How would you change F1?

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Not serious or anything like that but let everyone qualify in the Red Bull then make the fastest two drive an HRT in the race, the next two can have a Virgin and so on. :sly:
 
A special one off race at the end of each season where drivers can use other teams' cars (car assignment would be decided by a random ballot). Other than that:

- Free choice between engine types
- Tweak DRS zones a bit so that it's enough to get alongside but not enough for drivers to simply sail past
- Driver helmet cam.
 
LOL

For me it needs to be a redesign of the cars. Have a mandated maximum ammount of downforce and let teams do as they wish to reduce drag (but limit diffuser/venturis/etc). Widen the cars give more emphasis on mechanical grip. Also none of the tire choices. You have Q tires and race tires. Refueling is allowed.
 
Bring F1 back 80's style. Manual gearbox, forced induction, no driving aids. 1500+ hp.
 
DRS should be allowed for the whole lap, unless the car behind is within 1 second, then the first car should have DRS banned for a lap. They then have the amount of laps that equals 10 kilometers before they can have it turned off again after finishing the original DRS less lap.
 
F1GTR
A special one off race at the end of each season where drivers can use other teams' cars (car assignment would be decided by a random ballot). Other than that:

- Free choice between engine types
- Tweak DRS zones a bit so that it's enough to get alongside but not enough for drivers to simply sail past
- Driver helmet cam.
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You know, you can't just take a Ferrari engine and stick it in the Lotus. It would require quite a bit of repackaging.
 
There's a narrow margin between making the sport more exciting and making it more dangerous. Very narrow. At least with Famine's Adjusted Constructor's Championship, no physical changes need be made to the sport to effect tactical changes.
 
Jimlaad43
DRS should be allowed for the whole lap, unless the car behind is within 1 second, then the first car should have DRS banned for a lap. They then have the amount of laps that equals 10 kilometers before they can have it turned off again after finishing the original DRS less lap.
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Waaay to complex for average joe-spectator to understand. Also, I'm not sure it would work very well when you have a load of cars within a second of each other?



Personally I think DRS and KERS are pretty lame, I don't disagree with what they are supposed to acheive, or the technical idea behind them, but they seem so artificial and clumsy in their execution.
 
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You know, you can't just take a Ferrari engine and stick it in the Lotus. It would require quite a bit of repackaging.
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Yeah I do know that, however by free choice I mean not having to conform to NA V8's - I want to see engines of all shapes and sizes as long as they meet a power/torque cap.
 
1500Bhp would be ridiculous and far too dangerous, F1 has never had that much power! I'd love V10/12s with a bit more beef to them, but otherwise i'd mostly keep things the same. Current F1 is the best it has been for a long time, both the 2010 and 2011 seasons have been amazing, 2010 holds the record for the most ammount of drivers able to win the title at the end of the season, and though 2011 has been a pushover season for Vettel, there has been a lot of really great racing and drama!

The current grid is the strongest it has been since the days of Mansell, Senna, Prost, Piquet, Lauda etc.
 
Loops and stuff. That would be pretty cool. Maybe an underwater race.

Maybe I'm being a bit too unrealistic.
 
I wonder how much acceleration can archive this year's F1 cars with a Turbo/Turbocharged system.

0 -> 60 MPH in 1 sec is actually possible, a little dangerous though.
 
Ban anyone whose initials are SV and AN from working in F1.
 
sumbrownkid
Get rid of Bernie.
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That would make things worse, because some Russian multi-billionaire would buy the sport and then not have any interest in making it better. IMO Bernie does a great job.
 
I don't think the issue is with the cars. The cars will evolve every year in F1. Different things on the cars and with the engines will come and go. I think a big issue with F1 is the Tilke tracks.

The sport would be more interesting and the races would be more interesting if there were more races on tracks like Montreal, Spa, Monza and Suzuka.
 
I would get rid of the "top ten start on tyres used in qualifying" rule. It was designed to promote different strategies, but it hasn't worked. I would probably introduce qualifying tyres, but since FOTA don't like that, I'd amend the rule to be "everyone starts on compound used in qualifying", so that drivers if drivers qualified on softs, they would have to start the race on the soft tyres, but not the soft tyres they qualified on.

I would also introduce customer chassis, but under certain conditions: a team buys a "base model" of chassis before the winter testing season begins, and that is their only contact with the team they bought it from. They don't get any updates or new parts - they have to develop the car themselves. So the cars would be identical at the start of the season, but would be radically different after a few races. There would also be rules about who could buy and who could sell a chassis (ie to stop Ferrari buying a Red Bull and incorporating it into their design, or to stop a midfield team buying a chassis to prevent a lower-order team from buying it and threatening their position).

There would be no more in-race penalties. Instead, all incidents would reviewed at the end of the race, and championship points would be deducted for the guilty party. Grid penalties would be issued after a certain number of points penalties, and the stewards would release a statement at the end of each race, detailing why each penalty was issued.
 
The two things id change would be to get rid of DRS and use KERS in the way DRS was being used instead. Something like if you cross the S/F line within 1 second of someone you can use your 6 seconds of KERS whereever you like during that lap.

The other thing i'd change would be to bring back refueling. I know it was taken away for safety, but I dont like watching the drivers purposely driving slow to conserve fuel or anything else, I want to watch them drive balls to the wall from start to finish.
 
east
Something like if you cross the S/F line within 1 second of someone you can use your 6 seconds of KERS whereever you like during that lap.
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Proposed changes to the regulations have drivers being given "two units" of KERS every lap. They can use this charge for the course of the lap. However, if they do not use it, they will get "four units" on the next lap - twice as much as before.

east
The other thing i'd change would be to bring back refueling. I know it was taken away for safety, but I dont like watching the drivers purposely driving slow to conserve fuel or anything else, I want to watch them drive balls to the wall from start to finish.
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Refuelling is a bad idea. It turned the racing into a series of glorified time trials - drivers didn't need to pass on the circuit, they just needed to lap within a certain time to leap-frog the driver in front at the pit stops. Hopefully the 2014 engine regulations will address your corncerns: the fuel feed restrictor, combined with the larger KERS units, could allow for drivers to be able to lap consistently without needed to preserve fuel to make it to the end of the race.
 
astrosdude91
Loops and stuff. That would be pretty cool. Maybe an underwater race.

Maybe I'm being a bit too unrealistic.
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That's how I think. Everything should be like classic platformers. They need an ice stage, fire stage, desert stage, and so on in that fashion.
 
The ideas on this thread are way better than what we'll ever see. :sly:

I think the future of the cars is ground effects. We may see some tiny wings, or no wings at all 20 years from now. They may look similar to the torpedo cars of the 1960s. :sly:

Torpedo cars with fans would be kind of cool. :) From what I read the fans dont limit the downforce of the trailing car, so overtaking is not much of an issue. OF course I'm a COMPLETE layman, maybe the fans do slow down the trailing car. But probably not nearly as much as wings.

That and closed canopies. Closed canopies in general are safer, that kid that died in the F2 accident a couple years back would have been saved by a closed cockpit. Dan Wheldon as well I believe.

I like KERS. It spices things up a bit. DRS is silly. I think DRS will go but based on the general trend of "hybrid environmental global warming save the planet" trend I think KERS may be here to stay. Its kind of cool anyways.

V10s or V12s get better fuel economy then the 4s they'll use.

Tracks.....

I think banked corners on F1 circuits would be cool. I remember when I was 10 years old playing Need For Speed High Stakes, on the last level of the game you raced a Mercedes CLK GTR or Mclaren GTR on a road course with a banked turn. It was so cool. :dopey:

Could you imagine an 20 turn F1 circuit with all banked turns. The only issue would be G-forces of course. :sly: Perhaps a long sweeper that has progressive banking.....and all the other turns are flat to limit driver stress. This would also offer a good place for overtaking, progressive banking on a long turn.

On the Chinese circuit there's that long hairpin. What if they gave that turn progressive banking? The passes would be incredible.
 
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The problem with banked corners is that F1 cars are so fussy that they suffer tremendously when they go through them. Becuase in the last 10 or so years, there has only been 1 significant banked corner (Indy) in the entire calander, the cars are not designed to go through banked corners. This caused huge tyre wear problems, which in turn was the cause of the Indy 2005 mass boycott (in part. It was also the "no tyre changes during a race" rule). So, without a major redesign, F1 cannot safely use banked corners often.

Plus, as mentioned, the G-forces could be significant enough to cause driver safety issues
 

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