Ridiculous F1 ideas

[Pentoman]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 26 February 2020 at 11:34

[e440304]

Some good ideas there, here are mine:

1) Drivers have to do the tyre changes themselves without help
2) All teams have a third driverless car that is radio controlled by a small child
3) Button on the steering wheel causes the wheels to fall off the car in front, but with a 10% chance of affecting your car instead
4) Following retirement due to mechanical failure, driver must continue by bicycle
5) Last year's winning team has to drive the opposite way around the circuit

[cheddar]

Overtaking.

[glazbagun]

Painted squares off the racing line with a question mark on each. Will give you either an extra fuel-flow allowance to be used within three laps, a three corner overtaking priority where you can recklessly dive up the inside and the other driver must yield or a ten twenty second loss of kers for the car immediately in front of you.

Red shells, green shells.

cars are allowed to burn off excess fuel (and thus weight) via a flamethrower in the exhaust.

[thegreenhell]

• The drivers are contracted to the FIA rather than individual teams, and have to drive each car twice during the season (assuming 10 teams and 20 races).

• Mid-race refuelling brought back, except they have to pull in to an actual petrol station at the end of the pitlane to refuel themselves and then pay. There's no pay-at-pump and there's only one cashier. Drivers may also buy some Pringles or a copy of Razzle whle they're there.

• British GP moved to Cadwell Park.

[Zad]

Half a dozen JATO pack rockets strapped to the car to be used at strategic points.
Audience activation for aforementioned JATO packs, with no driver warning.
Overhead power pick-up via a nice sparky wire, fairground bumper-car stylee.
Slowest car gets to have Bernie shag their SWMBO.

[Asterix]

City race in Bombay, 1 lap of a 2km circuit - nope, no one will tell the rest of Bombay.., this will still just make the 1.5hr cut off if we're lucky.

[dudleybloke]

F1 and moto gp at the same time. Cars clockwise, bikes anticlockwise.
Land mines.
Compulsory PCP use.
Winner stops on. (Put your 50p on the pit wall.

[BritishRacinGrin]

-Buttons on the steering wheel allowing the drivers to use a temporary power boost
-Double points at the last round or three
-Standing re-starts after safety car periods
-Lapped drivers to un-lap themselves during safety car periods
-Tyres which disintegrate and explode randomly

Am I doing it right?

I'm pleased to note that four of these ridiculous F1 ideas have been ruled out for 2015 and 'push to pass' is less of a bother for me because the cars now have more electrical assistance more of the time.

[RonJohnson]

cheddar said:

Overtaking.

There's no place for such radical suggestions in F1.

[The Hypno-Toad]

dudleybloke said:

F1 and moto gp at the same time. Cars clockwise, bikes anticlockwise.
Land mines.
Compulsory PCP use.
Winner stops on. (Put your 50p on the pit wall.

Loving your work but why are you making the drivers buy their own cars on finance?

[williamp]

All engines to be 1.5 litres, with 16 cylinders. The confighration (v,h,straight) is up to them.

Sparks. Lots if them

sprinklers on the track

Each cars DRS to power proper stereo system with amps, disco lights etc

[williamp]

All engines to be 1.5 litres, with 16 cylinders. The confighration (v,h,straight) is up to them.

Sparks. Lots if them

sprinklers on the track

Each cars DRS to power proper stereo system with amps, disco lights etc

[MrRee145]

Caravans every car has to tow a caravan, the winner of the race is the one with their caravan most intact by the end of a set number of laps. Winner of the previous race has to have a heavier 2 axle body in the next race.

[p1stonhead]

Everyone having identical cars made by one company, all cars laid out on the grid and a 100m sprint le mans start to see who is quick enough to jump into the pole position car.

[Silverbullet767]

Cars only have enough fuel for half the race, the other half will be run in a flintstones style with a hole in the floor.
Sprinklers activate randomly around the circuit.
Panto horses to join the race when action slows a little.
Safety car replaced with a safety helicopter.
Mandatory section of the track to be upside down to prove the driving on the ceiling theory.
Sidepod mounted oil cannons.

[andy-xr]

You can either use it as a spike, or add another wheel to it for improved cornering speed/grip

Edited by andy-xr on Tuesday 10th March 11:04

[furtive]

Figure-8 circuits with crossovers

[Oz83]

The cars should have to drive on the ceiling in the Monaco tunnel. Actually there should be an upside-down section on every track (just to dispel the myth).

[anonymous-user]

Pentoman said:

Has anyone else noticed how some motorsports are now interviewing the drivers mid-race? When I was younger I remember first seeing it on the Bathurst race on TV. Using the pit radio they conducted a nice short interview.

And it made me think about the things that are done to improve the sport for the viewer.

In F1 they have talked about this more and more - DRS, lower cockpits so you can see the drivers, double points at the end, and so on.

But is that enough? Could things go further? Here are some things I would like to see to improve the spectacle:

1 No helmets. At all. See the drivers faces and the wind in the hair.
2 Bikini contest featuring the driver's girlfriends or wives
3 Jumps
4 Halfway through the race, every car stops, and the drivers all have an argument
5 Everyone drives identical 1.2-litre VW Polos

I'm sure there's mileage in these ideas. Do you think we can get Bernie to adopt them? I'm going to see what I can do. Wish me luck.

Is that you, Bernie?