It's over!

Skeeter said:
Nope. Testing is banned until the official tests. In fact they actually had to change the rules this year to allow testing to start in January.

The V8s are now demo units or coffee tables. Some may end up being sold on. There was a Hillclimb car that ran an Arrows V10. Some might end up in the BOSS series. But in terms of being used by teams for relevant development, they have been used for the last time.
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Cool. Thanks. :)
 
I miss the motorsport of my childhood and early 20's, it was just better, no rose tints, it just was. Modern motorsport is broken for me and frankly for years F1 has left me cold. I watch it because I love motorsport, not because in really enjoy it.
 
Housey said:
I miss the motorsport of my childhood and early 20's, it was just better, no rose tints, it just was. Modern motorsport is broken for me and frankly for years F1 has left me cold. I watch it because I love motorsport, not because in really enjoy it.
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Early 20's? I didn't think you were that old. :p ;)

I think that this year, I've preferred watching the WEC over F1. Even though it's been pretty predictable in LMP1, it's still been fun to watch the other classes.

F1 has the potential to be extremely entertaining next year with 'epic torks' from the engines, new extreme ERS, dodgy Pirelli tyres and potentially many blowups. :D

Probably won't be that good though.
 
Lopéz said:
I might have watched 4 or 5 races all season. I just couldn't get into it at all.
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Seemed like every time I tried to actually sit through a race broadcast, I regretted how much of a waste of time it was. I'd already dialled way back on how many races I was watching live anyway, but when the so-called highlights packages are just plain tedious then you know something has gone a touch awry with the sport.
 
This year I found myself Sky+ ing the qualifying and just fast forwarding to the 3rd session, whereas in the past I'd watch the whole thing. Race day's I was just tuning in for the gridwalk and the race, not the build up or any of the after race discussions.

I actually watched all the races on Sky this year, I feel Suzi Perry ruined the BBC coverage, and didn't have the 'matey matey' charm Jake had with Eddie and Coulthard.

I began to lose interest when I realised that 2013 was pretty much just a continuation of the previous season, with no real updates on the cars.

Roll on next year.
 
It's a shame the results of 1 driver have tainted the whole season. If you remove Vettel this year has been pretty good. We could have had a 4 way title decider if Kimi turned up.
 
Skeeter said:
It's a shame the results of 1 driver have tainted the whole season. If you remove Vettel this year has been pretty good. We could have had a 4 way title decider if Kimi turned up.
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Well....no. We'd still have ended up with all the problems that F1's rulebook has currently, but with the best team-driver combo removed. That's no kind of fix. It's not even band-aid over the cancer.

Still got insane tyre rules, dull circuits, stewards that range from utterly blind to race-killingly strict seemingly at random, car construction rules that stop you developing anything that would actually be of any use in the real world in favour of finding The World's Greatest Diffuser™....
 
edd1e said:
F1 was so, so boring this year. After watching it for 15yrs I found myself not being bothered about watching it at all for the first ever.
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Pretty much the same for me. I used to have to pleas to have race weekends off work but since August I just haven't given a damn. I'd watch the first 3 laps on sky go then check the result out later. I do think next year could be very interesting. Very excited as a Ferrari fan.
 
JRS said:
Well....no. We'd still have ended up with all the problems that F1's rulebook has currently, but with the best team-driver combo removed. That's no kind of fix. It's not even band-aid over the cancer.

Still got insane tyre rules, dull circuits, stewards that range from utterly blind to race-killingly strict seemingly at random, car construction rules that stop you developing anything that would actually be of any use in the real world in favour of finding The World's Greatest Diffuser™....
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I'm not saying removing Vettel fixes F1s serious issues. Just that his dominance masked the true opinion of the race.

We could have had the best, most exciting, overtaking packed, drama packed, wheel to wheel battle packed race in the history of the sport, but if Vettel has won it from pole with a 30 second lead it would still be labelled a dull race.

Like going to a restaurant and having the best meal you have ever had, but being given a dirty fork. Its always going to be 'that meal where you had a dirty fork'.

I just think people going on as if this is the worst season of F1 ever are either blinkered by the Vettel dominance, or have very short memories. I can remember seasons where absolutely nothing happened for entire races throughout the whole field, not just up front.

But its hardly been a vintage year, I'll give you that.

Its ok though, next year we move to the real world mass car maker relevent new engine formula of.... oh, V6 turbos....
Ah but at least they have solved the aero prob..... oh no wait, no they haven't.
Well, um..... ok. Hmm.

:p
 
Seems Lotus might go broke before Marussia does :p the Quantum deal is hot air so far and they're still in discussions with Maldonado and PDVSA.
 
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