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If there is no WDC there is no money for Bernie or CVC, they are out of a job and out of pocket....
In that case the events that would survive are those with tradition or great gobs of prize money...... There would be no mechanism to force teams to attend. They would only attend races important to them commercially or in a sporting sense. You would be requiring teams to spend vast sums to compete but no way to enable them to raise the vast sums of money in sponsorship. The only comeptitive teams would be the a handful of cars at the front and they would need to be supported by outside sources (outside of an F1 industry or commercial sponsorship). So the result would be a fragmented 'Grand Prix' industry A reduction in the breadth of competitive fields A probable reduction in the number of significant grand prix events A huge drop in the number of significant teams running in grand prix, A drop in the number events with all the major players contributing A 'poorer' motor racing industry in the UK |
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If there are 30/40 races a season and teams can pick and choose which ones to enter than apart from the really big ones (i.e Monaco) you might well find teams avoiding each other to win races which would deprive us all of seeing the best race each other. The other alternative is a team like Ferrari dominating by entering every race and therefore getting a significant amount more track time than a team without the backing.
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I don't think we can compare other individual sports with F1 for two reasons.
First, tennis and cycling (golf might be here too, but I simply don't know) have events that last for several days with several hours od daily action for spectators. That alone isn't comparable to one hour qualifying and less than two hours of racing. It would be easier to compare Tour de France to one year of F1 - each stage/Grand Prix has a winner, and whole event (race or F1 championship) has a winner/champion based on his performances in all the races. Winners of single stages/races also get thei share of prize&glory, but ultimatey, it's the 'season' champion that counts. Second - money. Not the prize money (in any form - actual prize money or various sponsorhips, entrance fees...), but money someone could and would invest. If we'd have Grand prixs without championship, we would like to think there would be more competitors, but it wouldn't. There would be less. Ferrari, McLaren and maybe some others would always have sponsors and enough money to develop cars and compete as they find apropriate. However, smaller teams will not be able compete ocassionaly 'coz they will simply not be able to find a sponsor to fund them to develop the car, and only show up occasionaly. Nowdays expenses of running an F1 car are far from what they used to be 50 years ago, and far from what gentleman-racer could fund out of his pocket (along with pockets of his friends). |
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In cycling the World Champion is in effect the winner of the Tour de France.
However there is also the one day official UCI "World Championship" often won by somebody who would be unlikely to win a "Grand Tour" in France, Italy or Spain so it doesn't really have the same kudos. I can't see any alternative to what we have in in F1 personally but I would like to see the return of the odd "Trophy" events at the start or end of the season, maybe to try out new drivers as an alternative to testing. |
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So's each individual Grand Prix, then. It's just shorter Monaco's as important as the championship IMO, in the same way that the Indy 500 is as important, if not more important, than the IRL title. Same for the Daytona 500. I'm sure Monaco would have loads of extra entries the same as the other 2 if the FOM and FIA opened up the entry lists Quote:
Getting rid of the championship could be great for all the "Grand Slam" Grands Prix, because they would be the ones that all the top teams would enter I'm sure there would also be a mechanism for making the top teams enter a set number of events with their nominated lead drivers - while there would be entries on a race-by-race basis, as opposed to at the start of the season as at present, they could do what they do in rallying and get the big teams to enter all the races (or a set number) before the start of the season. Not quite sure how they do it in rallying but it works Yeah but you can't say that Rafa Nadal's target each year is to win the ATP Finals, and that all the other big tournaments lead up to that - look who won it last year. Nadal's target is to win as many tournaments as possible, particularly the majors. Same for cycling - I'm sure Contador's years always build up to the Vuelta, Giro and Le Tour. I'm sure F1 drivers would take the same approach - win as many races as possible, especially the big ones |
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Meh, that's just tennis in particular. The other 2 examples I've given, golf and cycling, are more like F1 because there is a continuous leaderboard for both
The point is winning the Monaco GP is akin to winning Wimbledon, the Masters (golf, I mean) or the Tour de France. It's one event in a season of lots of events, with some more important than others, where the goal is just to as well in the events as possible to earn prize money. F1 could be the same if those in charged wanted it to be, and it would be far more interesting (IMO) if it was Funnily enough, it's the sort of thing Bernie could come up with. After all, he's already played the "winning races is what's important" card and tried to change the championship to that |
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Let's put it this way.
If we didn't have a championship, we'd still have the British, French, Belgian and so on Grands Prix. We might still have the Abu Dhabi et al Grand Prix, but they would have to pay the teams a few bob to go there. Although they would not have to pay FOM a sanctioning fee. NOW do you see why F1 has a championship? |
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When I first saw the question, my immediate answer was that, yes, we do, but I've been thinking about it and now it's maybe not.
If you compare it to tennis, there is a ranking system and the #1 player at any one time gets major recognition. Now in motorsport we have the Castrol Rankings, which serve a similar purpose, except that they are open to all motorsport competitors, not just those in F1. Have a look here if you want to see how they stand at present. |
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It's quite complicated and I think weighted by category, but on that link I gave you on the right-hand side there's a link to How It Works. Someone's obviously put a lot of thought and effort into it. I know it's based on the previous 12 months at any one time.
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Castrol Rankings is a good start, although there are a number of issues. The nations ranking, for example, ought to take in to account more than just the top two drivers, possibly the top three or four.
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The Castrol Rankings are just a marketing ploy. They don't mean anything. They don't even give out the exact formula for how they're worked out
It's along the lines of what I'd want but I want an exact points system for qualifying and finishing positions and the fastest lap as a bonus - bit like the NASCAR points system. And of course just for F1 races, not for every series going |
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