After looking at the Saturday’s sessions in Turkey, I’m amazed and sad at the same time by the level of organization, the absurdity of these cars and people’s reaction to the chaotic qualifying session.
I will focus on the technical side now: it is unconceivable to me that constructors spend hundreds of thousands of millions to design and produce cars compliant with very strict regulations and, mainly because of this, they’re impossible to drive unless conditions are perfect; no big elevation changes on the track, no wind, no rain and temperatures in the perfect range, otherwise it becomes like “driving on ice”.
How many times have we heard in the last years Sky commentators saying that drivers “are like passengers” or that the “car is impossible to control” and so on; to me it is simply unacceptable.
These cars, in normal conditions, are causing the most boring spectacle ever on track, the desertion of many teams and constructors or their bankruptcy, the destruction of historic circuits and corners and even worse their technology is completely useless, already obsolete, not applicable to any commercial car.
Through a constant pressure of colluded media, they’re selling them as quickest ever, pretending that the lowering the track record year after year is the ultimate purpose of Formula 1.
How many fans gets excited looking at a parade of cars lapping 1 second quicker year after year?
After every race the debate on social media is always focused on the wrong topics: drivers not brave or capable enough, engineers and mechanics botching strategies and set-ups or circuits where it’s too difficult to overtake.
The reality is, however, that these 5 meters long cars, which generate a massive downforce and produce a ridiculous amount of turbulent air, combined with nonsense tyres that works to incredibly small and constantly changing temperature ranges, are making any driver and any racetrack unsuitable.
The FIA has made the issue bigger and bigger in the last 20 years, with idiotic rules changes and we all must hope that the 2022 aerodynamic regulations will at least stop the downfall of the sport.
I’ll also share my ideas and proposals for a better upgrade of technical regulations.
All Along The Racetrack 