PapayaFan481 wrote: ↑11 Oct 2024, 14:43
DChemTech wrote: ↑11 Apr 2024, 20:21
My opinion: no concorde agreement. Make f1 a sport, meaning the teams just have to deal with the conditions that are prescribed, which are equal for all - new team or eternal participant. They can leave if they don't like it.
Lower the participation fee to whatever is needed to keep the organisation running (if income from other sources does not suffice). Also here, fee is equal for all. Scrap all prize money for teams, when you win, your payout is that you can benefit from marketing popularity. Allow up to 15 teams. Here, there is preference for existing teams when full, but no blocking of new teams when there is room.
15 teams is not possible - not enough garages at a lot of circuits. Personally I think 12 is enough, but I agree they should not be able to block new entrants. Perhaps the pay out to teams is based on 12 teams regardless, so no financial incentive for them to block extra teams.
Agreed. 12 "real" teams feels like the sweet spot where there will be enough seats to consistently bring talent through from F2 without having so many teams that you end up with backmarkers that won't ever be able to score.
Although I do think they should allow points down to 12th place if another team gets on the grid.
The albour cost adjestments seem interesting, but frankly I'm not a huge fan of the budget cap at all. I really don't enjoy the penny pinching teams are forced to do these days. I think they should be able to homologate a new chassis and bring a total B-spec if they want to. The very least they should do is remove crash damage from the budget cap.