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<\/p>\nOur Chairman and CEO wasted no time in implementing his global Formula 1 calendar expansion that may one day see us racing 72 weekends a year. With new races from Las Vegas to Saudi Arabia, Miami to Madrid. All in the interests of the sport’s global commercial boom and dazzled by the potential of North America.<\/p>\n
Our Stef was of course also in charge of the two most recent Formula 1 rules overhauls. Nobody liked his 2022 technical regulation. Even if his cost cap has been a certain positive.<\/p>\n
And then we get to this year\u2019s rules set. Anyone with an inkling of Newton\u2019s laws of the universe and any real engineering nous sounded the alarm bells straight off. The drivers joined the chorus as soon as they\u2019d run the spec on the sim.<\/p>\n
Yet our Stef and his team pushed on regardless. Now, since it flopped as massively as it did, he\u2019s simply refused to see the light of day. He blames the carmakers for forcing his arm. Electrification for not happening as the woke promised, and Domenicali calmly carries on telling the world that nothing\u2019s wrong with Formula 1. Like hell it isn\u2019t!<\/p>\n
Then last weekend, Domenicali encountered George Lucas at the Hungaroring<\/a>. A Formula 1 fan from long before Star Wars when he was a cameraman on Frankenheimer\u2019s \u201966 Grand Prix flick, George makes no bones how Formula 1 inspired his Star Wars<\/a> pods including those spectacular Phantom Menace racers. <\/p>\n George later sold to Disney and became a gazillionaire. Today he\u2019s a philanthropist who embraces AI film making and likes visiting Grands Prix. And like our pal Lisa, when \u201cGeorge says\u201d something\u2026 hoo boy! Like he did when he bumped old Stefano at the Hungoraring last weekend.<\/p>\n Apparently, well, according to Stefano, that is, \u201cGeorge said\u201d that casual newer Formula 1 fans have zero interest in technical minutiae, complex engineering data or how the cars are driven. Stef reckons that \u201cGeorge said\u201d that today\u2019s \u2018F1 fans\u2019 are more fascinated by on-track action, dramatic overtaking, and entertainment value.<\/p>\n And what \u201cGeorge said\u201d is apparently all that Domenicali needs to keep on pushing his bulldust agenda that today\u2019s Formula 1 is swell. Just fine. Interestingly, what \u201cGeorge said\u201d is just the same as what \u201cLisa said\u201d. It\u2019s just his opinion. And like Lisa, we must respect George and Lisa\u2019s opinions. <\/p>\n What \u201cGeorge said\u201d\u2026 is just his opinion The problem I have with all of this, however, is that Domenicali is carrying on about Lucas\u2019 Formula 1 utterings as if they\u2019re fully justified by statistics, data and his outer worldly AI analyses.<\/p>\n Well, they are not. All this hot air is about Lucas\u2019 own personal opinion on Formula 1. So what \u201cGeorge says\u201d carries about as much weight as what \u201cLisa says.\u201d Interesting, but what does it really mean, besides nothing? <\/p>\n Now I\u2019m one of those old boomers that Stefano clearly abhors. Like the rest of us in the GrandPrix247 office (yes, a WhatsApp group is considered an office these days) we are all those old Formula 1 dinosaurs who still hold the sport\u2019s technical minutiae, complex engineering data or how the cars are driven, most dear.<\/p>\n I also have a pretty significant social \u2018following\u2019. And whenever we poll this sort of thing, it comes out ten to one for our boomer point of view, that A; these new Formula 1 rules are bulldust, B; nine out of ten respondents abhor this battery overtaking nonsense. And C; almost one hundred percent of the people who respond to that on most public forums, want naturally aspirated V8s or V10s back in Formula 1.<\/p>\n But rather than rely on substantiated, clear and independent data, Formula 1 boss Stefano Domenicali tries to off what \u201cGeorge says\u201d as fact. It is not. It\u2019s nowhere near fact. And even if he\u2019s a gazillionaire Star Wars superhero, what \u201cGeorge says\u201d is just what \u201cGeorge says\u201d. And that holds about as much water as what you, me, Lisa, the girl next door, that waitress or the local petrol pump attendant says. It\u2019s just our opinion.<\/p>\n There was something else Domenicali said last week, that\u2019s probably even more relevant.<\/p>\n \u201cAs I\u2019ve always said, Formula 1 is far bigger than any single person,\u201d Stefano pointed out. \u201cFormula 1 is bigger than all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n So maybe it\u2019s about time you also applied that to yourself, Mr. Domenicali. <\/p>\n![\"Stefano-Domenicali-George-Lucas-Hungary-2026\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/stefano-domenicali-george-lucas-hungary-2026-6a70693bd4bb3.jpg@webp.webp\")
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