2026 Motorsports Season

Verstappen is actually one of the few Pure racers out there.
Its not that he is not at the front, the current format of these cars
Have as much to do with engineers and algorithms than pure driving.
Drivers do not even control the electrical energy they have.

He has made more than enough money, he can walk away for 70 Million a year.
Besides hes not quitting racing, just F-1 Maybe.
 
Ohtobbad said:
Verstappen is actually one of the few Pure racers out there.
Its not that he is not at the front, the current format of these cars
Have as much to do with engineers and algorithms than pure driving.
Drivers do not even control the electrical energy they have.

He has made more than enough money, he can walk away for 70 Million a year.
Besides hes not quitting racing, just F-1 Maybe.
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It’s how I see it as well.
He would have all my respect for walking away on his terms.
I’m sure the pure racers are having a hard time with this formula.
I’m guessing Hamilton and Leclerc are entertaining similar thoughts.

Meanwhile the large crop of new drivers, along with the longtime also rans, will stick it out and adapt because it will bring them fortune and fame.
 
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SVT4MT said:
Just watched the highlights from the Craftsman Truck Series race at Rockingham, great race for Cole Butcher, qualified well, stayed in the top 15 all race and came home with an 11th place finish.

Ontario's Stewart Friesen also had a great race, and scored a top five finish.
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ended up with his first top 10 as some one above got disqualified
 
AC Bill said:
If more of the the Prima Donna's were winning, they wouldn't be complaining so much. Hard to go back to beer after having drunk champagne. Many sports stars seem to get mad when they begin to lose. Huge ego's get in the way.
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I don’t think it’s about finishing positions as much as how the cars drive.
I’ve read some of his interviews and I get where he’s coming from.
They can’t push all out for a full qualifying lap.
They can go all out on one straight, then they have to back out to manage or recharge battery, to use it again somewhere else.
Sure this bunches the field and creates more passes during a race, which most of the crowd likes to see.
But it’s not racing in its purest form.

It’s not about having the nerve and the ability to out-brake a rival in a pivotal corner or being first on the gas exiting that corner anymore.
It’s more about who can manage a battery better, and when to use aero or not.
It uses different skills.
The rookies and younger drivers who have had less success have interest in going along with this as it opens up new opportunities for them to perform, achieve fame and have success.

But for the old school pure racers or pure drivers that learned and came from another train of thought this is counter intuitive and not what they get satisfaction from.
They get satisfaction from being able to push everywhere on track and managing that dynamic.
Not from being patient or holding back between such a turn and the other because that’s where your battery is recharging best.

I’m not judging the new way as good or better, bad or worse. I agree it’s different and a far departure from the previous way.
I understand that it’s not for everyone.

I’ve never raced but I have been on road courses as part of high performance driving events organized by racing schools.
I go to drive hard everywhere on track, not just sections of the track.
I know I would not return or have gotten involved so much in it if the cars I drove required that I drive them in similar fashion to the way the current F1 cars have to be driven.
All out on this long straight, now manage battery between this turn and this turn to use on next long straight.

It’s like linking a bunch of drag races back to back with short recovery drives in between.
It’s neither full on drag nor road racing.
It’s something in between.

I get where Verstappen and a few others are coming from in their criticisms.
I really don’t think it’s about their finishing positions as much as how much the driving has changed.
 
"But it’s not racing in its purest form."

That's it in a nutshell.
F1 which used to be one of the purist, if not the purist, has fallen a long long way. It started it's slide for me at least, back when the cars were mandated to have ABS, and Traction control. Then the cars started getting larger and heavier. I wholeheartedly agree with the safety aspects introduced, but some penalties handed out for what I always considered just a part of racing, has become a bit too overzealous. Many I feel are now more about the expenses a team suffers from a contact, than driver safety.
 
I have been reading alot the last couple weeks, trying to understand how this truely works,
Which I will get into later, your both right to a point,

But don''t fool yourself, Racing has a had tire and fuel management for years,
so drivers don't always push like we think they do, but they control this and pay the price if wrong.

New cars, they control somewhat, but engineers control this more than they do.
Some can even be adjusted in the pits by engineeers during a race.
But drivers live with what thier engineers do and what computers do.

Also with cost caps, whcih didn't use to exist fixing these problems are a far bigger deal than in the past
and more time consuming, I have a couple things to write, but fairly big, but will explain in better detail

Sad part is F-1 can fix some of it not, but most will have to be off season, they can't redo engines mid season.
to much time and cost attached to it.
 
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