Prost: F1 now 'more speed, less brains'.

i am not a fan of A. Prost but still i wish i had the balls to say "f1 cars are too easy to drive these days" ...

well although I'm a McLaren fan, I don't quite agree with Alain Prost 'cause what has to be taken into consideration is that 780 pages of confidential information from Ferrari made its way through to a rival team so this is not really a case of engineers or even journalists trying to aquire some information about a car.

Shut up Joseph!! Do you not think that everyone on this forum is sick to death of this story being brought up every day? Find something new to discuss!!

The two features produced here by crash.net as taken from Alain Prost's interview with the Daily Mail and shared with the BBC, give a true and realsitic insight of what the present world of F1, drivers new and old, results and race positions are all about.
"More speed less brains", he said;
"..pull anyone from the top two-thirds of the grid and they could win if they were in the right car", he continued to say.
How many times have some of us said this in this forum. I for one was accused of repeating myself.

"I think Lewis will be the top guy" - qualified by - "IF he has a good car I don't think it should be a problem".
Surely this applies to FA, KR; FM; HK; NH; NR, et al as well

Allan

Your comment seems overly harsh on Joseph - he is responding specifically to the article, after all. I know that's not always the case, but...

If any of you including Allan and Simon want to disagree with me then go ahead, it certainly wouldn't be the first time. I'm just replying to what Alain Prost said regarding McLaren's spy scandal in the last paragraph of the article which I don't quite agree with.

Which is why I posted what I did?

Alain Prost is correct and some of us have been saying this all along.
Given a good car like Lewis had last season, most drivers such as the main ones Fernando and Kimi, and the aspirants Nico, Lewis Heidfeld, Kovalainen, Webber, Rubens and Jenson, Massa, even Vettel and Nelsinho will be the guys to beat, always if, AND THIS IS THE MOTHER OF ALL IFS, if they have a good car.
No driver can win anything unless his package is competitive. Any other argument and assumption is accademic and presumptuous.

Too bad there is no more side by side racing in F1 - I miss the early 90's where people were banging wheels all the time as opposed to nowadays where we can see people overtaking during the course of pit stops most of the time. I feel that the point scoring system now doesn't really reward victories either. Shouldn't it be 12 points for the win instead of 10?

Prost is spot on...... ;)

"The Professor" does have a point. Although on the fitness side of things, could you really have seen a driver like James Hunt, the playboy, fag smoking womaniser, driving an energy sapping 2007 Mclaren for 40-50 laps around Sepang. Me thinks not!

I am not a Prost fan but he is 100% correct in what he is saying. Bring back driving skills!! Whats wrong with 3 pedals and a gearstick?? that will sort out the "real" drivers.

Fitipalidi recently spoke out against F1 as well. And they are both 100% right. I get far more enjoyment from most other motorsports than I do from F1 these days.

It's a difficult one. Prost has a good point but this is the pinnacle of motorsport and were invention and inovation usually is bred later to be incorporated in the cars we drive every day. If we keep harping on the old days and how the cars are too easy to drive now,etc! F1 will have no purpose other than the actual racing. The problem is the teams and manufacturers hands are tied by the FIA rules and regs wich has bought on this processional racing we see in modern F1. Let the mad proffessors loose and stop restricting progress with ridiculous limitations on inovation and progress. EG: 10yr engine freeze and limiting revs is ridiculous. That's why modern F1 cars are too easy to drive.