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While there are many fans that might be / are bored of Mercedes domination, there are equally as many fans that fight to the death for purity of constructing the best car possible. And in theory, in theory, when new Formula 1 season starts and new cars are launched every constructor can theoretically win a race through their own doing, because it's fully up to them. No BoP committee, results based penalty system or situation where you have 3 year old crap chassis that's under tech-freeze and is therefore doomed is there to stop you. If you want to be a racing engineer, in 12 months time it is literally the last haven if you want to make a difference in technology. In many ways F1 should be applauded for staying true when everyone else has given up.

And yes success ballast is infinitely preferable to BoP as I have always said, but you're never going to get GT class (or seemingly even prototype class after the upcoming death of LMP1) again that only would use success ballast on top of actual regulations... instead they want success ballast AND BoP working together. And that is the most ridiculous scenario of all because then you end up having not only performance balancing between different models but also between individual cars.

Add to that potentially full spec classes like LMP2 and LMP3 potentially getting ballast, imagine something like IndyCar doing that lol