Feminists outrage at walk on/Grid girls, F1 & Darts models ban. Your thoughts?

[Qwark]

Scoobes said:

Qwark said:

At the end of the day those women are out of a job and F1/Darts fans who liked the soul, culture and entertainment build around the sport, see those very sports lose personality yet again.

The F1 was way better with high pitching V12 engines which requires maximum effort of both driver and engineers, major accidents, great circuits like nurburgring Nordscheiffe and real drivers with actual personalities. 

Instead of this political correct, safety first and speed last F1 we got these days. Hell the freaking track records are all driven in 2003-2006. Because some moron thinks its better to rave with V6 engines. The removal of F1 girls only further the course of F1 being more of the latter.

It's a shame to see darts following the same trend though. Within 5 years the bear tables and booze will  probably be restricted as well. All to make these sports more family friendly and socially acceptable.

@ bolded

Yeah, because it was much better in the 60s when drivers had a 1 in 3 chance of surviving their careers through no fault of their own. 11 circuits had their lap records set in 2017 so that's bullshit. That includes some of the old classic circuits like Spa, Silverstone, Brazil and Monaco.

Also, if they didn't move to V6 hybrid engines then a lot of manufacturers wouldn't be bothering to supply engines as they wouldn't be relevant to anything outside of F1. F1 has to stay up to date or else they risk the whole sport dying for a small core of "purists".

A 1.6litre V6 with 780 horsepower is not really useful for anything but F1. The only somewhat modern streetcars I know with F1 inspired engines where the ferrati F50 and the Carrera GT. The last F1 driver died in 2014 and the one before that in 1994. So there is actually a grey area. In which cars got faster and safer at the same time. But since we are talking about safety how about we are going to forbid climbing mountains, plenty of people die each year trying to climb mount everest. F1 drivers where never forced back in the day and understood the risks. Sure it's better when no one dies, but since the 90''s those chances are already very slim.

As for the fastest lap times until the season of 2017

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2017/6/for-the-record---the-stories-behind-the-f1-calendar-s-quickest-l.html

Quite a few of those records are still standing. Modern (pro 2010) F1 cars or better said only the F1 2017 cars thanks to bigger tires and more downforce are better suited at more technical tracks.

 

The record for Monza belongs to barichello and is almost 2 seconds faster than the F1 time in 2005. Which had way more horsepower and still no deaths. Difference is back in those days the F1 car was pretty much the fastest thing on 4 wheels a team could make. The F1 cars since 2010 could all be much faster if they weren't so restricted by regulations.

Last edited by Qwark - on 21 February 2018