Gascoyne asking why F1 returns to boring race tracks

Mike Gascoyne believes that there would be much more overtaking if new tracks were built with some imagination, while pointing to Abu Dhabi and Bahrain as producing the most boring races last year and asking why F1 returns to boring race tracks.

The Lotus technical boss told Reuters, “The shame is that, Monaco apart, a lot of the races now that are really boring are all the purpose-designed tracks built in deserts where you could have done absolutely anything that you want. Bahrain and Abu Dhabi were the two most boring races (of 2010).”

Gascoyne, known in the F1 paddock for his straight talking, pointed out, “It’s pretty disappointing that you’ve got two massively boring races on circuits where you had literally carte blanche to do anything you liked. You could have had elevation change or moved sand wherever you want it.”

The first test sessions of the F1 pre-season are taking place at Valencia, where teams are coming to terms with new gizmos that have been introduced with the aim of increasing overtaking such as KERS and driver operated movable rear wing.

But Gascoyne is adamant, “If on certain circuits you have cracking races every year then why don’t we stop going to boring racing circuits?”

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