Unfortunately missed out on the opportunity to make the outro of this video the dutch anthem 💀 Also thank you guys so much for last video's support ❤❤

"we were racing i was faster i passed him i won" vettel... best description of what racing is and should be.. it's not a let's give everyone a turn at winning game.

I think the fans expect too much from what’s basically a huge engineering contest

People forget F1 isn’t all about the driver, it’s about the manufacturing teams as well, it’s about who can make the better car. Obviously the place you get in the constructors matters as to how much money you are allowed to spend, but the teams this season did not make a car that can compete. Many people(especially new fans) don’t understand that and will just shit on verstappen and rebull.

It’s funny because in theory, the cost cap was supposed to level out the playing field, but it really showed how inefficient with money some teams are 😂

The FIA didn’t get the regulations wrong, bar Red Bull, the field spread has been closer than ever. It’s up to the other teams to catch up.

2:54 If we count Brawn as Mercedes, F1 has had only 2 winning teams in the past *15* seasons.

Yuki and Albon being marked as future world champions is insane at this point. Sure Yuki is pretty good and has a lot of room to grow, but there’s a lot he has to do to catch up to the Verstappens, Leclerc’s, and Norris’s of the world (obviously, Fernando and Lewis are in this category too, but Yuki’s closer in age to the previous three mentioned). Albon’s good, and he’s bringing Williams up the ladder with him, but it doesn’t seem like he’s ready to challenge for wins much less a title

Not sure why you keep saying Leclerc deserves a world title. He deserves a car that can battle for the title for an entire season, then he can prove whether or not he actually deserves it.

You can t blame RB engineers because Ferrari, Mercedes, Mc Laren didn t do their job. This is F1. This is F1 being F1. That s why you need FIA to make the needed adjustments. It was Merc in the hybrid Era, and now RB the last 3 years in the dirty air, DRS era.

People seem to forget how much reliability used to be an issue in the old days(80's, 90's). And ironically, stricter rules actually creates the situation where one team can dominate. Because if a team figures out the winning formula under the rules, the other teams are going to be trying to catch up to them, while they continue to refine and develop the concepts they came up with.

its so funny when people think that fia meant more teams winning by saying closser racing, they mean that the cars can physically race closer by reducing the dirty air the cars produce behind them

How to learn Dutch anthem without learning Dutch anthem? Max Verstappen: Hold my RB19🍺

There is no world champion problem in F1, this sport has and always will be an area where the greatest drivers can duke it out to become the best of the best. Just because you are talented within this sport, doesn't automatically give you the right to become world champion! It is also just as much a stage for the greatest engineering minds to express their creative abilities. When these factors come together that is where greatness lives. It requires the individual and the team behind them to all perform to the highest degree. It is unfortunate that talented drivers arguably aren't as successful as they "should be" but that is how the sport works. Everyone who's involved understands this. If you care about good drivers getting recognition, stop watching F1 and go watch F2, F3, F4, Formula Academy and Formula E. So many options to choose from that all have equal cars, with the clear intention of discovering the who the best driver is. Stop trying to change a sport because it doesn't confirm with societies, "everyone is a winner" bullshit!

Yuki is great but…he’s not future WDC material 😂

I think you're forgetting the important difference between close racing and close championship fights. These regulations were designed to make car-to-car racing easier, not to make championships closer. New regulations almost always have 1 or 2 teams that figured it out better than everyone else, and the rest has to catch up over the span of a couple seasons. 2022 changes? Ferrari and Red Bull. 2017 changes? Mercedes. 2014 changes? Mercedes. 2010 changes? Red Bull was most consistent.

This years dominance is due to a number of factors. Most importantly that many teams missed the ball in developement. I reccon they will make big improvements this year and Max won't be as dominant. He will still dominate though :P

the racing is closer and better amongst the field (apart from red bull). Its really a case of redbull being insanely good and no other team being good enough to match them. Its difficult to fix as well cuz u cant nerf redbull to the level of the other teams but you cant buff everyone else to redbulls level otherwise that gets rid of the whole technical aspect of f1. Otherwise f1 just turns into any other form of mindless entertainment. I suppose they could introduce technical regulations every few years rather than every like 6 years for more competition but that didnt work during the mercedes dominance. Its a big problem and a really difficult solution.

Idk if you know what the word "deserves" means... for example, you can argue Leclerc is talented enough to win a WDC but that doesn't mean he deserves to?

Do yourself a favor and don’t take any “teamLH” serious who try and talk real shit on Fernando. Real Lewis fans respect Fernando and know how talented he really is.

From 2015 to 2019 it was always merc, Redbull and Ferrari but over the last few years the grid has closed up and with the budget coming in a couple years ago the field will close up

I don't get the point of this video ? Alonso, Hamilton and Verstappen want to win championships and that's somehow a problem ? All 20 drivers in the grid since the start of this sport have always wanted to win the championship. How is that a problem? 🤔

In sport no one deserves to win anything, you earn your win.

If they make the cars the same, we'll still be listening to the Dutch anthem every week

Historically the cars haven't been closer than last season. I really think we are seeing a once in a lifetime talent at work! Max is just levels above the rest, breaking records from the fifties and sixties and that in an era where there is only a couple of tenth per lap between the cars. In the Senna and Prost 88 season, there were seconds between the rest of the field, and we all think of them as the greatest. In my lifetime I have not seen a talented driver as Max is. It is scary how good he is and will dominate for some time, as he is only 26 years old!

Regarding the new regulations discussed around 4:10, the regulations did improve closer racing. Following and thus overtaking is much easier than before. This also means that it is easier for a top car that ended up in the middle of the pack for whatever reason to overtake their way to the front. In the previous regs, if the top cars were unlucky, it was much harder to win the race anyways. The gaps between the cars are much closer now, but seem further because you rarely get 'stuck' behind a much slower car anymore (unless you're Perez at Brazil I guess)

As a leclerc fan it’s sad how leclerc won’t get a title soon even if his race pace is as good as maxes

Great video! I'm a verstappen fan (even some of us want to see other people win, too). Max has said in interviews that the amount of Records he breaks does not matter to him.

I think the way they’ve done this is kind of hard, If you look at it from a constructors point of view then it makes total sense, Redbulls out in front because they’ve literally put the most money into their car and hence made a really good car, however once you add drivers into the mix it does become very hard to balance as you can have a very competent driver like Lando and put them in a Hass and they probably wouldn’t fair very well. In the end if you want to make it fair for the drivers make same spec cars but then that gets rid of the constructors part of the championship essentially wiping out half of the competition. It’s always going to be a challenge to balance raw talent with constructors who have varying budgets and varying amounts of qualified people to make the best car possible which doesn’t always end up happening.

Hahaha, I bet you wouldn't touch this subject if the Worldchampion never competed and Hamilton would have continued collecting WC's. He would have 10! now. And still continue. They way you put away Rosberg and Verstappen, let's me feel the abundance of tears that are still flowing after all these years. I feel sorry for you.

The cars from 2021 couldn’t race closer but we had arguably the best wdc ever that year. These new cars can def race closer (ie Singapore) it’s just that Adrian Newey showed every team up by a mile. The other teams just have to do better period.

the red bull car superiority argument is always funny to me. look at sergio perez and see how well he does in the same car. look how closely the ferraris qualify with max. the difference IS max verstappen. another big factor is the race strategy and pit team which red bull has the best of.

Lets be real the racing was actually really close if we just exclude redbull. So i wouldnt say that the regulations are the problem if youbreally wanted eauality or just giving everyone a chance they could just add the systhem of adding weight like on gt3 cars

Whenever someone compares the regulations from 2021, and then 2023, you do realise that 2021 was the 8th year of those style of regs, and even then, racing wasn't as close. Give the regs their time to flesh out, we're in the 2nd year, Merc didn't have competition until 2017, the 4th year. Not saying it will take that long again, but it's not an 'immediate change to quality of racing". We are getting better racing, but give it until 2025, maybe see what 2026 is like before we talk about if the regs are good or bad imo. You're edging towards it being a spec series at that point, which would be good for seeing who the true best is, but F1 isn't 100% about the driver. It's about being the fastest car in the world, building the perfect machinery. If we want an extra 'F1' branded spec series kind of series during the off season (or less F1 races, with an equal amount of 'F1 spec series' races, I'm down for that. But we shouldn't push too close to the 'small amount of rules to tighten up the racing' side, because the whole point of F1 is the pinnacle of motorsport, literally. This is what the sport is like a lot of the time. I'm sorry if you're new, or don't quite get it, but this is what F1 is. Either learn to love it like we do, or it's not for you. Not gatekeeping, but we don't need to sacrifice the heart and soul of F1 just for better racing. There's other series that do well enough, go watch that. Don't dilute the unique aspect of F1 for the sake of entertainment.

I think Peter Brook has potentially hit the nail on the head with his take that the technical regulations have, if anything, become too restrictive. Essentially, the driver's and constructor's titles have as of late been won by the teams that best understood the principal car concept as dictated by the regulations (e.g. the RB18 & RB19 have the best mechanical platform for exploiting ground effect). Perhaps if they were opened up somewhat, we could see teams trying different approaches that could all take wins across a season - e.g. some teams going for ground effect, some teams using exhaust-blown diffusers, maybe even some teams going back to active suspension should the cost cap allow it!

The fact 3 drivers have won every championship since 2010, aside only from 2016 speaks volumes

1. Charles will never be a serious contender for a WDC 2. Everybody in the F1 community seriously downplays Max’s performance (Max prime > Lewis prime) 3. The way to solve this domination issue, is to open up competition NOT clamp down with regulation. Remove the cost cap, open up the rule book (DAS was an innovation that should have caught on) & mandate each team have a unique engine manufacturer + more bespoke or in house designed elements + adopt an “efficiency” mantra, not a “sustainability” mantra. 5. A WDC is won over the course of a season, not on the last lap of the last race. If you are in that position, you put yourself at the mercy of the racing gods, of which happened to bless MV on that day, through Gods son himself, Michael Masi. 6. I’ve never heard anybody, anywhere, ever mention Yuki Tsunoda as a future WDC. 7. I like your videos and have subscribed. Keep up the great work brother.

Split the season into 2, the first half have very similar/equal cars. This part of the season can determine the drivers championship. The second half of the season can transition into the engineering aspect and the teams can change their car like they would normally do in an F1 season, which is where they can fight for constructors.

The 2022 regulations did not backfire actually, Newey being the genius he is just created a rocket ship. The teams behind Red Bull were actually more close between them.

Alonso's stats dont do him justice, specially because of ferrari and mclaren-honda 💀

identical cars would definitely make the racing better, but it would remove the cool engineering and innovations, which i think would be a shame

Can Max choose to drive as a Belgian next year ? Just so that we have a new outro for F1 ?

A spec series at the same level as F1 would be awesome to see. I think that would provide a top level competition that focuses more on the drivers' abilities. What's interesting to me, and ironic, is that the lower classes are spec, and the winners of those classes then make their way into F1, which relies heavily on the team's ability to build a fast car. Imo that puts F1 in a completely separate category, not because it's the highest level but because the role the teams play (including the drivers) are different

I don't see there any reason why we should tighten up the regulations. We really want innovation, and that is what f1 is at its best. I'm already very irritated by the fact that name brands like Ferrari and Renault have to use them same DeLara chassis in F2. We don't want that in F1. Formula -series should all be about constructors.

I'm a new fan and so in the off season, I have started watching for 2005-2021, I started watching in 22. I tell you what those races did somewhat get close at the front, but overall the front runners are lapping people halfway up the grid. Its definitely getting closer and the cost cap will do its job over time, I'd rally for a progressive cost cap to allow the lower teams to get a higher ceiling for spending but the one we have should work. The issue I think is how much more technical it is now, were measuring smaller and smaller gains in speed, with computers getting better the ability for people to catch in design is harder. The cost cap is a good idea, I wouldn't want see a spec series, I think ideally what you want is everyone close in different looking cars. The stats are cool but going back and watching it you can admire the talent more, like for me in 05 Massa is such a great driver and Montoya I love, but they have so little wins when you compare to the uber talent of Hamilton, Alonso, Verstappen and Schumi, it's like this across sports. The only thing we can hope for is a closer grid.

It's completely normal that the gap between teams increases with new regulations. But this gap will close over time during the regulation period. This does not mean the 2022 rule changes did not work as intended or backfire.

I think that RB is just built different. If you look at how close the other teams were, then it’s clear this regs are working. Only problem is, RB has Max and Adrian

I feel that the current RB is not as dominating as the Merc turbo era. Compare the Quali times across the paddock from 2014-2020 vs 2022+. We actually have much closer racing than the previous decade. Max just wins every race because he REALLY is THAT GOOD. He is in the zone now and nobody can come close let alone his teammates

RB has superior groundfloor and dominant suspension. You can’t nerve that, but stimulate teams to develop into that direction.

Tbh, there's nothing unusual going on here in that regard. If you look at F1 history, you have guys like Stirling Moss, Gilles Vilneuve, Juan Pablo Montoya, Felipe Massa and Rubens Barrichielo who could all have easily been champions, but it never happened. You have guys like Jim Clarke, Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Mika Hakkinen, Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button who could have won many more championships than they did, but it never happened. Only one driver can be the champion at the end of the year. As for the rest, tough luck 🤷‍♂️ Also, how dare you insult my Formula E, the stuff is great 😤😂

Loved the video, rare to find a KZfaqr with little to no bias, keep up the good work! 👍

F1 is the closest it's ever been with the current regulations. The issue is how close they are, not that they need to be even closer. If you go back to the 80's and 90's, when regulations were loose and the grid was separated by 5-6 secs, we had different winners and WDCs all the time. Right now, with how strict the rules are, if you are lucky enough to nail the regs you get to beat everyone because the other teams can't innovate enough within the rules. The cost cap has only made this worse. While it has helped the backmarkers catch up, it keeps the top teams from changing their designs mid season and bringing upgrades every weekend. These are the best drivers in the world, the cars are the only thing really differentiating them from each other. We need restriction in the regulations, not more.

Solution: “to change the rules so there’s closer competition” Oh gee thanks 🙏 great insight. And this isn’t the participation award where each driver gets a championship. Blame other constructors for not being at RB level

love this keep up the good work, maybe you can mess with the settings a bit to have less echo in your audio, but the ideas and the jokes are top tier

Formula is a car sport, not a drivers sport. I think people are forgetting that.

You made a 10 minute video about a nonexistent problem. Not everyone can win. Some drivers will never be champion even when they deserve it with their skill level. The best team should win. And everytime FIA changes the rules it resets everyone's progress. Giving the past dominant teams an edge as resources such as superior windtunnels or simulators dont dissapear.

The first thing to help F1 would be turn the Constructors championship into a team Championship and then you would see people like Lawrence Stroll run a second Mercedes garage and maybe Haas run a second Ferrari garage with 2 redbull teams and you start to get the teams into perspective for paddock work instead of trying to guess factory and paddock without really having a way to tell things apart. Another simple change is that the calendar used to have tracks with varying requirements and sometimes teams would be really good in one type and bad in another, with Suzuka being a special "balanced" track of sorts. But now all Tilkedromes run basically the same corners and requirements in slightly different order or we get tracks that are to narrow for cars in current regulations.

What you want would be fixed with equal machinery. What we have is . . what makes F1 great. No amount of regulations will make racing fair in this category unless you make everyone drive the same car. This competition is not only about the driving and the drivers, but it's also about the engineering behind the cars. And taking that away by regulating or completely dismissing it would ruin F1.

Other top sports, even the non mechanical ones, have the same champion many times over. The best gear helps a ton but it isn’t the only determining factor. In the end it is the athlete’s outstanding ability. You see this pattern at Red Bull, Mercedes and Aston Martin.

I wonder if changing the point system to go from 20 to 1 linearly for all finishing positions would improve the situation

I kinda agree with you, the only thing is every rule change will create dominance. So if you are going for a regulation overhaul again then one team will come out the strongest. So I think it's better if the rules remain consistent. Also the budget cap is limiting the development making thar Mercedes and Ferrari now cannot catch up with Red Bull. However, if you look at the field as a whole the racing has never been closer it's just Max sticking out.

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I think racing has gotten closer, fights are more interesting, cars can stay behind, close behind each other for more than one lap. i remember like from 2018 to 2021 drivers needed to back out after one lap because the car was way to hot, now they can keep up for a lot longer. But somehow RB's gap has increased by a mile

Yeah Leclerc wants a first WDC - guess what so does every other driver who has never won it. No need to single him out.

The regulation change deff worked. The mid field is so mutch closer and the gap to the top isnt that big like the merc era where they would win by like 40 seconds every race. The reason why we had different winner is quz they made mistakes. Max didnt make a single mistake in the 2023 season exept for singapore

This is why they need more teams on the grid. More cars = more chances for flags= more restarts= closer competition

The modifications to reduce turbulence were great since we saw closer racing, but the problem is that the engineers always find a way around the rules, it was inevitable Your bit about Formula E was spot on btw 😂

how to make f1 fair: step one solve max's daddy isues step two swap RB and ferrari pit crews step three give russel a tracker on max and send him hunting

TBH i don't agree at all with you. I'm from Spain. Here football is king and some years the league has been 100% dominated by Real Madrid or by Barça. That is the case for almost all decent sports. If you're better you win. Having a better car, should make you win. Turning F1 onto a "level playing field" is like saying "let's change competition by randomness". That doesn't make any sense. The rest of the brands need to step up their game or asume they will fight for second place forever. That is how a sport works.

The fact there were more race winners pre Verstappen dominance isn't due to the new regulations but purely because of Verstappen having a proper car. The amount of winners there would be without Verstappen, would be immense.

The real main problem I see is that if some team gets the new regulations wrong at the beginning of a regulation era, then they are screwed. And in 2022, only Red Bull understood it's assignment and everyone else totally screwed up . And in 2023, except Red Bull, Ferrari and Aston, everyone got the new regulations wrong and went in a totally wrong direction. Red Bull had a Kickstart with understanding the new regs miles better than others in 2022 due to Newey's suspension magic.. and this gave them a head start above everyone else. Ferrari has been in upward trajectory in 2023, but they were stuck in their tire deg issues and their pitstops and strategies was the last straw to pull them down. Aston Martin is something which had the right direction, and infact, everyone copied their waterslide concept later on. But they themselves somehow during the mid-season development totally screwed it up.. Everyone else is just playing catch-up and no one actually seems to have figured it out during the 2023 season except McLaren who had a backseat in first half and then catapulted to the front with one single upgrade. However, Red Bull looks to be far from being complacent and is actually going the aggressive route in 2024 development, as they agree serious in their mission. Which is scary, but exciting, especially to see another engineering Marvel unveil infront of our eyes. But no matter what, the rules and regulations in F1 favor only those who get the rules the right way and start their development earlier and this they'll always have the advantage over others no matter everyone is improving. But at least in 2022, I think the new regulations is not the culprit, but Red Bull did their job well and others totally screwed up. If this compounding effect of headstart advantage to those teams that get the new regs right at the beginning of the new era, is addressed, then F1 might become more competitive and exciting. I'm still enjoying this as seeing a talented driver in a incredibly great machinery push it beyond it's limits to dominate everyone is on itself has it's charm, but that alone is not the only thing that should happen in F1. And I hope Alonso genuinely gets a chance to fight for a title before he retires.. and may be even win !

3:29 The thing is, F1 does have close competition, just not for 1st place. There's always a dominating driver and the real competition happens in the midfield.

We don’t have a champions problem, we have an “I want to be champion but the Dutch anthem keeps playing, because MAX is the GOAT” problem.

Great video! Keep the great work up!

Rick wants f1 to be indycar or super formula maybe go watch indy or SF this is what F1 is isn't just drivers its mostly about manufacturers if you take that out f1 its not f1 anymore also bop doesn't belong to f1 either Also outside of Max domination F1 is probably closest it has ever been

The field is crazy close, minus RB. Just look at the point spread between the next four teams. Adrian's just built different.

Strict regulation only helps the ones with bigger budget, because it cuts the possibility of low budget teams to innovate and get an edge.

Lando did it 🎉🎉🎉 I’m a Ferrari fan but I’m so happy for him ❤

So like, as someone who knew about F1 before, but really only got into it in 2023, I just watch it mostly because I like to watch racing. There is an... interesting mentality around sports in general. Basically, if you aren't 1st place, no one even really cares or will remember who got second in the long run and 3rd wayy wayy less so. Each farther position you are down, people will remember you less (unless you are last in which case you are remembered for the wrong reasons). The reality is, I think all of these drivers are giving nearly 100% to be at this level, and watching Yuki finishing in the points or Hulkenberg finishing 2nd in qualifying (for a while at least) can be just as exciting as watching Max break the consecutive wins record for me at least. Watching 20 of the top racers from most anywhere in the world compete is such an amazing thing to even see so the whole "same winner + not close championship = boring" mentality doesn't really diminish the sport (at least based on my 1 year of watching Max obliterate everything sacred and holy in the hall of fame lol)

"jos verstappen project" almost spit my water

The issue is that there are not a lot of promising drivers to take over and that FIA plays favourites. It's good branding for them to have one driver who might become the best ever yet stopping him right before they do so the controversy stays up. The FIA also cannot be consistent with rulings which, due to them playing favourites.

everyone should know the Dutch anthem by now :D hopefully it will stay like this for a few years, started to hate the British anthem because of Lewis, thx dude

Or you could just watch IndyCar. Except our championship got dominated this year too.

I think than at 4:13 the regulations havent failed as u can see therest of the pack So CLOSE together its just that One team has Worked out the new regs while No other team has.

That “please reconnect controller” bit caught me off guard lol.

You can do this with every era of F1, when I read old articles and read "he is a WC material" and he achieved nothing. Every driver want to win, but many of them will fail, and it's not a problem

I dunno, the technical regulations are already very strict and there is also the budget cap and the sliding scale wind tunnel test time to level up the playing field. What can you do when one of the teams has a walking wind tunnel in Adrian Newey 🤷‍♂️.

"IT'S OBV JUST BECAUSE OF THE CAR GUYS, I'M NOT COPING SINCE I WANT HAMILTON TO WIN" It's not like the teams were given an even playing field yet they still lost hard

I get the frustration with drivers dominating but F1 is and always has been primarily an engineering competition that is decided by motor races. The new regs are a perfect example of this, they have been progressively restricting the areas designers can play around with, engines are frozen and are more or less spec at this point being all within a few percentage of each other. However, they also emphasize aero more than ever in the effort to cut on dirty air. I would say these regs succeeded in that, cars have been able to follow close for multiple laps and there have been epic battles throughout the grid that dont get the proper attention because they werent for wins. It also happens to be that the one area that still allows for radical design differences is aero and RB have by far the best aerodynamicist who has been pushing the boundaries of ground effect his entire career. They nailed it from the start and are so far ahead of the other teams with iterating on their concept that the advantage is truly locked in until they either decide to loosen other areas of the regs or become a spec series and ruin the soul of what makes F1 different than other motorsports. Also Max is still a really good driver and in perfect sync with his engineers on giving the car a setup that suits his style

During the Merc dominance Verstappen said something about his team needing to step up to challenge Mercedes and I think right now should be the same; other teams need to step up, not changing rules to nerf some teams and help others. It's a team/tech sport and the team we the best work, quality and talent wins. For a long time, without any budget cap, obviously the teams with the biggest investments won, f.e. Mercedes came with a gigantic bag of money to the sport that gave them 8 years of dominance, even bigger than the investment of RB during the Vettel era; right now we already balanced the sport a lot more than normal, it was a Verstappen dominance (losing at Baku awakened an inch perfect alien-like performance the rest of the year) but if we check the rest of the drivers and grid, it was very competitive year with McLaren, Aston, Mercedes and Ferrari trading their pace and spots a lot. We need to start appreciating the teams, not just the drivers.

Hell yes dude! Great content. Looking forward to more.

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Its not red bull’s fault that they have made a beast of a car. F1 is also about engineering and car manufacturing. The other teams should do better. No point in wanting fia to change rules again. Because the rules were for everyone. But RB turned out to make the best car keeping the rules in mind.

Easy ways to improve the racing. Let the drivers have DRS whenever they want to use it. This would be a simple no extra cost way to improve the racing. Do away with the hard compound tires. Only provide soft tires. This way there would be more pit stops that change the race order more often.

I think keeping a set of regulations for a bit longer would help more. In 13, Mercedes had gotten pretty close to Red Bull and Ferrari chose to focus on the SF-14 too early, that went well. The rule changes created a massive disparity betwwen Mercedes and the rest. Again, in 21, just as the field was getting closer, and we finally had a team with a car that could challenge the Mercs on every track, the 22 sweeping changes came. Of course the field would open up again, but damn, did Mercedes and ESPECIALLY Ferrari drop the ball, big time..... Up until the stupid technical directive of summer 22 there was some competition, but even that backfired for Mercedes and Ferrari...

Okay hear me out. Supercar racing in Australia does one chassis and the race organizers tune the engines to perform virtually identical. Supercar racing is definitely one of the most exciting Motorsports I’ve been watching recently so I think something like that could make F1 races more competitive

1:10 no one remarks yuki as a future world champion -_-

i think the problem is "Deserves" a world title. I've played the lotto for 25 years. Do i deserve a jackpot? Lots of people do a lot of things and don't get what they deserve (both positive and negative) Such is life my man. The midfield race is going to be awesome.

The driver competition and points allocation should not follow the teams one (based on finishing order). Over and above the finishing points, for drivers F1 should introduce skills based point systems that rewards e.g. more points for fastest race lap, best overtake, point for each number of position gained in a race, fasterst speed trap and a drag race style knockout session. The latter session will exploit start mistakes between two randomly selected cars in multiple rounds until the last two. The overall winner should gain 8 points.

2023 was an amazingly close season, just not for first place