I think it's all just totally unneccesary gimmicks.
We're changing into new car design, new wheel sizes and as such new tires.
let's sit that out and see what it brings.
If anything, 2020 showed that it's in big part due to the tracks. Tracks that F1 had not recently been racing at and have not been turned into bleak, grey tilkedomes proved to be exciting.
Tilke has turned F1 into scalectrix tracks, this is more killing than anything for the sport.
the new aero is meant to be able to follow cars better, which should improve overtaking. Then why implement new formats too?
First work out one thing, then see if you should concider with another.
One thing that would do more wonders in overtaking is making the cars shorter and narrowing the front wings and beefing up suspension a bit, perhaps make mandatory suspension rigidity.
F1's cars are so big that it's like finding a parking spaces with full size US trucks in tiny italian parking spots. You can only go so far in making the tracks bigger, they even went with runoff areas. The correct solution is making cars smaller and lighter again. That way, there is going to be JUST enough space to slip your car in between, instead of having to bail because there's no way.
With the front wings smaller, drivers also can take more 'risk' in getting a position. Right now, it's just too easy to touch your oppenent's tire and see them career off and yourself without important aero and as such lose out.
Also the fact F1 is nearly a spec series is killing the sport gradually. It's like those lanes in speedways where you have speed limits that are enforced by camera's from start to end.
Everybody will keep it right at the speed limit, but thanks to that, there is almost no difference in between and it's annoying to switch lanes or get from the outer lane to the inner lane to find the exit ramp and nobody is willing to budge.
the rules have put F1 cars in this similarity, where it's all the same and its a parade instead of a competition.
Now that budget cielings have been introduced, and a new design format, it's time to give back some stuff that has been taken and bring back 'variety'.
If anything, FIA should introduce a rule where all cars, just like they get mandatory crash testing, should be placed in a FIA windtunnel, where the WAKE of the car is measured.
If the turbulance of the car's Wake is above a certain point, the car does NOT get approved. If that is within acceptable margins,
then open up a bunch of rules to introduce freedom for teams to invent or implement 'gadgets' if you wish.
there's a budget cieling anyway, so it won't be unfair for small teams vs big teams.
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