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[SeanValen]

This is the DARK AGE OF FORMULA ONE, SKYNET IS TAKING OVER F1, THE TERMINATORS WILL BE DRIVING IN F1 CARS, TRYING TO TERMINATE ESTABLISHED STARS, LIKE MICHAEL SCHUMACHER, BUT NO, NOT EVEN A TERMINATOR SENT BACK IN TIME, CAN BEAT MICHAEL IN THE WET, HUMAN INSTINCT AND NATURAL FEEL FOR THE CAR, A LITTLE TOO MUCH FOR THE CURRENT TERMINATOR 101 MODEL Honestly, as soon as there is a perfect Cyborg, teams will pay millions for them to drive their cars in f1 in the future, safety won't be a issue, and they won't have salaries, just maintainance costs.
Think about it, all those safety regulations can be tossed out the window, these will be machines to entertain people, no one will die, maybe they will even get personalities, to fit a racer's spirit.

Of cource I would not like such a f1 future, as watching a human drive is a wonder, the skill and talent from one of our own, but its such a technological era, and future to be, thought it was a interesting idea for a topic.

Enjoy your day/night

[Julius]

Ah...so you've finally realized Kimi Raikonnen is a robot from the future!

There is hope for you yet.

[JForce]

No doubt there will develop a motor racing series where robots race, just as I believe there will develop a series where people like us can enter in Cyber cars, controlled from a computer, just like a giant video game. But I believe that people will always much rather watch humans racing. Whether these humans are normal people remains to be seen....gentically engineered drivers?

I can see it now....2072...Frank Williams, kept alive in a state of Darth Vader-like engineering, releases his new drivers. Both have been developed by using DNA samples from Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikonnen...and the talking segment of the brain has been injected with a large dose of IrvineDNA©

[RiverRunner]

Sheesh,I'm having visions of Robot Wars on a large scale with a slew of Bill Gates style geeks in their theaters across the world as the errrrr console "drivers"...
Yeeeeeccchhhh.....

[hodgsonc]

The cars will be remote controlled, the drivers sitting in the pits in an arcade console. There will be no power limitation as the drivers are safe and each race there will be a chance for the average punter to take on the top drivers via their modem!

Can't wait - shame I'll be in an old peoples home with reactions like a slug by then!

[HSJ]

Originally posted by Julius
Ah...so you've finally realized Kimi Raikonnen is a robot from the future!

Hey, where did you get that info? Man, I'm out of touch already!

[pRy]

We will all be dead by then so why worry

[coyoteBR]

... I tought we already have'em.

But I can see it now. In a oh, so near future, people will celebrate the fact Minardi finally hired it's second replicant/cyborg driver. Now, all teams has perfect men and women behind the wheel.

Every one of then, genetically treated since the womb, with amazing tecnologic implants are incapable to make a mistake. They know exactly what the car can take.
Every one of them do every single lap with absolute perfection. Smooth. Flawless. During interviews, a chip on their throat avoids'em to say anything that may offend their coleagues or the BernieBot (absolute ruler of the show). This chip also avoids then to say a single phrase without a sponsors name.

Formula One is finally the absolute perfection of auto race.

But they are loosing audience.
More and more, race fans craw to hidden, illegals temples, to light candles to Amon, demi-god of Speed and trade forbidden tapes and articles about their heroes. The names are mentioned between wispers, all afraid of the BernieCops. Sacred names like Peterson. Gilles. Alesi. Mansell. Pace. de Cesaris. And many others.

BernieBot don't know what to do. All the teams have perfect drivers, getting results. But something is missing, and he don't know what.

[SeanValen]

J ForceI can see it now....2072...Frank Williams, kept alive in a state of Darth Vader-like engineering,

I like that line, very amusing.

[The Soul Stealer]

Originally posted by pRy
We will all be dead by then so why worry

Speek for yourself... ME.....I plan to live forever:p

[SeanValen]

Yeah, count me in too, I plan to live forever as well))))
Enjoy your day/night

[servellen]

With the state of the world and consciousness of today's humanity we will have to change very many things if the world is to survive and be a livable place.

Most of us don't want to look at it, we are too interested in the immediate gratification of our personal desires and will do anything for a distrction (like watch F1) because deep inside ourselves we are not at peace.

In ten years the enviornmental effects we have on the world are said to be irreversable; but who cares right; as long as we have money for now and some entertainment and as long the people footing the bill for our material luxery are only distant images we see on TV; most of us are too cowardise to make real changes because we have not been educated to do so and therby feel powerless.

For F1 to survive that long, it will need to find another power source, like gas or electricity. Maybe solar power. Also the world will have to be at relative peace; another world conflict may hinder the formula one circus from moving around so much and people from watching.

It seems as the world changes, many are taking F1 less seriously mysekf included. Even MS since 9-11 took it easy as he saw a bigger perspective, as well all did.

I think F1 will not survive another 50 years. A break away series will be formed and perhaps a few with different regulation once the concord agreement expires.

Real F1 = Bernie Eccelstone and some of the other central figures at the teams. THey are a part of the formula.

[Alien]

Well you know all the fuss about steroids, the olympics, prohibited substances, etc,etc,etc.... Well in the near future we´ll have to be ready, expect them to outlaw genetically modified athletes. Cat-like reflexes will be very cat-like ;) I wonder in how many years will this happen, i´d say 25 with the way things are going. Did you know that Colombia (my home country ) already started cloning pigs, the technology is in the so wrongly called, "third world" now. We have to somehow get and store some of that Montoya DNA.

[prettyface]

3000? No, I don't see no F1 in Futurama; no Frank Williams, Dennis, Schumacher nor Ecclestone's heads preserved in glass containers. Maybe F1 became so expensive along the way that it imploded upon itself, destroying everyone in it.

Or maybe it didn't implode. Maybe it got so big that it developed its own gravity, becoming... Planet F1! (Sorry for the rival publicity)