I have to admit, I'm pretty excited. I don't care what the outcome is. I'm just looking forward to finally watching practice... and qualifying.... and a race!
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GO FOR IT BILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!so cheer us on,
We've been using a Roku for all of our TV for over 8 years now... funny enough, our daughters don't even know how to use a DirecTV interface.After cutting the cord I find it hard to watch F1.
I'm really surprised F1 hasn't found a way to take away the Mercedes advantage through the rules yet... or maybe Merc has just kept ahead in multiple areas, making it difficult for any one rule change to hurt them. Hopefully the new formula will result in a few years in a row where there isn't a dominant team/driver. Tough to have that in F1 though, unless you turn it into a spec series.Agree with Tonymustang, how can Mercedes be so superior to the other teams? It would be much more fun without them from my standpoint. I don't think this is driver superiority, Mercedes has something (technology) the other teams don't have. F1 allows their trade secrets to be sacrosanct.
I hope that next year will be a big level setting, as right now, the Mercedes team is just short of 500 mil, where other than Ferrari and Red Bull, most teams are closer to 150-200. Next year, the tech budgets are capped at like 135m, and they'll drop by 5m each additional year, and it's a hard cap, not like baseball where you go over and just pay a slush fund. Salaries and marketing aren't included, so there's nothing stopping them from overpaying for the best driver, but there is some amazing young talent in F1 that shows promise for years to come.I'm really surprised F1 hasn't found a way to take away the Mercedes advantage through the rules yet... or maybe Merc has just kept ahead in multiple areas, making it difficult for any one rule change to hurt them. Hopefully the new formula will result in a few years in a row where there isn't a dominant team/driver. Tough to have that in F1 though, unless you turn it into a spec series.