Forgive my rose tints but I yearn for a return to the pomp and spectacle, the noise, the drama, the danger, the rivalry, the villainy, the hissy fits, the brass balls and binned it brawls. A time when drivers fought the circuit, the weather, their team mates and more importantly their own cars as much as their rivals. The sport has become too sanitised, too predictable, too quiet and - I hesitate to add - perhaps too safe?
I want to see 12 laps of balls out qualifying with super fragile engines. I want v10s screaming at v12s down un-chicaned classic circuits. I want to see drivers wrestling tail snapping monsters, not knowing if their car will make it to the end of the lap let alone the race. I want PR-free rants from angry passionate drivers unleashed from their sponsor's chokehold.
Of course I'd never want a return to the bad old days where deaths and serious injuries were the norm (still far too prevalent even now) but please please please bring back some bloody excitement!!
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