Poltergeistes
20th May 2009, 02:39
I often lose myself on youtube, i go to look at a certain thing, and from there i always end up watching f1 videos, So i stumbled across this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2tIFxSEGA&feature=related ) of this epic battle and it got me asking myself alot of questions.
We know that Schumacher is the ferrari driver with the most impressive numbers, but I can't think of anybody that spelled out FERRARI more than Gilles, it was just such an unique explosive combination.
And then you start to ask yourself, what happened to f1? When do we ever see such fierce battles like this one on that video? I wonder if Gilles came to F1 these days if he would even get a chance to race, would somebody hire a driver that gets into every turn sideways just because he is always driving too fast? I don't think they would... F1 nowdays became this sport where everything became too valuable in terms of money, that it would be insane to hire a driver that would put in jeopardy the car that many times during every race.
I miss this type of racing, the one where drivers don't have to back down from the wheel to wheel, where theres only the dogfight between those 2 drivers and nobody else gets in the middle, no race stewarts no politics no FIA.
Now it's a whole different approach to it, you either think you have the car to overtake the car ahead, and so you go and do it nicely and easy and you do it in one shot or maybe 2, or they will tell you to stay where you are, not attack, not go for it to keep the points you already have.
Like Vettel and Massa last race, why did Vettel stay behind Massa like that for so long? The ferrari is faster than it used to be, but I think that the redbull had a good chance as well, but the dogfight never even took place, what kind of racing is that?
I love watching it still, and so you get used to the way they do it now, it's the normal pattern you are used to, but then when you look back and remember how it used to be, I think that the last golden years of prime F1 was the Prost and Senna years... everything after them changed...
When compared to the 80s and 70s f1 lost what made it the best racing series, it lost it's edge, it lost it's boldness, and now the real races are raced backstage, probably inside Bernie's or Max's motorhomes, and it happened because we lost the drivers that were edgy and bold, and to replace them it's like they tried to grow them, like it was in a military school, pick them when they are very very young, sign them up, get this manager, get this agent, get this sponsor to support the career.
So I wonder if this "fabricated" versions that we get mostly these days are actually stealing away space from those that are just pure talent but doesn't have "the people" to back them up off the track.
Then again people like Gilles are unique... No other...
We know that Schumacher is the ferrari driver with the most impressive numbers, but I can't think of anybody that spelled out FERRARI more than Gilles, it was just such an unique explosive combination.
And then you start to ask yourself, what happened to f1? When do we ever see such fierce battles like this one on that video? I wonder if Gilles came to F1 these days if he would even get a chance to race, would somebody hire a driver that gets into every turn sideways just because he is always driving too fast? I don't think they would... F1 nowdays became this sport where everything became too valuable in terms of money, that it would be insane to hire a driver that would put in jeopardy the car that many times during every race.
I miss this type of racing, the one where drivers don't have to back down from the wheel to wheel, where theres only the dogfight between those 2 drivers and nobody else gets in the middle, no race stewarts no politics no FIA.
Now it's a whole different approach to it, you either think you have the car to overtake the car ahead, and so you go and do it nicely and easy and you do it in one shot or maybe 2, or they will tell you to stay where you are, not attack, not go for it to keep the points you already have.
Like Vettel and Massa last race, why did Vettel stay behind Massa like that for so long? The ferrari is faster than it used to be, but I think that the redbull had a good chance as well, but the dogfight never even took place, what kind of racing is that?
I love watching it still, and so you get used to the way they do it now, it's the normal pattern you are used to, but then when you look back and remember how it used to be, I think that the last golden years of prime F1 was the Prost and Senna years... everything after them changed...
When compared to the 80s and 70s f1 lost what made it the best racing series, it lost it's edge, it lost it's boldness, and now the real races are raced backstage, probably inside Bernie's or Max's motorhomes, and it happened because we lost the drivers that were edgy and bold, and to replace them it's like they tried to grow them, like it was in a military school, pick them when they are very very young, sign them up, get this manager, get this agent, get this sponsor to support the career.
So I wonder if this "fabricated" versions that we get mostly these days are actually stealing away space from those that are just pure talent but doesn't have "the people" to back them up off the track.
Then again people like Gilles are unique... No other...