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[deuse]

snip.

Over reaction.

The reason he went through the barrier is because the fia deemed that part of the track safe enough not to have real barriers.

The rest of your post is sheer silliness.

In other news(if true)

"FIA surprises with shorter race format for all race weekends in 2021"

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/7587...ace-format-for-all-race-weekends-in-2021.html

Another stupid idea by the fia.

I hope the race promoters tell the fia to do one or get a heap of money back from chase and co.

 

[Mr Jack]

Ditch blue flags.
If SC called, do not allow cars to unlap.

This seems like a terrible pairing of options. But I would add to my list from earlier:

Have lapped cars drop to the back of the pack under safety car rather than sending them past, and credit them the number of laps to bring them to the same lap count as the lead cars. Actually, let's also line them up on the grid for a standing start after the safety car too.

 

[fez]

Ban Mercedes for a few years. Let the other teams have a go.

In all seriousness, I don't think they can do much to bridge the gap. F1 is all about the cars and the best cars with one of the best drivers will almost always win. The only way they can achieve this is to make the cars much more similar and take away a lot of the engineering focus and move it back towards the driver.

 

[MooMoo444]

Remove all restrictions and make it simply about who can make the best racing machine.

It's a pipe dream but that's my dream of F1.

 

[this_is_gav]

Fast corners inevitably are fast because of aerodynamics. This then means the car behind loses anything up to 20% if it’s downforce which means lower cornering speed so the car in front pulls away..

I'm well aware of that. The problem with slow corners is that the car leading can invariably get on the power at least a car length earlier than the car behind. The slower the corner, the longer the straight needs to be for the slipstream and DRS to overhaul the significant advantage the leading car had exiting the corner.

Look at Turkey as a good example. If it was flat turn 8 should be the worst corner you could have for following a car through and it's followed by a relatively quick chicane too, but the camber of turn 8, the flow of the chicane and uphill straight means it's always been a good track for overtaking into the final chicane. It's not exactly a long straight, but the corners which precede it can force errors or allow a driver to get a run on the car ahead.

 

[Ninco!]

I like what @Entai describes! It reminds me that its similar to what Gilles Villeneuve described as his dream F1 car when ground effects started to come into effect?

One worrying factor with Grosjeans accident is the cars are getting too heavy? Also, length, they are huge - Didn't Lewis once quip that it will be fun navigating Monaco a few years back?

 

[JRS]

Also, length, they are huge

Indeed. From the 2019 launch thread:

I think I've posted about it on here before, using Ferrari as an example. The 1989 car, the 640, had a wheelbase of 111 inches. Last year, the SF71H had a wheelbase of just over 146 inches. And the 640 had a 3.5 litre V12, bulky first generation semi-auto gearbox and gigantic fuel tank crammed in there. But the drive to get drag down has turned these cars into darts, with ever narrower bodywork. And safety concerns have added some length as well.

 

[chrcoluk]

This seems like a terrible pairing of options. But I would add to my list from earlier:

Have lapped cars drop to the back of the pack under safety car rather than sending them past, and credit them the number of laps to bring them to the same lap count as the lead cars. Actually, let's also line them up on the grid for a standing start after the safety car too.

I will give you my reasoning, first it adds more driver skill to it, the lead car has to go offline to overtake a lapped car, it also means the setup of the car has to be designed with overtaking in mind even if the car is expected to be out in front, which then makes it harder for a lead car to make a gap. Also I think its terrible unfair on backmarkers to have to slow down a second or two to allow a lead car to pass, it ruins their race. If you not good enough to lap a slower car on skill then you shouldnt be winning a race. It also lessens the unfairness of SC's which close up the pack, if you have already lapped a car but the guy behind you hasnt, its right you should have that cushion.

One of the biggest things I hate about F1 at the moment is SC's and how they close up the pack.

 

[Ryan-3]

These ICE's without the whole hybrid system inside of a car the size of those in 2001/2002. They keep adding city circuits, but seeing them at Monaco now is ridiculous. Two wide is nearly barrier to barrier. Lightness is needed too. And a maximum number of elements on wings to simplify aero. Ground effect?

I get the idea of budget caps to stop one from monopolizing the sport, so could stick one in there too.

 

[MissChief]

These ICE's without the whole hybrid system inside of a car the size of those in 2001/2002. They keep adding city circuits, but seeing them at Monaco now is ridiculous. Two wide is nearly barrier to barrier. Lightness is needed too. And a maximum number of elements on wings to simplify aero. Ground effect?

I get the idea of budget caps to stop one from monopolizing the sport, so could stick one in there too.

Ground effect, a limit to the wing elements and a budget cap are all coming in 2022. Which sounds oh so futuristic.

 

[JRS]

Ground effect, a limit to the wing elements and a budget cap are all coming in 2022. Which sounds oh so futuristic.

We tried futuristic with the current regs. We ended up getting city buses with heat recovery systems.

 

[Kenai]

Sliding, skidding, drifting, on the edge of control, that's exciting, that's entertaining, that takes driver skill.

The problem with this is that such behaviour is not good for the tyres and we're in an age where regardless of the tyre used, the teams will have reams of data about slip and blistering etc. etc. etc. and will be able to calculate how much damage can be done and instruct the drivers on exactly how much they can get away with before they compromise the tyre performance too much - much like fuelling these days - it's so tightly modelled that it'll never make much difference what you do with it, they'll all be modelling ideal scenarios to generally reach the same conclusions anyway.

You'd probably make the biggest direct impact on the sport if computer simulations and modelling were banned and you had to rely on the brains of your strategists instead, rather than a computer running 1001 simulations to determine the best pathways to the shortest finishing times.

Even ideas like deliberately significantly overfuelling cars would only work to an extent - if you gave them so much fuel that it was impossible to use it all at peak fuelling rates for an entire race, the models would simply move the next thing on the list that needs to be managed to maintain the peak overall performance throughout a race up a spot on the priority.

Set up a separate company to produce the same car for every team, with advertising livery and tyre strategy the only difference.

I'm sure F1 fans will tell me why this is a stupid idea, but it would be so good to have every team use the same car.

Because other perfectly good series already exist for this if this is what you want to watch

IndyCar, Formula 2, Formula E as three relatively high profile examples.