The Off Topic Thread.

[Rab]

3 minutes ago, mightbuyaford said:

Watching angry birds. Pretty funny lol

 

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[Rab]

Boring F1 race, but looks like a decent result

[MattyP]

f1 sort of bores me anyway, I know how insanely fast they are its just well boring.

Same as the V8 supercars. Id love to see real production cars doing it again

[MattyP]

Blasphemy but when is it?

[Rab]

Next year for F1's will be interesting - grip will no longer be the limiting factor. So glad they've gotten rid of the ban on communication between the pit and the driver as of this weekend too.

 

Sacrilege I know, but am actually looking forward to the mix up that's headed the way of the Aussie Touring car races - pretty much just NASCAR now, may as well make it a single car championship - zero relevance to what we can buy vs what they race. And none of it filters down to road cars. 

 

Actually get more out of the support classes racing - how good is it to see XY's, Mustangs, Commodores and RX7's all mixing it up in the same race?

Edited 31/07/16 01:41 PM by Rab

[MattyP]

What are they changing rab?

[Rab]

F1's? wider tyres - hopefully tyre choice and longevity will no longer be an issue/deciding factor

 

Anything that takes the outcome from the pit strategy and puts it back into the hands of the driver is the right way to go as far as I'm concerned. 

[MattyP]

Agreed, That is sort of what I found boring.. 

Love seeing turbos back on these things

[Rab]

The turbo's bought a heap more complexity to the whole setup for the drivers - they pretty much have to run a complex system from within the cabin now.

 

Then they banned communications to try and force the teams to reduce the complexity (which didn't work) - lots of positions have been lost because there were cockpit settings or errors that needed to be corrected that the team hasn't been able to help with - the driver has had to try and guess what order to push what buttons to fix some random issue while doing 260+ where the pit wall could have just let them know what to do.

 

Give them a steering wheel, brakes, bias settings, tyres that let them use everything they are given and let them race to the best of their abilities and I'm cheering.

Let them be a driver first - to have them held back for anything other than their skill and the raw performance of their vehicle goes against everything the pinnacle of racing should be about.

[k31th]

23 minutes ago, Rab said:

Let them be a driver first

and therein lies the problem with F1, imho... It's just Hamilton vs Rosberg and has been for a few years, now... it's boring, for the most part.

When one (sometimes two or three) teams have a mechanical/technological advantage over all other teams in the competition, it makes the racing boring because it doesn't matter how good of a "driver" you are if your car is just not as good as the cars that are streaking away ahead of you.

 

This is where I much prefer supercars and quite enjoy the racing of supercars. The cars are very very close to parity in terms of performance. This means the cream of the crop of drivers end up on top more often than not. Of course the teams with the most money to splash around to hire the best engineering/mechanical knowledge/skill also helps a bit in supercars, but it makes bugger all difference and more often than not the drivers make the difference.

 

Supercars also has the advantage of having cars that are able to be driven around almost every track side-by-side (sometimes more) without incident. This is the most exciting and "in the moment" sort of racing that gets even the most uninitiated's attention.