Just had to look that up since I hadn't heard of it before and couldn't come up with a possible meaning that wasn't retarded. Unfortunately one of those retarded possible meanings was entirely correct. Which moron thought that was a good idea? Just fucking race a number of laps and first across the line wins, how hard is it to not fuck that up?
Fingers crossed Liberty aren't watching NASCAR and formula E while nodding quietly thinking about the possibilities. Like "let's have a reddit AMA with the driver over the radio" or "vote for who gets DRS this lap" (I wouldn't put either past them). Though supper chatting gamer words over Lewlew's radio would be worth every penny.
Looked it up, wasn't ... uh...
disappointed (?) The way I see it, it cuts up races into chunks and essentially adds short breaks?
It's like modern racing is in a competition to come up with the most inane gimmick.
This stage-nonsense is like adding mandatory Safety-Car phases in F1 to bunch up the field and allow lapped cars to unlap.
With the nonsense of race stages and ... whatever the fuck FE is doing, I am actually quite happy now with Sprint Races and DRS tbh. Could be worse.
Also, I realized something about DRS: I criticized it for artificial overtaking, but I think that's not quite correct. Or rather, not correct all the time.
Simply put, DRS makes overtaking easier, but fortunately, what it doesn't do is making two cars overtake each other every lap. Ie: Car 1 overtakes car 2 thanks to DRS, next lap, they are so close that car 2 overtakes car 1, next lap, once more car 1 overtakes car 2 and so on. That would be entirely artificial overtaking.
What we usually see instead is one car passing another and then managing to gain distance. Sometimes, a car manages to counter the overtake, but ultimately, these knife-fights don't last long and one car manages to pull away. In a way, the DRS only allows easier passing, but usually, when a car isn't on equal footing (a lot of times even then) DRS isn't going to cut it. Like, a McLaren won't be overtaking a RB all of a sudden just due to DRS.
The problem with DRS is this: It means there is basically no point in overtaking anywhere else on track. DRS allows easy passing on straights, so unless the other car in front has a complete edge there and you enjoy an advantage in corners, no point in trying it elsewhere. It's rather bad for racing, cause instead of having an entire track for potential overtakes, it limits them to a few long straights, which is always less intense than an overtake in a corner.
It also leads to some fuckery, when cars deliberately allow another car to pass in front of the DRS sensor, so they can overtake them back more easily. I will admit, seeing this every now and then is kinda hilarious though, especially when it happens to Hamilton, who (I think) fell for this when battling with Magnussen. When you see one savvy driver outsmarting another one with such fuckery, it's at least something entertaining.
Kinda like faking preparations for a pitstop to make a driver of another team go for a pitstop themselves. Haven't seen that in a while, but I think Ferrari did this in the Schumacher days a few times. Mercedes as well.
