This year had the entire field spread too far out to do anything about passing.

Bahrain is at night, so heat will not be an issue

Correct. It was a bad call from Merc but Lewis' tyres were gone as they were expecting him to be doing 1.28.0 but the best he was being able to do was 1.28.5

I think they got it quite okay with the tyres. They still degrade quite more than on Bridgestone/Michelin days, but not in a artificial way. It's a decent wear



May I ask you something? Why did you start watching F1, in the first place? The "boring" thing(no stupid cheese tyres, no DRS, no passing fest) has always been F1. What you like is very recent in the history of this sport.

Albeit this wasn't an awesome race, I'm sure it was better than the average 2014 race or the only 2015 race that I watched.

There will be more passing and battles on China and Bahrain people. It will always be difficult in some places. For instance, it's daft to expect overtakings, if any at all, at Monaco.

I don't accept "F1 is hard to pass, this is the way its always been" as an argument. Just because it goes in the wrong direction with some rule sets (1994 especially) but no rule set is ever permenant

I've never understood this argument, particularly as you have to ignore pretty much all of F1 before the late 80s in order to make it

Autosport had an article not too long ago, which showed that what is perceived as 'hard to pass' F1 only really started in the early 90s, and then got dramatically worse after refuelling came back in on account of teams discovering the pit lane pass.

Apparently the track marshalls are in trouble for letting people onto the track too soon, there will be an investigation.

Yeah, it's only ok when Silverstone did it in the late 80s

What fools running across the course, RAVING LUNATICS

Tries to make a point about Silverstone using an incident that happened in Rio as example

hmmmm

Agreed, I guess it's a generational thing

The people in the 90s/2000s who were saying "this isn't F1, F1 is better than this" were ignored as moaners for that period.
Then finally F1 did something about it for 2009 and particuarly 2010, F1 entered a bright period. but those who had only known the post 1994 era started moaning "This is too easy, f1 is rubbish, put things back to the way F1 should be!"
I don't blame them really, they just got used to it being a certain way and when things changed, it wasn't to their tastes.
So obviously Jean Todt when he came in wanted to put things back to when he was the most successful, thus switching the perceived opinion back again.

I guess there isn't really a "true" way of how F1 should be, but it'll probably always be in this "F1 is too boring, we need less aero" "F1 is too easy, we need challenging cars again" opinion cycle in perpetuity.

Team 2020 rules package 4 lyfe

Tries to make a point about Silverstone using an incident that happened in Rio as example

hmmmm

Wasn't there a track invasion after the race in '87? I know 1992, but I thought also in '87. Bloody Mansell fans

Bloody Mansell fans! How dare you attack us, the followers of the sacred moustached one! I'll have you know that yesterday's track invasion was cute compared to our rampages of Silverstone in 1987 and 1992.

Apparently the track marshalls are in trouble for letting people onto the track too soon, there will be an investigation.