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...or take the cheaper alternative and simply close up shop.

That's why, in theory, cost cutting measures are being implemented.

In the current economic climate "backmarker" teams may have difficulty finding funds when podium time is so unlikely and, in a competition that practices "freezing", I can't see too many "better" car's being designed.



And freezing engine development in a competitive MOTOR sport isn't a gimmick? Some would argue that grooved tyres were a gimmick as they became F1'centric or even that two race engines and KERS are gimmicks? Freezing engine development would have to be one of the worst decisions ever implemented by the FIA. I don't see how grooved tyres are a gimmick, as they're just tyres. I don't like the idea of KERS being like Push to Pass, but the FIA needs to make F1 slightly more environmentally friendly. [/QUOTE]

Anyway, whats one more "gimmick" if it gives a major sponsor a couple of tenths of a second that keeps them happy and in the competition. It's another step which further removes F1 from its roots as a sport, and further towards a 'show'.




Its not stupid at all.

Honda/Toyota/BMW etc. have earned their stripes in F1 and don't "deserve" to be off the podium week after week. It is stupid. You have to constantly earn your stripes - it's F1. Yesterday's results and former glories mean nothing when you are mediocre in the present. You would deserve podiums by being the best in the present.

It's up to the teams, drivers, everyone, to constantly improve.

You appear to have a view that half a ton will be dropped on McLaren and Ferrari after the first race and that is simply incorrect. Well it is not. I don't care what the degree of handicapping is, I don't agree with the principle of handicapping the best teams because someone thinks that some strange reason, lesser teams deserve to be constantly fighting for wins.

You would have to agree, on current results, that neither Honda, Toyota or BMW will win any of the remaining 3 races. With a correctly implemented and fair handicapping system in place then, by this stage of the season, teams should be far closer and the competition more open so that the last 3 races would have more victory possibilities. It doesn't mean that they WILL win but it does mean that they COULD win.

You need to be thinking along the lines of "Would handicapping make the racing more entertaining or improve overtaking?". I believe the answer is a definite "possibly". It wouldn't improve the racing in my opinion, because it'd just make it more of a joke. It'd be like NASCAR in the way that they try to manufacture entertainment by having a caution flag ten laps from the end. Not only does it devalue the achievements of the teams and drivers in the race up until that point, it makes a mockery of real close finishes. The finishes where the lesser teams aren't handicapped.



I disagree and believe that no-one will care after the first few races, especially the drivers, as the cream will always rise to the top.


Maybe your average fans won't care. But the true fans who care about F1 as a sport will care.