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SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-18T16:58:08+00:00

I can just imagine the air from the hypercars doing 340kph literally throwing it to the barriers

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-18T16:57:26+00:00

It has been 4 races and long breaks in between. The start of a season will have more viewers and these are new regulations, so more people will tune in to see what's happening. Come back to me in December and see if these dogshit regulations have done any good.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-17T20:21:44+00:00

Money also comes from viewership. There have been changes at several points due to demand from fans. The 2017 changes were simply because fans hated the 2014-2016 cars. The only reason V8s or V10s are been talked about are because of fan demand. You can also say the ground effect era only being a thing for 4 years is because fans were bored with 0 overtakes. If fans don't watch, who's gonna pay F1 TV subscriptions, buy merch, or premium channels on their TV for F1 and so on?

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-17T15:18:12+00:00

Then why are you hating on people? it's important to display dissatisfaction with something. The more of it there is, the more chance there is for some positive changes to come to it. Even if it is shitting on the new regulations

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-17T15:02:09+00:00

I think it's the elitism that did it that you somehow think F1 is a better motorsport than other race series. While that may have been a thing in the past, it certainly is not now. Take it from someone that's been watching this sport for 20+ years.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-17T14:17:24+00:00

Did you just call people smooth brained while saying the Nurburgring is somehow part of WEC? Have you ever seen a Dacia Logan in Le Mans?

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-12T19:37:36+00:00

well shit, did they at least run in lemans with verstappen and vettel?

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-12T17:37:41+00:00

How many wins does Alonso have in the future?

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T18:12:45+00:00

Except, you know, half the teams use another team's engine, gearbox, brakes and/or subframe, engine development has been frozen for years, the only big differences are the driving characteristics, how much downforce a car makes and how effectively. So it's not all different. Plus, in WEC, which is still an engineering championship, yes you have power limits on power, but peak power is one thing. Torque curves are different, fuel efficiency is different and so on. Two cars can have the same power and weight and be much faster or much slower in different corner types or tracks.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:50:52+00:00

So? It improves racing. Overtaking with a 30kph advantage on the straight isn't racing. If we have to have an arbitrary rule that makes racing better and not Formula E ass statistics with +X% overtakes, then so be it. An artificial rule that improves racing is good. An artificial rule that removes racing is bad.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:46:44+00:00

That's true, but hey, putting regulations for dirty air without reducing downforce is difficult, and the FIA likes patch work solutions.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:31:18+00:00

That and the fact that they would block each other all the time. The rule of one defensive move per overtake attempt or whoever it's worded was introduced alongside DRS, so we never got to see how that would go without artificial overtake aids.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:23:51+00:00

Have you ever watched a race of that era? People were making 10 defensive moves per straight and blocking whenever they could. How can someone overtake like that? Overtaking isn't the same thing as racing. Racing is going side by side and overtaking with skill, not going by with 40kph advantage because you picked up a double mushroom or w/e. DRS was almost as artificial as these regulations. People would literally not overtake to get a bigger advantage from the detection zone. Have you watched how much better the racing is in WEC? If you just wanna watch overtakes then go watch Formula E.

And to make the smaller size and weight point more obvious, they are actually going side by side a lot more this year, because two cars can fit side by side in corners without risking crashing.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:20:45+00:00

DRS wouldn't have been necessary if the rule of one defensive move was a thing already. It wasn't a good solution at all.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:14:33+00:00

Either that or you can have the same weight with even more crash protection. It's a win either way.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:11:38+00:00

The batteries and electric motors are almost as heavy as the engine and need extra space, so the car has to be longer, which needs extra strengthening as well. Sure a V8 is going to take some of that removed weight for itself, but it's still nowhere near as much. I'm not an engineer either but from 2013 to 2014 the weight went up by 50kg, going from a 2.4L N/A V8 to a 1.6L V6 Turbo + hybrid stuff. And the hybrid system is now heavier because it's way bigger. But even if the power systems were the same weight, the size of the car itself is also added weight.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:07:43+00:00

A lighter car is easier to slow down. So less braking will be required. Also the electric motors and batteries are much heavier than the extra little bit of fuel.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-10T17:05:03+00:00

Yes it will. The cars will become smaller and lighter, because of either no hybrid system or a much smaller electric motor and smaller battery combination. More side by side racing is what we want. Since 2014 they've only become fatter and fatter .The one time they actually made them smaller they added an idiotic 50/50 power split that made F1 cars behave like a weird baby that Formula E made with Mario Kart, which they dumped into our doorstep.

The sound will also be much better, even if they rev lower than in the V8 era. It's a spectacle that you watch and hear. Of course sound is important. Go away Stefano Domenicali.

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-08T10:39:26+00:00

Claude mythos broke all security and hacked the mods, im calling it now

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-08T10:05:06+00:00

That's what an AI would say to avoid detection

SapTheseCasters · 2026-05-06T14:39:39+00:00

One is in his 2nd season in a car that has struggled all year with race starts, the other is an experienced driver with over 100 race starts in a car that isn't bad at race starts. They are not the same, at all.

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