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Interesting Point!
In my opinion, WEC is pioneering technology, which can be adapted to other forms of racing, so first they brought hybrid engines, which F1 implemented in 2014. There are rumours that the WEC may open its regulation to fuel cells.
So in my opinion F1 should be a hybrid formula in the longer term, maybe with spec parts to get or keep costs down, and when fuel cells are ‘ready’, f1 can implement them into their power-unit-formula. But I think this is a process which can last decades maybe?I cannot see a sprint or endurance series which is based purely on batteries as an energy storage, unless research grants a small battery with a decent capacity which can be swapped quickly at a pit-stop for example.
The problem with WEC ist, that the LMP1 class is de facto for car companies, so if Audis, Porsches and so on decide to pull the plug, the privateers cannot step up and fill the gap as now there is only the Rebellion and ByKolles team, they would have to promote the LMP2 class to LMP1 or so like in the past.
I think that is a reason why they start a test restriction for the next season.
Jordan had good liveries especially from 1997 to 2001 with the snake, Bee, and the shark on their Nose and the yellowish colour-scheme just looked gorgeous.
Who remembers Ricardo Zonta? The most famous driver being lapped!
Edit: Just saw someone mentioned him already so I’m sorry!
But who remembers Heinz-Harald Frentzen? he almost won the 1999 Championship, but afterwards he never had the car but regularly showed that he was a good driver like in Spa 2001 when he qualified on 4th with the Prost.
How about Toranosuke Takagi? he drove for Arrows and Prost (?) and had some good races.
Shinji Nakano drove for Minardi but I really cannot remember if he was any good in a bad car.
And of course Esteban Tuero, the only thing I remember, that he had a crash in Suzuka 1998 (I think he was trying to overtake maybe Takagi or Rosset so there is another one of the forgotten) and the debris lead to the puncture of Schumacher’s Ferrari.The teams competing in F1 are too professional and too wealthy, If you have open regulations they will engineer the hell out of it and consume vast amounts of money.
So if you strive for more open regulations, you have to introduce a cost or salary cap.
I am aware that there is no problem with overtaking in traffic, but in my opinion Grand Prix racing should not have such slow competitors that it becomes a two class field, therefore a 107% rule is fine for me.
But I am sure that we agree that something has to happen on the commercial side of F1.
Hey^^
Sorry for the late response but I forgot to reply!Interesting Idea, I have to admit that I like it how you would run the technical regulations and the commercial side, but I doubt that splitting the commercial rights between the FIA and the teams would be a good idea. It would end in a war of self-interest about who gehts a better market exposure etc.
In my opinion either the FIA should hold all the Rights and distribute more money to the teams or go back to the pre CVC time where Bernie more or less worked for himself and the FIA on a gentleman’s agreement basis.
Obviously I would prefer anything where an investment company is not involved in any formin the sport as this kind of people are all the same, trying to squeeze everything out of it to reinvest the money.Also 115% is a bit brave in my opinion, 107% would be fine I think, back then HRT almost qualified although they had no testing and build the car just before qualifying.
First of all thank you for your post and your opinion!
I think F1 needs to bang head on into the wall, it would be the only way that the people who are in charge of realise the current situation and can move on with a reboot.
The only problem would be if they just doctor around the current situation in the way that nothing really changes except that the “end” is just postponed for a little while.
Commercial side of F1 gets independent from CVC and Ecclestone is the single party in control of the commercial aspects, thus his interest is to make f1 more popular and not profitable for CVC.
The technical side is again solely controlled by the FIA, the Strategy comission becomes obsolet and is dissolved.
The Revenues are partially distributed to all teams on equal figures plus an additional bonus regarding the Constructors Championship.
The race Stewards get more generous and do not punish every move.
The PR departments of the teams get more lax, drivers speak more freely with the media.
I really cannot remember what was my first true F1 experience, I just know that Schumacher was driving for Benetton and Damon Hill was in a Williams, and I saw the Fire of Jos Verstappen in a report about Jos so I would guess something like 1994/1995.
I started to watch races in 1996 occasionally and in 1997 I watched almost all races except the ones which were quite early in the morning which changed in 1998 when I was 8, since then I watched every race.
I agree with both of your comments.
It is just a shame that FOM does not utilize the sleeping potential they got with social media.
As @andae23 said, MotoGP for example has a youtube page where people can watch some classic races, just imagine what kind of potential Formula 1 had with such a youtube channel, they surely have the money and manpower to run it.
But as I said the new App may be a first step in the right direction. I really do hope they do something clever and don’t mess up.