Hypotheticals: President YOU

[Many Blue Flags]

7) The drivers must join in their national anthem on the podium, regardless of how tired they are or how bad their singing is. Faliure to so so is -1pt.

What will Alonso do? Spanish anthem doesn't have words.

Castanets

[muttley]

That'd be a load of fun, Watka, but as Rosset's tale of the broken axles at Tyrell and Perry McCarthy's steering arm episodes tell us, teams will ignore the safety of drivers.

If F1 was completely deregulated, I'd imagine the teams would come up with cars, whilst having no single dangerous aspect, would possess a combination of ground effects, active suspensions, wheels as wide as tyres can be built for, and/or aerodynamic pieces that would enable them to corner so fast that drivers' necks would be ruined in a couple of seasons by the G-Force (and all the computer technology would mean any idiot could drive them, so crocking Hamilton wouldn't make a difference to the top teams). And we'd have drivers' strikes every two races until regulations were reintroduced.

That's because earthlings are puny, pathetic wussies. I'd support watka's requests, AND enforce the use of android drivers

[Socrates]

First thing I would do is re-decorate the FIA president's office with leather, pine and steerhorns. Think Maurice Minnifield (Northern Exposure..U.S. Television series) and you've got it. Or think stereo-typical Texas oil tycoon. I want the world to know an American's in there.

Second, I'd throw out the manufacturers. That means you, too, Ferrari. All teams would be privately owned. Manufacturers sell engines and that's it.

Third, I'd let the teams (sans manufacturers) decide their own friggin' rules.

Fourth, I'd fire all the race stewards and decide on-track infractions myself. I'd phone the decisions in, of course, while watching the race in my big cowhide and horn armchair and sipping some Glenmorangie.

[shinji]

First thing I would do is re-decorate the FIA president's office with leather, pine and steerhorns. Think Maurice Minnifield (Northern Exposure..U.S. Television series) and you've got it. Or think stereo-typical Texas oil tycoon. I want the world to know an American's in there.

Second, I'd throw out the manufacturers. That means you, too, Ferrari. All teams would be privately owned. Manufacturers sell engines and that's it.

Third, I'd let the teams (sans manufacturers) decide their own friggin' rules.

Fourth, I'd fire all the race stewards and decide on-track infractions myself. I'd phone the decisions in, of course, while watching the race in my big cowhide and horn armchair and sipping some Glenmorangie.

Intimidating.

[Waris]

I would:
1. Reinstate the entrance fee, but significantly lower than the $48million it used to be, so everyone can have a shot at Formula One again, and gets at least a chance to try and convince the world they're not total, er, rejects. (Of course, this will attract many rejects, which is good.)
2. Bring back pre-qualifying under the old system.
3. Modify the qualifying format slightly so that now ten cars will be eliminated after each qualifying session. No need to increase the duration of qualifying sessions! Lots of traffic, chaos and madness, causing mixed grids every race!
4. Allow engine manufacturers that have a works team to supply three other teams, and engine manufacturers that don't have a works team to supply a maximum of five teams. (McLaren-Mercedes doesn't count as a works team.)
5. Restrict the calendar to a maximum of 18 races per season, booting out all the races on boring tracks first, then all the non-traditional ones. Force at least 50% of the races to take place in Europe.
6. Ban all winglets, flaps etc. on the bodywork of the cars.
7. Commission a cheap KERS system to be designed that every team can choose to buy (or not) at a price that doesn't hurt their budget.
8. Allow manually adjustable front and rear wings.
9. Encourage teams to run colourful, non-boring, distinctive liveries.
10. I don't really know what to put here, but I didn't like to have 9 items in my list, so I put a tenth one. Oh wait, I just remembered, I can't leave Vanuatu off the calendar, of course. Commission someone other than Hermann Tilke to design a circuit around the volcano on Tanna, or if this is not feasible, the largest non-vulcanic mountain he can find. Also, allow only a maximum of 40% of tracks to be designed by Hermann Tilke.

As you can see, most of my - I'm just going to brag and call them "improvements" - improvements are geared mostly toward the small, independent team, which will make me "The People's President", and make me very popular among fans.

[LionZoo]

I would uhh... ask for a salary for FIA president because honestly I'm not in position to take an unpaid post.

Sad isn't it?

[CarlosFerreira]

I would uhh... ask for a salary for FIA president because honestly I'm not in position to take an unpaid post.

Sad isn't it?

Not really. You were the first to make sense so far.

[Ross Prawn]

I'd give Sebastian Loeb a superlicence.

[Jordan]

I'd give Sebastian Loeb a superlicence.

Any one to Valentino Rossi and one to Kyle Busch.

[Fitch]

Alot of what I'd do has been posted already...but.......


Engines. 3 liter Normally Aspirated or .5 liter Turbo Charged Both with Unlimited Revs. Turbo's will use a Common ECU which will permit unlimited Pressure during Qualifying, but will place a max on Race Pressure(Race Boost will still be adjustable though)

At LEAST 2 tire Brands.....Slicks, with a Special Super, Uber Sticky Qualifying Tire.

Single Plane Wings. No aerodynamic Attachments, ala Winglets. Wider Cars, Ground Effects, BUT NO SKIRTS.......and NOTHING can hang down under the car below the level of the Undertray.

No Active suspension, but TC and ABS are allowed......

FOM and CVC Are scrapped and an FIA led Formula 1 Commercial entity is created........

I'll add more later......

[Tealy]

I'd give Sebastian Loeb a superlicence.

Any one to Valentino Rossi and one to Kyle Busch.

Don't forget Yuji Ide

[AutoRacer5]

Make the cars fit a box X cm wide by Y cm long an Z cm tall.

That's the only rule in F1. That's it.

[shinji]

Make the cars fit a box X cm wide by Y cm long an Z cm tall.

That's the only rule in F1. That's it.

But then there'd be politicking about what size the box should be, and the size would change every year and people would complain about the lack of consistency, and there'd be loopholes that people build their cars out of compressable styrofoam or something.

It would all be the exact same.

[Jordan192]

Make the cars fit a box X cm wide by Y cm long an Z cm tall.

That's the only rule in F1. That's it.

People would die.

Lots of people would die.

[lostpin]

Make the cars fit a box X cm wide by Y cm long an Z cm tall.

That's the only rule in F1. That's it.

People would die.

Lots of people would die.

They won't, if they watch the show on TV...

[Salamander]

Well, the first order of business would be to get rid of these ridiculous rules that limit the amount of engines and gearboxes you have to use. I understand it's to do with cost-cutting, but surely that doesn't have to come at the expense of unpredictability?