Formula One ( F1 )

I've heard quite a lot of this over the past few weeks. Drivers have pretty much always had to conserve some aspect of the car, whether it be fuel, tyres, engines, whatever. The only time that I know of where it was proper all out racing was around/just after 2000 where people were just banging out quali laps for the entire race and it was a boring procession because the fastest cars qualified at the front and drove off. And everybody whinged about it.

Even back in the "glory days" of Senna, Prost, Mansell etc., how many times did you see someone charging through the field with a fresh set of tyres racing the guys in front with old rubber and running on fumes because they'd went too hard to soon.

I like seeing drivers put under the pressure of something that seems impossible to understand at the start of the season yet by the end of the season everyone's got it sussed and are complaining that the tyres last too long. You know, just like last season.

Conservation on the resources has always been a part of F1 racing. It's not going to change. If you don't like it, go watch drag racing or old videos of Schumacher leading a boring procession for 2 hours, exciting stuff!

In the early part of the last decade the boring races you remember were because of the most dominant driver for a generation and a series of pliant team mates in the best car on the grid. Grooved tyres (another failed F1 gimmick) also didn't help, by reducing cornering speeds, limiting late breaking and not giving much traction when close to the car in front.

There is an enormous difference between drivers managing tyres over a race distance and using tyres that last less than 10 laps regardless of the driving style. It's stupid.

Tyres are the biggest leveller in Formular 1 and I'd just like to see less of the wacky races 'innovations'. And you can throw DRS into that too