If you could change 1 rule in F1 what would it be

[m3_lover]

Change the Carbon Helmets to Meat Pie Helmets..mmmm tasty

[ds.raikkonen]

Revise the pit lane speed limit to 200kph , well, realistically speaking, the 2 race engine rule should be removed.

[modbaraban]

Revise the pit lane speed limit to 200kph

Allow moving refueling during the race (with helicopter)

[ds.raikkonen]

Revise the pit lane speed limit to 200kph

Allow moving refueling during the race (with helicopter)

actually i saw a video of the F2002 being filled with 100octane sheel gasoline by a starlifter maybe 2020 season ll bring air-borne refuelling.

[captainmorgan]

creating a loophole so that 2nd car can refill 1st car. What an awesome first race that would be, a spyker taking the win

[NickT]

Huge reliance on aero is a real pain, but it is slowly being dealt with

Electronic driver aids are finally being scrapped this year

So my vote would be for slicks. However, make them so that they don't leave marbles every where, then you can have multiple/alternative lines around any corner and we'll get overtaking dog fights

[Belatti]

You need downforce.

If you make the car turn aerodynamically then the drag will be the most important slowing factor and then the engine will have no power to transmit to the ground to counter this.

You need grip anyway...

So tell me how did these kind of cars run...


Now imagine this car but less bulky, rear engine and with wider tyres and you´ll have this:


Finally, is up to you to picture yourself a car even thinner, with huge slicks and maybe a bit downforce generated by the chassis, not wings.
So we will have longer braking distances, trickier accelerations and quite close following allowed

Back to the basics!

[eidetic]

Send every team a complete car. This is their basis. Every team is allowed to use 150 Million per year on development no more. (This includes running the cars in tests, etc) This will even things out nicely and bring more emphasis to driver skill and constructors smarts.

Until the factory based and factory backed teams start hiding how much they're really spending in other areas (such as road car development). You want the FIA to look through ALL of Mercedes' (and Honda's, Toyota's, etc) financial documents? AND have officials on their research facilities at all times to police this rule?

Spending caps can not work in F1. They will hurt the smaller teams more than the larger ones.

edit: Oh, and my rule change would be to open up the engine development. Let's get some turbo I4's up against some NA V12s. (Though I dunno how much of this we'd really see, since it looked like the teams started gravitating towards V10s after Renault seemed to get it right a few years back before V10s were mandated)

[donskar]

Bring in the second rank teams - Williams, Super Aguri, the Indian team (whatever they're called), etc and ask THEM for some input.

ANYTHING that will help avoid the endless succession of seasons with only two (if we're lucky) competitive teams.

Reverse grids? Two heats? Weight penalties. It is NOT an open formula, so why not make it less open in order to make it more competitive?

My two mills worth (that's much less than two cents!)

[Conceptual]

I would completely do away with friction!

[mahesh248]

Removing the traction control is the first thing that has to be done , which i am happy thats it is . thats about it.

[bizadfar]

front wing lowered back to 2003 or even 2001 standards.

[JonoF1]

the FIA

[tomislavp4]

Nice one not sure you it counts as a rule tough

[JonoF1]

they're a rule unto themselves, therefore........