Reverse grids...

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I know most people will not agree but I think reverse grids would be great.
Or remove Mercedes. And reverse grids are easier.

An idea floating around is to replace quali at some races with a back to front (by championship order) and have a sprint race. The results of that are where you start for the race.

I think it would be great.

Thoughts?

 

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You'd be a bit miffed if you wrecked your car in the Saturday sprint race.

Doubt the top teams would agree to this.

This is the issue. There's always going to be someone who loses out. Right now that's merc. And they won't agree

 

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Thanks.

Given the fact that overtaking is incredibly hard in the current era, i'm not sure how well this is going to work. Imagine Monaco... lol. But definitely interesting.

It wouldn't be all races. You couldn't do it at Monaco. Which shows Monaco shouldn't be on the calendar

 

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I'd rather see sprinklers than reverse grid. If you're going to gimmick, make it an exciting one rather than one which will cause a train due to the engine mode ban.

Or just ban blue flags, will have the same effect, fast car unable to get past slow car.

Id totally be up for sprinklers.

Set at a random time for a random time.

 

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The commentary might be annoying at times but every race they explain this. Unless a car is 1.5-2sec a lap quicker than the one in front they simply cannot get a decent run on an exit, slipstream behind the car in front, pull out and outbreak into the next corner without serious assistance from the likes of managed hybrid boost, fresher tyres, DRS or engine modes. This is why the likes of Mercedes still want to get pole and are disappointed if they don't get the front row, they might be a second quicker than the Red Bull in race trim but that's not enough for a simple overtake without taking significant life out of the tyres, changing to a less optimum strategy or cooking the car.

Bottas struggled because he was in a chain of cars who were only a second slower, closely bunched on the same strategy and all had access to DRS. Hamilton was not on the same strategy, had open air between cars and was overtaking slower cars.

He still did better.
Bottas made literally no ground. Hamilton made so much. He was nearly up to Bottas.

 

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Surely the obvious solution to boring racing is to hobble the aerodynamics through rule changes to reduce the advantage that clean air has.

DRS sucks and always has done. Nothing more annoying than hearing commentators hyperventilating as someone drives past someone else with DRS. Yawn.

Agreed.
I think it also has slowed down proper rule changes as its a solution.

I want to see drivers up the chuff of another car as tyres fall apart an an overtake made.

Would likely sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of drivers being good or not. Poor Bottas will slip further down the rankings.


Get drs gone and get a proper solution. You numlties in charge .. You are all well paid, can you seriously not find a solution to the farce?