Simple idea to make a dull runaway F1 season more fun?

[mattikake]

If a driver wins the WDC with races to in hand, he has to start at the back of the grid.

Maybe even if there is a runaway winner, it will give the fans some extra excitement to hope they do clean up with several races to go? Keep quali unaltered by offering a bonus point for pole up for grabs for the WDC winner.

How could you get a message to Lewis to start at the back, presumably/hopefully for the last 3 races? That would be fun.

[mattikake]

ukaskew said:

A driver at Castle Combe did this 'for fun' because his car was so much quicker than everything else. It was brilliant (presumably for him, as well).

Sadly, for all the reasons listed by others, this will never happen in F1.

If it's merely just sponsorship and prize money, that can be changed by regulation. E.g. prize money and sponsorship cash earned by places gained not points. (Hmm a whole race season were points are awarded for places gained and quali determines that fastest line up in reverse order that they may gain those places? Now that is a championship even my mum would watch.)

They said tyres that fall apart deliberately would never happen. Sprint races would never happen and now may well do so. This is our world - we can set any rule we choose...

Edited by mattikake on Tuesday 20th October 23:04

[mattikake]

rohrl said:

Start half the grid going clockwise and the other half anticlockwise.

You want this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-TbSh6s18

[mattikake]

ukaskew said:

mattikake said:

If it's merely just sponsorship and prize money, that can be changed by regulation. E.g. prize money and sponsorship cash earned by places gained not points. (Hmm a whole race season were points are awarded for places gained and quali determines that fastest line up in reverse order that they may gain those places? Now that is a championship even my mum would watch.)

Sounds fun, but it would be impossible (rather than very unlikely) for the slowest team to get any points. Plus you would no doubt get teams trying to 'game' the system in all manner of ways if you think about it, as not only do the slower cars have a lot more say in how the race unfolds (and as we know, smaller teams are generally linked to the bigger ones in some way), and qualifying is opened up to all sorts of abuse if you can just slow down a bit to try and get a certain grid position.

Abuse of rules in F1? Never!

That's true. Well maybe you could award points for the top 10, but only say 10 down to 1 (pole to 1st would get you 30 points). Smaller teams only get points when there are retirements or an unusually messed up race anyway. Even so manipulate the grid so your faster qualifying driver overtakes the slower on the last lap - 1 point. At least everyone should be able to score. Sponsorship is about TV coverage ultimately and what do the smaller teams get at the moment? Points are just about making sure the fastest, best, most consistent driver wins over a season and this would be no different. But anyway, this is just silly digression on an aside.