2012 US Grand Prix organiser Tavo Hellmund has admitted he thinks Bernie Ecclestone's idea to spice up Formula One with artificial rain is "brilliant".
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In a time when F1 wants to lower costs, adding sprinkler systems to every track is going to be expensive. At the end of the day, it will never happen as they well know. Bernie just wants to get people talking about F1 again before the season starts. He did the same with the Medal system a couple of years back.
It's dangerous. Loads of cars out there on slick tyres which are useless on a wet surface....recipe for disaster
Because it is simply ridiculous.
I assume that it will be mandatory to wear animal costumes from 2015 on.
The driver that scored the most points in the last race will have to wear the most ridiculous costume in the next race.
Like that:
1st : pink grizzly bear
2nd : three headed giraffe
3rd : green zebra
and so on...
Ok you guys are over doing it. Let's look this from a serious perspective.
It's not that I don't like the performance diffenrence but sometimes if you know that Red Bull will win at this track because evrything suites them and Mclaren will finish at only top 10 because this tracks doesn't suite them at all (on dry ofcourse) and all of a sudden you get rain. All the performance are equal and you have a different feeling for the race because what seemed to be a sure victory for one team is no longer that sure.I understand your wish, but if you don't want differences in car performance you just need to hand out one uniform car model. I don't think this is the way for Formula 1.
What is the Medal System?
Btw I belive the stewards you tell the teams that in 10 minutes there will be rain so that the teams will be expecting the rain and not kill the drivers like that. (Just a theory since it looks like this system won't be deplayed)
That then removes a lot of the unpredictability of racing in changing conditions. If you were told in 10 minutes it will rain, you will see every car pit in 10 minutes. The teams would be ready for it, there is no guessing of exactly when it will rain, and they could potentially enforce driver orders nice and early so they can change tyres as efficiently as possible.