The F1 2014 season

JRS said:
My thoughts on the latest round of inane gibbering from the governing body of the alleged pinnacle of Motorsport:

1) Cost cap - never going to be able to police it.
2) December tyre test - meh, going to wait and see what cars they end up being allowed to test to decide if it's going to be useful or not.
3) Driver numbers - only going to make sense if the numbers are treated the same way that they are in NASCAR, i.e. made very visible indeed. And with limited bodywork space, I don't see how they can make them prominent enough to be a part of the car-driver identity. When a team has the choice between using a nice, wide piece of bodywork (like the engine cover) to put a sponsor logo on or using that bodywork to put the driver number on, it's only going to go one way. Maybe they'll make it mandatory to dedicate the rear wing endplates to showing off the number.
4) The five-second penalty - reserving judgement on that one. If it's going to become an intermediate penalty between a drive-through and a 10-second stop and go then that's one thing. But some of the other ideas about how it could be done in this thread make no sense at all.
5) Double points in the final round - no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No.







No.

I'm trying to think of anything they could have done that would be a worse idea, and I'm drawing a blank. It might actually be the single most retarded idea in the long, sad history of stupid crap that they have done to what was once my favourite sport.


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I don't always agree with the stuff Mike Lawrence writes for pitpass.com, but I don't think he's far off the mark with this one:
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:D

We really need to meet up at somepoint. :D Imagine the sheer quantity of complaining about F1 that we could get up to. ;)

Could come up with a decent regulation set though...
 
It must be difficult for the FIA to create a ruleset that everyone is happy with. But that's no reason for them to go out and create one that no-one is happy with, and I fear that's what they're doing now.
 
You say that, but this meeting that unanimously agreed these retarded rules included representatives from the top 6 teams!
 
Personally I think they should deploy the "get out of the car and run around it 3 times during the pit stop" technique, as a punishment.

Worked well on my stag do when we went karting. Hilarity ensued :D
 
Perhaps the FIA might want to do something about the cost of its ladder series in addition to F1, the likes of GP2 are quickly turning into rent-a-ride with a lower emphasis placed on results or skill.
 
Indy500 said:
Perhaps the FIA might want to do something about the cost of its ladder series in addition to F1, the likes of GP2 are quickly turning into rent-a-ride with a lower emphasis placed on results or skill.
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Isn't it something like £1-1.5 million per season, per driver for GP2... That is crazy money for a 'feeder' series (especially one which doesn't seem to be working right at the moment) it's worse when you consider there are drivers that will do 5 seasons there!
 
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