Formula One is often touted as the cutting edge of motor sports because of the incredibly technology and, frankly, money spent in developing it. That being said, one has to suggest F1 is losing a bit of its luster.

NASCAR used to be a bit more exciting to me for one reason. You could tell the makes and models of the car apart. A Pontiac looked like a Pontiac. A Chevrolet looked like a Chevrolet. Then someone got the bright idea to save money and make the races fairer by creating a single template the cars all had to use. It saved no money and didn’t make anything fairer, but it did take away some of the individuality of the sport. In short, it was a development for the worse and Formula One seems to be following the same path.

The economic crisis is causing Formula One teams to band together to cut costs. That is a noble and, frankly, necessary goal. That being said, the teams are eliminating a lot of areas of development on the car, which means innovation is really going out the window in many ways. One needs only look at the hideous 2009 cars to notice something rather interesting and scary – they are starting to look like Indy Cars.

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