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[andrew]

Also, what can there be done about stopping drivers like Maldonado getting a seat purely because of money?

Not much at the moment, what with the huge costs of competing...

All drivers have to bring a certain amount of sponsorship so in effect they are all "pay drivers". Just some bring significantly more cash than others.

[Ayrton Senna is God]

Also, what can there be done about stopping drivers like Maldonado getting a seat purely because of money?

Not much at the moment, what with the huge costs of competing...

All drivers have to bring a certain amount of sponsorship so in effect they are all "pay drivers". Just some bring significantly more cash than others.

I suppose so but it boils my piss to see an average driver like Maldonado get a drive over someone who has talent, let's use Sutil as an example, or Hulkenburg.

[FerrariFan63]

What would your F1 change? Time to get a fun thread up, too many uber serious ones going on

I would bring back long sweeping corners that put you going around it at 190+ mph.

I would allow ABS to encourage late breaking.?

I'd say that all teams must make their cars available for inspection by other teams at certain times of the year. Such that a team could get an advantage of an innovation for a while, but then the other teams would be able to know what it was. That wouldn't allow the other teams to catch up immediately because they'd have to integrate these changes to the rest of the car. But it would mean that the field would become much closer, and there would be fewer advantages in spending huge amounts of development money.

[LewEngBridewell]

I'd say that all teams must make their cars available for inspection by other teams at certain times of the year. Such that a team could get an advantage of an innovation for a while, but then the other teams would be able to know what it was. That wouldn't allow the other teams to catch up immediately because they'd have to integrate these changes to the rest of the car. But it would mean that the field would become much closer, and there would be fewer advantages in spending huge amounts of development money.

I see where you're coming from, and it could lead to closer competition if everyone got wind of what made the best car tick..... but then again, I'm always in favour of celebrating a successful team's greatness, rather than trying to break it apart. Dominant cars of the past have been designed brilliantly, and deserve to be dominant. That's F1.

[FerrariFan63]

I see where you're coming from, and it could lead to closer competition if everyone got wind of what made the best car tick..... but then again, I'm always in favour of celebrating a successful team's greatness, rather than trying to break it apart. Dominant cars of the past have been designed brilliantly, and deserve to be dominant. That's F1.

Successful teams would still be successful teams, as they would still be one step ahead of the competition. What I propose would stop them being ten steps ahead of the competition.

Consider what happens with visually obvious innovations such as the f-duct, x-wings, and high noses. Even though other teams copied these innovations, the team that designed their car around these innovations retains an advantage even after other teams have copied them, because the original car is designed to take best advantage from the innovation. Hence cars could still be dominant, but the teams would have to keep on innovating to keep that one-year advantage over others. The teams with the best engineers would still be the top teams, but the other teams wouldn't be so far behind.

So I disagree that what I propose would break apart a successful teams greatness. But it would require teams to be great every year, as coasting for even a single year on previous years' innovations wouldn't keep them near the front. Hence I think that my approach would produce a higher correlation between engineering innovation (on a year by year basis) and the competitiveness of the car. Great teams would remain great.

[andrew]

I'd say that all teams must make their cars available for inspection by other teams at certain times of the year. Such that a team could get an advantage of an innovation for a while, but then the other teams would be able to know what it was. That wouldn't allow the other teams to catch up immediately because they'd have to integrate these changes to the rest of the car. But it would mean that the field would become much closer, and there would be fewer advantages in spending huge amounts of development money.

Sounds rubbish to me. F1 is about developing the best all round package and not data sharing so the slow pokes can keep up. What's the point in a front running spending millions on developing their car when they are going give that information away from free to some tail-end-Charlie? If you want everyone in the same car watch GP2.

[bud]

I'd say that all teams must make their cars available for inspection by other teams at certain times of the year. Such that a team could get an advantage of an innovation for a while, but then the other teams would be able to know what it was. That wouldn't allow the other teams to catch up immediately because they'd have to integrate these changes to the rest of the car. But it would mean that the field would become much closer, and there would be fewer advantages in spending huge amounts of development money.

Sounds rubbish to me. F1 is about developing the best all round package and not data sharing so the slow pokes can keep up. What's the point in a front running spending millions on developing their car when they are going give that information away from free to some tail-end-Charlie? If you want everyone in the same car watch GP2.

I agree