Success ballast?
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Could having success ballast like in the btcc be a good idea or would it be unfair as some tracks would notice more of a disadvantage than others?
Absolutely, definitely not. You should not be punished for success in Formula 1.
Vettel could run away with every single race this year and win all 19 races and still nothing should be changed regulations-wise to try and prevent that. The Red Bull is ridiculously fast, but we all just have to dealwithit.gif.
No, no, no and no. So what if Vettel ends up winning 19 races. You should be punishing (not penalties I mean) other teams for letting him do that, not the other way around.
No. Success must be rewarded if anything. I would possibly be in favour of success ballast in the form of an ultra-powerful KERS system however… :-)
I gather that ‘success ballast’ is basically a term for trying to address the balance of the points in the table by penalising the front-runners in some way to reduce their future chances of success?
@AndrewTanner It’s extra weight for more successive cars
point very much taken, i suppose the glorious history of F1 (lotus, ferrari, mclaren, williams, etc being dominant) is down to design talent.
naaaah… that’s up there with : ‘Lets tie a HUGE elastic rubber bands to the back of the fastest cars…………’
NO!
They did that in the old DTM (might still be doing today? No idea… Stopped watching because … lame)
In the old days it was pretty terrible in my opinion. Because you bought tickets to see your favourite driver race for a victory, but since he won 3, or 4 races beforehand he had to drive around with a whole bathtub full of water in the back, to give another driver a chance of winning.
I rather see 5 years of one-driver dominance again then having to endure this stupid rule again.
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