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dans79 wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 07:45
Wass85 wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 07:21
Surely you agree it's pathetic that you have to be told when or when not to use them.
Nah, I don't subscribe to the they need to be gladiators mindset.

If the rules weren't written by people who think the 80's was the best decade ever, they'd have a modern computer system on board monitoring everything. The cockpit would look more like one in a fighter jet, and they'd have no need to get anything other than tactical information from the pits.

Instead what we have is a convoluted system of home base personnel passing information to the pitwall, and the pitwall passing a subset of that to the driver. Sometimes I think the number one requirement for being a member of the FIA, is to be anti-technology, and a few other negative mindsets.
so it would be quite logical to eliminate the drivers championship - since the role they actually play is very little, most of the job is done by the team - looking for the places where gains can be made, where to conserve, how much and when to charge ERS and where to deploy it, then the driver just executes it, drives to delta times and so on

there is no mystery why Vettel was beaten by Ricci so hard the year he was leaving RB, Ricci leaving RB and getting crushed by Max - same thing, now Vettel leaving Ferrari and being obliterated by Charles - do you see a pattern here?

pits/team has waaaaaay too much control about how the driver actually performs on the track

locking in engine modes, make the driver think where, how and when he should manage his fuel, disable preprogrammed ERS mapping and dumbing it down would be the best thing to make this actually competitive in regards to drivers, rather than them having little more than a role of a bus/taxi driver, ok, more buttons and switches - cargo plane captain then - still, they follow a script, they make basically zero strategic decisions - that takes A LOT away from the performance

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Yes I see a pattern. the beaten driver goes away. The winning driver stays. that pattern is quite well known in racing as in live.

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At least with KERS you had the potential to give the drivers the opportunity to try and out fox each but even then they were told over the radio where the other guy is deploying his charge.

Drivers should be left to improvise for themselves, KERS was a great idea IMO.

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Wass85 wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 11:18
At least with KERS you had the potential to give the drivers the opportunity to try and out fox each but even then they were told over the radio where the other guy is deploying his charge.

Drivers should be left to improvise for themselves, KERS was a great idea IMO.
I sit somewhere between you and dan79. I liked manual KERS deploy and the strategy it could throw up. I like now that they will limit the modes - which I generoulsy see as having the side-benefit of the pit wall stopping requesting mode switches every few laps.

I want F1 to be a high tech jet fighter however I want the drivers the ability and responsibility to blow up the engine.

I would like a slight return to 'driving the car unaided'. That means if there were multiple modes in the car, the driver can choose them and bear the consequences on reliability - no pitwall intervention with 'you can't run strat 17'. I acknowledge that means the teams might put in failsafes, but it still lets the driver likely be greedy on the deploy button and affect their lap / race pace or reliability.

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Sieper wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 10:46
Yes I see a pattern. the beaten driver goes away. The winning driver stays. that pattern is quite well known in racing as in live.
I'm at an awe from how much effort it takes to come to a conclusion as elegant as that...

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nzjrs wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 11:38
Wass85 wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 11:18
At least with KERS you had the potential to give the drivers the opportunity to try and out fox each but even then they were told over the radio where the other guy is deploying his charge.

Drivers should be left to improvise for themselves, KERS was a great idea IMO.
I sit somewhere between you and dan79. I liked manual KERS deploy and the strategy it could throw up. I like now that they will limit the modes - which I generoulsy see as having the side-benefit of the pit wall stopping requesting mode switches every few laps.

I want F1 to be a high tech jet fighter however I want the drivers the ability and responsibility to blow up the engine.

I would like a slight return to 'driving the car unaided'. That means if there were multiple modes in the car, the driver can choose them and bear the consequences on reliability - no pitwall intervention with 'you can't run strat 17'. I acknowledge that means the teams might put in failsafes, but it still lets the driver likely be greedy on the deploy button and affect their lap / race pace or reliability.
I'm not sure if they could do this with the complexity of these power units but I'd sooner it be settled by gear ratios and downforce levels, if drivers have some sort of deployment ready at hand they have to decide when and where to use it.

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jz11 wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 12:18
Sieper wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 10:46
Yes I see a pattern. the beaten driver goes away. The winning driver stays. that pattern is quite well known in racing as in live.
I'm at an awe from how much effort it takes to come to a conclusion as elegant as that...
It was a strenuous effort :D . As much as I usually like to go into "alternative reality theories" I always find these, "the outgoing driver got screwed on purpose by the team" a bit far fetched. Leclerc was quite fast in qualy last year also and on the other hand Vettel has also won his duels this year, or got the better strategy (f.e. in Hungary). Often these strategies are not meant to screw one driver in favor of the other, but a driver can also be in a position in the race that you take a gamble. F.e. last year in germany Lance Stroll was beat and as a consequence they put him on the dry tire very early. It gave him a great result. Above what he deserved on merit, but just as he was in that position that a gamble would not loose him much. If it would have been too wet afterall and he would have have to come in again you could argue he got screwed to test the dry tire for his teammate. Those kind of arguments you read almost every race topic. But you have to look at both sides of the medal when looking at strategies. Sure there are lead drivers, also when teams don't want to admit it, that is not too strange.

Hopefully I can get an A for effort now, although likely you will not agree.

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not getting screwed over, just not getting as much help as the other guy - BIG difference in this era of overcomplicated space ships they pilot

for instance - Albon is not nearly as bad as results would make you believe, he simply is a running testbed to maximize Maxes performance, often he is put on a "meaningless" strategy very different to Maxes to see how the different tyre performs for instance, and the team is backing him all the way post race because of that, also they don't need his points in consttuctors race anyway

what I'm trying to say is - driver for a while, has not been in control of the race he is participating in, he drives to a simulated result, if he performs well, the team keeps him, if he is constantly behind simulation or makes too many mistakes, he gets replaced

that is why I said - drivers title means little any more, maybe in between teammates in Mercedes, because they are that much above the rest, they can afford to run equal opportunity strat, but RB or Ferrari - that is just not the case, the rest of the field - again different story, they'll try to maximise constructors point first

some may like this, due to respect to the team, the amount of evolution in technology that led to this, me - not so much, because - like I said, driver role has been engineered out as much as possible to get bettet, more consistent, result and not be dependent on them

edit: not trying to make anyone take the red pill, but denying it may exist is basically lie in itself

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Just bring on "push to pass". It works well in Indycar and Formula-E ...oh yeah..and forget FanBoost or s**t like that :)

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jz11 wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 12:51
not getting screwed over, just not getting as much help as the other guy - BIG difference in this era of overcomplicated space ships they pilot

for instance - Albon is not nearly as bad as results would make you believe, he simply is a running testbed to maximize Maxes performance, often he is put on a "meaningless" strategy very different to Maxes to see how the different tyre performs for instance, and the team is backing him all the way post race because of that, also they don't need his points in consttuctors race anyway

what I'm trying to say is - driver for a while, has not been in control of the race he is participating in, he drives to a simulated result, if he performs well, the team keeps him, if he is constantly behind simulation or makes too many mistakes, he gets replaced

that is why I said - drivers title means little any more, maybe in between teammates in Mercedes, because they are that much above the rest, they can afford to run equal opportunity strat, but RB or Ferrari - that is just not the case, the rest of the field - again different story, they'll try to maximise constructors point first

some may like this, due to respect to the team, the amount of evolution in technology that led to this, me - not so much, because - like I said, driver role has been engineered out as much as possible to get bettet, more consistent, result and not be dependent on them

edit: not trying to make anyone take the red pill, but denying it may exist is basically lie in itself
That depends on if you are willing to honoustly look at the strategies given. Or not. F.e. Albon, white tires in spain I think it was? People said, test for Max. Could be true. Or could just have been what RBR thought best (allthough a gamble) for Albon himself. Same in spa, Albon on yellow. Max was always only going to do yellow white. No need to be a tested. That is just reaching by people who want to believe Albon gets given less help. Yellow was not weird at all. On same compound he would not have overtaken Ricci. On softer he stood a chance. And there could have been a later safety car which would then have been great for him. RBR was trying to help Albon and he needed that.

I believe in Albon but I don’t agree he is testbed. Not I Any different way then Max was that for Ricci. It was always Max running the aero test etc.

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I'm more than happy to agree to disagreement :) let's not derail the thread too much with this discussion

but I'll say again - I think this is a good change that may lead to drivers having to do more with their right foot in regards to fuel and pace management, at least - the intention behind the change seems legitimate

that being said - so far Merc have been at least couple steps before anyone else (with the exception of Silverstone, where they were simply overconfident), and I don't think it will change a lot in regards to overall competitiveness this year or the next, in regards to race wins anyway

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nzjrs wrote:
03 Sep 2020, 11:38
I want F1 to be a high tech jet fighter however I want the drivers the ability and responsibility to blow up the engine.
The only reason this doesn't happen anymore, is because the FIA has this false delusion of green auto racing, so the engines need to last 7 grand prix and you are penalized if they don't. It's also one of the reasons why costs are sky high!
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Wasn't there also an agreement all engines should be within max 3% difference of eachother?

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Here we are on F1Technical with lots of people arguing that they don’t like technology.
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