No Upgrades Allowed

[Stuartf12007]

This is an idea and i think its a reasonable one.

The cars that the teams spend millions on building in the off season, should be the car they have to race with for the whole season.

So no upgrades once the season starts, this would end the whinging drivers always complaining saying "the car will be better, once we get the new aero package on it"

or as a compromise an upgrade window half way through the season, or something similar, ie, like the transfer window they have in football.

Discuss.

[Koz]

This is an idea and i think its a reasonable one.

The cars that the teams spend millions on building in the off season, should be the car they have to race with for the whole season.

So no upgrades once the season starts, this would end the whinging drivers always complaining saying "the car will be better, once we get the new aero package on it"

And if this happens, instead of Brawn winning the first 6 out of 7 races in 2009, they would have won over 15+ over the course of the season.

Do really you want to watch that?

[MrJan]

^^^^What Koz said. If you don't allow upgrades then you just get a whitewash. One of the interesting things of F1 is watching teams try to catch up with the early pace setters, Brawn GP is a perfect example.

[Mark]

If such a rule were to be applied it would be the death of F1 and quite probably the worst thing that has ever happened to it, and there's been some bad ones!

[Big Ben]

horror

[UltimateDanGTR]

Taking in-season development out of F1 is like taking the goals out of football. It ruins the whole point of the sport, and it will essentially be not much different to any othe single seat series.

[truefan72]

terrible idea, what everyone else said

[Tazio]

+1

[555-04Q2]

This is an idea and i think its a reasonable one.

The cars that the teams spend millions on building in the off season, should be the car they have to race with for the whole season.

So no upgrades once the season starts, this would end the whinging drivers always complaining saying "the car will be better, once we get the new aero package on it"

or as a compromise an upgrade window half way through the season, or something similar, ie, like the transfer window they have in football.

Discuss.

One of the worst ideas in the history of worst ideas

[Dave B]

That is the worst idea in the history of entertainment since Abraham Lincoln said, "I'm sick of kicking around the house all day, let's go take in a show."

Sorry Stuart, but in addition to the comments above your idea also wouldn't solve the problem of "teams spending millions". All that would happen is the budget would be used in other areas, or shifted to more R&D.