Ferrari Mailing List: Re: The fate of F-1 in the US

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

Excellent write up, CG.

I fully agree with the CAN AM philosophy.....because not only is this about pushing the envelope on technology and craziness for the engineers and madmen among us, but also eliminating this annoying "driver-centric" aspect with F1. If I wanted to see a driver's only race, I'll go watch that Race of Champions thing they do in stadiums.

What's the point in rooting for Ferrari or Williams if the sport keeps pushing us to root for drivers? I'll never forget Barichello having to let Schumacher pass so he can get #1 points, even if the team gets the same total for the race. 

Remember in 1999 or 2000 when Ferrari got constructors but didn't get drivers? It was like a Super Bowl loss, so pathetic. 

I understand the need for a human aspect, but at the same time it gets too much, IMHO.

FG

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Charles Perry <charles [at] carolina-sound.com> wrote:

I think this is much simpler than this article makes it seem, and that the various powers in F1 management have lost the forest for the trees. I still watch the races if I think about it, but only by DVR. They’re not interesting enough to wake up for, and I used to love that part of my Sunday routine. And that’s the root of the problem – they have lost site of the fact that racing is, at its root, entertainment.

 

We’ve hashed some of these before, but I think in general:

1) Fans don’t care what F1 costs except inasmuch as keeping a good number of teams running

2) Fans have no interest whatsoever in F1 being green

3) Fans have maybe the tiniest marginal interest in race tech becoming street tech

 

Things they’ve done that have killed the ENTERTAINMENT facet of F1:

1) Killed re-fueling, and thus any interest in related race-strategy

2) Killed tire strategy by limiting sets of tires and requiring multiple compound use, and thus any interest in related race-strategy

3) Killed continuous unlimited testing and development throughout the season, and thus any interest in season results changing past the first few races

4) Killed the great sounding engines of the past (although I think this is far less important than the current debate makes it seem)

5) Introduced DRS to artificially improve passing statistics

6) Cut anything that interests us from a technical “state of the art” standpoint – traction control/electronics, fixed ECUs, active aero, dictated aero vs. mechanical grip, blown diffusers, etc.

7) Limited number of engines / transmissions and artificial grid penalties unrelated to driver performance

8) Killed “qualifying setups” – hot engines and related fuel strategy management

 

There are plenty of others in there, but for me the first 3 are what always interested me about F1 – who had the best strategy (and since this was unpredictable DURING AND THROUGHOUT a race made it exciting to watch) and who could see what they messed up and fix it by the next race.

 

I realize that most of those, 3-7 especially, were done in the interest of cost-cutting, but cost-cutting has done nothing to keep backmarkers either competitive or even in the sport, and appear to have not actually accomplished any cost-cutting since drivetrains and chassis have had to be re-engineered from scratch 3 times now. It’s dumb lip-service and all it has done is dulled the spectacle, which is why their audience and income are shrinking. And as an engineer, I would like to see them go even more the opposite way – CAN-AM rather than Formula. Give a basic set of weights and dimensions and cut the engineers loose on EVERYTHING else.

 

I think the only improvement they’ve made in the sport in the last ten years or so is the current qualifying format, which I like. But I would like it better if they had the option to run crazy qualifying motors and if fuel strategy was re-introduced via refueling.

 

-- charles

 

 

 

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