nimoraca wrote: ↑10 Apr 2022, 12:13
vorticism wrote: ↑10 Apr 2022, 12:10
Agreed, let's talk about those DRS passes. Amazing stuff, and I got to see about fifty of them; that's good value for money. The highlight was when the one guy didn't pit, securing prestigious P10.
Its unrealistic to expect every single event to be exciting.
It's unrealistic to expect every event to be exciting under this formula, with these tires and these cars, absolutely. It's absolutely realistic to expect the races to be FAR more exciting than this with better choices.
Up to 2016 the tires left drivers able to drive every set differently to their wishes and meant 2-4 pitstops and lots of variations in strategies that made F1 a lot less predictable. People start strong but drop back on the wrong strat or you have a few people on a more stops but insane pace and loads of overtaking strats. You didn't really know how well each strat would play out till the end. With these moronically bad low deg extremely narrow working window tires we have 1 stop races most places and very very predictable races.
The older tires used to be take a soft and push super hard and you might be a second faster a lap but the tire only lasts 12 laps, or you take it easy and last 17 laps, or take it real easy and do 22 laps. Today you can't do that because if you go easy the tires get cold and they grain, you try to push hard not only do the immediately start overheating so you don't even get extra performance but a loss of grip, but you also blister them almost immediately. So you're in the window and they go forever now or you're out of the window and you get graining that ruins your race.
Pirelli's solution to low deg tires, less pitstops and no variation in strat, tires that go 40+ laps and have a narrow working window again.