If you could change on sporting regulation and one technical regulation, what would you change?

I would change these things for the Sporting regs:

Sporting Reg, #21) Points for both titles will be awarded at each Event according to the following scale:

1st : 10 points
2nd : 8 points
3rd : 6 points
4th : 5 points
5th : 4 points
6th : 3 points
7th : 2 points
8th : 1 point

To this:

Sporting Reg. #21) Points for both titles will be awarded at each Event according to the following scale :
1st : 10 points
2nd : 6 points
3rd : 4 points
4th : 3 points
5th : 2 points
6th : 1 point

And I would change this technical rule:

12.6.2 Each front dry-weather tyre, when new, must incorporate 4 grooves which are :
- arranged symmetrically about the centre of the tyre tread ;
- at least 14mm wide at the contact surface and which taper uniformly to a minimum of 10mm at the
lower surface ;
- at least 2.5mm deep across the whole lower surface ;
- 50mm (+/- 1.0mm) between centres.

To This:

Slicks!

2008 Sporting Regs.


2008 Technical Rules

Sporting Change:

Although I would love to change the points structure to 12, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 (to help give points to mid/back packers to differentiate them for the cash awards), I'm going with my pet peeve...

154 m) In exceptional circumstances the race may be started behind the safety car. In this case, at any time before the one minute signal its orange lights will be turned on. This is the signal to the drivers that the race will be started behind the safety car. When the green lights are illuminated the safety car will leave the grid with all cars following in grid order no more than 5 car lengths apart. There will be no formation lap and race will start when the green lights are illuminated.

Change that to not allow the race to start under Safety Car. If the cars can run in the rain, they can start in the rain. If they can't, then don't start the race. The rules are standing starts so lets stay that way.

Technical Change

I'm not a techie guy around F1 cars (or any car) but I'd also go with Flood's plan... SLICKS (primarily because I can't find the tech regs around all the stupid aero devices through the car that ruin drafting).

I'd get rid of the 19,000rpm limit. V8 engines I can handle. Restricted V8s is just madness, why didn't they just allow for restricted V10s! Would have 'saved' even more dosh, Max!

Tim the areo rules are impossible to understand through the verbage of the regs. Basically a number of dimensional boxes are identified and any shape is permitted within the boundries of these boxes. Check this Link for drawings of the dimensional boxes. I think this is from 2005, but I'm not sure. Drawings 1A through 5A are the ones that I'm talking about.

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Technical change

Get rid of ALL "driver aids" except the steering wheel, gear lever and three pedals.

I'm not fussed on that, it's just TC that I don't like to see. The rest I can see the point in teams having because it allows for faster cars. Seamless shift gearboxes for example.

(tongue in cheek)

Have a mandatory identical aero part that F up the air flow to an F1 car. All cars must fit this part to the car and work on mechanical grip to counter this rogue part.

Honda could be commissioned to design it <shutup>

Honda already designed it! The 2007!

SAFC, the rules makers have alreday agreed with you and done that. As a result, you must be completly happy with the 2008 rules.