Peter Crisp wrote:Time for Robocar to shine
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Love it
Future of F1, drivers will just be sat at home/office piloting the cars from their sim rig as the cars will be more or less un-drivable as they’ll be as quick as the Red Bull X cars from Gran Turismo
captain red dog wrote:Vermilion wrote:One thing which will be interesting about 2021 is how close the teams are, the midfield is already pretty tight and with Merc having ceased development on this year's car, it may make for a better season if everyone is just using B spec versions (red bull have already started to close the gap).
This is kind of the thing with F1 this decade though. We always look to next season where things will probably be better, but it just never materialises.
The best we have had it recently was 2007 to about 2010 where the championship was pretty close and exciting. Kind of feel massively old now when I think that was 10 years ago.
I'm not really sure of the solution. Part of me thinks they should rethink and maybe go back to grooved tyres. They definitely can do something with pit stops which have just got ridiculously fast. They should change the rule on pit stops so that it's one guy per wheel so that it actually adds more of a variable for the team.
Next year is a bit of a write off anyway, I think they’re just trying to trim the teams of some of their downforce (which they know they’ll inevitably claw back throughout 2021, well the top teams anyway) as not all of the teams wanted the newer tyres, instead they’re using older ones and just trimming downforce. Changing up the pit stops could work, but so could saying in a dry race each driver has to use each compound at least once, this would enforce 2 stop races (giving more scope for errors in the pits) and mean more drivers are on different tyres at different stages of the race. Slightly artificial? Yes it would be, but wouldn't be the worst idea they’ve tried (Australia 2016 qualifying flashbacks
read:).
Let’s be realistic too, the big gainers for 2021 will be McLaren, getting the Mercedes power unit could be a huge bonus for them if they can integrate it properly into their current car, if not it might be a bit of a so so season for them leaving the terrific midfield scrap between Aston Martin and Alpine, hopefully they don’t improve to much (although I’d love to see them back up there
) as the midfield between these 3 teams has been the best thing about the 2020 season!
I do agree that the sport always seems to think ‘next year is the year’ and so on, much like football fans up and down the country who tell themselves things will get better for their club, whether it does or not. Hopefully 2022 might actually go some way to bringing the grid closer together with new rules and a budget cap. Whether we get 3 teams fighting out for the WDC and WCC with the rest all in another close group capitalising on the top 3’s errors and reliability who knows? One of the best seasons I’ve seen in my time watching the sport was 2010, that was a terrific season that had 4 drivers capable of winning the WDC going into the last race, 5 in the second to last!