What they should do is add up all the times from all the GPs in a season, and whoever is the quickest wins.

If you fail to finish you get a time of 02:00:00 (which I believe is the maximum length of a GP anyway)

Malc

Surely this would only work if all races were a set distance? Maybe an average speed over it all? but that would make maths hard, i guess.

Races are a set distance (except Monaco)

But still not the same speed. Singapore will take much longer than Monza despite similar distances due to a lower avg. speed.

Say if someone's 4 laps down, though; the race finishes when the winner crosses the line. Would then the lapped competitors need to carry on driving until they'd completed the same number of laps? If not, they'd have an advantage because their races will have been shorter.

Because, like, that's a bit silly.

Also, a season race with a field of competitors finishes when the second-last competitor crosses the line.

I thought the number of laps was set to approximate a consistent time rather than distance, being a heavily-advertising-focussed TV spectator sport. Hockenheim, pre-chicanes, used to be about 4 billion miles because they spent 90% of the lap at 200+mph? Not that I'd be surprised to find myself wrong on this.

Also, a season race with a field of competitors finishes when the second-last competitor crosses the line. It's only won when the first crosses it. And don't they still have the 107% rule?

So it's better to be a quick but reckless driver, than be disclipined and consistent?

And you'd lose dramatic charges through the field to 6th from the back by people because you'd be better off parking the car and saving one of your 8 engines.

Oh good, there's already major grumbling going on between the teams about some teams running rear diffusers and others not. So that'll be no results from Melbourne until a Stewards enquiry if any of the teams running diffusers win.

Any word on when the new F1 game is due out?

No-one important gives a shit about the constructors.



All teams are running them, your car would be useless without.

Some teams are running diffusers with 2 sections, one the size of the allowed size of a diffuser, one further up in the area where you're allowed bodywork. They say they're allowed it there because it's bodywork.



Early 2010.

Has there ever been a good F1 game? Because making it arcadey makes it worthless, and making it realistic just goes to show why none of us will ever drive an F1 car.

Geoff's ones and the first 2 on PS1

Oooh, this is good.

http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgea ... lassic-f1/

Be warned, you'll want to waste a lot of time watching these - basically the beeb, in the run up to the Oz GP this weekend have been running a poll on viewers favourite year and not only have they done five minute highlight reels of the winning two they done the next four runner ups as well.

Oh, now that was an excellent way to spend half an hour. I still have piles and piles of VHS tapes from when I used to record every race from about 1989-1994. I reckon I might spend the weekend watching some of that.

I wish F1 was still worth bothering with.

Yeah I guess it's very early days and by all accounts McClaren have come a long way just to get to where they are now. Just been watching some of the practice which seems to be on repeat from the red button on BBC. Damn those cars are fugly but they all seem to be nice and oversteery.

Apropos of pretty much nothing:



I received that twenty-one years ago, and am still cheered up immensely. By it.

Has there ever been a good F1 game? Because making it arcadey makes it worthless, and making it realistic just goes to show why none of us will ever drive an F1 car.

DUM. d - d - dum - d - d - d - d - dum.

Yes, they're using The Chain