klipless wrote:
Dude, you've been skipping sportscar racing? Oh, what you've been missing!
Naw, I haven't skipped it. I've watched ~70% of the Grand Am and ALMS races the past five years or so. Always catching the big ones, Petite, Sebring, LeMans, Daytona....but I've made it a point to watch damn near 100% of the F1 races during that stint. The tech in F1 is great, but if doesn't produce interesting races, then why bother?
I doubt that there's been a time in F1 where the field has been so close in speed (1.5 seconds covering this Friday's practice IIRC), but the races have been so blah. I'll be sure to watch Monaco, but that's about it next year.
Yeah, there's been volumes written about the lack of passing on-track in F1 these days. IIRC, most of the weird rule changes in F1 over the last fifteen years have been because the FIA wants to preserve the high-tech nature of the World Championship, but also wants to turn it into racing again.
Again, IIRC..half of the reason the Group C/IMSA GTP era ended in the 80s was because Bernie was pissed there were more people watching sportscar racing than F1.
Of course, the other half was because it was so stinking expensive, and the manufacturers all quit at once...
