- 25 May 09, 20:55#121328I know what the FIA can do to spice up F1 again. They can give each driver an assignable drive through penalty which they can give to the other driver of their choice sometime during the race. That driver would then have to drive through the pits and rejoin, no refueling allowed. For example, Nick Heidfeld might be running in 7th, with Webber 30 seconds up the road. If Heidfeld can get that gap down to 25 seconds, then he can assign his optional drive through to Webber, and perhaps get past.
This would have all sorts of advantages. First, the FIA would be able to introduce the new medals system without having any one driver winning the championship too early. As any driver getting too far ahead would attract more than their fair share of optional penalties being assigned, pushing them back down the order. This would give more drivers the chance to win in any championship year.
The smaller teams would probably attract fewer penalties, which would reduce the gap between the best and worst teams.
Strategy would become more sophisticated. For example, if driver A assigns a penalty to driver B, then driver B might retaliate with a penalty on driver A. But if driver B had already assigned a penalty, then they wouldn't have the opportunity to respond. So choosing the driver to penalise and when to penalise them would be a challenge.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. 
Cant argue with that! Wish I was 21!!!
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