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Big Twin
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Nelson, Lancashire
Its marginally better than it was a couple of years ago with the occasional good race followed by a few boring ones. Not as good as 15 years or so with Prost, Mansell, Senna etc And nowhere near as good as back in the 70s. The recent rule changes have spoilt a lot of it, qualifying was always good in the past when the drivers had one hour and 12 laps max to set a good time. Was always good to watch the top drivers jumping back into the car with minutes to go to find clear space to get a good position.
Refuelling has spoilt many a good race but also made a few a little more interesting. It was more interesting when the cars all started with full tanks and you got to see how the drivers coped with the changing fuel loads as the race progressed. Likewise it was good to see who made full use of the extra sticky qualifying tyre that were only good for a lap or two. Its all a bit dull now, I still like to get to a race a year but it does not hold anything like the same excitment it used to.
Something needs to be done about it as people are losing interest, the most watchable thing about it this year is the fact that Schumacher is doing so badly!
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