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Originally Posted by torqdork
It's relative speed that's exciting to me whether Formula 1 cars, boats, aircraft or what I used to race, bicycles. And that's the dilema F1 finds itself in. Not only are the cars significantly slower than last year, they sound like tractors and with M-B early season dominance (when they stay glued together), there's too much relative speed difference to cause anything but boredom.
Slower cars aren't progress. Relatively equal, clean competition is, something F1 has to re-learn.
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But that's the thing, they're not significantly slower. In fact they are faster and more powerful with more torque and more top speed. They're slower because unlike the older cars where they could just bury the throttle and video-game-aero grip fixes everything, they have to deal with wheelspin and lack of grip. In theory, it will showcase better skilled drivers much more than the last few generations. In practice it hasn't been because of the huge advantage MB has thanks to their engine, but it's very refreshing seeing people fight the cars on the limit and still come relatively close to last years times, especially there in Canada.