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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
If F1 wants to encourage passing they should just allow ground effects. The cars mess up each others wing born aero package too much to get close to each other. Reduce wing surface area and allow real under pans and the cars could tail gate like an NYC cab driver without any ill effects.
They also need to get away from having so many standardized parts. It is insane that the highest form of racing in the world spends so much money to stop teams from having traction control and anti locks when they have become standard features on half the cars sold in the world.
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GASP!!! are you saying Tim the FIA should take away a rule they made?! are you a mad man? lol seriously though I agree with that too, but they are afraid its gonna turn into the ground affects era, where the cars were scary fast with minimal wings on the outside, but then again, isnt the sport already fast enough as it is you know?arent they hitting around 4g's at certain points? also thats why the Turbo era was taken down....which that era started right after the ground affects era got banned, they were getting scary fast. As far as im concerned, they need to take some drastic measures to make it fun to watch again. I remember a time when NASCAR got so bad, that 80% of that years wins were based on pit stops, didnt matter how well you did int the race, you had a bad pit stop, you were done. I do have to say oone question, do those little winglets on the F1 cars today really make that much of a difference on the cars?
If they are gonna work with the ground affects again, FIA needs to mandate a rule where the teams must give them 1 car for them to test that they are runnign for the year, they cannot make ANY areo changes through the year to their cars. the FIA shoudl test the car, see how much downforce, drag, etc it makes, and they should have rules on minimun/maximun downforce they can make so clean them up a little.
I think this 1.8 liter turbo deal is sounding pretty interesting. maybe the cars will become a little slower, cause i know the FIA will mandate a maximum amount of boost they can push, also with teh cars being slower, they will have to choose weither to have less downforce to be faster, or have more wings to get them to handle better, and maybe they will bring back full slicks, not those treaded style they run now. And 1 last thing. you think they will allow the treams to run ALS? ( anti-lag system) like in the rally cars. Ferrari made a system like that during the turbo era, which is really the first ALS to be used.