Obviously, I’d love to see ultra hi-def ad-free racing, but I think we can all but forget about it for the forseeable future

As for increasing the number of teams, I think that your proposing a means of masking the poor racing rather than adressing the root problem itself, although some of the other points would probably help.

More teams would be great, but if we are to see Prodrive branded McLarens, or Toro Rosso branded Red Bulls etc or more teams that would be 4-5 secs of the pace, with more not too good pay drivers, than better have 10 or 11 …

The every year Silverstone bashing from Bernie gets a bit boring, there are tracks like Hungaroring that for some reason seem to safe forever, and great place like Silverstone is under the threat of axe all the time. This just one of Bernie’s mind games. Sometime is really difficult to read his mind … Like when he decided to criticize Sepang for things that do not seem to be a problem, but did not mention at all the horrible food and bev situation there (I went to F1 race there for past 3 years). Same with Shanghai – great track from spectator point of view, but try to get some decent food there … No word from Bernie on that … So I would add another point for him – “Do not pick on 1 track, make sure that all the tracks are up to standards, no matter how much they pay to your pocket …”

Calendar – I think it is not that important, whether we have 18, 19 or 20 races. But is annoying that this figure is different every year … Set it for 18, 19 or 20, but keep it at that for a while. Do not ever repeat such a stupid start to the season as this year with that massive gap between 1st and 2nd race.

As for Mosley – that man definitelly needs some whacking for airing way too many stupid ideas that way too often turn into stupid rules.

Another extra from me – Try to make sure that when they broadcast 16:9 picture on the on track TVs, they do not squeeze the picture into the 4:3 screens … The screens are of horrible quality already, when you distort the picture further, the TV feed on track is totally useless … (Sepang 2007).

KEEP F1 IN THE U.S.A.!!

And onboard laps instead of the boring Circuit Map with only few small pictures. Also some more videos, like the one that is on the main page at the new website…

I especially like the ideas behind the HDTV and video game issues. Such complex and interesting cars should be seen in the best possible clarity, I can deal with the ads (if need be), as long as they are placed at better times. There is nothing worse then anticipating a pass and right as he it is about to be made, BOOM, commercial. There is only about 10 minutes of actual racing and about 20 minutes of commercials.

Sony’s stranglehold of the F1 license was a disaster from the start on so many levels. Firstly Sony has next to no experience making a decent racing game. On top of poor game design there are even poorer controls. When did The Shu race with a controller? (I know there are probably steering wheels for the console but they are awful, just buy Rfactor and a race wheel for the computer. There is nothing like a 32 car online F1 match….. If you don’t get speared on the first corner).

Video games are one of the most influential tools to the younger generation. If you want them to understand and be interested in your sport, make a video game they can relate to. I’m not saying remove the side pods and add machine guns, just add some immersion. I always loved racing, but I first became interested (and finally understood all the rules and drivers, albeit 1998 rules, when I first played an F1 game, I’ve been hooked ever since.

Pipe dreams I guess…. Bernie doesn’t care about how clear our viewing picture is or how the next generation will take to F1.

As a starting point from a fan’s perspective I would say the hi-def, ad-free racing is a must but probably unlikely while ITV still have a contract to show the races. Which is a right kick in the teeth.

Online videos should be available on YouTube, what do they have to lose from not having them on there when they don’t have a competing alternative like a subscription service on their site?!

The calendar issue is supremely annoying and plain stupidity – why it has to be arranged on a year-by-year basis just doesn’t make sense. I understand why sometimes they may want to swap a couple about due to a city hosting the Olympics or whatever but to do it every year is crazy!

Of the 10 items mentioned, there are probably only a couple which even have a chance of gaining Bernie’s approval – unfortunate, as all 10 are requiring attention.

Sony having the sole rights to the online game is particularly strange given the superior product Microprose came up with in the 1990s (the Grand Prix series). In fact, if the rights went to someone prepared to make a PC version, that would be an improvement in itself. Oh, sorry, that would a) put the game at risk of piracy and b) mean that it has to directly compete with a wide variety of games of differing ages, including easily-modded driving games like rFactor…

In fact, that underlines the biggest problem of Ecclestone’s reign – the assumption that the highest bidder always provides the best product. Even in those cases where money is tied to good knowledge of how to create a game/run a race/broadcast a race, it is the case that Ecclestone’s crippling fees for doing these things prevent the collection of resources and, crucially, reduce the use of imagination. Unfortunately, Max Mosely agrees with him and lets him get away with it.

I would say that this defect in modus operandi is largely responsible for items 1-3, 6 and 8-9. That’s over half the list, but then Bernie rarely admits to making errors.

The “more teams” problem is in fact down to the teams, who decided in the 1998 Concorde Agreement that, to prevent things like pre-qualifying, there should be no more than 12 teams on the grid. That may yet be sorted in the next Concorde Agreement, but if it isn’t, blame the teams and possibly Max Mosely.

The FIA has inadvertently delegated its agenda to the manufacturers, but the mess prior to that belongs to it. Bernie should get Max to simplify things, but Max’s obsession with power makes change there unlikely.

Silverstone is very easy to sort out. If Bernie charged it less money (along with all the other circuits), then the BRDC would have enough money to make improvements. Britain is already the only circuit that doesn’t lose money on the F1 race through Bernie fees alone – that would indicate that it is the best-managed circuit financially.

Bernie hasn’t had Turkey long enough to see whether he’ll make a profit on the place, but when he bought Spa, he simply sold it on a couple of years later when it needed additional work. It might have made him a lot of money, but it was at the expense of the next circuit owner, the race’s place on the schedule and F1.

As for the succession, Bernie claims he doesn’t care what happens to F1 after he dies. So I can’t see much happening there – though there should.