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From 'Old bloke'
Modern F1 is far too 'tricky', meaning, I liken it to kids playing a computer game. Let a 'driver' "drive" the damn car without all the gadgets on the 'steering wheel' which is all it should be. Sure modern F1 cars are extremely fast, but can any of you remember when you could actually 'see' a car for any more than 10 seconds before it was 1/2 a lap away, plus, 'they' actually passed another car without 'activating' DRS or KERS (that is what a 'driver' could actually do back then), did not have to stop 4 times for new tyres so making it confusing to see where Webber was coming without having to look away from the race and look down at the equally fast moving text (bottom screen)telling you who was doing what. Does pure speed do anything for me?---no!---give me realistic driver input like back in the 50's and 60's. What not only looks better, or gives you a fantastic thrill more---a WW11 Spitfire with its Merlin engine at full revs flashing down from 4000 feet, howling like a banshee, roaring past at 300mph, then pulling up and doing a roll at 100 feet, or say an FA18 Hornet doing the same?---give me the Spit any day. Its the same with a modern F1 car against say a Mercedes Benz W196 'Silver Arrow', Ferrari Super Squalo, Maserati F250, or how about a BRM V16 at full song! all vintage 54' to early 60's, they all sounded like cars!
No, I do not want to go all the way back to the 'old' days, but give a driver something to do instead of 'flicking paddles' and pushing buttons, bring back a 7 speed 'stick shift' and make a driver do some work.
I still like watching the spectical of modern F1 even though it can be confusing at times.
Go Mark webber for the championship! he is a true Aussie.
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