F1 2015 - Teams and Drivers - Who goes where?!

Skeeter said:
But doesn't that create a championship where to have any hope of being competitive you must run 3 cars? Which then means teams that can't afford too should just not bother? That's just going to lead to even more teams leaving. If your going to allow a mix, you have to make it fair, otherwise it's just all back to whoever has the biggest wallet again, which is why we are in this situation.
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You've used common sense, which is unlikely to be the prevailing approach at FOM. ;)

F1 has pretty much always about who has the most money to throw at it.. The two car teams will still be able to score the same because only two cars are awarded points, but yeah it would be unfair. Better that than having cars driving around with tourists in them though.
 
Any rules around 3 cars would be FIA, not FOM ;)

But your point makes even more sense that way. I have lost all confidence that the FIA have any ability to run global motorsport at all.
 
Concrete said:
Surely it will be the two highest placed cars/drivers on race day that are counted for points. Means you won't get team orders and it 'encourages' all of the top teams to get on board with running three cars.
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sorry but to me that sounds daft - the team would have to nominate the two drivers /cars before the start of the season, and use the 3rd car as a live test bed / rookie etc, and not swap and change every race depending on how quali goes per driver

edit - I cant remember where I read it but I seem to recall it was estimated to cost around £20m to run an extra car. Now don't get me wrong its a huge amount of money for those at the back of the grid (who are supposedly spending ~£100 - £150m per season to be at the back of the grid) but surely it will pay for itself in the sense of reliability improving , less chance of upgrades not having the desired affect and more tv coverage for sponsors (and therefor potentially earning more for the team) not to mention that a 3rd pay driver should reduce that sum considerably.

MissChief said:
This would then have also required the gearbox to be mounted to the frame, massively increasing complexity and cost for very little overall benefit. A V6 engine can be designed in such a way that it can be bolted to the tub and the gearbox attached directly to the engine as it is much wider than an inline four.
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Just out of interest isn't this exactly what Merc are rumoured to be doing anyway according to Scarb's (I know in Merc's case its an outer casing that's bolted to the chassis, rather than the gearbox, but essentially the same thing)?
 
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Here is a wild idea...
What about the third cars being for 1st year drivers only, or perhaps below a certain age.
The highest scoring of these drivers get a £x million finance package from the FIA to take to any FIA registered team the next year to try and fund a drive?
It might be a way to help fund the lower teams, and ensure the best new drivers get a crack at a full drive.
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
Here is a wild idea...
What about the third cars being for 1st year drivers only, or perhaps below a certain age.
The highest scoring of these drivers get a £x million finance package from the FIA to take to any FIA registered team the next year to try and fund a drive?
It might be a way to help fund the lower teams, and ensure the best new drivers get a crack at a full drive.
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Yea that could be good, would essentially have a 'Rookie Championship' and it'd actually have meaning and something for them to fight for.
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
Here is a wild idea...
What about the third cars being for 1st year drivers only, or perhaps below a certain age.
The highest scoring of these drivers get a £x million finance package from the FIA to take to any FIA registered team the next year to try and fund a drive?
It might be a way to help fund the lower teams, and ensure the best new drivers get a crack at a full drive.
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Spot on - although Im not sure why that would really benefit the FIA.....
 
FrankJH said:
Spot on - although Im not sure why that would really benefit the FIA.....
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They want teams in F1. Each year there is a new driver with some pedigree who can pump in £x million into a struggling team from the FIA.

Provided that sum was carefully calculated, you could have lower/midfield teams fighting over the driver/funding combo. It would be a great way to nurture talent, help fund the smaller teams, and provide a bit of a shake-up.

Perhaps you could open it to a sponsorship deal and the logo of the company paying goes on all the 3rd cars?
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
They want teams in F1. Each year there is a new driver with some pedigree who can pump in £x million into a struggling team from the FIA.
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Its a fantastic idea, Im just not sure how the FIA would really benefit, as there seems to be sponsorship for lots of pay drivers - it would have to be a huge amount to keep a team afloat (as its costing way too much to be competitive at the moment)
Malt_Vinegar said:
Perhaps you could open it to a sponsorship deal and the logo of the company paying goes on all the 3rd cars?
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Not sure why 1/2 the grid or more would agree to running a car with sponsorship from which they don't benefit at all (however large or small that sponsorship ends up being)
 
Problem is that by the time the driver knows how much money he has, which will be the end of the season, there will be no drives left as most teams have sorted their driver lineup by the mid season break, they just haven't announced it yet.
 
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