No Upgrades Allowed
 

This is an idea and i think its a reasonable one.

The cars that the teams spend millions on building in the off season, should be the car they have to race with for the whole season.

So no upgrades once the season starts, this would end the whinging drivers always complaining saying "the car will be better, once we get the new aero package on it"

or as a compromise an upgrade window half way through the season, or something similar, ie, like the transfer window they have in football.

Discuss.

And if this happens, instead of Brawn winning the first 6 out of 7 races in 2009, they would have won over 15+ over the course of the season.

Do really you want to watch that?

^^^^What Koz said. If you don't allow upgrades then you just get a whitewash. One of the interesting things of F1 is watching teams try to catch up with the early pace setters, Brawn GP is a perfect example.

If such a rule were to be applied it would be the death of F1 and quite probably the worst thing that has ever happened to it, and there's been some bad ones!

horror

Taking in-season development out of F1 is like taking the goals out of football. It ruins the whole point of the sport, and it will essentially be not much different to any othe single seat series.

terrible idea, what everyone else said

+1

One of the worst ideas in the history of worst ideas http://www.motorsportforums.com/images/styles/World/icons/icon13.gif

That is the worst idea in the history of entertainment since Abraham Lincoln said, "I'm sick of kicking around the house all day, let's go take in a show." http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...ies/tongue.gif

Sorry Stuart, but in addition to the comments above your idea also wouldn't solve the problem of "teams spending millions". All that would happen is the budget would be used in other areas, or shifted to more R&D.

and any teams who turned up at the 1st race and got creamed would have no incentive to even bother for the rest of the year.

disastrous plan, sorry

Can I have the 47 seconds back that I took to read this idea please?

What others have said - the development race through the season is half the fun.

I can see this rule coming in though in the near future - from the same prats that brought us frozen engines and control tyres after all.

The obsession with cost-cutting will be the death of this sport (as a sport), it's most of the way there already.

Well they stopped engine development, which was stupid too.

Sorry, not a good idea.

Next...............

WT

At first glance I must admit that I didn't like the idea. But if you build upon it - by say - mandating that the drivers have to drive for a different team every race - the idea starts to show some merit. Add to that, by replacing points with medals (who could ever understand those numbers anyway) and throw in some random rain and snow storms and you've got a definate winner!

I'm pretty sure that that would get us back pretty close to the original ideal of Formula 1 racing.

I would really like to know what you have been smoking. http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...lies/smile.gif

the same as Bernie and Stuart, clearly.

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People have spoken. Your idea was met with the kind of contempt it so throughly deserved.

Wonderful ideas. I would also add this idea - Dump qualifying, Starting grid for the race should be made by picking numbers from hat, it would add the kind of spice to the show that us real racing fans have been wanting for for so long.