Alright when was that again.....?

[John-Eric Saxén]

Less rules... All this "under review - issue a penalty" is crap. Let them race, if they wreck, oh well. Less rules for the cars too, give the teams and basic dimensions and pick a non-hybrid engine design like 3.5L NA engine... in other words, go back to the early 90's and let people inovate and race each other.

Too many rules. Things are boring exactly because of excess of rules. Because the rich teams will aways find their way through the rules.

The more you remove the rules, the more you allow the teams with larger budget and more innovations to run away from the rest. Just for this year alone, Mercedes came up with DAS and new suspension concepts plus other things, which now made their car a second faster than competition on a track like Hungaroring that is just corners. If you remove the restrictions, the gap could easily build up to 3-5 seconds in Mercedes' favour if we are unlucky.

If you want a better show where drivers are at the center point, not the cars, the only solution is to limit the engineers in a way or another.

 

[Patrik Marek]

just add sprinklers to corners and allow all teams to vote on turning them on / off, so it becomes random

 

[Dave Thayer]

Now there is an idea that some one kind of mentioned in a previous comment. Make an IROC F1 race where the cars are the same and it all puts it on the drivers ability. Like we do in fixed setup SIM races. I dont think that would go over big for F1 racing though.
We also in SIM racing do Reversed fields, see how good the better drivers are at getting through the field and the slower drivers.

Just a thought.

 

[MrLonguinha]

1-Spending limit.
2-Use standard parts of a supercar available by "brand", example: Ferrari (would use the 488, La Ferrari, etc.), McLaren (720, P1, etc.) and so on.
2-Cleaner cars aerodynamically, without many appendages.
3-Abolish (DRS), but create a push (10x in the race with a limit of 4 to 8 seconds to be used during the race, similar to stockcar Brasil.
4-Inclusion of a third car in the team, mandatorily a driver up to 24 years old. I think there are very few places for many good drivers. Everyone should have their skills tested in the main category, regardless of their financial strength.
5-Rotation of the main circuits of each country as it was in the past, we would always have news in each season due to the exchange of them, this would cause more variables in the weekend.
6-Perhaps creating a second race over the weekend. With the grid formed inversely to the championship classification, that is, who leads, starts last, but with the score in half, or defined by lot.

 

[RKip455]

Wait, you're saying we'd RATHER SEE THEM QUALIFY IN SPEC CARS, BUT THEN RACE IN THEIR REAL F1 CARS....lolol!

What I'd like to see is the return of fueling pit stops

 

[KircaBey]

Can you make an Aston Martin Car in these colors?

Doesn't it look incredibly beautiful? It might be nice if you add Aston Martin Angel Wings.

 

[Beef36]

Formula One should remain the pinnacle of technology. However it could place less emphasis on engineers when cars are out on the track. Possible options may include:

1) Removal of live data acquisition. Digital data can only be transferred to and from the cars when it is in the garage
2) Substantial reduction in number of team members allowed in pit lane during any session.

Removal of real-time data means the driver has to relay what they are feeling in the car, and the engineer can make recommendations which the driver can choose to implement.

This puts the driver in control when the car is on the track, rather than the engineers .

 

[aka2k]

The more you remove the rules, the more you allow the teams with larger budget and more innovations to run away from the rest.

Someone must warn the Toyota F1 team about that.

 

[Jugulador]

The more you remove the rules, the more you allow the teams with larger budget and more innovations to run away from the rest. Just for this year alone, Mercedes came up with DAS and new suspension concepts plus other things, which now made their car a second faster than competition on a track like Hungaroring that is just corners. If you remove the restrictions, the gap could easily build up to 3-5 seconds in Mercedes' favour if we are unlucky.

If you want a better show where drivers are at the center point, not the cars, the only solution is to limit the engineers in a way or another.

Brown did a winning car with low budget, short time, a regulation loophole and two mediocre drivers. Brabham also was short on money when they came with the fan car and Tyrrel with the 6-wheeler.

Even if Mercedes still faster (what may happen anyway... who knows) at least we will have different car concepts and faster innovations. Because now, we have a one team supremacy and all cars looking like the same concept with different colors. F1 never was and never will be a balanced category, but at least we used to have people putting a show, but now is just a expensive cars and soulless drivers parade.

 

[sparkmastertape]

Result of that will mean that the first part of qualy we won’t see much action anymore, because teams will wait because the track normally will become faster during qualy. We had that system before and it was changed because of that (first to a 1 lap qualy with just one car on track and later to the system they use now).

Qualy should be about being as fast as possible, so best tires and minimal fuel load. When you see Lewis’ pole lap onboard of Hungary... amazing... that’s what F1 is about.

I’m not saying to just take it back to the old format completely. Obviously it also had problems, but I don’t think knockout quali is the solution.

 

[ab156]

Ridiculous ideas, if you don't like the team aspect of F1 then looks for something else.

Also, for many a F1 weekend isn't merely the 90 min race on the television - promoters would have a hard time selling tickets for a weekend if this were the "show".

 

[Ghoults]

I think the current qualification system is probably the best one we have ever had. It does most of the things right it is supposed to. It puts the fastest driver into the top, it has a chance for some fast drivers to be eliminated or slower drivers to get into the next session. There are cars going around the track all the time. There are even convenient ad breaks in between to keep everybody happy. Compared to the older qualifying formats where there was an hour session for example and cars only went out in the last 5 minutes was not very exciting.

So for the qualification system to change you'd really need to change its purpose. Currently the purpose is to put the fastest driver in front. If the goal was changed to try to get more mixed and unpredictable starting grids then doing a spec series race to determine the grid is definitely one way to achieve that. But in the end it is the same idea as reversed grid race. It is just randomness. It is also not f1. Why should f1 race starting grid be decided in non-f1 cars? Don't get me wrong. It is a fun idea but is it an actual solution that could work in f1?

In the end this is all artificial bollocks. If the racing in f1 is so bad that only a totally random starting grid can save it then it is a racing problem. Not qualifying problem. Just like drs doesn't solve the overtaking and dirty air problem a different qualifying format won't fix the racing. It just hides the problem in an artificial way. Or maybe the only solution to f1 starting grids truly is a dice roll? Because instead of trying to invent better ways to guarantee that we see the fastest lap from the fastest driver it seems most f1 qualifying ideas revolve around not allowing that to happen either due to randomness or just making it really difficult. What is the problem we are trying to solve? Qualifying is not broken, racing is.

 

[kilder]

I'm sorry but this looks incredibly crazy.

If you want to improve F1, just make better tyres so drivers can push as much as they can without caring about tyre life, and stop with so many compounds. Make just three, Slicks, Inters and Wets. Then, let them choose how much fuel to start and bring back refueling. Stop with so many rules and let them race. And obviously, design cars that suffers less from dirty air (We hope to see this in 2022 cars).

Sounds more realistic and possible than all this madness that has been mentioned.

 

[Botmeister]

Want to change F1? Stop watching.

 

[AxelP800]

120 Minutes practice-qualifying session on saturday, race on sunday. For double headers, reverse grid every 4 positions. Someone refuse? DSQ them. If only real life is as easy as imagination. Or ban Mercedes *runs from this forum

 

[marcos1988]

Just reduce aerodynamics to a level where driving skills would be the dominant quality. Cornering speeds would go down, might give an opportunity to race on slightly different lines to out-brake or out-accelerate the opponent. Realistically, it will not happen though.

 

[jp0622]

I can try the neon Aston One. Give me a few days though.

 

[Mike Kadlcak]

they should have the ground effect cars in 2021.. not postpone it to 2022.

they should change the rules every 2-4 years, (engines and cars) so no team can get to dominate for so long... the best team would be who can adept the best.

 

[azaralamouri]

I like the suggestion, but I have always had another:

Every single race in the world starting grid should be a random draw (called raffle in English language?).

Adding more hype, more overtaking and defending chances while keeping the current research and development role as the lion share.

 

[Squared Circle]

they should have the ground effect cars in 2021.. not postpone it to 2022.

they should change the rules every 2-4 years, (engines and cars) so no team can get to dominate for so long... the best team would be who can adept the best.

The best team would again be the one spending the most money.