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I still go to the AGP and still watch most races on the TV but I agree that it has become far too artificial. DRS, fine, have it if you want, but how bloody stupid is a "Passing aid" which can be triggered by a car getting close to the next one, made redundant by the driver in front making a mistake or the driver behind proving to have great big clanging ones, and then the DRS is used as an "escape aid" by the driver who has already made the pass, just to make sure that there is no entertainment factor in the passed driver having a crack straight back at him because he has sat there helpless, watching the passing driver sail off into the distance with a heap of drag dumped.
And the bloody tyre rules! I loathe them and have done since they were introduced. How is it racing when they have "slow races" at various times where the only competition on offer is watching them compete to see who can get the tyres to last the longest?
Some of the rule changes I don't mind, the aero stuff usually just results in a burst of creativity. Who would have predicted (Not the FIA apparently) that on banning blown diffusers and mandating exhaust locations and angles, the boffins would respond by cajoling the exhaust gas to flow down over the outside of the body and into the diffuser area to get a portion of the benefit back?
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