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Originally Posted by NickoGP
What they could do to make it interesting is select 3 races to be double points via random draw at the end of the year.
That way no one knows who wins!
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Bernie wants three races with double points....
So the podium drivers at the final round each get to draw a race from the years hat of races and those 3 races get the double points toward that years championship.
So no one knows until the final race is decided which 3 races will have double points (bonus) awarded toward the years championship. It will count for both the WDC and the constructors championship.
That should keep Luca happily talking for a while......
In reality it simply needs a stronger FIA to focus back on mechanical technology and release the teams (and the sport) from the curse of aerodynamics.
If Pirelli provided three types of tyre, a wet, a slick, and an intermediate, all capable of doing the entire distance the tyre management situation would be solved. Yes, they would be harder, and probably offer less grip.
Then give every team the spec rear wings, front wings and an under-body/floor, and they have to build the car between the axles, not outside the axles or underneath.
Cornering speeds would drop appreciatively, braking distances increase, race strategy and driving skill be more essential, race time would longer, but the distance wouldn't increase. We would see less of the racing on rails and there would probably be a greater variety of effective lines through some corners. Overtaking or place changes may occur more frequently for a variety of reasons other than DRS, which hopefully would be banned.
I would also like to see a return to a foot actuated clutch and gear lever and see the paddles disappear. Old fashioned? Yes, but it brings back a return to driving skills, and a move away from electronic substitution of what were formerly driving skills. It is primarily a drivers championship, NOT an technical exercise in building horizontal space projectiles.
The roots of F1 are still in the drivers championship, not the constructors championship. The current emphasis on the constructors championship is just a way of diverting attention from the real issues on the sport interface with spectators and supporters.
You want to save money? Then form regulations that take away the advantage rich teams have in racking up hours in wind tunnels that create huge discrepancies in cornering speed that give a handful of people an advantage over the have-not's that they can never overcome unless they steal another teams brains trust.
Yes some teams will always be richer and have more to spend but direct it away from minute increments in aero advantage and back into mechanical advantage