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”

and adding four blocks to the corners of the main chassis’ underbody to prevent bottoming

Debris will have the same impact to ground-effect as bottoming, and you can’t stop debris from going under the car with the four blocks you mention.

CFD will certainly remove pitch-sensitivity and porpoising problems, but no amount of CFD will solve the fundamental problem with ground-effect dominant cars, which is the suddenness with which it can disappear, leaving the driver completely helpless.

It’s a single point of failure. With wings, you can distribute the failure between the front and the back and hence leave some vestiges of downforce even under failure scenarios.

(such as the awful endplates and additions we see now)

The very endplates you disparage in F1 help with generating vertices that seal in the low-pressure zone under the car and increase the existing ground-effect in F1 cars.

The whole point of F1 is that it is not a spec series and that there is both competitive driving and engineering.

in a slip stream the car buhind experiences a lesser downforce effect and thus the car appears less heavy for the engine so it makes higher speeds reachable while in a slip stream (i hope we all know that). if a car is in a slip stream and is benifiting from it, the affect of the aero is reduced and the engine can rev higher becuase of the lesser aero weight that would usually restrict it if it was driving along in a non turbulent air pocket. if you have gone racing or have played racing sim games you will notice that this affect occurs, when the engine will get up to heigher revs than normal behind another car.

so there shouldnt be restrictions on the rev limits for the engines, especially when drivers are complaining about bouncing of the limiter even when the are not even behind another car.

this is another reason for KERS failiure because the driver could not use it when bouncing on the limiter while at top speed because the engine would not turn faster with the extra 80 bhp being applied

take albert park and interlagos, not much runn off but good racing, because these tracks were aproaced by a designer who did not come along and say “ok how can i make this challenging and where can i make over taking oportunities”, when track designers designed those tracks the didnt have that idea in there head and they came up with a place to race which was there main intention. look at tilkes tracks, they are way to over thought! he aproaces a track with inspiration from the old nurburgring (he has said that all his tracks have been inspired by the green hell many of times) he analises the topography of the land and then he attempts to model a track onto that before the track even starts to get drawn up in plan.

track design is way to developed in my opinion, what was the designer of the nurburgring inspired by when he thought up the track layout? nothing! they just built that track onto the land when they got there, and it is the best track in the world, and it doesnt have any super corners like turn 8.

spa for example. look at eau rouge. thats just an old brige that went across a river before the decided to start racing cars over it, now i can garentee that when the bridge designer came along he did not look at it and think how he was going to build the most spectacular corner for racing cars to drive through he just came along and figured out how to get across the river! it just turned out that it is now the best corner in f1. i will put money on it that if tilke was the bridge designer he would have come along and put a chicane right before the bridge, to “try make good racing”

ive drifted off topic a bit but i hope you can see my point. the cars have had alot of work, so why not put some work into the tracks, oh and please ban tilke from doing that work