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Sadly much the same IMO. The 94 Benetton was too good, and Williams were only a few years away from starting their decline. I don't suppose Senna would have wanted to go on racing forever. It would be interesting to see where Bruno would be now though without the break.

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The Williams was in a league of its own leading up to that season. Then the FIA decided to ban certain technologies negating any advantage that Williams had - effectively Senna was driving a completely different car, a very poor one......certainly contributed to his accident.

 

F1 has always been about driving to the limits - shame the limits is now dictated pre-dominantly by the tyres.

 

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F1 has always been about driving to the limits - shame the limits is now dictated pre-dominantly by the tyres.

 

imi

 

You can hear in Schumachers recent comments that he doesn't like the racing any more, cos it's too restricted. Trouble is when it's full capability racing there's no overtaking and the public get bored.

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The problem is more that the drivers can't drive to their limits, it's still some skill involved but it's different to racing skill, they can't push the car to the max and reach their own limits, it's all down to the limits of the tyres and winning's determined by a computer that decides when to pit. :(

What's the alternative? Give back control to the teams, let them design and build the cars they want within less strict rules? Use more tyre manufacturers again so they last a whole race and are super sticky?

Talking of tyres, another thing I don't like are these marbles, I'm sure it was never that bad before, it means overtaking is bloody dangerous after half a race cos anything off the racing line is an ice rink!

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Totally agree about the Marbles. They're just getting silly now.

 

Thats because there not meant to last, so more ware + more marbles. I'm sure if it had not been for the 3 big crashes that weekend & 2 deaths the tracks would not have been dumbed down in the name of safety. As for schuy he just carried on where senna left off! driving into people to win.

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The stewards found his car did not have sufficient fuel onboard to comply with the rules on its return to parc ferme.

 

In a press briefing ahead of the stewards' investigation, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh revealed the car had 1.3 litres left in the tank when it stopped on track. The FIA requires one litre for a fuel sample, but Article 6.6.2 - which was introduced after Hamilton stopped on track at the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix in similar circumstances - also requires the car to return to the pits under its own power. The stewards deemed that Hamilton did not have sufficient fuel to do so and McLaren accepted the verdict.

 

What a disaster. :blink:

 

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/5/13340.html

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