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RobR said 2 years, 6 months ago:

double post!

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Red Andy said 2 years, 6 months ago:

If you weren’t implying that climate change sceptics are or have been persecuted for their views, then I apologise. Now are you going to address my other, more substantial points?

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Søren Kaae said 2 years, 6 months ago:

So coming back to the regulations I think Andy has nailed with a fixed amount of fuel, but then I also think they should reinstate a “dry” (without oil and fuel) minimum weight for the cars. This way, those who ran the lightest car (least fuel) would be the quickest. This would monumentally increase the reason for developing fuelsaving engines.

In the ongoing climate debate I would like to say that, I do think global warming is appearant, but it is not as extreme as feared by some. The thing I’m mostly concerned about is that we are running out of fossil fuels. So if we can change the power supply we use, then why not make it more efficient at the same time?

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Red Andy said 2 years, 6 months ago:

So coming back to the regulations I think Andy has nailed with a fixed amount of fuel, but then I also think they should reinstate a “dry” (without oil and fuel) minimum weight for the cars. This way, those who ran the lightest car (least fuel) would be the quickest. This would monumentally increase the reason for developing fuelsaving engines.

Yep, excellent points. I think there is an opportunity for F1 to become a formula where real solutions to wider problems in motoring are developed in a field of competition. With the current regulations that won’t happen, but it certainly could with changes.

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The Bucket Of Vindaloo said 2 years, 6 months ago:

I’ll keep this short and simple:-

Wider cars,
Ground Effect,
Less draggy Front & Rear Wings,
Four types of engines to use from,
200L mandatory fuel tank capacity.

That is all.

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Stephen Jones said 2 years, 6 months ago:

i like the fan car idea.. ala “redbull X1″ or the brabham BT46
sure its heavy, and expensive to develop.. but you wouldn’t have the issue of cars running close together would you?

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Red Andy said 2 years, 6 months ago:

But Steve, it throws too much dirt onto the track… ;)

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Victorface said 2 years, 6 months ago:

Regulations for 2012 when I run the FIA:

Tires will be of the following compounds:
Sticky cheese, warm bubble gum, molasses. Each compound will provide varying degrees of epic grip but for not very long, hard tire might last half distance, soft tire might last a quarter distance.

Top 10 qualifiers will have to start on qualifying tires, but there is no mandatory pit stop rule. 11th and below can run a 0-stop strategy if they want (but they probably won’t)

All tracks will be surfaced with whatever covers the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
All tarmac runoff areas will be replaced with water traps. All chicanes will be bordered with water barrels.

To keep costs down, there will be a voluntary budget cap of $75 million. However, each team must sell its car for $75 million if another team offers to buy it if it is suspected of spending more than the allotted $75 million. (second thoughts on this one. it works in amateur racing, but F1 is a different animal).

Team orders will be allowed but if the fans boo the podium and there is a major international media uproar in at least five countries afterwards, the driver ordered to move scores both his points and the points of the team order beneficiary and the beneficiary scores nothing.

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Browny said 2 years, 6 months ago:

An interesting idea I thought of during the year to help overtaking. I don’t know whether it might be too dangerous however, but anyway aside from the car’s generating too much downforce the reason why F1 car’s struggle to overtake each other is that the brakes on these cars are strong and reliable that drivers don’t have enough of a chance to outbrake each other into corners. If braking distances are increased drivers get more chance to overtake under braking for a corner. Following on from this idea, using a similiar concept to the single tyre rule of 2005 which encouraged drivers to conserve their tyres and attack on the end of the race or vice-versa. The brakes on F1 cars could be made of two compounds, the first, outer compound would be much quicker but were out much faster (same concept as the soft tyre for example), where as the inner compound of the brake disc would be much slower but have a much longer life (same concept as the hard tyre for exaple). Let me know what you think

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