pSI civic
my post from the other thread
if we can get 20 races a season this alone would make it great.
another thing that might be nice is to have v8's v10's and v12's in the same field again. the v12 would be a small displacment unit of about 2.5l the v10 would be about 3.2l and the v8 could be 4.5. by making a wider range of engines each time could focus on different races they want to do good in and pick an engine type that would be suit though races. say if a team thought it could do well at 11 or the races but not so good at the other 8 they could pick the the engine that would do best for those races. i understand this creates a big problem with cost though so some rules would have to be made about that.
going back to the full slick tires will be great so we dont need to go over that. what we do need to change is not being able to change the tires. i think being alowed to change only one time wold be good. not only is changing them part of racing they could use a softer compound thus making the racing better and making things more safe because of less flatspots and such. they would also be able to use more sets of tires per race weekend.
the engine rule i fully hate. being able to change the engines at will is a great thing. that would make the racing better. not only would they have more power but kimi wouldnt be starting 11th every race anymore.
I like this idea, especially the points system you created. you should e-mail that to the FIA, seriously. there are some things I would like to add though.
--the teams should be able to change any settings on the car if the qualifying session turns out to be a downpour and the race is bone dry.
--the teams should be able to change tires whenever they want w/o penalty or certain stipulations.
--the teams should be able to change engines whenever they want as well. also a no brainer.
--bring back slicks with a little bit softer compund. this is a no brainer, to up mechanical grip.
--BRING BACK GROUND EFFECTS and reduce the reliance of the wings on top of the car so the cars won't risk anything by tucking under the gearbox of the car in front. as we've seen, it's worked in GP2, so put it into action on the F1 cars. this also might put an end to the aero dependent cars of late(i.e Toyota's 2005 F1 car).
--take away traction control unless the race or qualifying session happens to be a downpour like what we saw at qualifying in the Japan GP '05.
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no engine restrictions. let the teams run whatever engine setup they want. wether it be I4's, V6's/V8's/V10's/V12's or any other configuration they can come up with and let them turbocharge it if they want to with boost controls in the car like during the turbo era. the only restriction. put a horsepower and torque cap on it at say 1300bhp and 950lb/ft of torque.
--pSI civic's points idea.
--cap off a limit on downforce so the cars won't get too dangerous. as it is, the cars are already pushing the limits of the human body, any more could be deadly.
--a money cap could work to save money, but nothing too extreme like what Bernie is doing. cause I agree that F1 costs are getting a bit ridiculous. I heard Ferrari is spending something like $400mil a year, come on guys.
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ONBOARD STARTERS!!!!!!! I'm sorry, I have hated the idea of the guy spinning off and his day be done. that is horrible in terms of entertainment purposes. if teams cry about the extra weight, take off the extra ballast that is on their or raise the minimum weight to whatever the car will weigh with the onboard starter.
--no testing limit. period, I think testing is good and limiting testing is stupid, just stupid. it's like limiting evolution.
--return to manual gearboxes. fully manual sequential gearboxes like in Senna's Monaco qualifying video. bring back a little more of driver talent into the race.
--make the cars wider and lower like they were in the 80's/90's. nowdays they look like they are going to tip over cause they look so tall and narrow as compared to the older, more traditional F1 cars.
--each constructor makes their own ECU and is in charge of their ECU like in the past and present.
--keep the number of drivers representing a constructor in a race the same. no limit on the number of constructors per event. this would keep the number of cars from getting to out of hand. we don't want 50 cars on the track at the same time, that would be crazy.
--allow electronically controlled diffs. I'm going over Bernie's proposed rules for 2008 and this is something that I want to stop right now.
--brake bias must be set by a physical input by the driver while in motion. no pre-set settings like today(i.e. they turn a knob to position 1,2,3,4,5,etc). it is like this with karts that I race. you turn the knob by the steering column to the right and more brake bias is set on the rear. likewise, you turn to the left, and more attention is paid to the front. the knob must go 2 full turns either way from dead center(4 turns lock to lock) and accomidate a setting of 100/0 or 0/100 front/rear.
--no ABS. I know there isn't ABS now, this is just to keep it from happening.
--blue lights operated by the race stewards that are clearly visible by the driver on the dash of the cars. the lights will become active on the dash of lapped traffic so they can't make excuses like "I didn't see the blue flag" or some BS and hold up faster cars behind them. if it goes like this for more then a lap, they will be black flagged. they tried something like this in the late 90's and it worked well, just the constructors had to pay for it and they didn't want to pay for anything thye didn't have to. so make this manditory so lap traffic won't have any excuse.
--get rid of Max Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone, hehe, just kidding. but seriously, someone needs to replace these guys.
those are my ideas for making F1 better. while making this, I read Bernie's 2008 tech regulation proposal and picked out what sounded good. most of it was rubbish though. thats all I can come up with right now. oh and keep all the saftey stuff the same cause it's working well right now. not a death so far with the new saftey regs, and hopefully there won't be one. but it won't be limited to these regs. if there is an opportunity to make things safer, it will be taken as long as it is proven the upgrades will infact be safer. that's all for now.
rock.
), it was simply awesome. Hill was trying to overtake like insane, pushing his car, and finally wiping out by pushing too hard trying to get by MS in the Benetton, just like I said, AWESOME.
I love it!
