So basically Senna at Monaco 92 wouldn't happen then. 👎
And how many times did we really see the overtaken driver re-overtake the following lap in the DRS zone last year? Almost never - why? Because you've already put the faster car ahead, some of the defending and battling you would normally get is taken away. Sure, there were some tracks which DRS created a battle where there would otherwise be none. But there were also times where it robbed us of a great fight on the track as the driver behind could just breeze past.
A track thats difficult to overtake on should be difficult. Taking that away gives us more overtakes but less quality overtakes. People remember Piquet and Senna at the Hungaroring because its so difficult to overtake and Piquet had to pull off an overtake with some very visible skill, not simply because they changed positions.
I watch motor-racing for racing. Not for X number of overtakes. I can quite happily watch a race with 0 overtaking manouveres as long as there are plenty of battles.
This. I was almost in tears when Schumacher lost out on a possible 2nd place at Montreal, which he drove like a man on a mission to get to in the first place, only to have Button and Webber breeze past. KERS and these new Pirelli tyres do the trick well enough, KERS helping considerably if you ask me. The choice of extra power to use either to attack or to defend, but limited per lap, helps us to have some good battles, so long as every car has it.
Wrong wrong wrong. Monaco is something else simply put, saying let's say we can overtake blahblahblah. DRS didnt change a single thing this year. And it wont because it's a track out of time. However if I want to be a little bit of an ass, I could say that for example that with DRS Senna wouldnt have taken prost out on suzuka but rather would have try to overtake him properly. That's something I would have love to see honestly.
Weaving and DRS is 2 different things, however weaving now is forbidden in the rules, you can only do 1 change. Check the new rules for this year.
You have your opinion I have mine, it's obviously different from yours so why not staying here, there's no need to try to convince me, I've been following F1 for 22 years now and the last year was one of the most exciting for me to follow since the prost-senna era.
Senna took Prost out in 1991 because Prost did the same to Senna in the previous year, gifting Prost the title, while Senna was disqualified because of Balestre's Frenchman bias towards Prost. Not only that, but Ayrton demanded that the grids be switched, so that he could start on the clean side of the grid and be able to benefit from his pole position, but his demands were rejected. DRS would probably not have changed anything back then.
Weaving on a straight has been banned for decades. You were always only allowed one single defensive move on a straight. The only change this year is that you now are not allowed to defend like Schumacher did against Hamilton at Monza last year, meaning you are now not allowed to swerve back at the last minute to have the racing line into the following corner, you have to hold your stance into the next corner.
This new rule is probably going to cripple the defending car even further, because now he will not only have no chance of stopping the already faster car from breezing past artificially with up to 20kph of advantage on the straight, but if he dare defend on the straight, he will have the disadvantage into the following corner. I can understand this on safety grounds, but it is a new rule created arguably due to DRS, and will make it even more effective, and thus, kill the quality of the racing further.
