Halo's; just when you thought it was safe

[Doink]

Jean Todt has a brain fart and thinks it's a terrific idea to paint the halo of the championship leader YELLOW, like the yellow jersey in the tour de France! Just when you thought he was finally seeing a bit of sense in agreeing the engine penalties needed changing he goes a spoils it with a yellow halo, so all that bks about giving the teams some freedom to shape the halo to help blend it in with the car but now thinks it's a good idea to paint one yellow.

Note to Mr Todt, the majority of folk who follow F1know who's leading the championship, who's second, fifth, seventh, tenth and eighteenth, we don't need to be told by the colour of their car now, I would much rather you concentrate on making sure the next set of rules are written so that cars could follow each other closely like your new F2 cars do instead of trying to find a problem for your solution

Edited by Doink on Monday 4th September 22:08

[enjo]

Yes, that might be ugly.

How about give the lead driver yellow tyres? And the yellow dye could make them less grippy to tighten things up a bit! /s

[The Moose]

Doink said:

Note to Mr Todt, the majority of folk who follow F1know who's leading the championship, who's second, fifth, seventh, tenth and eighteenth, we don't need to be told by the colour of their car now, I would much rather you concentrate on making sure the next set of rules are written so that cars could follow each other closely like your new F2 cars do instead of trying to find a problem for your solution

Maybe regular followers do (although I do occasionally get mixed up with 2 drivers in the same team).

I suspect they are trying to attract new and/or more casual viewers in which things like this could be helpful.

[anonymous-user]

Is this really as good as they can come up with to improve the spectacle?

No wonder many are despairing of F1.

[johnxjsc1985]

REALIST123 said:

Is this really as good as they can come up with to improve the spectacle?

No wonder many are despairing of F1.

How about making the current leader start from the back of the grid each race or just remember the history of the sport and respect it.

[Cold]

johnxjsc1985 said:

How about making the current leader start from the back of the grid each race or just remember the history of the sport and respect it.

Dunno, but I've pondered as to whether some sort of success weight penalty (similar to BTCC) might help things?

[johnxjsc1985]

Cold said:

Dunno, but I've pondered as to whether some sort of success weight penalty (similar to BTCC) might help things?

I do think the Cars and technology have taken away something from the more naturally aggressive drivers.

[anonymous-user]

I still think the drivers numbers on the cars should be much bigger.

[Flooble]

Maybe they could do this:

[NoddyonNitrous]

A sort of golden halo?

[sparta6]

it will be mudguards next. Oh and rubber tyre marbles can be dangerous if swallowed

[anonymous-user]

sparta6 said:

it will be mudguards next. Oh and rubber tyre marbles can be dangerous if swallowed

You could be right

[CraigyMc]

Doink said:

Jean Todt has a brain fart and thinks it's a terrific idea to paint the halo of the championship leader YELLOW, like the yellow jersey in the tour de France!

Not the FIAs job.

The FIA is responsible for safety. Yellow or any other colour, has no effect on safety.

[Eric Mc]

That's it - I'm chucking my hi-vis vest in the bin.

[Mr_Thyroid]

Pretty inoffensive idea if you ask me.

[anonymous-user]

CraigyMc said:

Not the FIAs job.

The FIA is responsible for safety. Yellow or any other colour, has no effect on safety.

The FIA should not be in charge of anything IMO.

[sparta6]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

The FIA should not be in charge of anything IMO.

FIA = F****d It Again

[550M]

Why yellow? The leaders jersey is red in The Vuelta?

[Doink]

The FIA should be left to enforce the rules whatever they are, liberty as owners write the rules

[markcoznottz]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

I still think the drivers numbers on the cars should be much bigger.

No offence but I bet most casual viewers haven't noticed.