Fastest lap point goes to the driver only, and fastest pit stop gets a point for the constructor

The f2 champ rule could kinda work if there was an FIA backed team, but not otherwise

2:52 That's a good point: Technically, there is no mandatory pit stop at the moment. You're simply required to run on different compounds during a dry race. Just change the wording of this rule slightly so that there is in fact one mandatory pit stop per race, and red flags would have immediately less of an impact, while for the remaining 90% of the races nothing would change at all.

Love the color wheel. This is one of the things that more technical F1 fans miss. F1 can keep the red, yellow, white stripe but maybe add a secondary color wheel to tell the techies what Cx the compounds are.

In Indycar the team that hires the IndyLights champion gets a 2 million dollar bonus. Pretty much guarantees that the IndyLights champion always gets a seat in Indycar in the following year. Should work in F1 as well. FOM would need to give the team that hires the F2 champion some money, and/or extend that teams budget cap for that season.

For the F2 champion rule to work, it must be an incentive, not a rule. For example the F2 champion gets $10 million in sponsorship for F2 (paid by FOM). That way teams from the back will have an interest in taking him, they know he is a good driver and at the same time lower categories get sponsorship that can lead to more viewers for F2. That is the only way for them to fight against pay drivers. For example Alfa Romeo can choose between Oscar Piastri + $10m or Zhou + $20m.

The tyre change during the red flag already doesn’t count as their mandatory pit stop, because there is no mandatory pit stop. The rule is that you have to use two different compound of tyre, not that you’re required to pit. If that’s the rule we want, thats fine, but you don’t have to stop teams changing tyres during a red flag in order to require a pitstop.

Surely scrapping the mandatory pit stop rule won't matter, because the tyres should not last the full race, especially if Pirelli take compounds that are too soft to last the race, or bring back the colour wheel and let teams go crazy with strategy with using your fastest time in quali's tyre to start the race.

I like the VSC rule change to impose a flat speed limit. That's essentially what they do in WEC, combined with a light on the dash, the race official broadcasts on the radio to all drivers to say "virtual safety car in 10... 9... 8... etc", ensuring all cars fairly meet the speed limit at the same time regardless of location on track, and then again "VSC ending in 10... 9... 8...". So simple but works really well in my opinion.

Pirelli rainbow and cooldown room - PLEASE! As well as interviews ON the podium! That were amazing times - please bring them back!

i think they should bring all the tyres to the race c1 c2 c3 c4 and c5 and bring back the super soft and super hard would def make a more interesting race becasue you would have way more stratagy involed coming into the race

They absolutely need to change the red flag rules. Completely negates any strategy that has occurred. If they want to let teams change tyres they should only be able to go back onto the same compound, meaning they still need to pit under green (or SC).

In terms of the F2 champ getting a spot I think that it shouldn't be a rule but more the FIA financially backing all of them with a decided amount of money so that the funding a driver brings to a given team is less likely to prevent an F2 driver moving up

I think the 2 tyre compound rule is kinda dumb personally, but at the same time it does force some variation I suppose.

I would like to see essentially a group b class. Safety regulations only. Other than that anything goes

Being under safety-car condition, the lapped drivers can slow down by goin trough the pit and return to the back of the line instead of goin to the front and have to get back in line by driving as fast as hell

Every driver must use all 3 tyre compounds in each race (slicks if it’s not raining). It would make Monaco a lot more interesting for example

the issue I have with not allowing changing tyres under a Red Flag to count for driving on 2 different compounds as it would still be able to put somebody out of contention for the win that really was going for it, and at the same time we still do allow the changes to count under the safety car, which also has the chance to give an "unfair" advantage to a driver. I think at the end of the day it's just racing and would be worse if they changed it

I have an issue with the interviews. In the early '00s, the first interview after the GP was well after the podium ceremony and the celebrations, and the drivers were even taken to the press conference room for that. About 10 years ago, they decided to send a guy with a microphone up on the podium to get the guys have a few words after they thoroughly sprayed everyone down with champagne. Then a few years ago, someone came up with the idea to stick a microphone in the face of the driver basically as soon as he gets out the car and takes off his helmet. I think they went a bit too far with that: many cases you can actually hear the driver still struggling to breathe, and they are certainly not in a state to give a level headed review of their race, which literally ended less than 5 minutes ago. The early solution was very good at removing the driveers from the heat of the moment, but it was a bit clunky to have to wait for the drivers to walk to yet another room after we have waited for the podium ceremony, too. The podium interviews did a very good job in my opinion at striking a balance between late enough after the race, but not too late.

At least 2 laps on green flag to consider it as a race

Have to use all dry weather tires each race. That would spice up strategy and bring in the pit crew variability

Open up the engine regulations. Have a max displacement with deductions from add-ons such as forced induction, hybrid powertrains, and refueling. This could attract new manufacturers because it allows them to use engines they might be better at making.

I want a rule to make each driver use all 3 dry tire types in a race (if dry). It has potential to give much more variability of tactics over a race. The softest tire could be tactically used to try and make a short gain sprint for avoiding an under/overcut, putting it on at the start to try and gain early positions, leaving it late for a sprint to gaing places over cars on worn tyres or attempting to get the fastest lap point. Speaking of fastest lap. Make the point for winning it available to the whole grid. Yes, it's unlikely a Williams could get fastest lap but let them have a go, it would make their weekend and it would be nice to see everyone giving it a shot. There's plenty of races as well where the usual top 3 teams have someone running outside the points due to a penalty, collision, puncture etc. Let them try and salvage at least that point for the weekend.

At the start of Q3 everyone will get a chance to have two laps alone in the track, 1 out lap and 1 hot lap. The order starts from 10th to 1st. If you are not ready then you forfeit the opportunity.

Give teams the option to use all 5 tires during a race. Instead of C1-C5, call them Super Hard (no stripes just the Pirelli logo), Hard (white), Medium (yellow), Soft (orange), and Super Soft (red).

Around VSC, I thought the rules was that all the drivers will be driving around on a limit speed. Like the pit land speed, or around 80 kph (50 mph) I didnt knew it was more to have a set delta

I would like to see a circuit where the time lost in a pitstop is significantly lower than 20s. The exit could cut some corners and release the cars way ahead in the circuit.

The VSC thing is actually real in Formula E, where all drivers hear the race director count down and press a button to limit their speed to 50 kph

Limit the number of team members in the pit lane. 2 guns only. Use the same air jacks as other series use.

I’m one of the new fans and I really WANT to see the rainbow back. Having that much variability in compound adds to the strategy aspect and in certain tracks performance would improve massively (Monaco on Ultra Softs for better grip for example). And the colors were nice to see too haha

I saw Buxton once say that the f2 champion should be the automatic reserve driver for all teams. That makes more sense to me.

Any crash that would ordinarily bring out a safety car in the last 10% of the race brings out a red flag instead. stops potential of races finishing under safety car and reduces the need for marshalls to rush to remove the wreckage for the slim possibility of one racing lap making it safer too

Cant disagree more with the one stop thing. If drivers are going for one stops or no stops we will see heaps more tires randomly give way. And thats interesting

Please change the point system. My proposal is points for cars 1-14 instead of 1-10. imagine the amazing fight there will be for the slow midfield cars. Plus, teams will not retire their car to save the engine or repair the gearbox. There will probably not be teams that go through a season without points either, which means there will be competition between all teams in the manufacture championship.

I think the rainbow is more simplistic than what we have now for a casual fan. It’s a lot easier to explain than why the soft tire from last race is now the hard tire. Different colors are easier than letters and numbers

Going to be controversial but I think if a track is essentially a glorified procession with very very few opportunities to overtake, it shouldn’t be on the calendar.

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I honestly find the C1, C2 etc compounds more confusing than the whole rainbow colour system.

No pitting under a yellow flag or vsc. There's just too much randomness every single race weekend. Teams are betting on when latifi or someone else will stack it so they can get a cheeky pit stop under the safety car. Some drivers seem to always be unlucky with this.

The VSC delta is already a speed limiter. Speed= distance/ time. The only thing that makes it variable is the distance between timing loops (mini sectors) is not uniform, and the driving line taken on the track between the mini sectors is going to lengthen or shorten the distance between sectors. So if the speed it capped at a constant speed, gaps will still form if someone takes a wider line through the corner.

fuel strategy should be a thing again. it was exciting to see drivers with different fuel strategies.

The should bring back the cool down room and also the briefing/debrief sessions like the old days

20 races per season. Take all 26 or whatever tracks, put them in a bingo cage, draw out 20, and plan the schedule. Next year, the 6 that got left out this year get automatically put in, and draw 14 more to fill out the season. The ONLY guaranteed slots should be for the debut of a new venue, not for "historic" or big budget tracks. This way we could have about 30 slots total to bring back some amazing tracks without having to axe the historic snooze feats or have rotating pit crews and multiple cars just for logistics. Plus I think we've seen that absence makes the fans' hearts grow fonder, some tracks could do with a break every once in a while.

Up the grid limit to 30 cars so teams can run 3 cars each with one seat being dedicated to a rookie, not cost feasible I know but it’d work

Bring back the v12s baby haha

VSC limiter sounds great!

I would like to see F1 remove their performance regs. Keep the safety rules and cost cap, but give them free reign to do whatever they want performance wise as long as it fits the safety criteria and is under the cost cap

I was utterly miffed when I, who last properly watched F1 in 2012, came back this year and noticed that instead of the order being cool down room => podium ceremony => post-race interview, the first and last ones are now back-to-front. I think it’s quite galling that F1 drivers are expected to drive like their trousers are on fire, and then immediately upon stepping out have to start answering interrogatives like “so how did you do in the last sector”. For Christ’s sake, give them a moment to at least catch their breath, they’ve just completed a 300 km top-level athletic performance. Plus, this means that those of us who don’t really care about the post-race interviews don’t have our experience forcefully prolonged in case we want to see the podium ceremony (which I can’t fathom anyone *not* doing).

No more special VIP bullshit in the pitlane or on the grid pre-race perhaps.. If these VIP's wants to talk to the drives or whatever, they should show up earlier. The race weekend is 3 days, they should use it wisely other than being there just to PR themselves.

3:00 imo Red flag tyre change is basically the same thing as pitting under safety car.

Probably wildly unpopular but I'll just suggest them. 1. Decouple de drivers from their teams. Drivers have a contract with the FIA, shortly after the FIA gala at end of the year teams bid on the drivers (payed with money within the budget cap). As the drivers are selected by the FIA, you get the best drivers in the seats and no drivers who (or their dad) just payed for their seats. In this way a F2 champion can be guaranteed of a seat. One big problem might be the personal sponsors who are pretty important in the sport right now. 2. give the prize for best team at every race to the team the scored the most points that race, to me makes more sens regarding the constructers championship.

VSC: Set speed limit would actually mean drivers are as fast everywhere. Let's use COTA as an example. The back straight (from turn 11 to turn 12) is about 1,15 kilometres. Now look a track from turn 12 on and go similar distance and you'll end around the DRS detection line. With set speed limit drivers would take same amount of time while in full racing speeds, the latter part of the circuit is obviously much slower. Therefore set speed limit would actually be more harmful if it's not used for an entire lap.

About the sprint race weekend format, I appreciate the updates the FIA introduced this year but I am still not convinced so here is what I thought about : Friday's FP session should be 1h and 30 minutes long instead of just 1h and the order at the end of the session should determine the grid for the sprint race (those extra 30 minutes would be given to allow teams and drivers to set their quick lap). Then Friday would end with the Sprint race. Saturday holds a FP session in the morning and then you have qualy. And finally on Sunday the race. What do you think?

V10s can happen with synthetic fuels, but Toto would be against it. :(

Points for the Contructors' Championship awarded according to the order in which teams get BOTH of their drivers over the line, completely independently of the points awarded for the Drivers' Championship.

Get rid of tire warmers - let the drivers show some skill on cold tires.

Warm up lap after sc... It's been common they activate the vsc for a small window and then transition to a full sc. If they do it on the exit again drivers would have half a lap at vsc pace to warm up tyres and breakes without the safety issue (Tsunoda-Schumacher incident) and also safer restarts (mugello 2020)

THE PISTON LIMIT REMOVE THE DAMNED PISTON LIMIT

You're only allowed to pit during the first lap of safety car after which is focused on getting cars in the right posision at a slower speed. So there is no laps wasted on just driving around waiting for the insident to be cleared and not giving an addvantage to people close to the pit lane whilst the safety car is going slow. It maybe a bit hard to read but i've done my best. :)

Have all the tire compounds be available during the race. C5 super soft, C4 soft, C3 Medium, C2 hard, C1 super hard. Don’t allow to repair the car during a red flag. (Only a front wing change when it damaged) And higher penalty’s for changing ice’s. Purely to prevent a manufacturers abusing the power increase of switching engines (and also cranking the engine up to 11 with little disadvantage)

Fernando Alonso: "Equal engines for everyone"

3:25 Andretti+Netflix/"the engineers" official f1 cars could open up seats if we're throwing blank shots out there for the fun of it. Imagine an official f1 team trying to keep fully within the rules but also having the engineering team field an f1 team with f2 winner taking a guaranteed seat, and whatever other winner etc. homologated parts could be from whatever team has the least customers. So currently a Renault drivetrain as an example. Could also be a thing where it could be made into a engineering vs the field in terms of nerfing and learning. Could be interesting to further develop the next seasons regulations to further improve the issues of this season. Non homologated parts to be built by a 3rd party. All far out there but it's fun to play think. Netflix could get title sponsorship for an Andretti as an example. An all American team like thing and able to do a lot more BTS stuff where they do deeper tech talks and so on.

Genuine suggestion. If a safety car is needed in the final 5-10 laps of a race, then the race should be red flagged instead. That way there’s no risk of it finishing under the safety car

No mandatory pitstop would make the racing greater, especially the results. Imagine: 2017 Spanish GP. Wehrlein is on the Super Hard in a Sauber that wasn't competitive at all. The Super Hard was just introduced and they started the race on this tyre. After 40+ laps, Wehrlein was in P8, a huge accomplishment so early in the season and compared to the rest of the field, they were like the 2019 Williams (the gap, no the car) (30 to 5 points; McLaren vs Sauber / Haas 28 in 2019, Williams 1). Teams taking gambles is exciting and there is literally no difference in a fight between a 1 vs 2 stopper or 1 vs 0 stopper. Yet, it opens up opportunities.

I feel like the whole no tyre change under the red flag is just one of those rules it's popular to hate. Everyone always complaining it's so unfair yet not allowing people to change gives just the same advantage to someone who has already pit

If a car is beached but still mechanically sound it sound be allowed to rejoin the race. Or bring back spare cars 😂

I don't mind having 3 colors for tires instead of 1 for each compound. The track surface is different every race, so you can't compare compounds week to week.

Many changes are needed. For me: no DRS, freedom on engine type and configuration (set a maximum power/weight ratio) and more tire manufacturers.

Imagine Monaco without pitstops

Like, why not bringing back the V10 engines again? Beautiful to hear and to see them race with now, slick tyres

The first suggestion about a fixed speed is why a few years ago, Vettel complained about other cars taking weird lines during full course yellows and VSC. While the weird lines could potentially save fuel, they are bad for keeping tire temperature if you have to maintain a fixed delta. Otherwise, everyone would drive weird lines to try and regain ttime from slower speeds, making hazards on track more dangerous and stewarding work a whole lot more complicated.

Loved the variation in strategy from the colour wheel! Surely more exciting racing is better for new fans anyway?

Lord Mahaveer has to have a full-time F1 seat for the next 20 years

I would like to see more pit stops. Make it where every track you had at least 2 stops.

If you change tires under red flag you would get a 10 sec time penalty which is a lot better than a normal pitstop and puts it around the time loss of a safety car or vsc stop. Plus you could always serve it at your next pitstop if you have one.

Here's something I was thinking F1 should have after last years finish with Abu Daubi: Overtime. Think of Nascar. Here's what I have in mind: Overtime will be declared by the Stewards when there is a SC or VSC. Once that is declared, the safety car is deployed, if it isn't already, and the field is frozen. Everyone is entitled to one last Pit Stop to change tires and, this is the only time this happens, add fuel. That's so that nobody runs out of gas on the track. There will be a mandatory minimum length of time to do this. The cars return to the field and assume the places they had where Overtime is declared. The SC comes in, and it's a two lap shootout for the win. Green-White-Checkered. If there is a caution anytime during this, we go through this again until there is a clear finish.

Why cant the V10s return since f1 is starting to use sustainable fuels?

There should be a rule to stop Latifi from crashing and having such a huge influence on race outcomes 🤣

I think that the constructors cup, at the end of each race, should go to the team with the collective highest points, between both divers (as it is at the end of the champions!)

When changing tyres under red flag is banned, you would accept that drivers that are about to stop in a few laps are send to the back as the Field is very close after the restart.

3:35 apparently those who suggested this did not watch the season where there's the 6 car race with Michelin tire runners didnt participate in the US GP (Indiana) and only Bridgestone tire runners participate. Due to Michelin tires cannot handle the stress of the banked corners of Indiana race track for an entire race without changing tires where pit stops are not allowed that season.

Always wondered how fast the V-10 era would have been on slicks. They should try that.

personally I would like to see sliding scale drs, if there's a train of 4 drivers 1st gets 0/3 drs while 2nd gets 1/3 drs and so on, this could be done in differing levels of flap opening or differing lengths of zone. this would prevent drs trains while also not giving insane amounts of drs.

I think as number of races per season continues to increase, FIA could make rules that mandate each team to race theirs reserve/development driver replacing each two main driver once or twice per season.

When safety car comes out near the end of the race and cannot come in in time, extend the race with a couple of laps to finish under green. When it is not possible to clear the track in time, red flag the race.

Keep the cost cap, but remove most other restrictions on car development. I would say keep the safety structures, tyres (4/car... no 6-wheelers), basic fuel and engine regs, and a maximum weight and dimensions, then let the teams do whatever else they want inside the cost cap. Unleash the innovation!

Engine suppliers must deliver engines through F1, with engine deliveries made randomly from the engine pool. Can’t tell me that MB/RB/Ferrari don’t build up all the engines and then sort the best ones to the factory team. McLaren never had access to “spicy” Brazil formula

Matt: I want to you to bring it back right now, Formula 1! F1: say no more *proceeds to literally bring it back 5 days later*

I'd go with : No mandatory compound change and no mandatory pitstop. Ideally bring back refueling cause my nostalgia yells for it. Nothing will ever change my positions.

Lol, the british are so salty about safty car unlapping last year! 🤣 they never talk about how the race director can run the race however he sees fit

The rainbow tyres aren't that hard to learn it's just 7 colours and giving better strategy options to teams, re-fuel system will be nice if come back of course in safer way that preciously been done.

No mandatory pit stop, but softer tires, so that trying a no stop will become very difficult and only possible if you take good care of the tires for the whole race, maybe even being careful at the start not to stress them too much. Great opportunity to safe the time of a pit stop, but also high risk as a small mistake can ruin the tire for the rest of the race, then you will need to box, throwing away the time you wanted to safe by not going to the limit

Having to use at least two sets of tyres in the race. Been a fan for 15 years and I’ve never understood this rule. I don’t know if it’s a requirement by Pirelli or just something to make the race ‘more exciting’. Or even just a safety issue. But either way we’ve all seen plenty of drivers where not pitting could’ve got the driver a better result (Albon at Melbourne for example).

I know we just had a huge makeover in this category but... Change the rules for chassis! I'm talking LeMans Hypercar regulations: Freedom to design almost any part of the bodywork while the only rules to meet are maximum downforce and minimum drag values.

I could image they maybe bring back V10s if they all run on 100% sustainable fuels though, there would be absolutely no harm in it!

Can totally get behind the VSC speed limiter rule. Too many times we see gaps disappear. Changing tyres under a red flag should be a no too unless it is the weather that has caused the red flag

Regarding the f2 champ, I think making a team mandatory sponsored by all the other teams and the FIA giving the f2 winner a 2 year contract so that each of them have 2 years to show what they are capable of. That way every champ would have a chance a the f1 teams could pick from there

Bring. Back. The. Fan. Car. - we need creativity in this sport - aka safety requirements, like the crash structure and G-forces the car has to sustain only, but they can experiment with the rest. As well, V10 or even V12 - yes, please!

Wonderful, but could you make a Part 2 of this topic, please.

Scrap tyre warmers and run any tyre compounds you want but you must have at least one pit stop