80% want a tyre war
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The GPDA results are in, and 80% of fans surveyed want a tyre war.
The most damning one though is less than 10% think F1 is in a healthier place now than it was 5 years ago.
Downloadable results below:
http://gpda.motorsport.com/?page=survey&sg_ses...sgtarget=-1&sgbrwsrid=0fb55026d397df02717e16b7a8e025da#sgbody-2118881
The most damning one though is less than 10% think F1 is in a healthier place now than it was 5 years ago.
Downloadable results below:
http://gpda.motorsport.com/?page=survey&sg_ses...sgtarget=-1&sgbrwsrid=0fb55026d397df02717e16b7a8e025da#sgbody-2118881
RKi said:
Kimi's always been popular. Not sure why people idolise the washed up overpaid loser so much tbh :S
Because he's different. Other drivers say things so generic it could be coming from any of their mouths, and Kimi doesn't usually conform to that (by saying nothing 
). Hamilton is the only one that also shows a bit of emotion but it varies from overexcited ten year old with a bad American accent when he does win to super depressed sore loser when he doesn't.I'm not sure this survey will help at all, with 80% wanting a tyre war and another 60% wanting in race refueling it sounds like fans don't want to ever see any racing on track anymore. Oh, add to that the 74% that want more relaxed regs for chassis and engines which will make the middle and back teams fall even further behind.
The only thing I did find really interesting was 50% saying they did't watch the races live anymore because they were on pay TV. I would love if they came back to the BBC, I can't afford Sky.
andyps said:
The one result which really surprised me was that the 2000s produced the best looking F1 cars, can't agree with that personally as that would probably be the decade I put last.
For me, the best looking era was the 60s, just before wings were introduced. It looks like the survey has been filled in primarily by people who weren't old enough to watch F1 in the 90s, let alone the 60s. andyps said:
The one result which really surprised me was that the 2000s produced the best looking F1 cars, can't agree with that personally as that would probably be the decade I put last.
It might just be when the majority of the people that filled out the survey started watching F1. The problem with surveys is that the participants always come up with the wrong answers.
I agree that most people want back to the days when they first became enraptured with F1. I saw this in the police force.
A PC intending to get promoted starts to learn the ropes. They spend their first couple of years immersing themselves and then go onto specialties. They then get promoted, go on course or 20 and then, by the time they are in a position to make decisions that have an effect on a division, they find they have absolutely no idea of the systems and processes that have developed in the meantime.
They then come up with the magic 'new' idea of reverting to the way it was when they joined.
This is not fantasy, it is provable.
People like what is familiar. Each change to the regs in F1, such as DRS, treaded tyres, automatic advance and retard, are seen as taking away the purity of the sport, so they want a return to the 'good old days'.
This survey was a waste of time. Most people will say that want none of this, more of that, and a frisson of something else, when all they really want, at least it goes for me, is excitement.
I know a PC who went through his career buying old patrol bicycles off the job when the innovation of 'cycle patrol' was invented. It worked out at around every 7 or 8 years.
I agree that most people want back to the days when they first became enraptured with F1. I saw this in the police force.
A PC intending to get promoted starts to learn the ropes. They spend their first couple of years immersing themselves and then go onto specialties. They then get promoted, go on course or 20 and then, by the time they are in a position to make decisions that have an effect on a division, they find they have absolutely no idea of the systems and processes that have developed in the meantime.
They then come up with the magic 'new' idea of reverting to the way it was when they joined.
This is not fantasy, it is provable.
People like what is familiar. Each change to the regs in F1, such as DRS, treaded tyres, automatic advance and retard, are seen as taking away the purity of the sport, so they want a return to the 'good old days'.
This survey was a waste of time. Most people will say that want none of this, more of that, and a frisson of something else, when all they really want, at least it goes for me, is excitement.
I know a PC who went through his career buying old patrol bicycles off the job when the innovation of 'cycle patrol' was invented. It worked out at around every 7 or 8 years.
kwits.
Indeed. However so many of them, especially around here, seem to think they're experts.A tyre war... one quick way to rule out x% of the cars being in with a chance of being anywhere close to winning because they don't have the right tyre. So basically becoming the new "engine", which replaced "Newey aero" on cars before that. And so on. It just swaps around the particular thing that makes a team dominate. Main thing is to change aero so teams can overtake more properly as that seems to have got worse this season again.
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