.. A 2.2l V6 turbo, although pretty damn unlikely in a road car, is still way more realistic than a 2.4l V8!
That, IMO, is the problem. 
I acknowledge I must be in the minority, and some pretty good minds are lined up on the "lets make F1 road-car-relevant" side of the argument.
Still, I just can't help but morn what I see as the demise of F1. We have so many road-car-relevant races/championships and F1 is steaming full speed ahead into becoming JAR (Just Another Race).
F1 used to be about achieving the pinnacle - about being the best no matter what. Now it is important to be road-car relevant and implement gimmicks. I'd prefer to see the focus on pure excellence (irrespective of relevance to any particular commodity for sale). I'd also prefer to educate the audience rather than implementing gimmicks to get people to watch.
Note that when i said 'road relevant' before i merely meant that the configuration is closer to one that you would find in a road car, nothing more. I would rather we still had v12 and v10 engines, but such is the way of F1 - or perhaps more accurately, the world we live in right now. They are obviously trying to get interest from manufacturers, but instead a lot of the big names are off to LMP1 where the engine rules are, funnily enough, much more free. But F1 (obviously) wouldn't allow something like diesel engines, cause it's up its own arse these days being obsessed with the show for fairweather fans rather than concentrating on the things that made it so great in the first place.
I believe we have debated KERS before so no need to go too much into that one again, but like it or not that type of technology is becoming the way forward in top level motorsport and it will eventually trickle down. F1 have really made a mess of the KERS rules (by limiting it) and will pay the price, if they aren't doing so already (only 3 engine builders after this season is utterly farcical, to put it mildly).
