[cargo_brad]

May as well let the drivers use it the whole lap after that fairly substandard showing!

Your thoughts?

[Borrinas]

Meh?

[Inettypofonee]

Pointless on that straight, can't see why they can't just use it all lap round. If the point is to give us more exciting racing then I can't see the benefit of limiting the range that it can be used in.

[Ingeborga]

This could be like Bahrain last year - everyone saying that it's going to be boring as hell, and then we're proven wrong in the second race. I don't know if that's the case, but I truly hope it is.

The DRS zone wasn't specially great - the main straight is located after a 4th or 5th gear turn, which doesn't allow the car behind to close onto the leading car, so it's difficult to get close there. DRS can't help that much. If the DRS area was set after an slower turn, it might have a much more beneficial effect.

[zlopikanikanza]

Australia never has a lot of passing, and the straight is very short, i think the DRS worked quite well considering this. it shouldn't offer any freebies, just makes it possible to pass if you are already quicker than the car in front. it added the opportunity for a few passes, which IMO is excatly what it should do.

it will likely work better at different circuits with longer straights, where overtaking is more likely anyway.

I was pleasantly surprised and think so far so good

[mikeydesignzinc]

The DRS zone wasn't specially great - the main straight is located after a 4th or 5th gear turn, which doesn't allow the car behind to close onto the leading car, so it's difficult to get close there. DRS can't help that much. If the DRS area was set after an slower turn, it might have a much more beneficial effect.

Yes, spot on I think. It will surely have a bigger effect at other circuits.

[zlopikanikanza]

the moaning and prevaricating about how it was a disatser and would lead to false racing and fake passing was unfounded, and it did let cars run closer and get a chance of passing, but thats still not good enough fo some people who have to find some kind of fault in everything. For me it has potential, as long as they don't go mad and let them have it too long on the big straights

[Dertrioz]

I'll give it a few more races and trust in the FIA to tweak it, but 1st impressions aren't great.

[kubekniekubek]

I'm with Robinho. I was pleasantly surprised with it, creating, as I've said elsewhere, the effect of a decent slipstream, getting the following driver close, but ultimately still leaving him some work to do on the brakes. Personally I think it was just about right in terms of it effect on relative speeds.

My only concern is it doesn't permit the slower car the opportunity for a quick repass, as, let's face it, but the time the pair have completed another lap round to the zone there is no way the slower car will still be within 1 sec. That takes a little something away from the racing IMO; those desperate attempts to repass within two corners, knowing it's your only hope.

I'm not sure what the answer is. Perhaps a second zone, or the overtaken car getting one free use of the device to attempt a repass, or - or - well as I say I don't have the answer, but maybe the powers that be will come up with a solution.

[Inettypofonee]

As Robinho and Sonic have said the system gives you a chance but doesn't put it on a plate. My very first impression was that it didn't do a lot but there were certainly cases where it allowed the opportunity to pass that wouldn't usually exist with normal aero.

My problem remains that it's for a section of the track, why not have it all the way round? This would also help with Sonic's problem of the slower car not getting the chance to pass back. If they do that then I can't see much of an argument, beyond "it's not racing", for not having it. And with the tedium of some of the recent years and the difficulty drivers have following other cars, I don't think that "it's not racing" is actually much of an argument.

[GroosteFoessy]

I agree with alot of the above.

At this circuit the main staright is not particularly long, and after a high speed corner.

I personally think it should able to be used at any point on the lap, so you can aid your slipstream to turn 1, 3 or is it 12 or 13 after the quick chicane, and more freedom as said would help the re pass.

I think for me you need a wider time to use it, or not at all. The one straight per lap approach is a bit bizzare.
Not sure how you would regulate all of this to be honest, but its not my job.

If the rules stay as they are though I think at Spain, Canada, Turkey, Brazil among others with longer straights we will see more affect.

Lets wait and see.

[Terinalo]

I'm with Robinho. I was pleasantly surprised with it, creating, as I've said elsewhere, the effect of a decent slipstream, getting the following driver close, but ultimately still leaving him some work to do on the brakes. Personally I think it was just about right in terms of it effect on relative speeds.

Agreed, though I think it will be more effective in places with long straights like Sepang, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi and Catalunya.

Mind you, some of those places listed could do with an actual chance of overtaking...

[GroosteFoessy]

Yer its obvious at Sepang it should be more effective, while you couldn't watch the Monaco GP and say "Well it didn't increase overtaking". Nothing will.

So we need to wait and see and except on some tracks its just not going to have an effect.

[adultcomicssitedessaa]

I think it still sucks. Get rid of that crap!

[Izzy]

Crap, complete crap. I hope they remove it soon or let it be used all the time. Nonsense that it should be available to one driver, but not to another during a fight.

[kubekniekubek]

Crap, complete crap. I hope they remove it soon or let it be used all the time. Nonsense that it should be available to one driver, but not to another during a fight.

I know exactly where you are coming from. I don't want to like it - really I don't. But the designers have got just so damn clever that there is next to no slipstream effect, so until someone far smarter than me comes up with a better solution, I'm gonna at least give this a few races to prove its worth.

[untostaronaf]

If it is used all of the time then it would be completely pointless because the car infront could use it too.

[leangarance]

Made no difference as far as I could see. Apart from being something to talk about it didn't create any more overtaking opportunities.

[CtEkM8Vq]

It worked well so far.

It cut the deficit of running against a brickwall at the last corner. Best example being Alonso catching Webber mid-race, just before Webber pitted. Under normal conditions Alonso would never have caught up Webber on the pit straight.

[Terinalo]

I know exactly where you are coming from. I don't want to like it - really I don't. But the designers have got just so damn clever that there is next to no slipstream effect, so until someone far smarter than me comes up with a better solution, I'm gonna at least give this a few races to prove its worth.

Why is agreeing with you so easy?

Seriously though, you're right. We all know it is a big fat giant gimmick, but if it makes the Spanish/Abu Dhabi/European grands prix actually entertaining, then I think it may be worth it.