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[Hammer278]

We're being a bit harsh on Tilke....please don't tell me Malaysia and China were 'boring' races. Yes the rain helped, but China especially was one of the best for me.

I think the biggest enemy for F1 is street races. Apart from Monaco, the rest have been failures. Singapore has a spectacular and boring circuit, what's the point. Valencia is pure rubbish. To be fair to Tilke, he's done good and bad circuits so far.

[Robert12010]

We're being a bit harsh on Tilke....please don't tell me Malaysia and China were 'boring' races. Yes the rain helped, but China especially was one of the best for me.

I think the biggest enemy for F1 is street races. Apart from Monaco, the rest have been failures. Singapore has a spectacular and boring circuit, what's the point. Valencia is pure rubbish. To be fair to Tilke, he's done good and bad circuits so far.

yes valencia is a nice track to drive but terrible for everything else, i think turkey is one of his better ones and china is not bad either

[vlad]

Turkey is great, but I dislike street races as well...

[Robert12010]

Turkey is great, but I dislike street races as well...

what about monaco

[vlad]

Well, that race is still something special, although you see overtaking there mostly in out-lapping...

[vaptin]

"If the car ahead of you runs only one tenth slower than you, then the moveable wing is not enough," Alonso told Gazzetta dello Sport.

"It can be useful to overtake a car that is one or two seconds slower. Maybe the rule's objective is to favour an overtaking move when a race gets ruined by the impossibility of passing a much slower car, as happened to me with [Vitaly] Petrov in Abu Dhabi. Overtaking between front runners will be difficult in 2011 too."

Alonso's world championship chances last year were scuppered when he got stuck behind Petrov at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and could not find a way past.

Williams technical director Sam Michael believes that the 600-metre zone limit will make life hard for drivers – although he thought it was right to approach the situation from a conservative starting point.

"I don't think it [the 600 metre distance] will be very effective," said Michael. "It has to be much longer than that.

"For it to be effective, you have to have it for the entire straight. But it depends what you want to do. If you want to have an overtaking move that is just impossible now, to just about possible, than that will do it. I don't think you'll ever get to the position where people just drive past; it's just not strong enough to do that."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89479,

If course we still need to wait and see it in practice, just wanted to provide some good news on these regulations.