@Venderhoss Ha ha, has your friend been to Singapore? Actually there is a
little bit of truth in it, but it is not the whole story. The situation is
that you need to have a COE, Certificate of Entitlement, in order to buy a
new car. This is valid for 10 years. After that you can extend the "life"
of your car buy buying another COE, this time with options of 5 years or 10
years. more...
part 2. The 10 year COE can be renewed as long as you wish to keep the car,
but the 5 year COE cannot be renewed at all and the car will have to be
scrapped at the end of the 5 years. If teh car is in decent condition,
usually it will not be destroyed, it will be exported to another country
which does not have such strict controls on the car population.
Was this a race for historic cars or historic drivers,....because really !
This pilot seemed to have artritis in his right hand leg (and maybe in his
brain),....just couldn't decide weather to give trottle or not in the
corners ! :-) A great way to destabilize a car.
+Guy Van Brussel We would never know why, without driving the car would and knowing the details on how it was built . Like how the differential was set up, caster, camber, toe in/out damper compression rate, rebound, spring rate, stability bar setting etc etc...And i`m sure he don`t want risk to killing him self over driving an old f1 car in a historic rally with almost 0 safety..
The problem with historic F1 racing is that apart from the fact that it
shows beautiful good sounding legendary racing cars, it could not be real
racing. I can understand : the cars are too expensive, many of them don(t
belong to the drivers so they have to take car of, and drivers level is not
that high, so they are far from the cars limits. It s a pity spectators
could rarely watch actual racing in that category.
Maybe some promotors should think about a new neo-retro formula that mixes
good "retro" look, good "retro" sound, but using new built relativly cheap
cars. The neo-retro style is successful in automotive industry, so, why not
in racing ?
I'm sure spectators would like it and races would be very exciting if cars
behave like real racing cars, not like jets on wheels. Just look to
"Legends cars" category in the US and Europe ( they also race in Morocco )
: 30's "retro" look, oversteering and drifting easily in turns, within the
reach of amateur drivers, one of the cheapest racing categories, very close
and agressive racing, safe and very successful.
It would be a huge success as support race during historic meetings and
drivers that could not afford a real historic racing drive would be very
happy to race on such cars at least, especially if those cars look like the
F1 or prototype cars they always dreamed of.
+gkyy3c What I'm talking about has nothing to do with modern F1. It's about a whole new gentlemen drivers series like many others, alongside historic series
+maladsyko Because makers are interested in F1 because they can test new technology in the races... if they start producing old technology... whats the point?
I never liked that track, but now that I see it under daylight, it's like
discovering a new circuit.
Singapour is a beautiful city. It's a shame that we don't watch on TV any
support race that take place there during the afternoon, except that boring
night F1 GP. The background is superb, even the track is interesting... if
it's on any other formula than "sticky-super glue-silent-ugly" modern F1
cars. Singapour should bring rather V8 supercars or Indycars.
+maladsyko I'll second that, in daylight, it is indeed discovering a new circuit. Pity Singapore's conservative to the point of absurd nature makes it a place I'd never consider visiting. It is beautiful.