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Originally Posted by Chiana
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
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Not to start an off topic debate on F1 Rules and regulations, please remember that F1 is massively screwed with how Television rights money is distributed.
With that being said, the rules that F1 do have also off sets this by allowing "part shopping" from established teams. (See Haas)
When it comes down to it, I sadly believe that it is the economy which decides everything.
F1 have been very successfully in building what could be called a Motorsport monopoly on fans.
Having the majority of the fans, ensures that F1 will get a high income in sponsorships and Television rights, which it can use to support the teams to commit to long terms - in the end becoming the defining activity for the team/company (Ferrari, McLaren, Williams, Sauber).
As we fans can only follow a certain amount of things with a high enough dedication to become a fan, sadly most casual fans ends up with only following F1, together with which else sport they might follow (MotoGP, WRC, WRX, WEC, Cricket, Hockey, Cycling and not to forget... Football/Soccer).
In other words, with F1 (or in generally mass dominating sports) any other series will in the current climate always fight for the left overs. It is in this fight we see that ACO is struggling to find their place and how they can secure the basis of a World Endurance Championship, which is "self sustaining" in having teams participating in all classes.