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[texasmr2]

Yah they were also know to pit the visor's if a driver was to close behind on the straight's. I think I remember Bernie saying "they are great for the show the fan's love it".

[Ferrari man 009]

Something I forgot to add to the list, one MAJOR thing I would love to see return.... sparks!! Cars running low enough to bottom out on main straights throwing a shower of sparks, especially in the early stages of the race.

Oh man I miss that so much also, good call!

The problem with that is the FIA have outlawed the titanium skid blocks that were used during that era. In fact I used them myself in one race during my formula Atlantic racing. I had the lead and going down the hill at Lime Rock my car bottomed and the second place car backed off because he thought something broke. Gave me enough of a lead to concentrate and pull away for the win.......

when i started watching f1 i thought that that meant the engine was about to blow up.


the return of races like south africa, mexico etc. would be good aswell

[TheRoswellite]

Under....Get Rid Of: Inverted air foils.......that is down force. Return us to cars, not planes, then many of the problems now facing F1 will be gone. The "cars" will not suffer from a lack of sophistication or technical prowess, as the teams will still spend $-squared to gain that extra tenth. But, what we will have is.....close racing, drivers skill being more to the front, as compared with engineering skill, and passing. And now, with the advent of wind tunnel availability, the FIA could stipulate a car could exert no more than....(say)...5% of its weight in down force. (they could set the number where ever they wanted to begin with) Simple. Let the teams figure it out, and you wouldn't need to have the endless list of wing dimensions, etc.

This would also free up such areas as suspensions, or variable (changeable) body shapes (drag inducing shapes for braking?), for development.

It would really be nice to see cars that didn't ALL look the same!

[scousers on tour 2008]

Under....Get Rid Of: Inverted air foils.......that is down force. Return us to cars, not planes, then many of the problems now facing F1 will be gone. The "cars" will not suffer from a lack of sophistication or technical prowess, as the teams will still spend $-squared to gain that extra tenth. But, what we will have is.....close racing, drivers skill being more to the front, as compared with engineering skill, and passing. And now, with the advent of wind tunnel availability, the FIA could stipulate a car could exert no more than....(say)...5% of its weight in down force. (they could set the number where ever they wanted to begin with) Simple. Let the teams figure it out, and you wouldn't need to have the endless list of wing dimensions, etc.

This would also free up such areas as suspensions, or variable (changeable) body shapes (drag inducing shapes for braking?), for development.

It would really be nice to see cars that didn't ALL look the same!

1968 jackie stewart or chris amon...... i thought it was 1967 he won it?