F1 is doomed simply because it is so dull to watch. It can be considered interesting as long as you dont have to watch what they jokingly call a race. Professional sport has to be entertaining otherwise the public won't part with their money and F1 ceased to be entertaining many moons ago.

I miss the noise

Maybe some of you should Google MotoGPfuel allowance for some relevant info...because it IS restricted.
Also, it is NOT all about speed because, if that was true, the fastest 'bike would win the race. Very often it doesn't.

It is, as is the case in all types of racing, a  combination of strategies to enable your rider/driver/runner/swimmer/cyclist to cross the finishing line first. Occasionally, there may be some kudos in 'fastest lap' times, but it is irrelevant really, because if the track was long enough there wouldn't be any f**king laps! It would be starting point and finishing point.

Regarding 'massive inequality'...the engines are provided by three or four manufacturers with very little difference between first team and satellite teams...its just that the first team gets the updates first.
With regard to an 'unequal car'...why not design it equal? In fact, why not design it  better than the others?
You all seem to speak from the exhaust pipe...but at least you're still watching.

Me too. Creosote is a personal favourite. Especially with a couple of beers on a nice summer day.

Ad get rid of the cars.

Formula yawn? Fans suggest how to spice up F1

BBC news today
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/32834519

Instead of one long race perhaps 2/3 shorter ones. The selection is made very early on and after that it's a procession.
Get rid of practice and qualifying days.
No tyre changes or pit stops.
Draw for grid places. Giving the fastest car/driver a start makes for very boring races.
Less rules and regulations about car/engine design. The object is simply to get the car first over the line at the end of the race.
Swap the drivers and cars around so we really know which is the best car and the best driver. The best driver driving the fastest car every event again becomes very boring.
No computer or radio contact between car/ driver and pits.
Decide whether it's meant to be a race/sporting event or  a spectacle showcasing machines at the cutting edge of science and technology. The market for both is totally different.
Lots of reasons I'm sure why some of the above wouldn't be taken on board but there are lots of reasons why something drastic needs to be done.
Sport in the main needs to have excitement; a quality sadlly lacking in the current computerised and sanitised version of F1.

Give everyone exactly the same car. Job done.

Mister Badger. I'm going outside now to hide my shame. I may be some time.
What a shocker!!

there you go!!

What a win for Woffinden

brilliant stuff - more excitement in one evening than a whole F1 season

F1 racing is always much more exciting when it's raining, or about to rain so first up they should get rid of staging it in places like Bahrain and start doing it in places like Manchester.

The most annoying thing though is all the non-racing that goes on. Save your tyres! or conserve your fuel! All these messages that come through from the pits basically telling the drivers not to race. If I want to go and watch cars being told not to go too fast i can go and stand on a motorway bridge. It's a race so why are they being told not to race all the time. Give the drivers more control, more decisions. There should be only 1 way radio communication and that is from the driver to his team. Only communication from the team should be by holding up a board when the driver passes them. Leave it to the driver to make all the decisions out on the racetrack, the team do all their stuff when the car is stationary.

Put more skill and decision making back in the hands of the driver. I'd love to see the cars have a gearbox and the drivers have to use the clutch again during the race (rather than just from moving from a standstill), although i'd imagine most would see this as too much of a backward step.

U.A. The reason for conserving fuel is that you will not reach the end of the race. Similarly, if you don't respect your tyres, you will lose grip on acceleration, braking and cornering...and you will lose the race. If you call into 'the pits' for a tyre-change, it will cost you twenty seconds in time...and you will lose the race.

Why7 can't any of you understand that the race finishes at the winning line. Would you expect a 5,000 metre runner to run flat out at 100 metre speed? NO...because he would lose. He would run out of fuel and he would lose!
Would you expect a Gold Cup horse to set off at a sprinter's pace? No...because he would lose.

You can't win a race in the first furlong, but you can certainly lose it!


Today's Grand Prix is, of course, run at Monaco which is extremely difficult regarding overtaking. But, if you want to set off at the front, you simply have to go fastest over a very short distance of a complete lap and Voila, you will have 'pole' position. It is a level playing field.

the tyre situation is ridiculous and they should also get rid of wings.

ridiculous race today

sport itself is laughing stock, i still tune in but my god its desperate at times

Naydam, if you weren't so concerned about being patronizing you might be able to work out the point I am making. Yes I do know it's a race, yes i do know it's first across the finish line, yes I do know that if you don't conserve your fuel when it runs out the engine thingy wont work properly. My mum explained all of this after i finished my long division homework.

My point is that these types of decision should be placed in the hands of the driver. You don't see athletes with various sensors on their body which gives feedback to their coach on a laptop who then starts to tell the athlete slow down or react accordingly. The athlete, jockey, whoever has to figure all of this out by himself during the race. Any tactics discussed are done before the race. When the car is moving, it should be the driver in charge and making the important decisions. It needs to be more subjective in my opinion.

This is the main reason I find it boring. Whether you think I am right or wrong I still find it boring and so now i don't watch it. Ignore the masses at your peril.

there was a 'virtual safety car', for a bit

Yes they love that word "exciting" when promoting F1. Interesting perhaps in a nerdy sort of way but there's never a glimmer of excitement watching the same cars following each other round and round and round and round and..................................................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Only F1 could have a "race" on a circuit where you cant overtake, but they do have a taz round the day before to decide what the result will be and then get the gullible to pay megabucks to watch a "race" where they already know who will win.
A bit like having the 100m Olympic final run in one lane and the runners lining up in the order in which they finished in the heats.