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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by Yhippa on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:41PM (#14035930)
Sadly unless you normalize the cars we may never see true racing as you say. Someone in my F1 watch group pointed out the minimal passes in that race. It would be sad if it ends up being like the Peak Schumacher days where races were more or less won by pit strategy.

Also worried that it's now Ferrari, Mercedes, and everyone else. By a long shot.

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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by exDM69 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:33PM (#14036380)
> Sadly unless you normalize the cars we may never see true racing as you say.

For interesting single-make racing, you can watch the GP2 and GP3 races before/after the F1 race and qualifying (for European races, and a few others).

Traditionally, multi-make series have been called "Formula" series in racing lingo.

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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by onion2k on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:39AM (#14040438)
Sadly unless you normalize the cars we may never see true racing as you say.

Or put a dynamic rev limiter in the cars that's bound to how well you're doing in the race, so the car in the lead literally can't go as fast as the car in last place. Then we'd get 'rubber banding' like computer game AI[1]. That'd be brilliant to watch.

I don't imagine manufacturers would be very happy about it though.

[1] https://www.giantbomb.com/rubber-band-ai/3015-35/

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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by dublinben on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:27PM (#14036321)
That's better than the five seasons of single team dominance we've had before (Red Bull, then Mercedes). There's a lot more competition going on this year, and it may even include the podium.
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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by elcapitan on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:44PM (#14035955)
Agree on normalization. Or at least keep the core regulation (engines, aerodynamics, tires) untouched for a few years. Right now it's some kind of new regulation every year, and the big teams with their crazy development budgets can buy wins in the next year. If that stuff would at least stay the same for a while, the teams could become more even. For a few years Red Bull dominated completely because of aerodynamics regulation, now it was Mercedes because of engine regulation, and it just becomes more boring all the time.
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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by ericcumbee on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:29PM (#14036339)
The other more mainstream word for that concept is Balance of Performance. That is generally considered a dirty word amongst most racing purists.
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