Originally Posted by Forza Ferrari:
“Well I don't think the problem is that not ever race has been a classic. There haven't even been any good races this year.
How often do you hear fans of other sports saying a particular event was absolutely auwful. Even if their team isn't taking part they normally find some to enjoy.
This 'sport' has gotten to the point that the fans of it are finding it dross.
The current state of F1 needs to be addressed we can all be assured that nothing will get better by people putting their heads in the sand and saying everything is fine.”
This season's PL has been dire. I don't hold out much hope for next season. Before the last WC in 2014 there hadn't been a really good one for 20 years. Utd dominated the domestic game for 20 years and Liverpool before that. That doesn't mean football is broken.
We had cars that drove flat out between fuel stops on tyres that barely wore a few years ago and it was the most tedious period on F1 I can recall... but I still watched because F1 is the pinnacle of motorsport and I get a buzz watching the best drivers drive the fastest cars irrelevant of the number of on-track passes or who is winning how many races. If I want thrills and spills I'll watch a film or better still go down to the local track and watch some stock cars and bangers.
As far as I'm concerned F1 is a marathon, not as sprint. It's about team competing against team across a season and sometimes across years, fighting to out develop each other and produce for a fleeting moment the best car possible, until someone else goes a bit better. GPs are usually won based on strategy across an entire weekend rather than a single piece of inspired driving on the Sunday, although that's great when it happens too.
Mercedes won't be dominant for ever. Ferrari are catching up and while it might not look like it now, McLaren will get there eventually. Maybe someone new like Audi will come along and shake it up. The sport doesn't need fixing. Hamilton is on his way to becoming the biggest star the sport has had since Senna, perhaps even bigger. Beyond him there are a host of great drivers ready to take titles over the next decade. We've had some classic seasons over the last few years and some dull-fests. The future will be the same. It doesn't need shaking up.