1 - The importance of having constructors as opposed to teams.
While I find every single F1 car at least magnificent, given the imense technical challenge it is to build one, I don't care at all about whether the car being raced is the procuct of a team of constructor effort. To be honest, it is nothing but a monumental waste of limited resources to have (near) hopeless (yet brave and passionate) outfits spend what they don't have to build an uncompetitive car. Virgin/Marussia/Manor, why the fvck can't they just buy a 2014 McLaren, for example, and race it? Not only does it comes with thousands of cumulative hours of development work, it has a perfectly proven track record and would present a very solid foundation for work and Manor's quick building of knowledge. Heck, it might actually save them some money and the knowledge gained could eventually result in a more competitive chassis of their own design if they ever decide to build one. Some people might worry about jobs lost with the downscaling of the teams, but that is merely tangencial to F1. Romance must be set aside eventually so people understand F1 is racing based marketing. Whatever jobs are created should be a byproduct and healthy side effect, but never a goal in itself.
So, all in all, I do not find a single reason F1 should't be team oriented instead of constructor oriented. Take the C out of WCC, reaplace it with a T and divide the money amongst the teams based on nothing but their track results. End of fvcking deal.
I'm sure it would make life easier for Haas if they, for example, could simply spend two or three years colaborating closely with Ferrari before building anything of their own, or not.
2 - Hamilton's penalty after Spa 2008. Yeah, big old can of worms, but I have never been convincined it was fair.
3 - That these 2.6 V8s were anything but stop gap crap and every other engine format was more impressive. I went to a race, didn't like or dislike their sound at all. If you ask me, they should even be mentioned in the same sentence of these current turbo hybrids.
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What about you guys?