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What I guess I'm saying is that I personally am not happy to watch a sport where great drivers have practically zero chance of getting anywhere simply because their car - not their skill - is the defining characteristic of their ability to succeed. F1 seems to be the worst for this, though as in your example I'm sure it's not the only example where it is prevalant.
The trouble is when you get the reverse situation no driver will want to compete in that kind of a formula.
When Formula Palmer Audi first started out in 1998, Johnathan Palmer wanted to create a motorsport spectacle, in which there was a completely level playing field, with regard to equipment, so that driver talent was the only thing that stood between a driver doing well or not.
The cars wre designed and built to be completely identical in every respect, apart from a few driver dependent adjustments, such as bump and rebound, anti roll bar settings, tyre pressures, brake bias settings and a few others.
For the first couple of years, the series pulled in a lot of very good up and coming drivers, a lot of who have gone on to be big names in all sorts of other series, even making F1 in one case.
However the series became far too good for its own benefit. Eventually the cars were so identical in performance that the only difference between getting first place on a grid, and last place, was the sole fact, that the last place bloke was a slower driver than the first place bloke, end of.
No motorsport driver wants to be shown, that they have no talent, so once it became obvious to the drivers that there was nowhere to hide if they were not getting the results, i.e. they could not say " he has a better engine than me", " so and so has a better suspension than me", " him over there has a better diffuser than me", the series, in it's original format, died a death, because it could not attract the kind of driver talent that Johnathan Palmer was originally looking for.
Motorsport drivers are a very vain bunch, they always want to make sure that if they are not doing well there is someone, or something else to blame, rather than their own inadequacies.
, though thanks for not bothering to refute any of my questions.
