And the person who made F1 crap is named Bernie Ecclestone.
Indycar and the WEC. Two very different racing series with very different rules. Indycar is a spec series, all cars are equal in performance and it is down to the individual teams and drivers to emerge victorious on the battlefield loosely disguised as a racetrack. The WEC (World Endurance Championship) is on the other end of the spectrum entirely. Each team reads a rulebook, and comes up with a car that conforms to those rules, however, this rulebook is extremely broad and strongly encourages outside-the-box thinking. Winning a race is just as much in the hands of the gladiators who drive these machines to the breaking point as it is the team that builds them to push every known limit. While these two amazing racing series are on opposite ends of the range, Formula 1 is stuck somewhere in the middle. In the 1960’s F1 was an open series where only the most non-traditional drivers and thinkers could win. Since then, it has tried to stay an open series by allowing the teams to build their own cars but the rulebook is so strict, it may as well be a spec series. For a racing series to be great, it needs to fully commit itself to being either a spec or open series, only then will F1 stop relying on off-track drama to keep itself in the headlines. We’ll be back to hard, tough racing right up until the checkered flag flies splitting the difference between rival drivers and rival teams by mere inches. That is the world I want to live it.
In the comments on the blackfag site there is a video of Lauda suggesting they have cars with 1200hp big wings and wide tires. Why is this not a thing already!?!
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And the person who made F1 crap is named Bernie Ecclestone.
Indycar and the WEC. Two very different racing series with very different rules. Indycar is a spec series, all cars are equal in performance and it is down to the individual teams and drivers to emerge victorious on the battlefield loosely disguised as a racetrack. The WEC (World Endurance Championship) is on the other end of the spectrum entirely. Each team reads a rulebook, and comes up with a car that conforms to those rules, however, this rulebook is extremely broad and strongly encourages outside-the-box thinking. Winning a race is just as much in the hands of the gladiators who drive these machines to the breaking point as it is the team that builds them to push every known limit. While these two amazing racing series are on opposite ends of the range, Formula 1 is stuck somewhere in the middle. In the 1960’s F1 was an open series where only the most non-traditional drivers and thinkers could win. Since then, it has tried to stay an open series by allowing the teams to build their own cars but the rulebook is so strict, it may as well be a spec series. For a racing series to be great, it needs to fully commit itself to being either a spec or open series, only then will F1 stop relying on off-track drama to keep itself in the headlines. We’ll be back to hard, tough racing right up until the checkered flag flies splitting the difference between rival drivers and rival teams by mere inches. That is the world I want to live it.
In the comments on the blackfag site there is a video of Lauda suggesting they have cars with 1200hp big wings and wide tires. Why is this not a thing already!?!