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Here's one idea: Regulate weight distribution as well as total weight.
One objective in the obssesive drive to reduce weight and make up the difference in ballast is to get the centre of weight distribution further forward to closely match the centre of aerodynamic downforce. This is hellishly expensive to achieve and gives the big money teams an advantage over the also-rans. The big boys go to extreme lengths to reduce engine weight, gearbox weight... everything basically... so that heaps of ballast can be put as low and as far forward as possible. By the simple means of specifying a certain front-rear split much of this extreme investment can be rendered near-pointless. The only remaining benefit to cutting weight will be to carry ballast as low as possible, which on its own doesn't do nearly as much.
The focus for an idea such as this is reducing cost. Money is THE big differentiator between success and also-ran in F1.
Last edited by Glen; 4 Nov 2002 at 15:41.
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