Formula Farce ???
 

Could we please have a poll mods on the following subject !!!

Has Formula One become Formula Farce http://www.motorsportforums.com/images/styles/World/icons/icon5.gif

Yes or No ?

For the people who love the sport: it has become TOTALLY A FARCE. http://www.motorsportforums.com/images/styles/World/icons/icon13.gif

For the people who think first money: it has become VERY PROFITABLE http://www.motorsportforums.com/images/styles/World/icons/icon14.gif

Yes.

Yes

Yup

Not F1 – there´s still a lot of great racing, especially this year.
But Mosley, the megalomaniac „Führer“, with his personal vendetta makes a ridiculous madhouse out of the FIA.

Yes

Too many arbitrary interventions, often even unfair.

NO!!

it remains, as always Formula $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$for One

NO!!!!!

You'd be hard presed to find a race in any era that was as amusing as Canada or Japan. But, F1 is often about the drama that happens off the track as much as the on track drama. And what off track drama there's been this year. You got team racing illegal car, team managers attacking drivers and that's just torro rosso. Mclaern has had enough drama to keep the newspapers busy all year from the rise of hamilton, the angry alonso, Qualigate, Stemnigate, the 100 mill fine and on and on it goes. I don't think you can ask much more from a season.

No. This season has been the most entertaining in years. That's why we watch racing, to be entertained.

This season has it in spades.

I disagree. Bernie and Max have ensured that this season has been the most disappointing in recent memory.

Why has it been disapointing? Did you want McLaren to be punished further? Hammy and Fred out of the Championship? Ferrari to blow up every race?

Let's hear it http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...es/biggrin.gif

No.

NO

The races themselves have been good entertainment and the champinship is full off intruige.

...but all the off track stuff, especially the legal wranglings, the arbitrary rulings by the FIA, the mouth and actions of Max Mosley, the threats of losing Silverstone and France, the loss of USA GP, the chase for the almighty dollar by Bernie, and the completely blown out of proportion spy scandal have all made it hard to purely enjoy the races for what they are.

As soon as the red lights go out on Sunday, it's a bit of relief from all the nonsense and I can focus on 2 hours of driving and drama. As much as it pains me to see Hamilton crawl out of the race in china, that was high drama, that no amount of manufactured programming could ever deliver.

I find it odd that this thread woould appeear leading into the most exciting season finale in a very long time and a season (on the track) that provided us with 4 legitimate contendors, several rain races, smaller teams scoring points, and thrilling races.

If you think this season is a farce, I wonder what you thought of the 8 years preceeding this one.

I want to see a championship contested on track, without interference from a governing body with little or no experience in the sport. I want to see a season where drivers race and points rewarded for their performances without looming doubt of penalties imposed in the next race. I want to see a season free of embarrassing scandal. I want to see a sport where competitors display the best of their talent and skill on track, not a circus of entertainment perpetuated by non-competitors whose sole purpose is financial gain.


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And all great points http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...lies/smile.gif

Oh, you mean a championship decided on the track, where all teams and drivers are required to compete equally without regard to the profits of the big boss, but simply for the sake of speed and competition....I wonder why nobody never thought about this before.....oh well, it will never sell newspapers nor commercials on the boob tube.......http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...es/biggrin.gif

If you want that then don't look to the FIA. It's not their fault that ALL the teams bend the rules to within a hairs width of breaking. When they get caught they say "but it's always been this way".

Until the teams stop doing everything inside or outside the rules to gain 0.000000000001 of a second then we can expect the governing body to step in from time-to-time.

When are the teams going to do this? Right after the flying pigs go ice skating in hell.

To answer the original question, no, F1 hasn't become a farce. This season is not that different from many that have preceded it. In fact, I'd say that 2007 has been one of the more memorable seasons.

This season will close with an applaud so loud that the anthems will be silenced by the din made from the sound of every fair minded, scrupulous, f1 loving, Homo Sapien, this side of Uranus when Kimi snatches the championship in a dream of a race that will restore that little iota of dignity this sport has left in it this season.

Yeah, all this Hamilton-bias had made F1 a farce to me. There are some good races, but nothing special, a la Nurburgring 1999.