[sherer]

only just found this htead so i thought i'd my 2 penneth about the problems on Formula 1 at the moment.

The main problem is the refueling and the pitstops. This is mainly down to Max Mosley who likes the Chess strategy nature of Formula 1. It was introduced because they couldn't get any action on the track to tried to create artificial action with the refueling. Now most of the race is decided by a spreadsheet before the race even starts !! How many times since then have you heard a driver say "I couldn't pass so decided to wait for the stops.". I've heard this phrase hundreds of times. But what if there were no stops if all the action took place out on the track they would be forced into have to try an overtaking move.

Problem 2 is all the gadgets etc on the cars and the rows and rows of computers monitoring them. With all this a driver doesn't even have to know if he has oversteer or understeer because it is all recorded for him. We need to remove all the sensors from the cars so that it is all down the the driver rather than computer data. That way the driver has to know what the car is doing and work this out with his engineers for the setup rather than using a computer simulation. if more emphasis is placed on the driver then a good driver even in a Minardi can make a difference at the moment it's all down to software and aerodynamics so even if Schumacher was in a Minardi it wouldn't matter much.

There's other things as well like going back to clicks and smaller wings but just these 2 things would make a huge difference. The problem if they done that then the technology would be less which would mean the car manufacturers would get less out of the sport and want to spend less money on it or pull out altogether. You just can't win sometimes!!

What i'd like to see is rather than F1 being changed make these changes to GP2 ( currently F3000). There is less media intensity here and can be changed and experimented with. if they could do all the things the fans and F1 purists want here and then show to the F1 teams \ manufacturers what it has done to the racing etc then they would be forced into implementing it.

Sherer