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You seem to see it as an individual sport, drivers fighting each other. It is, in fact, a team sport. Man + Machine + Engineers!

MomoXenosaga 4y ago
I see it as an unequal fight. May the wealthiest win. Although that is not just a F1 problem of course. You see it in football too. I think the new rules on budget are a great way to recalibrate the sport.
- antihero 4y ago
  Complete equality is unattainable unless I guess you birthed all the drivers from the same DNA into a test tube and controlled every aspect of their training and development. You have to draw the line somewhere and in F1 the team is within that line.
  - hypertele-Xii 4y ago
    > unless I guess you birthed all the drivers from the same DNA into a test tube and controlled every aspect of their training and development. I'd watch that movie.
- _yb2s 4y ago
  You have to have virtually unlimited money to play, but money doesn't solve the engineering problems themselves... you still have to design and build a superior vehicle than the other teams that also have virtually unlimited funds. Having had the lucky opportunity to work as an engineer on projects with nearly unlimited budgets, it was shocking to me how little having unlimited funds really helped... I often felt a nagging feeling that I could have done nearly as well with a small budget. Perhaps money can buy creative solutions for the person with the money, but when you're the engineer they hired, that's not the experience you have. Money can also hire the "best" race car driver, but when you're that driver, you then have to figure out how to drive even faster... the money doesn't drive the car. edit: you might appreciate 24 hours of lemons - a car race with a $500 budget limit https://24hoursoflemons.com/ https://24hoursoflemons.com/
  - oblak 4y ago
    And yet, in most cases, the most expensive car wins. Of course it's not just about who spends the most money. But spending is very much key.

MomoXenosaga 4y ago

I see it as an unequal fight. May the wealthiest win. Although that is not just a F1 problem of course. You see it in football too. I think the new rules on budget are a great way to recalibrate the sport.

antihero 4y ago
Complete equality is unattainable unless I guess you birthed all the drivers from the same DNA into a test tube and controlled every aspect of their training and development. You have to draw the line somewhere and in F1 the team is within that line.
- hypertele-Xii 4y ago
  > unless I guess you birthed all the drivers from the same DNA into a test tube and controlled every aspect of their training and development. I'd watch that movie.
_yb2s 4y ago
You have to have virtually unlimited money to play, but money doesn't solve the engineering problems themselves... you still have to design and build a superior vehicle than the other teams that also have virtually unlimited funds. Having had the lucky opportunity to work as an engineer on projects with nearly unlimited budgets, it was shocking to me how little having unlimited funds really helped... I often felt a nagging feeling that I could have done nearly as well with a small budget. Perhaps money can buy creative solutions for the person with the money, but when you're the engineer they hired, that's not the experience you have. Money can also hire the "best" race car driver, but when you're that driver, you then have to figure out how to drive even faster... the money doesn't drive the car. edit: you might appreciate 24 hours of lemons - a car race with a $500 budget limit https://24hoursoflemons.com/ https://24hoursoflemons.com/
- oblak 4y ago
  And yet, in most cases, the most expensive car wins. Of course it's not just about who spends the most money. But spending is very much key.