was the fuel tank in the 88 McLaren? It's 50% bigger than todays tanks, yet the car is 2/3rds the size.

 

[vanpeebles]

Probably what the driver sat in

 

[413x]

Yeah the fact DRS+inherent speed differential cannot overcome the aero disruption makes the current spectacle dire baring some extraordinary circumstances.

There is simply no incentive to try and Overtake

-you tax your engine more when you only have 3
-you could get penalised for a dodgy move
-you hurt your tires
-you probably wont make it
-you might crash

There really is a strong case for just sitting back there. You cant blame the drivers for that.

Doesn't hwlp there is a A and B spec series effectively at the minute.
When Renault get 7th and 8th
Thats as close as I'm going to get to seeing my team get a 1, 2.

 

[MooMoo444]

The gap between Merc/Ferrari/RB and the plebs does seem to be getting bigger

 

[MagicBoy]

Where was the fuel tank in the 88 McLaren? It's 50% bigger than todays tanks, yet the car is 2/3rds the size.

Between the driver and the engine. It was a lowline design from Murray, so the driver was laid back at more of an angle than was typical at the time and you can store quite a lot of fuel under the seat. Maximum fuel capacity also dropped from 195 to 150 litres that year for the turbo engines. The '88 engine is somewhat more compact than modern hybrids "PU"s as it doesn't have all the hybrid gubbins. Turbo's are outboard of the engine at the back of the sidepods, rather than inside the vee as now.

 

[Wizzfizz]

Utter borefest. Nearly turned it off midway. And they're tying to make it more entertaining and reach out to new audiences lol.

 

[Lopéz]

Images of the Lotus 102 after Martin Donnellly's Jerez crash gave a pretty stark indication of where fuel tanks of the era were located.

 

[MagicBoy]

Ferrari ran "hip" tanks in the sidepod of the '89 640 with the V12. It was one of those that burst when Berger had his scary accident at Tamburello....

 

[this_is_gav]

Probably what the driver sat in

You laugh, but in the 50s, 60s and 70s fuel used to be in unprotected tanks either side of the driver. The drivers didn't wear seatbelts in those days (only becoming compulsory in 1972) as it was preferable to be thrown from the cars than risk being trapped in an almost inevitably burning car.

 

[PlacidCasual]

I normally look forward to Canada, some high speed straights and slow corners, you could rely on different tyre strategies delivering some nice differentials at the end of the race and even during it but that seems to be dead now.
Formula 1 has dropped way down my list of priorities now, I used to watch every GP but Monaco but it just seems like a waste of time now.

 

[MagicBoy]

BTCC. It's the future....