Originally Posted by Assa2:
“In any case, would the cars going flat out change anything? You'd end up with the fastest cars qualifying at the front and disappearing in the race. F1 was at it's pinnacle in terms of raw speed about 10 years ago IIRC and I don't recall the racing being much better.”
“In any case, would the cars going flat out change anything? You'd end up with the fastest cars qualifying at the front and disappearing in the race. F1 was at it's pinnacle in terms of raw speed about 10 years ago IIRC and I don't recall the racing being much better.”
Depends what you mean by "pinnacle" I think.
10 years ago we were right in the middle of the Schuey era and I doubt many people were terribly excited by F1.
It was also an era where there was little in the way of aero' regulation and the cars generated much more downforce and aero' wake.
Personally, I reckon you'd have to go back to the late 1980's or early 1990s to find a car that didn't really create aero' problems for following cars.
Even then, there was no guarantee that the racing was going to be close because there was usually a McLaren or a Williams that was faster than anything else but at least, in those days, two fairly evenly-matched cars could run close together if the opportunity arose.
As I've said before, I reckon what they need to do is get cars such as Senna's McLaren, Mansell's Williams or Schuey's Benetton, chuck 'em in a wind tunnel and find a way of quantifying the amount of turbulence they create and then try to come up with a rule that limits the turbulence of modern cars to similar levels.



