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The problem with the sport is that the teams also form part of the group that make up the rules.
There should be a governing body, who's job is to make the rules and enforce them. There should be a commercial body, who's job is to promote the sport. There should be teams who enter the competition, or don't.
Once upon a time the teams had no say in anything and were being ripped off by FISA as it was then. Now it has swung too far the other way and the teams and Bernie in particular have too much power. The deal that Max Mosley did with Bernie to do a 100 year deal on the commercial rights was and still is a sham.
Every team should get the same amount of money to appear, then their prize money. No wonder the new teams have no chance in hell to improve when Ferrari, Red Bull and others are getting massive funding from Bernie/CVC but they're having to run pay drivers to pay the bills.
If they are going to do things like double points rounds they may as well make it a spec series and turn it into open wheeler V8Supercars. Why not a reverse grid race to spice things up? Perhaps just the top ten reversed at a random race, so the teams don't know and still try their hardest to qualify?
Any one or more of these gimmicks fit right in in my view with the way F1 is headed.
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