Don't you think F1 was more interesting 7+ years ago and earlier?

May be...

I would like to see more competition, but not necessarily breakage. I think the bit I miss about past races the most is the reminder that race cars are mechanical objects.

Today's cars are seriously impressive, but the constuction almost makes you forget that there is a mechanical element to them. They are almost like noisy sculpture making their way around the track. I love the F1 cars from the sixties and early seventies for that reason. They were still sleek, purposeful machines, but you could tell that they were machines. I particularly like the Lotus 49 and 72, but the Ferrari machines from the seventies were also quite beautiful. In addition, like anything that came out of Britain or Italy in the sixties or seventies, they broke relatively often, giving you your competetive balance.

I'm torn between the racing of now, and the racing of the last decade... because I still find F1 exciting now, but I would like it if it was easier for drivers to make a charge (the cars are so close nowadays, that even if a driver puts in a superhuman effort... it doesn't pay as much dividends as in the past...) and I also wish overtaking was easier, like it used to be... Hopefully the regulation changes will mean racing will be closer, and the blank canvas these rules will create will mean that the differences in car characteristics will be more noticable...

Yes. Funny you should mention it. I live in Australia so as I was beginning to form an interest in F1, the time difference meant I could only watch the starts. And then promptly fall asleep...

Then in late 2000 I started living in the UK and could watch full races. It was great. But gradually declined. I came back to Australia after a few years and now make effort to watch full races. But I look back longingly and kick myself for not doing it earlier...when it was SO much more exciting.

Hey but it is beginning to turn a corner, yeah?? Hope !! Naive?? haha

totally agree not to mention that new rules aren't making things better

Noooooo friend. U r wrong. Earlier the races weren't as interesting as today because there were very less good drivers and the machines weren't good at all. Today the competition has reached a new level. I watch the races for my favourite driver (Hammy) and I get a lot of pleasure by just seeing him racing. I also watch F1 due to it's spectacular accidents. U remember Kubica's accident last year. It was amazing. Earlier the cars were not so fast that would have lead to such an accident. The Spanish GP was really thrilling because of the early moves by Hammy and Massa (although i hate him) and the gap between the leaders was so less. U will find F1 interesting today if u watch it only for ur favourite driver. u know I get immense pleasur when Ferraris retire or are involved in an accident. Watch and enjoy Hamilton win the Turkish GP and ultimately the driver's championship.

that time it wasn't like these years that who gets first and makes some distance wins the race for sure. Back then it was not sure who would win because everything could happen like technical problems. ex. broken engine. today it's so boring...

10 years ago it was more thrilling. It all seems too easy for some of the drivers and a bit predictable in some elements.
I still love it and never cease to be enthralled by it but I don't like the direction it has moved towards with some of the newer circuits.
My biggest wish is that there will be a return to more over-taking and the magic of mechanical engineering will be ressurected again.