Caporegime
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What the hell do you want from a race if that was boring?!
I want racing and passing thats not ridiculous. Hamilton put in a few great moves and a few like Rossberg overtake that were just given.
99% of the overtakes in this race and the past two were, old tyres vs new, simple a massively faster car, theres no competition its like going in the fast lane with a Ferrari vs a lorry on the inside lane, its not overtaking, its just, passing, with no effort.
Basically 95% + of the overtaking was more like Vettel vs a HRT, than Vettel vs a Vettel clone, fighting it out with great driving.
Thats a shame, for every great move out there, there was 10 overtakes that had no skill, no effort, no defence, no question it was going to happen. Thats not "racing" its not fun, its just a fast car passing a slow car.
Hamilton, as I've said many times, is someone so capable that he provides Vettel vs Vettel type overtakes. Taking Button with great driving vs matching car, but most other drivers didn't do that. Webber once on the soft tyres at the end, it wasn't a contest, he wasn't driving fantastically, it was just him in a 3-4 seconds faster a lap car that had no rival at all.
I said, its better than NOTHING happening, but its not a patch on REAL racing. As someone else put it, better than nothing but it felt forced, and fake and frankly retarded.
Give them Kers and DRS, but give them tyres that mean if you push, using kers and DRS to pass people essentially comprimises your strategy/race/tyres so its better to NOT pass and just pray for a good pitstop.....wooooo. THe thick and fast overtaking, and the real gaining on others around you, like Hamilton on Massa, then Vettel, ONLY happened because of different tyre strategy, and it didn't happen in ANY of the other stints, and Webber only destroyed the field in the final 15 laps because of the type of tyre he was on.
What do you guys think will happen when everyone decides, opps, different strategys cost us badly, and everyone works out hards on low fuel are rubbish because softs last just as well on low fuel/weight in the final stint.
Within 3-4 races everyone in every race will do the same strategy(looks like 3 or 4 stops depending on the race) and everyone will be running hards in the middle stint with softs at the end. When everyones strategy matches, what did we get in the first 3 stints, nothing, at all, except Webber who again was an outlyer, fast car, different tyre, bad quali, not a "normal" situation.
Basically first 3 stints, nothing, 4th stint, completely different and racing induced by different tyres, the passing wasn't difficult, or quality, or brave, or particularly exciting, did you see Vettel and Rossberg essentially let Hamilton through? Great times by Hamilton, great driver, but anyone in that car on those tyres would have done Vettel.
Then what about qualifying, again people will get bored, will Ferrari waste 58 sets of softs in qualifying because they suck at it? Or accept a 11-15th start, and finish on the podium due to their race pace, at some point people will give up being OTT on qualifying, save tyres for the race, match strategys pit on the same laps, it will be like the warm up lap with only mistakes causing overtaking.
3/4's of a race, everyone conserving tyres, no real great movement, all the overtaking essentially done by pit stop strategy, couple laps earlier or later, or too late. Then of easymode overtaking, sorry but go watch a race from the mid 80's to the mid 90's, this was an epic fail in terms of "racing" in comparison.
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