Alan Henry's view on where F1 should go

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456GT said:

Non-Championship races sound like a great idea. They could potentially become more popular than 'normal' races if the rules were relaxed, eg, less intensive FIA scrutineering, drivers loaned to other teams, local teams participating, trial new ideas (DRS can be used anywhere during the race, refueling), etc, etc.

There are so many ideas that people have for F1 but no-one will try them because they may potentially favour one group of teams over another and with the pressure of the WDC and WCC, no-one will take that risk. However, with non-Championship races the pressure is off and F1 can try something different.

The calendar is already quite full so I would suggest we turn some current races into non-WDC/WCC events.

Alternatively one thing I heard over the Monza weekend was having shorter races through the weekend.

Perhaps Friday could have a FP/Qualifying at 9am for 90 mins followed by a 20 lap sprint race for young/rookie drivers, and then have FP1 for the WC event in the afternoon.

Though as the teams were keen to REDUCE Friday running not increase it thats just a pie in the sky idea.

I think a 5 round non-championship series in Europe featuring rookie drivers would have legs, esp if as we are hearing there will only be 8 teams running up to 3 cars next season.

Teams could run 2 cars, lower grid ones could sell seats for finance and top teams run promising GP2, GP3, WSR drivers etc.

You could have a mini calendar such as:

Paul Ricard/Le Mans, Imola/Mugello/Misano, Jerez/Aragon, Estoril/Algarve, Donington and even some more wild card ones like Brno?

Well...we can dream!

[Likes Fast Cars]

Does the fact Alan Henry's article is published on the McLaren website mean McLaren would like to see these changes? Or am I just jumping to ridiculous conclusions?

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Likes Fast Cars said:

Does the fact Alan Henry's article is published on the McLaren website mean McLaren would like to see these changes? Or am I just jumping to ridiculous conclusions?

Nope, he's above all that and so are they. Nice to see Mo Hamilton get a bag of Segafredo goodies at Monza. I'm looking forward to asking him what was in the bag

[Likes Fast Cars]

Well McLaren are reputable unlike others

Yeah well Lewis should be a little happier now having notched up another win. Pity DR didn't win after all he is Italian .... but he did pull a great move on a few drivers especially his team-mate

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I'm glad I'm not the only one still thrown by Prime/Option, I utterly immerse myself in motorsport yet I still forget which of these is which.

And I fully agree with the ERS / DRS nonsense, Hybrid and Speedwing are perfectly acceptable alternatives which would make near-immediate sense to the casual viewer.