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Post by René on Jun 26, 2018 13:56:34 GMT
The comparison to Paul Ricard and contemporary F1 to Road America and Indycar comes down heavily in favour of the latter. I don't know how much slower Indycars are to F1 but they looked fast enough on TV for them to have a big accident if they ran off the road but yet I only saw a couple of gravel traps and one tarmac run off area. The track and it surroundings are beautiful especially the grass that borders most of the track, so nostalgic. Really F1 is looking more and more like a pack of spoilt kids who have overly engineered everything and subtracted from racing in doing so. One of the things I like about Indycar is the lack of tyre blankets and that a car coming out of the pits is comparatively slower than rivals on warm tyres, something that is not really apparent in F1 anymore. It used to be a skill to go fast on cold tyres after a pitstop, Piquet being one who was particularly skilled at doing so. F1s love for finding a technical engineering solution to everything has removed that skill from the equation and hence dumbed down the sport. I could go on. Great post Rob! F1 people think they are really smart but change is not always the most intelligent way to go. Progress is good but don't change what the sport is all about; the best drivers in the world driving the fastest cars on the most daunting race tracks on the planet. Aargh... it could be so much better.
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Post by charleselan on Jun 26, 2018 15:36:39 GMT
In my earlier comment I mentioned the S*y Sport little feature on Didier Pironi which I unfortunately missed, however Jamie's review has made me seek it out elsewhere. As luck would have it the film is available on the S*Y Sport F1 web site, about five and half minutes long. Jamie mentioned that it was respectful, and having just watched it i have to agree, a very good little presentation of this great driver.
I was surprised to see Nigel Roebuck feature, and without any acidic comments about Didier also, the highlights were the comments of Keke Rosberg and Alain Prost which for me illustrated their regard for the man in so many ways. Also the ending with the words of his son who never knew his father, and now works as an engineer for Mercedes F1, his dad would be proud I am certain.
Best bit of action footage has to be Didier in the Ferrari 126C2 round a bend (possibly Zandvoort); the rear view of him exiting in full blown slide makes one weep at what F1 should be like now.
Well done S*Y team that as a goodie.
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