It wasn’t boring though which was @Guinness Boy point. After Vettel’s dominance it was an exciting relief to have 2 drivers battling it out even in the same team but at least they were battles.
Then Vettel arguably had a faster or as fast Ferrari in 2017 & 18 that also livened up the...
What's it taken them, 18 months to figure out the zero-pod concept was a pile of steaming...:poop:
I'm trying to work out if my falling out of love with F1 is a dislike of MV, or the new boring tracks finally grinding me down, or what, but for the first time in 35 years, I'm completely......meh...
I remember that too, Martin often brings that up. A 100 second qualifying pole lap you'd have to be within 107 secs - 7 seconds in a qualy lap in F1 these days as you say is huge, but if conditions rapidly change in Q1, such as rain comes in and you didn't get a lap in, entirely possible to miss...
Blimey, I'm getting old, I remember the days when if you didn't qualify within, what was it, a percentage or set figure of the fastest car you were out.
Great update as always @Audax.
14 races up to the summer break. Incredible. That's the same number of races as the entire 1980 championship. Next season has the same number of races as 3 of Fangio's titles in 1952, 1953 and 1954.