If you are the F1 director...........

Reduce the overall width of cars considerably, to improve odds of overtake attempts/success.

Drastically reduce aero effects, so cars can follow each other more closely through corners.

Remove DRS if above two changes result in a lot more on-track overtakes than we have, especially in this nearly completed, farcical season.

Cars must pit at least once during the race, even if it is a wet race, to at least swap tyres. But scrap mandatory compounds to be used in race (unless it is a "rain tyre" scenario), so car could start with mediums and swap to another set of mediums to complete race.

Scrap qualifying! All cars must start from every grid start point as equally as possible through the season. Previous year's champion picks race to start from pole first, working way down through previous year's championship positions down to last (rookies placed at end of list). Then 2nd grid slot start choice starts from "rookie" end back to champ, champ picks 3rd slot down to "rookie" end etc. Monaco excluded from this rule, has unique format (see below).

Keep Monaco, but make it a unique style race. Split cars into four groups of five (?) according to championship positions coming into race, cars in group have start positions spread equally around track, "race" (extended qualifying-esque) is ~25 laps long. If car catches next car ahead, they must instantly let them by. Cars must pit at least once to do a tyre change. Overall final race positions (and championship points) based on times from all groups times combined back together.

Fixed number of each compound tyre sets to be used through a season, so some races may involve having to use at least one non-optimum compound?

Some sort of randomness as to when a car must make a pit stop for tyres, so cars start on various compounds to reach their "tyre change window" ?
 
This is a complete pipe dream but I would like to see some kind of endurance series become part of the championship, similar to what they have in the Aussie V8s. 3 races of the year where they get a co-driver in and race for 4-8hrs and the points go towards the main championships as well as an endurance championship. It'd get drivers from outside of F1 into the sport and give them actual race experience.
 
Longer races would be lovely. Not too long, but an extra 50% distance would be nice I reckon. Would add driver endurance as well as more emphasis on reliability as well as just pace. Potentially opens up more pit strategies too. Too often you see people on a charge at the end but run out of laps. Always feel like we're getting robbed when that happens.
 
To be more exiting the cras need to be closer in performance then they are right now.
Maybe not changing the regulations every year would be good place to start. As it stands now when new regulations come out one of the big teams builds a better car than the rest and then goes on to dominated the season. As the season goes by the rest start to catch but not surpass them. Then the regulations change for the next year and it repeat again. Which leads to having 2 or 3 teams that can compete and win races this is not good for the sport.

All the teams on the grid should be in a position to win races and not be there just to make up the numbers.
 
mattyg said:
Its supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport. Give them a car sized box and tell them as long as it fits in there its good.
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This.

It has to go one of 2 ways, complete free reign over the entire car or, everyone gets the same car and make it 100% about driver skill.
 
this_is_gav said:
Some absolute twaddle in this thread now. If they allowed free rule over the cars then the driver wouldn't be able to stay conscious for more than a few laps.
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Well thats twaddle as well then! If the driver's couldn't stay conscious then that would be a natural limit to the power/G-force etc. Then they'd have to find someway around that too.
 
Yeah I'm not keen on the idea of a complete free for all in car design. I want to see guys battle it out on track, not the results of the boffins battling it out in the lab.
 
mattyg said:
Then surely watch the lower formulas. F1 is supposed to be the Pinnacle.
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Exactly, so they strive for that extra 1/10th of a second within the constraints that they have using the very latest manufacturing methods. A free for all is just going to end up with a single massively dominant team at any point in time with everyone else playing catch up.

I'm not one for the idea of all the cars being identical but I think there needs to be a clearly defined spec that they run to.
 
Leave the rules unchanged for 5 years and the theory of diminishing returns should see smaller teams catch up to a large extent. The major cost is surely in re-development of engine and aero in order to comply with arbitrary changes.
 
SpeedFreak said:
Leave the rules unchanged for 5 years and the theory of diminishing returns should see smaller teams catch up to a large extent. The major cost is surely in re-development of engine and aero in order to comply with arbitrary changes.
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I agree with this, and it's been proven true in the past. The issue at the moment is that the current engines are so complex and expensive to develop that it puts off any other manufacturer or supplier from developing their own engine or entering. And F1 really needs at least one more engine supplier, just in case, and I wouldn't say no to another manufacturer entering either, ideally as an additional team rather than taking over an existing team but I can't see it. F1 wants to have, and probably needs to have a cheaper engine formula, it's just the formula they've suggested is, despite it being a 1.6L turbocharged V6, a new engine. So Mercedes, Renault, Ferrari and Honda will have to spend 100's of millions yet again which they're unhappy about. Understandably.
 
Lose ALL aero add-ons, simple single plane front and rear wings, with no movable items, (no DRS)

Narrower tyres.

Raise ride heights and fit thicker boards underneath to stop running low, no rake either.

Cars should be difficult to drive and should slide about as much as possible, not running round as if on rails.

No limits on engines, (you will get a natural limit as why have 1000+ bhp when you cannot put it down.)

Fit all tracks with concrete walls all around the edge to stop going over white lines in any circumstance, and if you do your are most likely badly damaged and out, drivers at this level can drive within limits if you set hard limits.

Return to manual clutch and gearbox, driver error is almost unheard of now, but should be much more important, missed gears, false neutrals, all gave good racing and overtakes.
 
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