What a boring Race - lets hope New Regs are a lot better

[Jolle]

There are every year lots of boring races. Always been there, always will.

I don't see the 3PU rule as a reason. What I do see as a reason is the sophistication of design. The cars, especially the cooling, is designed without any leeway. After a few laps behind someone and your PU becomes too hot. They could enhance cooling, but that would cost laptime (for qualifying for instance).

Next to the cooling, the details of aero are so sophisticated that a small disturbance (as in turbulence from a car in front) will negatively impact downforce.

It looks like that cars are more designed to qualify then to race. Maybe we should go to qualify aero packages instead fo qualifying engines? (other FW, suspension settings and RW settings)

[zac510]

Yes definitely. There'll always be boring F1 races, boring football matches, boring baseball matches. It's a cross between probability and human acclimatisation. We need a boring race every now and again to make the good races seem more special, and vice versa!

Onto rules, something simple like no strakes 50mm above the reference plane may, if the regulation is worded correctly (how to define a strake!?) could result in cars that can run off the track and not lose percentage points of performance after knocking off various strakes (ie, avoid what happened to Verstappen last weekend).