Saturday, November 30, 2013

Formula 1

One of the most boring seasons I can remember - indeed for the first time I couldn't be bothered to make the effort to watch most of the "unsocial hours" races, or indeed some of the others.  So -
Vettel - what is there new to say?  Fast driver in the fastest car.  
Alonso - once again, made the best of what he'd got
Webber - nice bloke, and we shall miss him.  Good luck, mate.

So what, if anything, can be done, or should be done?  This isn't the first time a driver has dominated for season after season.  Schumacher made the early 2000s his own, but never seemed that invincible - perhaps because of refuelling, there were few races where he was able to simply drive away from everybody else, as Vettel has so often done.  So - bring back refuelling?  Safety is the obvious concern. Turn the grid upside-down, so the fastest cars start from the back?  Safety again, plus the fact that qualifying would be in danger of becoming a joke, with the top cars tootling round in third gear as it were, so as to be able to start from the front. Or do we just accept that for the time being it seems the Vettel/Red Bull combination is unbeatable, and go and watch something else instead?

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