Where do people always get this idea that F1 has ever been more about the drivers than the cars? In the last 30 years, I can think of a total of three WDCs (2007,1995,1986) that weren't won by the driver in the best car, and even then it was the second best one.lebesset wrote:is F1 a sport ?
if so it has to be primarily a drivers formula rather than the designers formula that it has become
the pendulum needs to swing back ! as someone said recently , the drivers need to be the heroes , in which event interest will return
There's an excellent quote about this in the movie ''1976: Hunt vs Lauda'' from Alastair Caldwell, who was McLaren's team manager at the time:
This is how it always has been, and this is how it always will be. Deal with it.Press and the public like to concentrate on the drivers being the most important member of the team, but it's not at all. The drivers are very much replaceable. In the unfortunate idea of the two McLaren drivers being involved in a motorway accident and dying, do you think their team would be on the back row of the grid in the next race? No, they won't be because they'll just hire two more hot shoes and they'll be right up there.