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re: Formula 1 2020 Season Thread
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:13 pm to MountainTiger
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:13 pm to MountainTiger
I’m still a new fan to F1 so it’s been rough getting my head around the lack of parity between teams. I really enjoy the different variables that teams use but it’s a lot of information sometimes.
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:22 pm to Monday
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I’m still a new fan to F1 so it’s been rough getting my head around the lack of parity between teams.
This is really the least appealing aspect of F1 to me. However, it's always been this way and will likely always be this way to some degree. The amount of money that the top teams can afford to spend is staggering and the Haases and Alfa Romeos of the world simply can't pump that much money into it. But that's what you get in a virtually unlimited class.
That's why they change up the formula every now and then, to throw a spanner into the works and create some chaos for a little while. Next year will hopefully be pretty entertaining.
This post was edited on 2/20/20 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:35 pm to Monday
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I’m still a new fan to F1 so it’s been rough getting my head around the lack of parity between teams.
The F1 mentality is that it's an engineering series—the innovation and differentiation between the cars is the main feature. For the last few decades that means that one to three teams typically dominate the season.
In a given season, so few cars have a chance to win a race, that the eventual champion really only has to beat three guys on a regular basis and maybe five to seven guys total. This is why I don't understand why F1 is revered, even among drivers, as the "pinnacle of racing." It's the pinnacle of fast cars (although the WEC has as much innovation) and the pinnacle of high salaries and enormous budgets.
IndyCar is looked down upon by F1 fanboys because the cars are mostly spec, but that very feature makes IndyCar a far more competitive series. I'm a big fan of both F1 and IndyCar because they offer unique styles of racing (which is also determined by the rules regarding full-course yellows, refuelling, tires, etc.).
Posted on 3/4/20 at 4:58 pm to Monday
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I’m still a new fan to F1 so it’s been rough getting my head around the lack of parity between teams. I really enjoy the different variables that teams use but it’s a lot of information sometimes.
Ditto - gotten into it the last few years and really enjoy it but good heavens the dominance at the top is frustrating as a fan. Would it kill them to have Haas or Williams regularly battling for podiums instead of knowing that they have virtually no shot of finishing better than 4th coming into the year?
It might be incongruous with the first paragraph, but I love the business/branding/management side of the sport, though. Nothing else quite like it in sports.
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