and the BBC doesn't have advertising.

Twas the answer I was expecting, what happens after 9pm and any relaxing of regulations towards that has no relation to the over-reaction of presenters to the slightest thing before 9pm which has, and I think we can all agree on this, gone stratospheric in recent times in the name of "protecting people".

Objecting to being dictated to what I can think/say/do and being annoyed by the constant apologist behavior of certain TV presenters that is the result of liberalist interference, does not equate to being a closet racist or homophobic, perhaps the "liberals" throwing round labels to everybody who may have a slightly different opinion to them stopped and considered what they were doing for a second, then maybe they'd realise they are part of the problem and are demonstrating the exact behavior they're labeling, and condemning someone else for. But I guess it's easier to label someone a racist or homophobe than it is come up with a decent counter argument.

In other words, the thread was created to defend Halo, right? Let's be real, F1 will lose even more interest all over the planet than it already lost in the past 10 years. It's not me who's saying, but numbers will prove it, no matter If we try to swallow Halo or not. It's gonna ruin the series, period.

We're a "cuck" away from being a standard 2017 political debate.

Just to give some perspective to this thread a bit, I was watching a classic F1 stream of 80s F1 (funny how it's very alike to 2010-2016 F1 with Turbo boost being able to be turned up and teams telling their drivers to save fuel/tyres at various points. Sure, F1 has always been flat out sprints....SUREEEEEE :P )

Anyway, in the 70s they decided to limit the Monaco grand prix to 20 cars on safety grounds

In the mid-80s they opened it up to a full grid again

Prost was furious about this, saying it was dangerous, would turn the monaco Grand prix into a wreckfest and would ruin races because the slow drivers would get in the way so much, whoever was leading would inevitably lose the lead because they'd be blocked so hard
He thought there'd be a trulli-train like pack of overtaking behind slow backmarkers because they'd be so slow and there was nowhere to pass them

It's funny how the outrages of the present become the quaint idiosyncrasies of the past

It's funny how the outrages of the present become the quaint idiosyncrasies of the past

Only when you carefully choose the ones who got it wrong.

For every opinion like the one you stated from Prost, there's an opposite one that ended up being true, but people rarely bring it up again because it doesn't make for a good story.
In the end, it's still hindsight talking in both cases.

Also, nobody in their sane minds, or anyone who knows about F1, ever said that it was about being flat out all the time. It was certainly never the case from its creation up until at least the 90s. People who say that, usually implicitly refer to the early 2000s era, where indeed it was flat out sprints from start to finish.