Is it me or has it been desperately dull ... *Not if you are German*
Vettel has quite frankly dicked almost every race and Japan was his fifth win in a row! He and his car are miles superior to anybody else's ... Very boring and predictable!
He's got a 90 point lead with 4 races left ffs!
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It's like Spain playing in the Euros last time, it gets boring when there's one team far beyond the rest.
Gotta love the beeb
Two things stopped me, Cricket and F1.
It's down to one now (but aren't there changes and new rules for next season?)
He's a great driver but in a great car (that's borderline legal) and the governing body has done everything to placate his team. This season can't end soon enough. I don't think next year will be much different, yes there are new engines but the FIA originally proposed a number of aerodynamic changes, but you guessed it Red Bull protested and therefore the bodywork for next year's cars will remain quite similar.
This season has also been rubbish because the British drivers have struggled and the two best British teams, Williams and McLaren have had their worst season for decades.
Oh and to top it all, Sky have moved the F1 channel over to the sports package meaning that new subscribers need to pay about £50 per month to view F1. Existing subscribers should be on the minimum £31.75 per month deal but Sky are keeping quiet about whether this will be the case for 2014...
I used to love watching F1 in the days of Mansell, Prost and Senna, then the battles between Damon Hill and Schumacher but its just beyond dull now. They always say look away now but never tell you to stick your fingers in your ears or hit the mute button, do they?!
Also dominated by pits and tyres rather than driver skill.
Tbf
If alonso goes to redbull it might make at least a race of it
Sky's coverage is excellent but will not be paying the extra amount if that is what is planned
1:42.9 - Lewis Hamilton
1:43.1 - Mark Webber
1:44.0 - Sebastian Vettel
1:44.3 - Rubens Barrichello
1:44.4 – The Stig (II)
1:44.6 – Nigel Mansell
1:44.7 - Lewis Hamilton 4yrs old (Damp & Oily)
1:44.7 – Jenson Button (Hot)
1:46.0 –The Stig (I) Black-Stig
1:46.1 – Kimi Räikkönen (Very wet)
1:46.3 – Damon Hill
1:47.1 – Mark Webber (Very wet)
Seeing Webber beat Vettel's time was quite amusing. Would love to see Alonso on there!
They can't go in reverse
They have great trouble going anywhere in the rain
The tyres need changing after a few miles
and as for fuel consumption.......
what a joke
- They can corner at over 170mph in the wet
- Next year's engines will be the most fuel efficient of any top-line motorsport bar Formula E!
Pirelli went a bit too far with the tyres at the start of this year but it didn't stop teams mucking about (using ridiculously low pressures, extreme camber etc). The tyres were safe just Red Bull/Mercedes got the media on there side to say how dangerous they were.
Try blowing 800C of exhaust gas at your tyres and see how long they last.
It's really hard to say if Vettel is a true great. Watching Raikkonen and Alonso compete with vastly inferior cars really highlights how good those two are. Vettel rarely has to deal with adversity, which is the cornerstone of the true greats, whether it's Schumacher winning a race using two gears, or Senna fighting the rules. The closest Vettel came was the final race (last season?) when he spun round and had to come from the back. Even still, the cookie crumbled right where he needed it to.
Hamilton is the unluckiest driver I've ever seen though. Sure, he creates his own problems a lot of the time, but this week was so ridiculously unlucky. He caned the Red Bulls at the start, which was precisely what the race needed.
wired.com/autopia/2013/10/red-bull-f1-traction-control/
As for the change of exhaust position from what I've read it shouldn't make that much of an impact on RB because they have mastered the rear bodywork of the car (specifically the floor) - teams will still be trying to direct exhaust gases downwards; instead of the floor it will be at the lower beam of the rear wing.
If the FIA had stuck with the proposed changes it would have seen revisions to the front wing and rear wings, as well as changing the turning/guide vanes on the cars - that would have made a dramatic impact on the aerodynamics but Red Bull got their way and it's all staying.
The politics, not the false competition, is what is really ruining F1. I guess all sports are the same, just it's a little more obvious in some as it is others.
Give me Spa, Monza, Silverstone and Suzuka any day