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Originally Posted by Oldtony
The whole F1 situation seems to have gone into self destruct mode and sometimes I get the feeling that an underlying cause is threads like this, and others which are heavily critical, mostly on the basis of personal perception.
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My first season was 1967 and my last one was about five years ago.
If the on-track action is good, great. I got into it for the cars, and the sport has been on a 30 year trajectory to block development of the cars, supposedly to reduce costs, and it has in fact has the opposite effect of ensuring a very direct relationship between money and success.
That has led to the place F1 is in now. Bernie is finally reaching his dream of pushing all the little teams out. I liked the little teams. The little teams, doing lots of interesting, innovative stuff were what attracted me to F1. I find it ironic that Bernie's effort to make it big time and all about the "show", is in the process of killing it altogether.
Really, I should be rooting for this process to reach its ultimate end, the complete collapse of the sport, because I am sure that out of the ashes it would be reborn much more like it was in the 1950's-1980's, but I have a hard time rooting for destruction.