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Old 04-11-2024, 10:14 AM   #136
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I don't think anything specific about the regulations are a problem. Moreso the fact that they changed them in the first place under guise of "better racing".

What we've historically seen any time new regs are released is one team nails it we get this dominance period, but other teams catch up and there's convergence among the design concepts. 2021 was that point of the previous regs.

I think 2.4V8 era probably produced some of the best championship battles:

2006: Schumi/Alonso down to last race
2007: Raikonnen/Hamilton/Alonso down to last race
2008: Hamilton/Massa down to last race
2009: Button early dominance, and then fall off cliff, but managed to clinch it in the end
2010: Vettel/Alonso down to last race
2011: Ok this season sucked with Vettel Dominance
2012: Fantastic season, first 7 races had 7 different winners. Amazing championship battle down to last race, and a total nailbiter of a race. Vettel suffers damage, recovers runs the rest of the race missing part of his sidepod to up to a position high enough to pip Alonso again in the championship.
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