How to liven things up? Well I'd have just 2 sessions on Saturdays - no free testing that day. This allows drivers to obtain their best times (and setups). All cars are then given a fixed fuel level of about half race distance. Starting tyres have to be the softest of the 2 compounds which must be used in the race. Now divide all the starters into 3 groups in best lap time order. Slowest group go into a hat and get drawn out to take the front grid positions. Second best group again drawn out of a hat and get positions a bit farther back. Finally the quickest group get drawn out and placed a bit farther back. When the red lights go out each group will be looking to settle their order before the fastest have to overtake quite a number of cars. At the required minimum one pitstop they must change to the other compound at some stage. Refuelling allowed just once to last to the end of the race, never during Safety car being out. If you run out while SC out -tough. I'd enjoy that !!!
I may of read it wrong but couldn't you just qualify badly, guaranteeing you a good grid spot for the race?
The teams would only have one testing day ie Friday to prepare setup. By intentionally 'going slow' you would rely on setup being good enough - a very doubtful tactic. So I think teams would have to put some effort in the timed sessions to have confidence in their setup. Teams would have to pit for fuel some way before half-race distance to ensure not being caught out by SC. Fuel efficiency would be maintained for the more efficient engines. Tyres could be changed as often as you like but on the used sets allocated for Friday. I'd like to get away from the qualify sprint being everything and causing far too much of a procession......with overtaking the front few so difficult currently. Cars are too good, tracks not helping. Get off 'our board'? Its just as much mine as yours - some nice sentiment from authority. Why don't you give up your 'job' instead. I have not got near any 'rule-breaking'.
You mods are all nerdy - no sense of fun. Bloody hell Graham Hill would have slit his throat rather than be on a night out with you lot.
This wouldn't make it exciting, it would just make it ****e. This is what I hope F1 will never turn out to be, ATM the sessions are decent, but DRS seems useless. Drivers should be able to overtake other drivers on ability (and a faster car), not a 'turbo boost'. In fact, I'm almost pleased that Alonso was stuck behind Petrov, because it shows that F1 isn't always predictable.
Graham Hill never would've condoned drawing grid slots out of a hat, he was a true racer. He was also a mechanic before he raced, he used to fix people's cars and instead of charging them money he'd ask to take their car to a race meet. So he was a nerd like us.
My idea was better imo. Anything that requires luck is ****. Hamilton will win all the time (preparing flame shield and fire proof underwear)
In spite of my last comment which suggests you cannot really be serious, I agree with you that some of the comments from 'authority' here do not command respect or set a good example. I am still hoping it will improve but every time I see this adolescent moderation, it kills off another bit of enthusiasm for me.
To be fair to AG guys, I took it as very tongue in cheek - not at all serious. In the same way that, in the past, I've told one of my friends to "Get out" when admitting he'd never seen star wars. I didn't actually mean for her to leave (and she knew that) and I took AG's comment to be along the same lines. Unfortunately sarcasm doesn't exactly transfer well through the internet! On topic, whilst its a good idea that it introduces overtaking without putting gimmicks on the car, I don't think drivers would like competing in a race where the grid is effectively random. Instead, why not somehow involve championship position in qualifying? Something like for the top 10 drivers, each WDC position adds a tenth to your quali time, so effectively the championship leader has a full second added?
OK - confession time. My idea was to provide a bit of humour to a sometimes 'up your backside' lot of posts. Many try to pontificate and then found they got little right. Offer views by all means but don't insist IT WILL SO. Of course I realise nobody except Bernie would give it serious consideration. However the title says it all - it ' would get people watching'. Sadly a lot of new watchers we probably wouldn't want? As for windup - NO! was my post intended to abuse, annoy, frustrate, waste time? Of course not. Lighten up a bit guys.
I could say the same to you. As nobody but DHCanary seems to have noticed, my comment was tongue in cheek. If I wanted you off the board, believe me, I'd have worded it a whole lot stronger than that. cosicave: Could I see an example of this "adolescent moderation"? I haven't abused my moderation powers in any way. I haven't broken any rules. We're not here to babysit you all, we were given additional control on this forum to step in when things get out of hands, to get rid of WUMs and to keep the board tidy by merging duplicate threads etc. Most of the time things tick over nicely, we have little to do, and we're just another contributor like the rest of you. I probably wouldn't have taken on the role if it meant I wasn't able to contribute to this board in a normal manner, and I'm sure Bright and El Bando would've thought twice about doing it as well.
I'm only in it for the money. I joke. I'd rather not be thought of as a Mod, the only times I've stepped in is when "SirAlonsoWumAlot" and the like decide to spam the board with 30 threads of crap. I act like I did before I was on mod on here and I hope that this place can stay sensible enough without needing my modding powers. By sensible I'm not saying no having a laugh, just no causing blatant trouble. Have an Afro people
