[street_racer_00]

Unfortunately, traction control in some form or another has been part of F1 since possibly the late 1980's (thank you McLaren Honda)...I'm not sure if they'll ever completely rid formula cars of such devices...but it seems like F1 is the anti-NASCAR, where it's more about the teams and innovation than the drivers...plus, you can't make a crappy race car driver a good one with just traction control, so I don't see what the big deal is...I mean it's things like what's happening in formula one that we have such things for our street cars...traction control used to be a novel idea for street cars, now every mid-level luxury sedan and up has it...and recently BMW and Ferrari have introduced launch control on their street cars, another F1 innovation...I look at it this way; if we stifle creativity in formula 1, we stifle creativity in the entire automotive industry.