Don't worry, this isn't another 'who was better thread', in fact, I'm speaking to the people who didn't like on/the other/both and/or McLaren.
Today's F1 fans complain about Red Bull dominance and ten years ago we were all bemoaning Ferrari doing the same. There is a lot of nostalgia for the days of Alain and Ayrton but were those there at the time actually as enthusiastic?
The Prost/Senna era
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Dunc
, Dec 21 2013 21:23
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Otaku
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Posted 21 December 2013 - 22:34
Yes, absolutely.
1st of all, reliability. You never knew when the engines would blow up, which was quite normal.
2nd, they were actually racing each other (and driving!! 
) and you had the best 2 drivers on the best 2 cars. Not like today or on the MS era where Mark can't scratch Seb, and Barrichello actually worked FOR Schumy.
I see your point, but it's been nothing like those days for a while.
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MatsNorway
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Posted 22 December 2013 - 13:29
It did help that Senna was barking mad..
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Paolo
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Posted 22 December 2013 - 14:14
It was boooooring.
It started getting boring in 1984, with the Lauda-Prost dominance coming after two fantastic years of extreme uncertainty in 1982 and 1983; it got worse thereafter with Senna-Prost. At least, at the time there was the Williams variable and some technical variety to keep interest awake; things really got good again in 1989 with the return of many different NA engines and new car shapes, to fade away gradually to the unfathomable bore of present days.
