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The 2024 Formula One Season

gez said:
I'm not in favour of any motorsport that "allows" physical contact, and BTCC drivers seem to use nudging etc as a racing tactic and I'll always see such behaviour as cheating. Motoracing should be strictly non contact IMO.
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Although this seems to be common in any racing that isn't open-wheeled (where it is decidedly dangerous). I can remember back in the glory days of the Porsche 917, Jo Siffert and Pedro Rodriguez "leaning" on competitors.
 
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Bodhi said:
They should bring back full ground effects from the late 70's, 1.5l turbo engines from 1983, and active suspension from the early 90's. That would make a berserk F1 car!
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Also traction control and driver aids?
 
Bodhi said:
They should bring back full ground effects from the late 70's, 1.5l turbo engines from 1983, and active suspension from the early 90's. That would make a berserk F1 car!
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We would start to see big shunts and dead drivers, so that would be a very bad idea.

Whoever writes the rules has a very tough job as no matter how clever the FIA engineers are, each team has cleverer and more motivated engineers and so loopholes etc are found around the rules and the cars go faster and faster.

Having stable rules does close up the grid and with 2025 being a dead year (very few teams will develop for it as the vast majority of wind tunnel time will be used for the 2026 rules car) with a few of the slower teams using easy catchups on their cars, we should see some pretty close racing.

The one thing that I would say about the current rules, is that with a budget cap, a wind tunnel time cap, very tight rules to keep the grid close together to, so innovation is very limited, is that it is over prescriptive. They could free up some areas to allow for a bit off innovation which engineers in teams will like and it the motorsports media will like as it gives them things to investigate and talk about.

Welcome to the forum. One of the most important engineers at Mercedes F1, lives and works from Melbourne. Lucky guy!!
 
Crikey this one is testing my resolve, I get the history, the glamour and all that... but we have several cars faster than those in front and not one of them can pass... the commentator just said it's a master class in tyre management... while I'd be the first to say that has its place if it's the 'highlight' of the 'race' a rethink is required.
 
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One thing interested me today was the downhill straight between Casino and Mirabeau which has a hump on the left hand side (just below the Heineken banner). We’ve repeatedly seen the drivers swerve right to avoid this hump, makes sense as they don’t want it to destabilise the car or have to slow it down but there was at least once (I think it was Sargent) who stayed left to allow someone to pass and his car appeared to handle the hump really well. He likely backed off of course but I was surprised how well the car actually handled a piece of track the drivers almost always avoid!
Under power in racing conditions its probably not worth the risk or maybe the gain would be minimal but I think it’s the first time the hump being used!
 
The first ten finishers, all the points-paying positions, were unchanged from start to finish, with no overtakes. Is this a record?

Sky had a mention of voting for the overtake of the day...
 
Willie Eckerslyke said:
The first ten finishers, all the points-paying positions, were unchanged from start to finish, with no overtakes. Is this a record?

Sky had a mention of voting for the overtake of the day...
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Bottas did a great overtake but yes, not in the top ten..

I still think Monaco should be a time attack style affair..but its really only there these days to appease the rich..
 
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