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Originally Posted by Casper
There has been a long running discussion of how to fix F1 but I don't want to go there as everyone has read the thread and put their own views forward.
I think the question should be asked another way, should the top teams be handicapped by either regulation or a capped spend or should the lower teams be assisted in some way to make them more competitive, or put another way do you slow one down or speed the other up. Would the competition suffer if the top teams were to lose lap time speed and be slowed down and how would a regulation change to bring them back to the field be implemented and not slow the midfield and back of the field teams at the same time.
Any regulation change is an impost and artificially shapes the competitive side of the sport but it seems to be accepted these days.
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If they would just start by eliminating all performance bonusses. Teams race for honour and marketing purposes.
Performances bonusses only strongly amplify the teams differences. You have a big team with a lot of resources and big sponsers join because they know it will work together with the teams own resources and performance bonusses. Small teams don't have a winning chance so are left with the tiny sponsor deals.
In my eyes it would be ludricrous to introduce cost caps while performance bonusses are still in place. Infinately easier to make annulation of performance bonusses work compared to cost caps as well..
PS. Yeah I think this should go into one of the existing threads.