I need help choosing an essay topic!

[twing]

Not sure 5000 words would be enough but the battle between traditional fuels, EV's and public transport concentrating on the influence of the major oil prudcing countries. Read Ben Elton's "Gridlodlock" for some inspiration. I read it as a kid and it still comes back to me whenever I hear an EV debate.

[Sensibleboy]

What about the world of boy racers and the car culture / anti car culture in the UK.

[pigeyman]

Prostitution.

[speedking31]

The move to automated law enforcement.
Speed cameras. Yellow box junction cameras. Development of mobile phone cameras. Imagine future developments like tyre tread depth detectors in the road.

VED transgressions by examining a database. Automated MOTs. Insurance databases, etc.

[Freya.greaves]

I need help on choosing a topic, I narrowed it down to these but any suggestions are welcome:
1. Should Formula 1 rules be changed in 2022?
2. How have the rules and regulations changed throughout the history of Formula 1?
3. Is the heritage of Ferrari disappearing in the modern era?

[sherman]

Freya.greaves said:

I need help on choosing a topic, I narrowed it down to these but any suggestions are welcome:
1. Should Formula 1 rules be changed in 2022?
2. How have the rules and regulations changed throughout the history of Formula 1?
3. Is the heritage of Ferrari disappearing in the modern era?

1. Pointless topic. There are new cars and regs coming for 2022 already

2. Probably the topic to go for.
Possible look how these have caused tech to filter down to road cars too.

3. Could be interesting

Edited by sherman on Wednesday 30th June 18:12

[anonymous-user]

Freya.greaves said:

I need help on choosing a topic, I narrowed it down to these but any suggestions are welcome:
1. Should Formula 1 rules be changed in 2022?
2. How have the rules and regulations changed throughout the history of Formula 1?
3. Is the heritage of Ferrari disappearing in the modern era?

1. As above, they are already changing. If you’re arguing whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing , you need to know why they are changing and what are the perceived benefits.

2. I think this will be very dry. It would end up as little more than a chronological list with little reasoning and just opinion, unless you could argue which rules or regulations were flawed and why. To condense 70 years of rule and regulation changes into 5000 words is impossible

3. This could be good, you’d have to argue the size and stature of Ferrari at its peak (60s/70s, F1 and 250LM and endurance success, 365 Daytona road car, every film star had one etc), then why it’s waned (F1 70s, stuck with flat 12 when DFV was better all round), when it got better (Schumacher era), then it waned and now.... they last won the title on 2007.... don’t look like winning for a while either...

[Alexandra]

Freya.greaves said:

I need help on choosing a topic, I narrowed it down to these but any suggestions are welcome:
1. Should Formula 1 rules be changed in 2022?
2. How have the rules and regulations changed throughout the history of Formula 1?
3. Is the heritage of Ferrari disappearing in the modern era?

1 and 3 are subjective, so from an academic perspective you'll find it more difficult to find quality research.

[Freya.greaves]

I was actually thinking about focusing my topic on:
‘Is Lewis Hamilton the best formula 1 driver in history?’
But I don’t want to make it biased or seem like facts
If anyone thinks of any alternative topics either f1, car related, or law related that would be great!

[Macron]

The difference between law, and rule, in F1, and who determines which is which, and the consequences of breaking either, would be interesting.

Might need more than 5k words though...

Why did you delete the first post BTW?

[Freya.greaves]

Thankyou! I didn’t mean to delete the first post btw

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

if law related I'd look at how the FIA have policed regulations or transgressions by teams or drivers v their own rules. Are they bent to facilitate the right outcome? eg Spygate, Ferrari barge boards.

[Brooksay]

twing said:

Not sure 5000 words would be enough but the battle between traditional fuels, EV's and public transport concentrating on the influence of the major oil prudcing countries. Read Ben Elton's "Gridlodlock" for some inspiration. I read it as a kid and it still comes back to me whenever I hear an EV debate.

It's funny you should say that because whenever I read about Bezos/Musk/Branson and their race to space it always makes me think of Elton's 1st book 'Stark'.

[Freya.greaves]

I’m stuck between
1. How the FIA have changed the rules within f1 and whether they have benefitted the sport
2. Is the heritage of Ferrari disappearing in the modern era?
3.Is Lewis Hamilton the most successful driver in the history of f1?

[TheLuke]

Freya.greaves said:

I’m stuck between
1. How the FIA have changed the rules within f1 and whether they have benefitted the sport
2. Is the heritage of Ferrari disappearing in the modern era?
3.Is Lewis Hamilton the most successful driver in the history of f1?

I would suggest a small change to 3.

I think it should be "Is Lewis Hamilton the best driver in the history of Formula 1?

My reasoning for that is because with the wording you used before "successful" it funnels your path of analysis down to only results. It is effectively asking you to judge success, which may not be a bad idea given its only 5000 words. But if you want to open it up a bit I would suggest the use of best, that way you can compare not only results but his his raw pace, success vs peers, public and inter-sport opinions of his career and even have a discussion around what it means to be the "best", does someone's influence in changing the sport for the better trump results for example?. It gives you much more options to analyse him.

Just my 2p.

Edited by TheLuke on Monday 5th July 15:58

[Freya.greaves]

Thankyou!