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If you can run a race with less fuel than everyone else, then you'll start the race lighter than everyone else. That's an advantage in itself.
Put hurdles on the track when the cars go out. That will make it extra exciting.Quote:
Originally Posted by aki13
Hum... That isn't a bad idea...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
So... Schumacher's sperm with Danica Patrick's egg?
Raised on a strict diet of Red Bull and Spinach with a dash of champagne and a pack of Marlboro a day?? :eek:
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Originally Posted by Garry Walker
How dare you attempt to flame an idea because of its dumbness. We are talking about F1 here. The home of the grooved tyre and the DRS. ;)
Giving points for carrying extra weight:
Is under total control of team strategists.
Is tactically unknown to spectators and leaves everyone guessing.
Rewards excellence in engine, brake and fuel management.
Would serve to compress the field.
Sponsors receive increased exposure when cars throughout the order are racing closer together.
I don't think we'd be talking about dozens of points, maybe maximum 4 or 8 per driver per race. It gets really interesting when one driver realises that they can finish 6th and earn more points than the driver who finishes 5th...
Its just an idea... :)
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Originally Posted by Whyzars
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong...
Good idea, but points must be decided on the checkered flag, it doesn't seem to be easy at the end of the race stewards have to measure how much fuel left in the tank. I think better to let teams decide themselves how much fuel loaded in the tank, cars with lesser fuel load are benefited from running the car less weight, but the consequence if they do wrong math or something wrong occurred during the race it may risk them running out of fuel. I can't remember exactly, Button has experienced this, ran out of fuel in the last corner on BAR Honda.
I hear you Ground Control. The 6th place driver could never be certain of the fuel load in other cars and the points they will be earning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koz
Weight handicaps have no place in F1 but teams strategising with fuel weight to earn extra championship points could bring some positives. The computers know with accuracy how much fuel remains in the tank so the final points would be known very quickly and the podium would always be first past the post.
I protest that this is the dumbest idea ever on this board. This must be second behind "F1 coupe's" surely. :)
Great!Quote:
Originally Posted by Whyzars
So we'll see an epic race where Alonso pips Vettel to the finish in a thrilling duel only to find out minutes after the race that actually Vettel was on a fuelsaving run and gets more points than Alonso.
That sounds about as much fun as having drivers lose places and points after the race thanks to stewards investigations and penalties except that it'll happen at every race.
No it won't. Quite the opposite in fact. Whats there to stop HRT from having several hundred kilos of fuel more than everyone else so they can guarantee themselves a points haul at every race? How much slower are the heavily loaded cars going to be compared to cars that are just going to go for it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Whyzars
Why not give extra points to the best fancy dress driver outfit in the race? Would be far more logical than this idea.
That is more likely to happen today with current fuel management but we don't know because a car going slow at the end of the race is blamed on tyres or similar. I would be surprised if that happened under a fuel loaded system because Vettel would have sufficient fuel to turn up the wick and defend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dylan H
If a fuel tanker with wings can qualify within 107% then a team could take that approach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dylan H
For arguments sake, if HRT did that then Lotus, Virgin etc. would respond in kind and so on up the line. I believe this will serve to compress the field. 24 lumbering walruses would definitely be a compressed field.
:)
Assuming the teams are sensible, a runaway leader would likely choose to ease off on their charge and keep his car vulnerable to a small spin to earn the extra bonus points. The teams will be in complete control and make their fuel load decision based on their speed, qualifying position and position in the championship.
Obviously the bonus points should not be so great that they turn F1 into an economy series but they would be sufficient to be important over the whole of a series. The team that runs the best package - engine, brakes, fuel management wins the championship - and not a DRS in sight.