2022 Regulations, Did it deliver on its promise?

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Due to the nature of the changes, it's just going to take time. Red Bull aren't going to ve affected until the end of this season and beginning of 24.

If they brought in success ballast on a race by race basis to achieve your desired time deltas between the teams it would probably take away and stunt development... ie what is the point of developing the fastest car if its just going to be immediately knobbled... and I think that would also take away a lot of appeal for the manufacturers. I think the element of doing a better job than the others and not getting immediately equalised has to remain.

If that is not what you are thinking... what else could be done that isn't so acutely contrived and wouldn't devalue the sport?

I'm fine with it as it is, maybe it helps that I'm not a fan of any particular team. We are only 1 race in, so I'm not yet fully convinced that Red Bull are as dominant as they first appear to be.

Applying ballast to the winning car has been tried before. I vaguely remember it was used in F2 not too long ago. I personally do not like the concept as it is artificial and punishes success rather than reward it. I thought the point of the new chassis and its control sections of it was to ensure that the performance of the competing cars was not too broad such as to produce vast gaps in performance at any part of the grid. It is fair to say that there would always be at least two tiers to the grid due to financial effect and inherent technical capabilities of the top teams. But the regulated chassis should ensure the performances in each tier are always very close. I think they could reign in more sections of the chassis to bring about closer racing. There is clear enough flexibility in the chassis to allow one team to dominate in such a way as to remove any real hard-fought competition for the title. But to be fair, l agree that we should see a few more races before any criticism is made.

I think the idea of the reverse grid from F2 may help mix things up a bit and give midfield teams a chance to win races. If the race was split into two, with the point-scoring positions reversed for the second race. Or something of that nature.