A couple of points of interest here. First of all I have no problem with one team gaining a technical superiority from time to time. This has happened many times during the history of the sport (Ferrari in 1961, Lotus in 1978, McLaren in 88, Williams in '92, etc.) and yes it is up to the other teams to raise their game not for the FIA to legislate them back to the others, thats what NASCAR does over here. IN response to the idea that Americans don't understand F1? Actually they understand F1 too well! Thats the reason it hasn't done well over here in recent times, F1 these days is all about big hype but very little substance under it. When F1 raced at the Glen it drew huge crowds who came to see the best in the world and knew what kind of show they were getting. Most of them don't even bother going to Indy. If you only started following F1 in the past ten years or so, yes you might think its the greatest thing going but if your old enough to remember Alan Jones and Gilles Villeneueve splashing around Watkins Glen in 1979, you realise what a pile a sh*t F1 has become. Excuse me about the driver talent but the driver doesn 't have to f**k*ng drive the car anymore! In the middle of a corner he simply has to put his foot down and let the traction conrtol do the rest, no finesse or delicate touch here, just drive like a rock ape and the electronics will look after you, same thing with the start, just initiate the launch controll sequence and point it in the right direction. And how about the circuts now, all over-sized kart tracks, I remember when F1 went to Vegas for a few years in the early eighties, everyone quite rightly blasted the circut but if you look at some of the circuts they race on now, the Ceasar's Palace circut looks like fricking Spa. Its all gotten way too gimicky, the FIA constantly fooling with the practice and qualifying format is just stupid, the way it was for thirty years was just fine thank you. And finally, yes F1 fans now look and act like NASCAR fans! I've seen both and there's little to choose between them, mostly a bunch of twats who know and care little for the history of the sport but are there to simply look and act like a jackass all in the good name of their favorite pretentious celebrity.
John