The idea of a budget cap for teams seems to be out of touch with ...

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I don't recall saying that it is only a drivers world championship, my words are, first and foremost" it is a driver world championship and was from its inception. I note somebody suggest that in which case why don't drivers build their own cars? Well of course they did, how do you think McLaren came about, Brabham. Are we really trying to suggest it is primarily a constructors world championship? Surely we are not that interested if its a Renault or a McLaren that wins, its the driver we support first thet make of car is incidental. If Asda or Tesco chose to enter a car, would you buy a jacket with team Asda or team Tesco on it? I doubt it. It is only because the sport as got hijacked by the car manufacturers that people hav elost sight what it is. Surely when you settle down in front of the telly on a Sunday, you want to watch close action, somebody challenge another driver for the lead of a race and not just at the first bend? Its little wonder its not that popular in America, there is simply not enough action throughout the duration of the race to keep the Americans interested. I am advocating, that it is the job of the guys in the pits to prepare a car for racing, when they have set everything to what that drivers specifys is his chosen best setup, it is then over to the driver to decide how best to use his chosen setup to get over the chequred flag first. What would you think if your football team went out onto the pitch with earpieces in their ears, and somebody like Alex Fergusson, radio each player and told him were to stand on the pitch? Would you argue that the target audience had moved on? You'd think it had gone stark raving stupid, but what you are currently watching is the equivalent of that. All I am saying is the decissions should be taken by the driver once the car is on the race track. In its current format that is not the case, and as such we do not see wheel to wheel racing for 200 miles and yet we once did.

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