This is still one of the tougher topics for me because I am on record as saying we need more risk involved with the tracks nowadays. I do not want to see drivers killed, but I do want to see them punished for making bad decisions.
While Spa is a fantastic track, over the past decade, the track has been slowly ruined by this idiot push for giant tarmac runoff areas. It's really easy to push a car when the worst that happens is you wind up on more tarmac outside of the lines.
Even some of the drivers have turned into sissies...look at Petrov crying about the proximity of the walls in Canada.
I mean really?
This is what it has come to?
I think he whined about Mugello too when they were testing there.
People who did not see F1 when things were less safe are actually missing out. People want better tracks, yet the sad thing is a lot of the better tracks don't conform to safety as required by the FIA. I hope to god F1 never goes back to say Brand's Hatch because it would turn into another sterile circuit. On the flipside, Imola was ruined completely by all of the changes. The back half of the track from the Tossa up to the Piratella, and from the end of the Acque Minerali to the Rivazza are still the same. The Variante Bassa sucks now. The starting grid was changed completely, the Tamburello is gone, and the Villeneuve is awful. Watching a motorcycle race there earlier in the year was just blah. The track lost a lot of it's personality.
The reason we love certain tracks as much as we do is because they have personality. When the tracks are changed in the name of safety, you start to kill off why people loved the track. It's like performing a lobotomy on a person.
I still feel like they should run a historic race before Spa where they run the original circuit through the towns, and give all the drivers on the grid vintage F1 cars. We'll see who really has balls. I bet Maldonado doesn't try to divebomb someone if it means he might find himself wrapped around a tree.
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