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if you cold change anything in formula one to make it more exciting for the fans what would you change?
personally I would make all of the teams use the same upgrade parts - except they can chose when to upgrade their f1 car based on those parts. I would also force the bbc to show live coverage of every race rather than them showing extended hightlights..
personally I would make all of the teams use the same upgrade parts - except they can chose when to upgrade their f1 car based on those parts. I would also force the bbc to show live coverage of every race rather than them showing extended hightlights..
You know that when something is playing up or not working properly, you start to think of WHEN it did, and what changed since. Something like System Restore on a computer.
So when was the last time that F1 worked on an entertainment level, decide on that time, and reset the rules to then.............
So when was the last time that F1 worked on an entertainment level, decide on that time, and reset the rules to then.............
I'd like to see them all in equal machinery. It will never happen though. Or will it? There's only going to be three engine manufacturers next year. Say for example one or two of them are unreliable, would the manufacturer really stay in the sport having an engine or two blowing up every weekend? It sounds far-fetched, in fact it is.
I just hope the sport returns to being interesting to watch. The F1 geriatric will croak eventually, and maybe we can start to get rid of stuff like DRS.
I just hope the sport returns to being interesting to watch. The F1 geriatric will croak eventually, and maybe we can start to get rid of stuff like DRS.
Minimum ride height to get rid of ground effect.
Wings one third the size of the current ones.
No winglets or other fiddly components which when broken do not visibly change to the layman but cause enough loss of DF to lose the race.
Steel brakes to increase braking distances.
Points all the way down the grid.
Testing allowed in season.
£70m budget cap.
Some kind of manual gearbox, or at least a way to get the auto shifts wrong under pressure. I.e. some timing required.
These are just thoughts I've had through the year, probably riddled with problems but who cares?
Wings one third the size of the current ones.
No winglets or other fiddly components which when broken do not visibly change to the layman but cause enough loss of DF to lose the race.
Steel brakes to increase braking distances.
Points all the way down the grid.
Testing allowed in season.
£70m budget cap.
Some kind of manual gearbox, or at least a way to get the auto shifts wrong under pressure. I.e. some timing required.
These are just thoughts I've had through the year, probably riddled with problems but who cares?
Single element front front / rear wings, with limited compound curves.
Mandated flat floor from (low) nose to 1/2 way down the engine. Floor free from that point. A 5mm straight, paralell skirt is permissable at the sides of the car.
Exhaust free, but must exit behind rearmost bodywork element.
Of course, newey et all will simply make my concept of "similar aero, but with a slipstream effect" into "unsafe we need plan c", but i tried
Mandated flat floor from (low) nose to 1/2 way down the engine. Floor free from that point. A 5mm straight, paralell skirt is permissable at the sides of the car.
Exhaust free, but must exit behind rearmost bodywork element.
Of course, newey et all will simply make my concept of "similar aero, but with a slipstream effect" into "unsafe we need plan c", but i tried
poppopbangbang said:
100KG fuel load, 100 Million Euro Budget Cap which has to be audited by a third party. Everything else is free.
Good thinking. I'm all for a fixed budget and then free rules after that. If you want to spend 90% of your budget on unobtanium exhausts, then go ahead. Want to spend all of it on driver's salaries? Fill your boots..
F1 should be about who is the smartest and most devious. With Newey around, that is still the case up to a point, but it'd be great if smaller teams were able bridge the gap more easily between those who can spend their way into and out of trouble.
IforB said:
Good thinking.
I'm all for a fixed budget and then free rules after that. If you want to spend 90% of your budget on unobtanium exhausts, then go ahead. Want to spend all of it on driver's salaries? Fill your boots..
F1 should be about who is the smartest and most devious. With Newey around, that is still the case up to a point, but it'd be great if smaller teams were able bridge the gap more easily between those who can spend their way into and out of trouble.
I'd exclude driver salaries from the budget cap, otherwise we'd end up with a grid full of Maldonados. I'm all for a fixed budget and then free rules after that. If you want to spend 90% of your budget on unobtanium exhausts, then go ahead. Want to spend all of it on driver's salaries? Fill your boots..
F1 should be about who is the smartest and most devious. With Newey around, that is still the case up to a point, but it'd be great if smaller teams were able bridge the gap more easily between those who can spend their way into and out of trouble.
For me, budget caps are a non starter. All ir would serve to do is protect the status quo. How is a smaller team supposed to claw back the gap against 20+ years of cumulative investment of the larger teams? Besides I think it would be easily circumvented.
The most interesting suggestion above is to show testing. I would structure it to allow teams outside the top 5 to do a one day single car test after each race. This would give them a greater chance to catch up on the cumulative knowledge of the larger teams and/or rent the car out for some additional income.
The most interesting suggestion above is to show testing. I would structure it to allow teams outside the top 5 to do a one day single car test after each race. This would give them a greater chance to catch up on the cumulative knowledge of the larger teams and/or rent the car out for some additional income.
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