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What is your preferred Monaco Sunday event format? (self.formula1)

submitted 6 months ago by ninth_plane to c/formula1

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Given overtaking is impossible for similarly matched cars and drivers can avoid pitting simply by driving slowly, what kind of event would you have for Sunday?

Best I can think of is an elimination style event: cars are released from the pits in reverse grid order with a 3s gap between each, and if you can stay within 1s of the car in front for a whole lap, that car is eliminated unless they're also within 1s of the car in front of them at the end of the lap (I guess the last checkpoint would need to be just before the pit entry).

Worst I can think of is a series of duels, where Kevin Magnussen is given an SUV and a 3s gap, and drivers need to successfully overtake in an F1 car within 1 lap.

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[–] drdabbles 2 points 6 months ago

Park the cars on a display and leave them there for three days so the spectators can walk around and be seen. Pretty much the only think that 81 of these events has been useful for, it seems. At least in the past breakdowns might change the order, but at this point there's no reason to keep going back there. The event gets worse every damn year, and this year was such a pathetic display of who can drive the slowest that I basically fast forwarded through most of the event.