Formula One will adopt standing restarts as of the 2015 season, today's World Motorsport Council has agreed in Munich. Along with improvements for the show, further regulation changes were approved to reduce costs for teams in the near future.
Yeah, but what did you think of the bouquet?MOWOG wrote:That's quite droll.You know how an animal will sometimes twitch for a few moments after it dies? Double points, exhaust megaphones, sparky skid blocks, and standing restarts are Formula One's post-mortem spasms.Pithy, even.
Logically if you don't have the field passing by every couple of minutes then you can have more people and machinery working to clear the track etc...which could, in theory, reduce delays...even if there was then a warm up lap prior to the restart...Aesto wrote:I was thinking about this as well, as it really would have helped after the first Safety Car in Canada, with the debris and oil from the Marussias right on the racing line. I think the main problem with this concept is brake, tyre and engine temps, which need to be managed. This requires team personnel to be on the grid, as well as a warm-up lap. That's quite a significant delay. That's another problem in itself: many TV stations have quite a rigid schedule, and if an F1 race drags on significantly longer than expected, they won't be too fond of that.adrianjordan wrote:So let me get this straight.
There's an accident that warrant the Safety Car coming out. The reason for the Safety Car is that it controls the field and makes it safer for the Marshals and any other staff attending the accident, am I right?
So what they're now proposing is that they will bring out the safety car, control the field while the staff are working and THEN bring the field to a halt for a restart..??
Why not simply stop the race whenever there's an accident big enough to warrant the Safety Car?? Apply a limiter to control the pace of the cars back to the grid, stop the race until the accident is cleared up and then restart the race. I cannot see the logic in still having the field drive past the accident if they're going to have a standing restart anyway. Okay so it means that they'll need to turn off the engines etc, but surely that would still be far safer than lapping under the safety car when they're going to stop for the restart anyway...
What am I missing??
If all these problems can be solved, I think that red-flagging races instead of sending out the SC would be a good idea, but that's easier said than done.
Bahrain and Canada were easily the best two races in the last five, possibly even ten years. All this doomsday-talk is getting oldbhall II wrote:You know how an animal will sometimes twitch for a few moments after it dies? Double points, exhaust megaphones, sparky skid blocks, and standing restarts are Formula One's post-mortem spasms.
You do have a point here but would it not be easier to keep the cars running rather than risking another incident when they restart. This does most certainly not happen often yes , but when the cars are all bunched up together at the start that sets the ideal time for an accident to happen.adrianjordan wrote: Logically if you don't have the field passing by every couple of minutes then you can have more people and machinery working to clear the track etc...which could, in theory, reduce delays...even if there was then a warm up lap prior to the restart...
This is an utter joke. What´s next? Michael Bay explosions?F1 is also set to adopt 'sparking' titanium skid planks for next season, which were trialled successfully by Nico Rosberg and Kimi Raikkonen during the recent Austrian Grand Prix.
They're not. Anyone want to disagree and state that the current grid of drivers in F1 are the best drivers on the planet?GitanesBlondes wrote:F1 drivers do so little driving these days that I don't even consider them to be the best drivers out there any longer.
Might as well finish it off for the fans and changed the name from F1 to FU.As in other professional wrestling promotions, WWE shows are not legitimate sporting contests, but purely entertainment-based, featuring storyline-driven, scripted and choreographed matches.....
There's plenty of people out there that still hold onto some desperate idea that F1 drivers along with F1 still remain as the pinnacle of both those respective things.Cam wrote:They're not. Anyone want to disagree and state that the current grid of drivers in F1 are the best drivers on the planet?GitanesBlondes wrote:F1 drivers do so little driving these days that I don't even consider them to be the best drivers out there any longer.
With F1 obviously moving to a 4 wheeled form of 'professional' WWE :Might as well finish it off for the fans and changed the name from F1 to FU.As in other professional wrestling promotions, WWE shows are not legitimate sporting contests, but purely entertainment-based, featuring storyline-driven, scripted and choreographed matches.....
