Refuelling must go!

Why cant the F1 fraternity seem to understand that I am not interested in strategy. If I wanted to see a strategic sport, Id watch american football.

I watch F1 because I want to see motor racing, and motor racing should, in my mind, involve a stretch of tar with two or more cars going flat out. Cars that are stopped are not racing.

Why then do we have refueling pitstops? I am not in the slightest interested that Team A has opted for a 3 stop strategy and Team B for a 2 stopper. I am in fact irritated because it means that I will likley never see the drivers for Team A or B scrapping for position.

I think racing is far simpler, far more pure, when the guy in front is winning and the guy behind, if he wants to win, has to get past.

I will concede that tyrestops might be interesting... at least insomuch as everyone stops the same number of times. Theyre fast, dash in, dash out, theres not a lot of scope for passing in the pits.

Ferrari celebrates...

The 2004 season still has a race to go and already Ferrari's opponents are falling over themselves in an effort to ensure they offer no real challenge.

Why this obsession with V10?

Now Honda want to fight a proposed switch to V8 engines?

I must admit, I cannot see why. Formula 1 is ultimately about state of the art cars & engines. And, frankly, 3 litre V10s can crank a lot of power in the hands of a F1 engine designer. If Formula 1 sticks with a 3L V10 standard the only way to limit engine power for safety's sake would be to impose artifical limitations on engine design, which, in my mind, taints the whole "state of the art" theme of Formula 1.

I might as well go and watch some standardized forumla like Champ Cars.

I think the better solution to capping increasing engine power, while leaving engine designers free to push the limits of their craft, is to keep shrinking the size of the engine.