Four Five Eight;n3551367 said:
This has always been the way of Formula 1, sometimes it's 2 or 3 teams and sometimes you have 1 dominant team. It's not that terrible of a thing as it gives drivers a reason and avenue to advance their careers in formula 1. The idea that Mercedes can get into the points within 10 laps isn't that absurd and idea especially when the drivers in his way are reluctant to fight for position. I was watching the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix and Kimi Raikkonen who started last was up into 10th place within 10 laps in a car which didn't manage to win a race that year and finished the race on the podium in 3rd. That wasn't enough to be in the points back then but these days it is.
And how about this, the infamous 1989 Japanese Grand Prix, in the Movie Senna it made the whole thing seem like this tense amazing recovery drive by Senna but you know what? As long as Senna was stopped on the track he was still leading the race when he got going again and then he was able to lead a lap with a broken front wing and was only passed by 3rd place when he had been sat in the pits for 15 seconds.
At the moment you've got 2 teams battling with Red Bull occasionally getting in the mix but Renault could enter the mix before long if they can get it together and same with McLaren, it's not as if those teams are struggling for cash. Even Williams should be doing a lot better than they are.
QFT!
i don't understand people who complain that F1 isn't anymore what it's never been, and never will be
F1 is a tactical game played out over the course of the year, and from time to time there is a race to stop people forgetting it's there
but the battle for P1 on track is hardly the most exiting part about it
and i'm loving current season!!! Mercedes vs Ferrari, with Red Bull hanging on and against all odds, about able to keep up
and a midfield battle where the difference between P7 and P14 is blinking the eyes in the middle of the corner
(thank god grosjean keeps messing up, or haas would've been comfortably fourth)