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Originally Posted by Run Silent
I still struggle with this - but I am a serious Luddite when it comes to racing rules. If it were up to me, I would eliminate 99% of the rules in F1 and make it like it and the old IMSA days were, in which it was essentially a proving ground for new tech.
As such, any ideas to make the rules or points requirements more complicated cause a knee jerk reaction from me.
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^^^^ THIS
if it were up to me I'd mostly keep the current tub on the grounds that it prevents people getting killed, but otherwise reissue the 1978 rule book. Just imagine: it's practice 1, first weekend of the season, and one team shows up with six-wheeled cars...
40 or so years ago a spectator at a Players Series (Atlantics) race would be confronted with a starting grid filled by six or seven different manufactures with very distinct designs and anywhere from 12 to 18 different teams each with their own (mostly unregulated) ideas regarding aero pacs. The only thing common was the sort-of-spec Ford BDAs, usually from Brian Hart.
Champ cars were the same.
I can promise you that racing in those days was A LOT more interesting.
It was, unfortunately, also very dangerous.