Joe Saward F1 Blog

[Jules G]

It's all kicked off on the Joe Saward F1 blog, thankfully Graham Goodwin from daily sportscar.com has stepped in with a nice piece.

http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/the-law-of-diminishing-returns/

[Lazy B'stard]

There's an hour of my life I won't get back. There really are some morons about.

[Jules G]

Si, it certainly is an hour lost sorry............. At least GG put's forward a reasoned view amongst the sea of morons

[John G]

I won't bother trawling through it then

[Lazy B'stard]

It's people's misinterpretation of Joe's point that is the problem. He's not slagging off sportscar racing or Le Mans or Audi. He's just pointing out that the continued domination of Audi isn't doing the race any favours in the eyes of the casual (and largely disinterested) observer. Which is completely true. Look what Seb Loeb and Citroen did to the WRC?

To turn things around we need more teams to come and challenge Audi's superiority, but if the current domination is turning the media off, you soon find a downward spiral of interest which won't attract the new teams we so badly need.

I'm sure Joe is intelligent enough to see that F1 isn't all roses at the moment and to create a bunfight against sportscar fans and F1 fans wasn't his intention at all.

[Chrisgr31]

The reality is that Joe is correct, there must be a law of diminishing returns.  Unless I am much mistaken ticket sales for the F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone are down this year and one reason given is the dominance of Red Bull although it is more complicated than that as the economy is still stuffed, no Brits expected to win, tyre issues etc.

However domination by one driver does seem to lead to a loss of interest in F1 and the same must be true for Le Mans.