Level of interest/boringness of past seasons

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by wnut

Does not seem to work too well in practice though:


Change RBR domination
Change Brawn domination
Change Mercedes domination

As Richard pointed out, that that my point (or half of it)! The change brought change. The keep things the same brought consistency and led to the domination.

The other half of it is the lateness of the announcement is a thing that helps too. I am sure that a team will come up with a better solution than others, but it will be further from the ideal solution, so a chance that others will find a better way over time. And people will be learning as they race.

Of course the better funded teams have more opportunity to get it right, but there is more uncertainty. Now with stability the other teams get really really close, but there is consistency and hence so much certainty.

More chance of the the Brawn example happening - a team came up with something got a jump on the others (brief superiority not domination) but then another team got the jump on them and, because then there were minor changes after that, it led to domination.

Great examples, thank you.