Pros:
1) Safety: accidents happen and you would be a fool to think Senna will be the last name on that list. But it's still going to take something exceptional to add any more names to it.
2) My head knows there are better racing series all over the place, more competitive and reliably entertaining. But my heart still feels like F1 is the belle of the ball.
3) 22 cars is less than ideal, but still a respectable number all things considered, with how God damn expensive everything with an F and 1 on it is.
4) Always been a Super Pole fan, but the qualifying format currently is still pretty good and much more fun than just a random hour of practice, except the times are srs bzns now.
5) In the minority here, but I love longer calendars. Anything above 22/23ish would be too much for me personally but anywhere between 18-22 is ideal.
Cons:
1) Safety again: safe cars can race on dangerous tracks. Not all accidents are epidemics that need to be solved: **** happens when you're driving really fast, and no one is driving really fast in F1 by accident. It's a risky way to earn a living but the payoff is huge.
2) In other series I hate it when the camera goes to some broad in the pits looking worried (or in fairness a female driver's husband, which is just as boring). In F1 close-ups of Sutil's lady are more interesting than anything going on out on the circuit.
3) Seeing classic tracks castrated with parking lot runoffs is like running into your first crush and seeing she's 400lbs, except worse because I don't have to see my first crush once every year to be reminded that life was better in the 1980s.
4) A driver nursing a sick car home is one thing: the entire field giving it half-throttle is a different story. This is not endurance racing, so please stop pretending it is.
5) The internet has convinced the majority of fans that just because the ability to bitch is new, that the problems in F1 are new too. Pay drivers, boring races, rulebook ****ery and nearly everything else that's **** about F1 has been around since 1950 too.
Edited by Andrew Hope, 28 November 2013 - 00:56.