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F1 2026

Red Bull had flexi wings

Ferrari had a fuel flow meter that dodged the monitoring system

They are all at it and have been forever.

Get rid of the over regulation and support innovation.
 

Nasser Butt-Head said:
That's certainly one way to look at it.
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F1 is over regulated and teams devote millions of pounds finding ways to get round said regs.

I have said for years we should have less regulation.

Fuel tank - any size you want and you can run it dry and still win as long as you cross the line.

Engine - petrol V10 after that do as you like like

Fuel flow - fill your boots

Aero - anything goes.

Stipulate length and width.

Tyres standard size but don’t mandate a pit stop. If you can do race distance on one set - good for you.

CONTROVERSIAL POINT.

And I accept this would never happen and I know why but…………..

Scrap carbon brakes and go back to Steel brakes.
 
Big Jeff said:
F1 is over regulated and teams devote millions of pounds finding ways to get round said regs.

I have said for years we should have less regulation.

Fuel tank - any size you want and you can run it dry and still win as long as you cross the line.

Engine - petrol V10 after that do as you like like

Fuel flow - fill your boots

Aero - anything goes.

Stipulate length and width.

Tyres standard size but don’t mandate a pit stop. If you can do race distance on one set - good for you.

CONTROVERSIAL POINT.

And I accept this would never happen and I know why but…………..

Scrap carbon brakes and go back to Steel brakes.
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That would be a spectacle for sure. It would be like that 'juiced' athletics tournament that's making the news.

Their athletes have no restrictions on doping.
Mace said:
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Sorry but if any of those other journalists had anything about them they would have walked out with him. Trying to control the media and narrative
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What happened? Don't say the journalist had to leave?

Who the f#ck does Verstappen think he is? Jumped up tw@t.
 
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Nasser Butt-Head said:
That would be a spectacle for sure. It would be like that 'juiced' athletics tournament that's making the news.

Their athletes have no restrictions on doping.

What happened? Don't say the journalist had to leave?

Who the f#ck does Verstappen think he is? Jumped up tw@t.
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I still enjoy F1 but the reliance on electrical harvesting and deployment combined with compromising performance to ensure full batteries is not my vision of the pinnacle of motor sport.

But then I’m not a fan of EVs so I suppose that’s no surprise.
 
errant said:
Who pissed in his cornflakes this morning?


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Some people just want to live in the 70s
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It was a brilliant question at the time and I am pleased someone asked it, because it's not been mentioned anywhere near enough. It was the single most avoidable and totally unnecessary loss of points he had last year and it rendered all his and their brilliant efforts to catch up, which would have put him in the next league up of great champions, pointless.

It would have been his one great championship. One more than Prost. Equal with Fangio. The one he really had to do something special for. His chance to elevate himself above the Vettel tier of "really was just the car" champion which will be largely forgotten a generation from now.

He fucked it. And he knows it.

It was also the most despicable piece of driving the sport has seen since Jeddah 2021 (him again) and that isn't talked about anywhere near enough.

I bet the journalist got shuffled out and the frauds like "Crofty", the insufferable Mitchell Malm and that dickhead Benson stayed tight lipped and watched him go.
 
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He is the most insufferable man child the sports ever suffered, so detestable
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I'm just so glad this years regs have showed him up. A lot of us knew exactly how average a driver he is in reality.

He's always taken after his kernt of a father off the track anarl.
 
To be honest I'm sick of hearing of all this talk of Max getting whatever drive he wants next season. He looks pedestrian in the car this year and why would Mercedes stump up the cash to deal with him when they are doing fine with who they have
 
Mace said:
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Sorry but if any of those other journalists had anything about them they would have walked out with him. Trying to control the media and narrative
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Sky had a great chance to set a precedent a few years when Red Bull refused to speak with them because of their reporting of the budget cap carry-on, but the spineless little twats caved and it's no surprise that most of their pundits are now terrified to offer up any sort of actual opinion on anything.

Richards' original question back in Abu Dhabi has obviously cut a pretty deep, open wound with the horrible little get.
 
Beau Peep said:
I bet the journalist got shuffled out and the frauds like "Crofty", the insufferable Mitchell Malm and that dickhead Benson stayed tight lipped and watched him go.
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i wouldnt be too surpirsed if something comes out about the british bias of journalism, its something that Fernando has had a bee in his bonnet about in the past claiming to get the rough treatment from fleet street.
 
I suspect Dutch is the email authors first language…

Within two hours someone had tracked down my email. “You’re the problem. You’re the toxic dipshit who’s responsible for the whole British bias in F1. You’re the worst,” it read. As abuse goes at least the apostrophes were in the correct places and it was not written in green crayon.


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errant said:
I suspect Dutch is the email authors first language…

Within two hours someone had tracked down my email. “You’re the problem. You’re the toxic dipshit who’s responsible for the whole British bias in F1. You’re the worst,” it read. As abuse goes at least the apostrophes were in the correct places and it was not written in green crayon.


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“Colleagues in the press pack were universally shocked and offered concern for my wellbeing. “Classless,” said one with arch disdain over Verstappen’s behaviour.”

As stated already in this thread, why not stand by your colleague in the moment? Now he knows he can tell journalists to get out and they will with (seemingly) no action against him. It’s pathetic from Verstappen like.
 
I never listen to drivers press conferences or indeed any sports people.

I love elite sport and watch a huge variety of sports but the participants are often dull, thick, monosyllabic idiots who rarely hear the word no!

To reach the peak in any sport requires a single minded approach that normal well adjusted humans would find both unacceptable and unattainable.

There are exceptions of course but they are very much in the minority.
 
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