I can totally accept that Push-to-Pass is ****ing embarrassing. It's one of those "We put men on the moon 50 years ago but we can't figure this out" deals. You won't catch me saying the IndyCar system is how racing should be.
But as far as how it compares to DRS, if only one of the two can be cheating, you have to be in serious need of therapy to consider IndyCar's system the worst of the two. Any system where you have an X amount fo 20 or 30 or 50 or 100 horsepower gain for a set amount of seconds per race is better than this ****ing Harry Potter Your-rear-wing-doesn't-exist-if-a-car-is-in-front-of-you bullshit. Push-2-pass or whatever the Xtreme name is, is clearly the better of the two systems, because it can be used defensively. You can go an entire IndyCar race without ever using your P2P on offence, but rather using your entire allocation on defence. You can't do that in F1. In F1, homeboy who is 2 seconds faster than you anyway can be .002 seconds behind you at the detection zone, pass you, and then use Chilton ahead as an excuse for the same Wingardium Leviosa JK Rowling horseshit on the back straight. Because DRS is based on detection zones that become obsolete in 4 seconds, rather than cheaty P2P, where you get a set amount to use during the race and if you use them wisely, congratulations, and if you **** up, **** you.
You'll never hear me pretend 1 system is the right way to be, because no system like that is the right way to be. But these things come about because racing is dying and whatever keeps fans buying tickets is A-Okay in my book. And IndyCar's version of fake passing is chess to F1's Chinese Checkers. So what? There are a billion things F1 does better than IndyCar. But DRS sure as **** isn't one of them.
Edited by Andrew Hope, 01 November 2013 - 01:58.