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[myownalias]

Maybe the car at the back of the race has 100% power and the leader has 80% and everyone inbetween has a sliding scale of power in relation to the leader

Add in Bernie's sprinkler system and we have a winner...

[spankyham]

Let's just build one circuit 24 cars wide. Electronically force cars to stay in line (side by side), then play a game of tiddley winks to decide the winner, and afterwards light a camp fire and they can all sing kumbaya while Webber and vettel square off in the octagon in UFC whatever

[racechick]

[stonemonkey]

Maybe the car at the back of the race has 100% power and the leader has 80% and everyone inbetween has a sliding scale of power in relation to the leader

Add in Bernie's sprinkler system and we have a winner...

He could run a phone in vote for that during the race, make a bit of cash out of it and it'd be a bit of audience participation.

EDIT: In fact, Bernie's really missing a trick here, he could have phone in voting for each quali session and the final race results too.

[racechick]

Maybe the car at the back of the race has 100% power and the leader has 80% and everyone inbetween has a sliding scale of power in relation to the leader

Add in Bernie's sprinkler system and we have a winner...

He could run a phone in vote for that during the race, make a bit of cash out of it and it'd be a bit of audience participation.

EDIT: In fact, Bernie's really missing a trick here, he could have phone in voting for each quali session and the final race results too.

That's a great idea! That would keep the casuals interested!!

[andrew]

Maybe the car at the back of the race has 100% power and the leader has 80% and everyone inbetween has a sliding scale of power in relation to the leader

Add in Bernie's sprinkler system and we have a winner...

He could run a phone in vote for that during the race, make a bit of cash out of it and it'd be a bit of audience participation.

EDIT: In fact, Bernie's really missing a trick here, he could have phone in voting for each quali session and the final race results too.

You're confusing the great MrE with the utterly useless and irritating Simon Ant & Dec Cowell.

[stonemonkey]

Maybe the car at the back of the race has 100% power and the leader has 80% and everyone inbetween has a sliding scale of power in relation to the leader

Add in Bernie's sprinkler system and we have a winner...

He could run a phone in vote for that during the race, make a bit of cash out of it and it'd be a bit of audience participation.

EDIT: In fact, Bernie's really missing a trick here, he could have phone in voting for each quali session and the final race results too.

You're confusing the great MrE with the utterly useless and irritating Simon Ant & Dec Cowell.

How can you not like Simon, and as for ant and dec......



Anyway, MrE could open the phone lines for the last half hour of the race and everyone votes for who they think the winner should be.

That's a great idea! That would keep the casuals interested!!

However, I have concerns that this may encourage some to run up pretty hefty phone bills.

[Jabberwocky]

We could all vote for which corner we wan the sprinklers on

[LewEngBridewell]

We could all vote for which corner we wan the sprinklers on

Eau Rouge, Lap 1.

[1Lemon]

So it is in my view that DRS has gone too far in allowing overtaking, it was designed at a time when F1 was in a bit of a boring lull, and was created to spice the racing up during the all powerful aero overlord time of the sport. Now an overtake isn't exciting because if the driver who's just been passed is still within a second, they just get passed again on DRS; it's made the racing less exciting and predictable.

A solution would be to change when it can be activated, to being able to activate it when between 2 and 1 seconds behind, as a tool to 'catch-up' the driver ahead, and then let pure driving talent (how fresh your tyres are) do the actual overtaking. That way we all win!

[Zekenwolf]

So it is in my view that DRS has gone too far in allowing overtaking

It has, and drivers can be clever to the point of unfairness in using it. For example, if there are 2 DRS zones in a circuit Driver B can overtake Driver A in the first zone only for Driver A to repay the complement in the second.

Alternatively, Driver B can use the first zone to close-up behind Driver A and then do the actual overtaking in the second zone, hoping to be beyond DRS range by the time the first zone comes around again.

IMO they should eliminate DRS but be stricter about any attempt by the driver in front to block overtaking attempts.

[andrew]

The solution is to shift the focus back to mechanical grip rather than aero grip so the driver will make more difference rather than rely of gimmicks which devalue the spectacle of the sport.

[racechick]

The solution is to shift the focus back to mechanical grip rather than aero grip so the driver will make more difference rather than rely of gimmicks which devalue the spectacle of the sport.

Driver make more difference . That is what I want to see! That's what makes F1 for me.

[LewEngBridewell]

DRS was needed when it was introduced. Overtaking was nigh on impossible. What isn't needed is 2 DRS zones, especially on circuits like Spa.

The FIA also don't seem to have perfected the correct activation positions. Some zones still allow drivers to fly past too easily. This should've been resolved after last year.

However, after the mammoth amount of complaints of a lack of overtaking in F1 throughout the 2000s, I feel that DRS is needed until something better can replace it. Andrew is right. Mechanical grip.

[LewEngBridewell]

I've long been a defender of DRS. And the Bahrain GP was a prime example of why it is good for the racing.

All the drivers attacking into Turn 1 (Nico Rosberg especially) would not have had nearly as much opportunity had DRS not been there.