Legendary Ferrari designer Mauro Forghieri has a couple of simple suggestions to spice up formula one.<\/p>\n
Amid a dwindling television audience in 2014, most of the blame has fallen on the brand new engine rules, with smaller, quiet turbos replacing the screaming V8s of the past.<\/p>\n
But Forghieri, a leading figure at the fabled Maranello team from the 60s to the 80s, actually backs the new ‘hybrid’ age.<\/p>\n
“All the major manufacturers want hybrids, and I think it’s good that they only need 70 per cent of the fuel of the past, or even less, for the same distance,” he told motorline.cc.<\/p>\n
“Where I cannot agree with the FIA is the monitoring of fuel consumption lap after lap,” the 79-year-old, who designed the legendary 312 series and Niki Lauda’s title-winning cars, added.<\/p>\n
“In my very personal opinion, formula one is a show of power and so this rule is unacceptable from a sporting perspective.”<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, Forghieri is also no fan of the rear wing overtaking aid called ‘DRS’, which has been similarly denounced by other F1 purists.<\/p>\n
“Get rid of the DRS,” he exclaimed.\u00a0 “DRS is ri-di-cu-lous,” he emphasised.<\/p>\n
“I dislike the whole aerodynamics of the current cars — I don’t understand why it is not reduced in order to allow normal overtaking without DRS.<\/p>\n
“Now, if one’s opponent is less than a second behind, he can only watch as his pursuer goes past — and that cannot be correct.<\/p>\n
“A world champion needs to be in a position to overtake his opponent without help — otherwise, in my eyes, he is not a world champion,” Forghieri insisted.<\/p>\n
He said another rule change that would improve the racing is in the area of braking.<\/p>\n
“How many road cars use discs made of carbon?” he asked rhetorically.\u00a0 “So why is it used in formula one?<\/p>\n
“If we would use normal discs in F1, the braking distances would be double and overtaking would be so much easier.”<\/p>\n
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