F1 Championship, a fight to the end ?

[diffuser]

Is there something wrong with the way the championship is setup that with 2 months to go in the season and more than 1/3 of the races to go that most teams have given up on winning the championship?

What could be done to keep teams competing till the end?

[Lycoming]

None of the teams have "Given up" on winning the championship... at least, not those who mathematically still have a chance. They're all still trying to achieve the best possible position at every race. They aren't like "yea whatever" and just cruising around. If their attitude dissapoints you, they're just being realistic. In any case, next year is a set of major rule changes and its a shrewd move to shift your efforts to next year when this year is practically decided.

Vettel/Red Bull building up a large lead so long before the end of the championship is just the way the cookie crumbles. There's nothing wrong with it. If you want to keep the racing close, either introduce a spec series or levy performance penalties (air restrictors, ballast, fuel tank size limitations, etc.) to artificially balance the field and keep it close.

But if you don't like the idea of either of those, then you'll just have to accept that the championship fight won't always go to the final lap of the season.

[hollus]

This "boring" end of the season, the second in three years, is the stuff fans will be talking about in awe in 20-30 years time.
Aren't those red and white cars that won all but 1 race back in the 80s? How they came that close to perfection?
In 2040 we'll be talking in awe at the blue car and his driver that won 9 races in a row (or almost?).
Record seasons are record seasons, they look a bit like this. Has anyone ever gotten more than 80% of the points available?

[SectorOne]

This "boring" end of the season, the second in three years, is the stuff fans will be talking about in awe in 20-30 years time.
Aren't those red and white cars that won all but 1 race back in the 80s? How they came that close to perfection?
In 2040 we'll be talking in awe at the blue car and his driver that won 9 races in a row (or almost?).
Record seasons are record seasons, they look a bit like this. Has anyone ever gotten more than 80% of the points available?

The Red and White era was talked about not really because of how dominant the car was but because they had two world champions with equal machinery.
It did not matter that the car was dominant, the entertainment came from Senna and Prost in equal machinery.

Red Bull´s era is the same as Ferrari´s. Boring boring boring.

[diffuser]

Yeah, I was thinking like some kind of shoot off where only the top 5 teams make it into the last 5 races and the points are reset to 0.