Aty wrote: ↑1 month ago
MonteCristo wrote: ↑1 month ago
Aty wrote: ↑1 month ago
It is 10 years since hybrids striked in 2014.
How do we like it today?
I was checking how people on this forum rated the first race of the season. Four rated the race at 2/10. Stats unfortunately don't tell whether they were in pain for race duration (1:31 [hrs]), or they quit watching quite early into the race.
Is there anyway to compare similar stats from 2014? I wanted to see whether people vote for a driver or something else. I wasn't on this forum, but I would have voted -1 if that choice was available. Infuriated by nonsensical regulations, yet I watched all races in full duration. I think it's different now. Not perfect, but watchable for my own liking. (Regulations remain moronic.)
2014 Australian GP got all 6s and 7s.
viewtopic.php?p=258119&hilit=rate+the+g ... gp#p258119
2014 season got rated mostly 7s.
viewtopic.php?p=265788&hilit=rate+the+g ... gp#p265788
Can't find a ratings thread for Bahrain 2014.
I should be probably careful with conjecture that on an Anglo - forum Hamilton was probably more popular than Max is today.
I wasn't here in 2014 either, but Hamilton didn't have much love beyond Brits themselves. And even many of them were tired of the sooking he's always done.
In any case, 2014 was only his second title. He wasn't stale bread at the time.
A better comparison might be Bahrain 2016 (albeit a Nico title win - Bahrain race got mostly 7s and 6s:
viewtopic.php?p=284887&hilit=bahrain+2016+rate#p284887 and Australia as round 1 got overwhelmingly 7s:
viewtopic.php?t=13980). Or 2017 which he did win again for his 4th title (Bahrain overwhelmingly got 7s
viewtopic.php?t=14827, and Australia as round 1 got mostly 5s, a few 6s and 7s:
viewtopic.php?t=14758&start=15)
Fast forward to 2020 and Lewis's last year of winning (and dominance), and the first round in Australia got a tonne of 8s (
viewtopic.php?t=16691) while Bahrain got mostly 5s and a few 4s and 6s (
viewtopic.php?t=16873)
2022 was the start of Max's true dominance, and in that year Bahrain as the first race mainly got 7s, with a smattering of 8s and 6s.
viewtopic.php?p=423319#p423319
Not sure if
@PTRACER has some magic poll tool that can average out all of the poll results from the years (for races and seasons). I certainly can't be bothered to go back and add them all up. But my gut feel is that there's an overall downwards trajectory, while people still acknowledge a good race when they see one.