If we were creating our own F1 style series, what rules would we change/add?

[fpv_gtho]

Originally Posted by Kooper

The engine-thing? I believe the current rule isn't cutting it. Rather than penalising the driver with 10 grid positions, penalise the manufacturer. How? Hit 'em where it counts. If your engine blows up, you get less from the yearly TV-profit, regardless of where you end up in the championship. This doesn't affect the actual racing, but I believe it should serve as an effective means to motivate the players to comply.

That'll make it worse, you'll effectively make it so youve got to spend more money to get anywhere, as teams like Toyota would be able to afford just making banzai engines that go back to how they were built in 2003

Who in their right minds would exclude Spa Francorchamps?

The organisers asked for Spa to be exclude, Bernie seemed rather intent on keeping it.

[Kooper]

Originally Posted by fpv_gtho

That'll make it worse, you'll effectively make it so youve got to spend more money to get anywhere, as teams like Toyota would be able to afford just making banzai engines that go back to how they were built in 2003

That's true, Toyota probably will just keep getting penalised on purpose. They sure have the funds to do it.

Originally Posted by fpv_gtho

The organisers asked for Spa to be exclude, Bernie seemed rather intent on keeping it.

1 point to Bernie.

[.M.]

If the car has a fuel leak - too bad, thats a failure of the car to finish.

Correct me I'm wrong, but I am pretty sure a car is 'Black Flagged' for this.

[Mustang]

manual box's and no driver aids ... sorted

the rest is 'free'

[Matra et Alpine]

Kooper, if you want qualifying to go back to what it was then WHY are you limiting the number of laps ?

[MrKipling]

They only used to get twelve laps anyway.

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by MrKipling

They only used to get twelve laps anyway.

Used to be 2hr practice & qualifying session twice a day. Fastest time from any session fixed the grid position. NO lap limits.

[Kooper]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Used to be 2hr practice & qualifying session twice a day. Fastest time from any session fixed the grid position. NO lap limits.

Really? I too thought they were limited to a certain amount of laps in the good old days prior to 2003 (that's when they started tampering with the format I think).

No matter how it was, they should make it like it used to be pre-2003. That was almost as exciting to watch as the races themselves, for me at least. The highlight was watching Senna come out usually with only moments to spare, starting his final qualifying-lap just seconds before the time ran out and putting in a stonkingly fast lap, snatching pole. Pure racing art! But that's another story.

Nowadays they seem to change the quali on a yearly basis, which not only confuses the fans, but even irritate some.

[Matra et Alpine]

"good old days" --- "prior to 2003" --- how to make a man feel old
2003 was only yesterday
I remembered THIS great article on the days of pre-qualifying and the mess IT created ...... http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft00016.html

[Kooper]

Hehe, you're right, it was just around the corner!

But the pace at which time flies these days, tommorrow it'll be 2029!

Someone told me the other day that by exactly this time last year it was still the 2nd of January. Cheesy joke for the day.

[KnifeEdge_2K1]

upside down tracks

[Daz27]

Read somewhere ages ago in some magazine, possibly motorsport news, that one of the proposals to make the racing better was to draw numbers from a hat, 1-22, and the number you drew was the car you drove according to the numbers on the cars obviously. Imagine that, Alonso drawing 22, and Ide drawing #1... me thinks car #1 would still be at the back of the pack, but possibly less than 4 seconds behind Sato-san(s talent).

[fpv_gtho]

How would that have worked out in the pitstops?

I can just imagine the different fuels being the start of everyones problems...

[Daz27]

Easy fixed, run em on that watered down crap we pay a $1.45 for here in oz... theyd get to maybe the end of their pit box lol.

[fpv_gtho]

Wouldnt be surprised if an F1 engine would choke from the amount of dirt in the fuel the public gets