Going of this story: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114494 and http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114486
and a similar thread on n606 I thought I would ask the question here.
F1 is struggling a bit to enthuse the casual and keen fans. The hardcore fanbase still seems strong but F1 can not survive on them alone. What would you do to make F1 better? Realistic ideas that could be brought in over the next few seasons that were financially viable, physically possible and not team/driver influenced?
Are the issues down to F1 becoming ever more hidden behind pay walls? Is it that the whole sport is detached from 'common' people, or are the issues down to bad and restrictive rules?
Stay sensible but go mad, how would you run the show?
Taking F1 forward
posted on 18/6/14
There is nothing wrong with the current set of technical rules.
The current nonsense is nothing to do with viewing figures. Anyone that understands TV will realise that viewing habits change.
So Germany and Italy viewers have reduced. Wow, I wonder why that is.
When Fernando Alonso retires then the Spanish TV audience will disappear.
Ferrari and Red Bull are miffed and are desperately disturbing up the fan base to get their own way. And you are falling for it.
F1 started in 1950 and now it is 2014. So look back on the 64 year history and point out which season, in your opinion, had the rules that made F1 worth watching.
There was one season when 11 different drivers won races. Maybe we should look at that for ideas.
You people do not know how lucky you are. You can download an ap that gives you the same timing information that the teams on the pit wall are watching. You can see all sorts of info on your tv. You can watch in car cameras and listen to pit to driver radio and commentary. And you still moan.
posted on 18/6/14
" There is nothing wrong with the current set of technical rules".
FACT.
But the way the pie is carved up makes me sick.
No-one outside knows who gets what.
IMO. It's, Berni/Ferrari 80% the rest 20%
posted on 18/6/14
Yeah financially F1 is pretty unfair, Autosport produced these results recently:
Team 2013 placing 2013 payouts (£m)
Ferrari 3rd 99.6
RBR 1st 97.2
McLaren 5th 57.1
Mercedes 2nd 55.2
Lotus 4th 39.0
Force India 6th 35.4
Williams 9th 33.6
Sauber 7th 32.2
Toro Rosso 8th 30.0
Caterham 11th 18.6
Marussia 10th 7.2
Ferrari cost the most for coming third, almost twice as much as second placed Mercedes. 4th place got almost a third of 3rd and $20m less than 5th.
This is where F1 truly is a fix.
posted on 18/6/14
Says it all really nsos ????
posted on 19/6/14
They get the most money and make crappy racing cars
posted on 19/6/14
WTCBU
i am just saying memories are made on the back of great personalities and great racing and also the "theatre" of F1. For me, this comes down to driver personality, the noise and brilliance of an F1 car and the availability to the masses
posted on 19/6/14
Maybe it's me but this whole noise thing does not bother me at all.
We had noise last year but viewers turned off. Hell we even had noise during Shumi's dominance and Seb's 'dominance'. People still turned off because there was no racing.
posted on 19/6/14
I dont think its only you MUDD, i think a lot dont mind the sound, but for me its what i grew up with, that classic F1 rip. Then when i experienced JB's mclaren engine no more than 10ft away from me at full tilt, i fell in love. I love engine sound anyway, if i pull up to a car i know is a v8+ i always open my window.
i love F1 for being a sensory occasion
posted on 22/6/14
Isn't the current sound more akin to a road car with a V8+, a sound I love to hear, and like you BW.... always open my window to listen to.
posted on 23/6/14
Oh yes it definetely is more similiar to a road going v8, but thats what road going v8's should sound like. For me an F1 car should sound biblical