Well, I figured from the beginning this was mainly FIA critic.
Now, if we could orientate this thing towards creativity...
Mabybe Flyn is pointing a way: post something original. I dare to say we've heard many times what's wrong with FIA, but few new proposals. I'd say that the ratio of critics to contributors have increased a lot...
Here are mine; weird, but mine. I haven't read them anywhere, mainly because I'm writing them as they ocurr to me.
- First, this is called the
Racing Syndicate. I'd go for swedish laws... because I'm thinking of a
labor-oriented championship. Follow me for a second and, please, try to imagine if the current problems F1 has, (all come from money disputes, if you ask me) can be resolved this way: through organizational rules, not through mechanical regulations, which are arbitrary and transient.
- Only members of the Racing Syndicate can compete, by gettin a RS license, open to anybody.
- There are two kinds of members: individuals (drivers or "natural persons") and mechanical teams (legal persons). There are no contracts among mechanics and drivers, all contracts are with RS.
- First year, by lot, following years by "best mechanical team pick the first driver and so on", drivers are chosen from the pool by mechanics, the same way you picked people when going to play football or baseball at your local sandlot.
- First year they race on karts. If the championship is successful and money starts to flow, then we can change mechanical regulations to allow more sophisticated machines. Money flow is essential: no fan base at the tracks means no money for cars. Check the last regulation proposed to understand where the money comes from... but, please, continue in order, if you wish.
- All drivers with a contract who are recruited for other series have to pay a percentage of their new contract to RS. This money is used for racing schools at the national level, only for people under 18. These schools are oriented toward safety and towards teaching people that you only race at a track. There is an effort to blend this schools with the national traffic authorities to provide driver licenses earlier to participants in the racing schools (I've proposed that many times, including the national authorities in Colombia).
- Regional competitions are held first. Then, the finalists (more on an original scoring system in the paragraph below: a simple, unbiased one) compete for the World Championship. This probably means that the WC is held every two or four years.
- There is no points system. All championships are decided by aggregated times. People that fails to end the race are given a time based on the last bunch of drivers that complete the race.
- Grid positions are decided by lot.
- Mechanics form their own independent College of Mechanics. They publish the Technical Rules.
- Older drivers and mechanics have the role of marshalls. They have their own College of Marshalls, independent. They publish the Sporting Rules.
- Civil engineers and automotive engineers who race as mechanics or drivers decide on safety regulations in the College of Designers. They publish the Safety Rules.
- All revisions of the rules are made before the next round of local championships.
- All the money for prizes comes from tickets and TV. There are no sponsors. Mechanical regulations hinge on that: you cannot develop something that cannot be financed in a reasonable way.
- Money is distributed among drivers and mechanical teams according to the number of competitions in which they participate, not according to your position. You race for fame, not for money. Money goes only to those that work.
- The administration (Colleges) can use only 5% (or some other number) of the total money for their work. Tracks receive another fixed percentage, based on the investments they've made on the tracks. The rest of the money goes to prizes for mechanics and drivers.
I could go on and on. You've seen my posts about "positions held by direct election of members": democracy and more democracy, no committees of unkown people. The last one:
- People classifies for nationals as you classify for American Idol: open to anyone, best times give you the pool of drivers for the National Championship.
Well, that's some fresh air, I wish. I strongly believe that all the discontent expressed on the criticisms to regulations comes from the lack of transparency and the fact that this is a "money milking machine" for a few people.
You know, I don't believe into ressolving problems, I prefer to "dissolve" them, if you follow my drift. You have to make the problem to cease to exist, to lose its meaning because it's totally forgotten, not simply confronted.
) then incorporates them into the text and republish it. This member is the Speaker of the House: he deals with all kind of weirdos, like me.
The course will be clearly marked and include a limitless series of checkpoints (the number of which the competitors cannot know) and a GPS system will enforce each competitor passes through each cheackpoint in the correct order.
