Formula 1 has lost the plot. The cars are too expensive, the number of teams competing too few, the races not competitive enough, just about everything is wrong. Changes are afoot, in 2017 tyres will be wider and the body will be modified, maybe some other things too, to be honest I've lost interest after devouring everything F1 since I was a little kid.
For me the most important thing is the sound of the car. Over the decades the sound has evolved to be more like a sewing machine than a fast car. There is something about the cars of the 1950's, 60's and 70's that hits you in the stomach, and it's the sound that does that. As the speeds rose and the cars became ever more technically complex, the sound changed, and it wasn't better. Finally the fans got sick of it and went looking elsewhere. I could see it coming in the 1990's.
To illustrate I've got two videos to link to, the first is the sound of a BRM V16; they were used from 1947 up to 1955, listen to this monster and tell me it doesn't make you wet yourself:
The next video has the sounds from the 1950's up to 2014, you can see how wimpy the sound has become:
Get the gut wrenching sound back and F1 will scale the heights once more.
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