It's a interesting year, but I have to agree with you, this year is missing thiings like:
Basic untouched formula one rules
the major issue
In the last 20 years, which means 1990 -1994, the cars were just more balanced in terms of aero but not so bad we can drive behind cars and press on, dirty air in the last say 5 years has just become more acceptable which is silly as f1 is just hurting itself here, this can be improved.
I think were missing proper gladitorial title fights, I can't help but think of Briatore's comments a while ago, saying drivers are like taxi drivers, stop and go, when overtaking became difficult, you had pitstop and strategy, now you just have pitstop4 tyres, yet overtaking is still difficult and your limited with strategies, it's harder for the driver to make a difference other then qualifying on certain tracks.
Lack of testing and difficulity of in season development, means alot of driver's fates are decided 2 early in the season with how the car is born, I think the testing ban is silly, maybe they can cut it, but to stop it completely is wrong I think, new drivers need testing miles, testing new parts on weekends, maybe they could increase the sessions if they want to keep more races, and the fans can see more of their drivers/teams.
Alonso and Hamilton are challenging for the title ,but they've hardly seen or raced each other for a win this year, its' weird, it's not like Schumacher and Hakkinen who were tenths and thousandths off each other at Japan 2000 the whole weekend, qualifying to the race shows how driver/team go away, work and come to a track to fight for a title that's not been effected by things like not being able to test, to have 2 teams close together for 2 drivers to have some close exchanges makes f1 stand still, the end of season title showdowns in 94/97/98/99/2000/2003/20006.
Jerez 97, 3 drivers get the same time for quali before the race, that was cool.
1997 the last slick tyre season, with overtaking, pitstop strategies, is the type of season we should be having.
Lewis Hamilton vs Schumacher-if he's in a top car can make or would of made this year a classic
Hamilton and Alonso as teamates in 2007 beats any duels they had in 2010-which is pretty much none
The seaosn isn't over, it's been a interesting season, but the closeness of the championship isn't much about driver skill rather then all other factors of motor racing that keeps the title championship open, but because it's open, doesn't mean it's open and exciting the same way every weekend, alot of cars seem track specific, and when we want redbull vs ferrari, or mclaren vs ferrari, the drivers hardly race each other, as the competitive advantage keeps shifting, maybe that's interesting, but not when the season is closing up, if one driver is off the pace and crowds r expecting a close fight, that's dissappointing, and with budget cuts and cost saving/lack of testing, really preparing for showdowns and title fights may not have the same level of contest.
To put it bluntly
screw cost saving
give me qualifying engines
1 race engines, 1 qualifying engine
let it rip, don't hold back, push every lap, risk reliability, something we used to have, caution and f1 don't mean exciting.
We got great drivers
The show though is preventing it from living up to the past.
And any f1 season with Ayrton Senna in it is better then 2010, and he died back in 1994. I don't think we've see any driving that tops Senna and Schumacher's best of the past 20 years, qualifying was poorer without Ayrton, but worser in 2003 when they started tinkering with the show, so for sure this season can't be the best, alot of good drivers, but perhaps wasted with these rules and cars. I don't think we've seen 1 real stand out great drive, alot of very good drives, but nothing monumental to talk about for the next 20 years like were still talking about some of Senna and Schumacher's stuff of the past 20 years, maybe the rules are to blame and this how cost cutting nature, and were moving to even less engines in the future.
No more Sunday warm up from 2003 onwards
Can't touch the cars after qualifying until the race? Why, because maybe a random guessed set up will produce unpredictable results, which was the reason it was introduced in 2003 along with other rubbish.
Alot more can be done.
I could rewatch a classic 1993 race or a race in 1997/98/ and find alot of things
I think for it to be the best for you it has to feature Micheal Schumacher in the title hunt. I actualy agree this is the best season since at least '86 and probably since 1983. At least 3 teams with 5 drivers real title threats. The points look really spread out but in reality it is very close with all the drivers around 1 race win worth of points from first. As Lewis showed, it only takes 1 DNF to completly change the look of the WDC...the WCC also quite close.
