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Yes I see your point, still in what is essentially a pure driving series what's wrong with the best drivers winning, like I say only in motorsports do we see excellence needing to be handicapped for what I can only see as an attempt to attract casuals and for a purist like me it's just basically a watered down version of what racing should be about, thank god such things are not done presently in F1.

Each to his own though, I see myself as an outsider to something I can take or leave and if the supporters of the series are happy with this so be it.

Yes I see your point, still in what is essentially a pure driving series what's wrong with the best drivers winning, like I say only in motorsports do we see excellence needing to be handicapped for what I can only see as an attempt to attract casuals and for a purist like me it's just basically a watered down version of what racing should be about, thank god such things are not done presently in F1.

Each to his own though, I see myself as an outsider to something I can take or leave and if the supporters of the series are happy with this so be it.

That's laughable. F1 has a long history in handicapping the team that has done the best job. Add in silly tyres and a desire for engine parity and cost caps and F1 actually is trying to handicap excellence. It always has

That's not handicapping in the sense of giving someone else a sporting advantage.

That's not handicapping in the sense of giving someone else a sporting advantage.

But FE aren't giving anyone specific a sporting advantage. Just doing something to make things a little harder for the front runners. F1 has a long history of doing that to. Just look at the 2003. A whole package of sporting changes with the main focus of making it harder for Ferrari to win all the time.

The Q2 fresh tyres vs Q3 used qualy tyres does just that. The faster guy in 10th on the grid carries a tyre handicap over the slower guy in 11th

Do I really care who finishes 10th, I'm specifically talking about handicapping potential race winners.

Just caught up on the Bern race and WOW! What an amazing race!

Shame about the first lap, but that's a lot to do with the track design and that stupidly tight chicane on the start straight. Amazing racing between JEV and Evans right through though and a couple of really great overtakes from Bird and Lotterer. Really enjoyed that this morning and I doubt the French GP will be anywhere near that entertaining or exciting.

Seriously, seeing the mass pile up seems more like amateur hour to me, I wouldn't want to see that sort of thing in F1.

We have and it was entertaining.

As entertaining as watching banger racing.

As entertaining as watching banger racing.

Completely different.

Not that banger racing isn't entertaining.

Not really I don't find cars crashing into one another especially in multi-car incidents as being entertaining.

A point in case was last time out in MotoGP when Lorenzo took out Dovi, Rossi and Vinales on the first lap including himself, it ruined the race.

Well nobody is asking you to like it. Fortunately we are all different and enjoy different things.

Whilst it's uncommon, multi-vehicle crashes will happen in most forms of motor racing. FE and F1 are not exceptions.
For what it's worth, I watched both races over the weekend and found them both to be entertaining, for different reasons.

I don't necessarily dislike it otherwise I would never watch it, however it seems to be alright to have the opinion that FE is better than F1 but not the opposite opinion it seems?