WHAT HAS F1 DONE? What has F1 done??? Initially I said that we must accept these strange designs and just get on with it, but after the first day of testing in Jerez yesterday, I have to beg the question…. What has F1 done? The designs were always going to be controversial from when we first heard about the regulation changes; but my god, some of the designs are downright just stupid and very ugly. Then we have the fact that only 93 laps were completed on the first day compared to 683 in 2013? Surely, you should be as concerned as I am. Obviously, this is a year of major change, especially in the power-train department. Basically that’s the engine. It is more electrical than ever before and extremely complicated. Just ask McLaren, they couldn’t even tart their car. This is McLaren people, not freaking Marrusia. What is going on? I’m very concerned. We drop from 18000 rpm this year to 15500 and we only have 100 litres of fuel for a whole race. Why? Is F1 turning into an endurance formula? Are they so concerned about the green mentalists ? For goodness sake, F1 uses about as much fuel over an entire season that one Jumbo jet uses on one flight. Honestly, what is the big deal? Now, we have a car that at this early stage sounds not really what we are used to, at this stage, it is about 8 seconds a lap slower than last year’s car and from the front, they all look like they have come from the most outrageous Zoo ever conceptualised. Some look like ant eaters, other look like walruses, some look like armadillo’s and a lot look like penises. WTF!!! So why do the noses look so stupid? Well, apparently because of safety. In a simplistic form, the higher nose allows the car to fly up if in an accident, whereas the lower nose SHOULD negate this. Well, Adrian Newey, (you might have heard of him) doesn’t fully agree. And I would believe Newey over any FIA official. The interpretations of the front nose design are bizarre to say the least. I do hope and pray that these designs will change during the course of the season. Now, we haven’t even had the first race and maybe this has been a joke and the real cars will be revealed then. We also have the most complicated engine ever built. Reading about these engines is a mindful of technical gobbledy gook which seems insane. And it’s about saving fuel. Why? If a person goes to buy a Ferrari or McLaren road car, they do not ask about the fuel consumption, yet we now have a regulation which is completely against everything F1 is. Conservation? Plant some trees if you are so concerned. We have had turbo powered cars in F1 before in the 1980’s and 30 years ago these monsters pushed out 1200bhp, now we are down to 750bhp. We have less RPM, less fuel and from what it seems, dramatic levels of unreliability. What happened to days when Schumacher drove for something like 5 years without a mechanical failure? Now we could be back to cars leading and then breaking down. We might see a Marussia scoring point in the first few races or a Caterham winning a race ? With the greatest respect is that what we really want? I do wish the small teams do score pints to assist them financially but come on; I don’t buy into this F1 at the moment. A sport that is trying to cut costs because honestly it is too expensive decides on regulations that are going to cost the teams millions more because they will have to replace turbo’s and engines because of unreliability. No logic in my eyes. F1 is about the fastest drivers and the fastest cars. The pinnacle of technology, the most exciting racing, the most glamorous events…. And now it is about rolling out your car on the first day of testing and for some not even being able to start theirs….F1. Go back to the drawing board. Ballz shared a link via Sasha Martinengo.
