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Illaveago said:
I wish all of the race officials would get themselves into a right mix up with all these penalties so that a person at the back of the grid becomes a pole sitter and so on!
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A reverse grid would be entertaining.
 
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dave r said:
A reverse grid would be entertaining.
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Do you mean the Dutch racing their Dafs?
 
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dave r said:
A reverse grid would be entertaining.
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The 3 biggest teams have threatened to leave F1 if reverse grids were introduced. It should be a meritocracy where the best cars and/or fastest driver prevails. Once you start artificially interfering with that it ceases to be a sport and you may as well not bother. After all, taller high jumpers aren't expected to start by standing in a hole, and slower sprinters don't get given a head start.
 
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Drago said:
The 3 biggest teams have threatened to leave F1 if reverse grids were introduced. It should be a meritocracy where the best cars and/or fastest driver prevails. Once you start artificially interfering with that it ceases to be a sport and you may as well not bother. After all, taller high jumpers aren't expected to start by standing in a hole, and slower sprinters don't get given a head start.
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Yes, but it would add to the entertainment.
 
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Stock cars race reverse grid - unless it's a drawn grid, and then it's pot luck. You don't hear them complaining about it. A lot of other series have reverse grid / partially reverse grid races. In F4, drivers are actually awarded points depending on how many overtakes they do during the race.

IMHO a lot of F1 drivers are far too coddled and don't actually know HOW to race. Especially those who've had the biggest budget and the best equipment coming up through the ranks. It's easy being in the fastest car at the front with everyone else eating your dust.
 
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Reynard said:
It's easy being in the fastest car at the front with everyone else eating your dust.
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I'm not sure it's *that* easy. I mean - Perez is finding it a lot harder than Verstappen for example, just as Bottas found it much harder than Hamilton. First you have to get to the front where margins are down to 10ths or 100ths of a second, then you have to stay there by piling in perfect lap after perfect lap.
 
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icowden said:
I'm not sure it's *that* easy. I mean - Perez is finding it a lot harder than Verstappen for example, just as Bottas found it much harder than Hamilton. First you have to get to the front where margins are down to 10ths or 100ths of a second, then you have to stay there by piling in perfect lap after perfect lap.
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It's very much a headspace thing. Perez and Bottas were under pressure to keep up / perform, and that leads to mistakes.
 
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