The problem is not only in F3. Ideally F3 would be much more powerful, fun car to drive, not so dependent on downforce. Something like 450-500 bhp will be great for F3, cars sliding with not much grip and so on. Little version of SLF car. Then there would be lots of crowds on the national meetings.
But then you have to up the power in F2/GP2/whatever and here comes the FIA and Bernie.
You can't! Our beloved F1 has 750 bhp! You can't have GP2 with so much power.
It's F1 that should be 1st changed, it should simply be much over 1000 bhp, like Jeremy Clarkson says: POWERRR!
On another TG note, there was some episod about the Finnish. Being ever innovative, they had local races called "1000". You can pick whatever car you want to drive there, but after the race, if I come to you and say I want your car - you've got to sell it to me for 1000 Euro! Otherwise you're excluded
Fantastic budget cap.
There's a similar championship in the US(can't remember the name), where they have a max car value of 2009$ for this year, 2010$ for next and so on...