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xpensive wrote:As the alternative ERS-thread seems to have lost it's initial crispness, I'm bold enough to try another pet-idea;
I wish the womanizing and hard-partying drivers of the 70s would come back, like James Hunt and John Watson, oh mama!
I'm not a fan of the current personalities but I also hate that kind of personality too. I don't see the appeal of these douchebag types. I would have constantly referred to James Hunt as James Cunt if I was around back then.
But you were not around then.
If you had been with your weedy modern attitude you would have had to be very careful what you said.
xpensive wrote:As the alternative ERS-thread seems to have lost it's initial crispness, I'm bold enough to try another pet-idea;
I wish the womanizing and hard-partying drivers of the 70s would come back, like James Hunt and John Watson, oh mama!
I'm not a fan of the current personalities but I also hate that kind of personality too. I don't see the appeal of these douchebag types. I would have constantly referred to James Hunt as James Cunt if I was around back then.
King Six wrote: I would have constantly referred to James Hunt as James Cunt if I was around back then.
As the saying goes, you are what you eat...
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!” Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1000+ hp, 12 cylinders, H-shifter, fat slicks, steel brake discs, no DRS, no driving aids, high kerbs, gravel runoffs, long straights and daunting turns.
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Glad there are other Luddites out there!
Some men go crazy; some men go slow. Some men go just where they want; some men never go.
beelsebob wrote:Ah, I see we have another "when I was young" thread!
Which tells us that it might not necessarily have been any better back then, just that everyone's perceptions of the world were different. So that gives people a clue as to what to do if they want to start enjoying it again.
It makes me chuckle when people do this, because they used to moan about their dads saying things like "when I was a lad...", and here they are now doing exactly the same thing
Roland Ehnström wrote:1000+ hp, 12 cylinders, H-shifter, fat slicks, steel brake discs, no DRS, no driving aids, high kerbs, gravel runoffs, long straights and daunting turns.
+1. Add active suspensions and some restriction on aero so cars can follow each other through the corners and we'll end with 19 weekends of pure Motorsport porn.
Engine rules are not intended to be "green" Per Se. Instead they are intended to make engineers focus on real world needs of automobile customers...fuel efficiency, and reliability. Rather than mandate KERS, or TERS or any other specific technology I'd prefer to let the engineers have at it. I don't care how they get there, may the best design win. Over time the fuel limit may be decreased.
Engine displacement 2L max
Maximum Fuel depends upon race distance, such that race distance/fuel mass = 3.0km/kg
Number of engines per season = 4 - penalty for exceeding engine allotment 1.0 min stop and go penalty at the beginning of each race where extra engine is used.
One fuel formula for the entire field, and distributed by a supplier contracted by the FIA
Otherwise the engine formula is unrestricted.
I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to aerodynamics, but I would wish that the rules makers would define the aero rules with the following intentions:
No DRS or F duct features intended to allow a passing advantage. On the other hand aero rules must be devised to reduce the advantage of the leading driver. Of these goals call for an increase in size of the rear diffuser and a decrease in the size of the rear wing, so be it. If it is to be the other way around, that is fine too. I care about the competition, not the downforce. I don't really care about how it all affects the handeling, because I do consider it the drivers job to drive the thing even if it has the aero of a 1966 Lotus 43. Indeed, rules limiting teams to 1966 aero technology might not be such a bad thing.
Sporting Rules
Leaving the racing surface is punishable by DSQ in all cases. If you leave the track you lose...NO POINTS FOR YOU. If another driver intentionally forces another driver off of the racing surface...DSQ for 3 races. No need to repeat Senna/Prost BS of the past. The penalties will be severe.
