Regarding track design, I think it is a very major part of the problem. To overtake, you need a good corner design to provide best opportunities for drivers to do it more frequently. With a good corner design, I’m talking about suitable corner angle & speed, wide braking area, grip, and harmonic relationship with the previous and next corners.

At some circuits, we can see some corners are just blatantly meaningless, as if it’s just for a corner’s sake. To make a race as exciting as possible, that is in one way increase the number of overtaking, we have to make as many corners as possible meet the requirements of a good corner design.

Car design also contribute some to this problem. Fundamentally, F1 cars are extremely dependent of aerodynamic downforce, which make them a lot slower at medium to high-speed corners when a car is racing right behind another car. The ironic part is it’s the situation where the cars are before they overtake. With the current design, it is highly difficult for them to overtake on those corners.

With a more overtaking-friendly design, such as splitting the rear wing into two parts and putting them right behind the rear wheels, it will increase the downforce available to cars right behind, thus increasing the probability of overtaking.

I’m no engineer. I’m just an F1 fan, waiting for more exciting races.

and limit the front and rear wing elements to 1 (and 2 for monaco and hungary)

the cars are generating between 200-300% more aero than 15 years ago… they go very fast by themselves but lose significant tenths when behind another car…

simplify the front wing and rear wing massively, have no limit as to how low the front wing can be and limit the height of the rear wing

I consider Webber’s safety stance a bit weird

no

Overtaking in F1 should be rare and exceptional. All the drivers have rare talent and exceptional skills, every now and then an overtake will occur. It’s rarity is what makes it special!

F1 has never been any different. Show me any era of F1 when people were overtaking willy nilly.

at the begining of the year they said “we have tightened up the aero deveolpment so engineers can focus in making mechanical inventions to gain an advantage through mechanical thinking” yet the only development we have seen this year is aero.

take mclarens brake steer, worked well, was safe but was banned because other teams didnt have it and it gave mclaren an unfair advantage. now how does that fit in with “we want teams to develop new mechanical technologies”