CMSMJ1 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:58 pm
I've been around long enough to remember when this was all fields...and things were simpler then.
I would gladly pick up the 'Ban-hammer' and oblige and encourage more decorum in this place.
We do have - and flame away - a little bit of teething trouble where the kids have taken hold of the classroom,
As an example - there is a 2022 tyre test on at the moment. Is there a thread? Nope, not til just earlier today.
Once upon a time..there was a thread at each race, for each car and it had the most amazing postings (and posters) reviewing, discussing and collaborating in amazing levels of interesting F1 Technology.
1: We had the Manchild - Ferrari nose scoop - now the ubiquitous S duct.
2: We had the 'Dead Zone' - pre F Duct conversations and the massive focus of the forum in reviewing that design and the take up of it as it became the must have item.
3: We had obsessions with ellipses and the designs of the blown exhausts ets - that was an amazing time to be here - so many excellent posts on that.
4: We had excellent reviews of the upcoming V6 turbo era and significant review of the fuel flow meter regs. Remember that? It was a big deal...we used to have fuel use onboard graphics!!
5: What do we have now? We do have excellent Aero articles and front pagers by some of the teams - that is excellent work - but is it the most discussed or hot topic? No..
6: We have new regs coming - can you imagine how awesome that is going to be? We should be seeing car threads detailling and describing the nuances of these restrictive regs and how the cars develop through this first year.
What do we get now - bickering and partisan driver vs driver conversation. Driver talk is not Technical talk. Entrenched dogmatic assertion on who is best is not Technical talk.[/list]
Perhaps the eye has been off the ball and life and the madness of this workd has been in the way - but surely this place is an important place for most of us? It is not a place to come and be aggresive and belligerent with the moderators and owners? It is not your game, your home or your ball.... if you don;t like it - then jog on or put your partisan thoughts to one side and get stuck in to help.
Lewis vs Max - lol - get over it. Life is too short. Jesus..it was Mansell vs Senna once....and then it was Schumi (who was either the second coming of Jebus, or the incarnate of Baphomet)..and then how dare Alonso be any good...the cheating swine...and we all liked Kimi right??....but boooo Hamilton and yay Brawn - what a good job.
Times change - drivers come and go and sometimes they are great and sometimes you only realise that when they have gone that you have really lost something special...but there will be another.
F1 Technical. Not F1 Drivers. Not even F1 teams.... Technical. Flex your brains, not your aero surfaces (but if you do, let's collaborate and discuss together - this place doesn't need conflict, it needs respect and grown up engagement with one another.
To lower the tone..and paraphrase a lame fillm - "Be cool to one another"
(and final note - one of the best threads - The Piston engines aircraft one - it is super - respectful disagreement and techincal lunacy - thanks chaps/chapesses)