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Grooved tyres
Narrow track cars
The plank
Turbos
Getting rid of turbos
Turbos again
DRS
Max Mosely
Jean-Marie Balestre
Jean Todt

The four tyres.

You only need two tyres to race an engine efficiently around a racetrack, the two others are redundant.

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Refuelling
Michael Schumacher (and/or Ferrari)
Hermann Tilke
Bernie Ecclestone
James Allen
Over complicated steering wheels

Fans that have an entitlement complex

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Fans that think other fans have an entitlement complex

Touchee

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Max Mosley
Toto Wolff

computers calculating the best strategy

Standardization of core aspects... i.e. single type of engine configuration, single tyre supplier, etc...

The concept of increased component lifespan in the name of cost reduction.

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Taki Inoue

Pretty sure F1 tried to kill him... twice.

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Exactly. I should've said "the lack of...", because in F1, nothing will ever top those two moments. It has been just a stream of disappointments, since those incidents.

Engines that last 4 races or more

(although Honda is trying to save F1 from that)

Cars in the lead not breaking down

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

engines in the rear

Open wheels

The entire 1998 rulebook.

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Great point. A lot of the DNA of the current day issues with F1 can be traced back to these rules.

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Full faced helmets - F1 fans won't tolerate anything that obscures visibility of the driver
Seatbelts - Anything that slows a driver's exit from their car is just asking for fatalities
The FIA not using any of the great ideas we have at TBK

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Ground effect being banned

Turbos being banned

Traction Control, Launch Control, Grooved tyres, Refueling and the shitshow that was the first decade of the 2000s

Single car qualifying

Tarmac Runoffs

The 2017 increase in downforce levels

Not racing exclusively in the wet

Purism, or the notion that doing anything to increase the entertainment levels of the races is "not what Formula 1 is about"

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RIP Birmingham Wheels: here's some of the crash videos I recorded when it was there:

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Ugly boring Mercedes farting sounding dominating a slowly boring crawling 3 straight seasons. F1 died a lot when 2014 started, and even more the following years of that facepalm torturous tragedy of an era.

Also, Oh wait, new car paintings!!!! - black, grey, white and grey, grey and black.


Over-complicated wheels and engineers that have more power than drivers.


Safety-car rain parades. At least now standing starts always.

Road-courses full of run-off areas. Oh, so much hipe for Valencia and Abu-dhabi on paper. Oh, so much disappointment. At least we have Baku and Singapore now.