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**ggiifdfalls** · 09-22-2009, 12:31 AM

Don't get me wrong drivers and personalities are important, I would say they are as important as the technical side. Possibly a little more so, but even if you say hypothetically that the "human" side makes up 60% of the equation, that's still a 40% shortfall in interestingness (for want of a better made-up word) when the technical side is completely emasculated. IMHO of course

As far as I'm concerned I watched F1 mainly (like 85-90%) for the technology involved.
Nowadays we get to see plenty of pictures of the internals of the cars, things that we couldn't even dream about 20 years ago and were still scarce 10 years ago. However in the same time the technical side started being restricted and standardized to the point where IMO it lost 50% of it's appeal.
I'm still as interested as I ever was but I get a better kick from looking to the internals of a LeMans prototype nowadays than with a F1 car.

I really couldn't care less about who wins the championship or if there are more than 3 overtaking moves per race as long as I know that the cars that compete are against state of art automotive technology representatives not some dumbed down restricted, standardized and frozen mixes of aluminum and carbon fiber.

09-22-2009, 12:31 AM	#39
ggiifdfalls Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 540 Senior Member	Don't get me wrong drivers and personalities are important, I would say they are as important as the technical side. Possibly a little more so, but even if you say hypothetically that the "human" side makes up 60% of the equation, that's still a 40% shortfall in interestingness (for want of a better made-up word) when the technical side is completely emasculated. IMHO of course As far as I'm concerned I watched F1 mainly (like 85-90%) for the technology involved. Nowadays we get to see plenty of pictures of the internals of the cars, things that we couldn't even dream about 20 years ago and were still scarce 10 years ago. However in the same time the technical side started being restricted and standardized to the point where IMO it lost 50% of it's appeal. I'm still as interested as I ever was but I get a better kick from looking to the internals of a LeMans prototype nowadays than with a F1 car. I really couldn't care less about who wins the championship or if there are more than 3 overtaking moves per race as long as I know that the cars that compete are against state of art automotive technology representatives not some dumbed down restricted, standardized and frozen mixes of aluminum and carbon fiber.
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