2022 Formula 1 Thread

[DLSTR]

Originally Posted by ZCanadian

Haters gonna hate. Doesn't matter who or why.

As for the FIA and F1M, all that matters is money.
This inquiry won't resolve anything, a few changes will be made and some people forced to throw themselves on their swords, but then it will be back to very much business as usual.

The only way to truly get better decision making would be to to delegate it to some very advanced AI and hope for the best. Very few humans would be able to take all of the factors into account, weigh them, and process and communicate an answer in the kinds of time constraints required. If they did hire someone (say a military commander - perhaps a combat seasoned warship captain), they teams would have him fired in a heartbeat because the "right" answer for the race would never be the "right" answer for at least half of the grid.

The first thing that I would suggest is that communication between teams and Race Control be one-way only (from the Stewards room outbound). The teams can fill in a form or something to point out an infraction, but they should never have been allowed to be in the ear of those directing the race, in real time. There needs to be a buffer in between. Either a person, a system, or time.

EDIT: Then, superficial rule changes (the kind we are likely to see as a result of this inquiry) are not the answer. The problem at Abu Dhabi wasn't that some of the cars got to un-lap themselves, or that Masse took initiative based on the spirit of the rule, but rather that the un-lapping rule exists in the first place. Same with red flag work on cars, and safety car pitting. None of these should be looked at in a vacuum. The rule book is already too thick, but a lot of it doesn't seem to make sense anymore.

Simple solutions are no tires/work on Safety Car - pitlane closed.
Safety Car - no unlapping. You got passed deal with it.
No calls to Stewards unless summoned. No interference with investigations. So you get called to state your case - all others shut it.

[danegrey]

Originally Posted by DLSTR

Simple solutions are no tires/work on Safety Car - pitlane closed.
Safety Car - no unlapping. You got passed deal with it.
No calls to Stewards unless summoned. No interference with investigations. So you get called to state your case - all others shut it.

That makes too much sense

[DLSTR]

Originally Posted by danegrey

That makes too much sense

Who says we cannot solve F1 problems LOL