I miss how harsh penalties for multiple infringements used to be. Speeding in the pitlane, jump starts and mechanics on the grid too long used to be a 10 second stop go penalty and crossing the white line at pit exit and unsafe releases used to cop a drive through penalty. They really used to punish drivers for things like that and usually meant you’d be out of contention for even a point.
Now drivers only get 5 or 10 seconds either added to their race time or serve it at pitstops and if your driving for Red Bull/Ferrari/Mercedes the worst that usually happens is you still get 8 points for 6th. I’d like to see the old penalties back and really make them work for it
What things do you miss from older F1 races?
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Re: What things do you miss from older F1 races?
More competition among the top teams.
Re: What things do you miss from older F1 races?
Murray Walker and Jackie Stewart in their respective commentary teams referring to every driver as "young" before their name. In late 1987, JYS is calling Rene Arnoux "the young Frenchman", despite Arnoux being 39 years old with ten years experience in the championship!
Felipe Nasr - the least forgettable F1 driver!Murray Walker at the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix wrote:The other [Stewart] driver, who nobody's been paying attention to, because he's disappointing, is Jan Magnussen.
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Re: What things do you miss from older F1 races?
Consistency when it come to penalties.
Race Control actually being organised.
Cars that are safe to drive in the wet.
Race Control actually being organised.
Cars that are safe to drive in the wet.