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The trouble with the driver situation is partially a matter of how many teams you could loose if you told the "slow" guys to get off the track.
There is a more fundamental problem though, and it plagues just about all sports and games now. It's this issue of, if you're "not good enough", you're "no good". We probably loose HUGE numbers of VERY talented drivers who do not necessarily excel in the lower formulas, but who would go on to make excellent top-tier racers, but we discourage them to the point that we loose them.
And this phenomenon is NOT limited to motorsport by any means. It happens all over, and is in no small part a contributor to rising obescity and the general sedentary lifestyle we see so much of now. This is exacerbated by the fact that boys in particular are pushed to NOT willingly accept the "one-down" position. Being told their not good enough, and/or being told they should move to a lower division, just gives many of them the push they need to say to hell with it, just to avoid the lowered status position.
This is probably also a problem with girls in sports, because the girls most likely to go out for sports to begin with are more competitive and "masculine", so avoiding the one-down position is more important to them than to the "average" woman.
I'll be back later to address the cars themselves.
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