The FIA and their continued plan to kill F1.

We just got through watching the European Grand Prix and it's becoming increasingly clear that the FIA are out to destroy Formula 1 racing. Two new regulations this year have made the sport more dangerous and less exciting to watch. The first is the single set of tyres rule. Whereas it used to be the case that if the drivers got a bad tyre, they could pit in and change it, now they have to live with it. Naturally then, tyres have been delaminating and exploding all season. This last race was the worst example. Kimi Raikkonen had flat-spotted his front-right tyre and the tyre began to delaminate. On the first corner of the last lap, having fought the car and severe vibration for 6 laps, the front suspension literally exploded out of stress from the vibration, and threw the wheel up and into the cockpit of the car whilst filling the air with huge chunks of 200mph carbon fibre debris (like the entire front wishbone). The car spiralled across the track and backed into a tyre wall at some ungodly speed. Sure, that was safe.
The second problem is they've adjusted the wing rules so much that if a driver gets too close behind another car now, they lose all downforce. This means they straight-line corners and all other manner of problems, so nobody challenges for overtaking any more.
And next year, the FIA want to downsize the engines all to V8s!
So this year we're stuck with procession-racing because nobody can overtake and everyone is scared to death of their tyres exploding and killing them, and next year we're going to have the same, but at lower speeds because they want smaller engines.
The FIA have got too big for their boots and somebody in the drivers guild needs to take them to task otherwise F1 is going to become Indy car racing, and we all know how dull and uninspiring that is to look at.

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