Your F1 rules/regulations ideas

If a car is worked on during a red flag, (including tyre changing) they should be made to do a pitlane drive through in green flag conditions.

Remove long run offs and replace them with gravel/grass or something that would properly punish a driver for going off track and negate the need to delete lap times. Anything that helps the race director and team from having to make decisions is welcomed I think.

I think with all the modern tech, they could implements not just a limiter, but a real time system to keep the cars at the same distance at the point of the SC. Once the Gap is set correct release them all from the limiter at the same time?

Also as for the pits during SC, maybe give everyone a free pit and back to their positions, that way , cars that where juts coming in or cars that juts missed the pit entrance should benefit.

Therefore any SC should be 3 Laps minimum?

Also if SC in the last 4/5/6 laps then restart under safety car and extend the laps if required?? (Team need to keep a SC fuel reserve for this event just in case, or let them gamble???

Teams shouldn't be allowed to speak to race directors and the negotiations to get what they want need to stop.

Going further, to enhance racing, teams shouldn't be allowed talk to drivers either. Drivers should make the call on how hard to push the tyres and when to stop. Allow direct driver to driver comms between teammates to coordinate strategy between themselves.

There is enough data between telemetry and GPS traces to have perfect computer generated reproductions of incidents. These sometimes pop up on youtube after the fact. The FIA should invest in a system that creates reproductions with generic white cars, and stewards should automatically receive all incidents of contact and cars going off track to review, without knowing who the actual drivers are, to finally put to bed the way rules are applied differently to different teams.

In technical rather than sporting regulations, I'd bring back full manual gear boxes. I'd also move back towards much smaller and lighter V10 cars and drop the complex heavy hybrid systems that make the current cars a bit more like boats than racing cars at times.

Replace the sprint race format with something closer to the F2 reverse grid system, and keep it limited to a few races.

Drop the rule about starting on the Q2 tyre, there's just no reason for it, all it does is penalise midfield teams for getting into Q3 and remove strategy variation.

Personally I'd go back to the single lap format we had in the early 2000s for qualifying as it really put the pressure on drivers and there were no second chances for mistakes, though people seem to prefer the current format as there's more consistent action.

Instead of letting lapped cars unlap themselves, they should drop to the back of the safety car queue, this would be much quicker and simpler. Same goes for after a red flag, cars shouldn't be sent out to unlap themselves but should just stay at the back.

The VSC should last an exact number of full laps so it always ends with cars at pretty much the exact same location on track as where they started (if drivers are doing a prescribed laptime this should be achievable) to avoid situations where advantages are gained and lost because there was a VSC through the part of the lap that suited one car then not through the part of the lap that suited another.

Increase the penalty significantly for "tactical" engine changes, this is something that should only be a last resort in the case of reliability problems rather than something to be abused for a pace advantage. Something like a 10 place penalty for first extra engine, 20 place penalty for second engine etc with carry over from race to race if the penalty would put you lower than 20th. Reset the penalty if you suffer an actual in-race engine failure. In addition to a penalty, the new engine should be limited to the same power output as the one it replaced if it's technically possible to monitor that, similar to the rules around changing damaged parts or tyres in parc ferme.

Get rid of DRS. If next year's cars can follow in dirty air then it's not needed, and even if they struggle DRS overtakes do not constitute real racing and never have.

Sack Michael Masi and never let him near a decision making role again.

I think that teams should have the ability to talk to the race director but by no means should it be team principals. It should be a nominated person from the team. Toto today was a disgrace trying to tell him to not send out a safety Car. That’s not a team principals place to dictate that.

Michael massi needs to stop trying to be fair to all the teams, he’s the race director he’s not their friend.

as others have said there needs to be a way to track whether a car adheres to the limits, and it shouldn’t be debatable. It’s 2021 so the tech is there.

drivers should be penalised for things they do and teams should be penalised for stuff they do. This punishing the driver for something outside his control that’s the teams fault is pointless.

written communication only to the race director.

no pitting under safety car.

I'd love to see drs binned, just get rid of multi layer wings so cars can follow without losing as much down force. but appreciate it wont happen.

To avoid the confusion seen last time out. "10 Laps Remaining" Safety Car retired and the track run like a practice, qualifying session. Minor incident VSC until it sorts itself out, anything more significant Red Flag with one lap count back for restart grid and lapped cars proceed on parade laps, return to pitlane wait 10 seconds and go around again behind the rest so they don't have an unfair warm up advantage. Once the red flag is called marshals have up to 15 minutes to get the track ready for green light. If they can't then the race is deemed over.

Enforce the white line at the edge of the track please. doesnt matter who, doesnt matter where or when. You cross it in quali lap deleted. Do it more than 3 times in the race get a warning, do it more than 5 times black flag.

doesnt matter if its considered an advantage or not.

The biggest issue for me is time penalties. They are largely irrelevant and can be overcome far too easily.

Any incident in last 10-15 laps should be investigated after the race and carry a grid penalty at next race

Any incident prior to that should involve either a drive through or a 5/10 seconds stop/go

Ban the phrase 'let them race'. Horner used this phrase over and over anytime rules were broken or ignored.

Pole sitter should get to decide if pole is left or right. Far to many times the other side us the better position on track and has a better run to the first corner

Repeating some points already made but they definitely need to take a look at communication between team principals and the race director while the race is ongoing. There should be communication from race director to teams only with regard to decisions made by stewards or in-race penalties. Let the teams receive explanations after the race. Masi is under extreme pressure as it is without having babies like Horner and Wolff in his ear constantly.

I also think DRS should be binned. I don't think it makes racing exciting at all.

Also agree about runoffs. It is an easy out for drivers who can't make a turn or corner. It is an added problem when it happens because two cars are fighting for position leading in to the corner and stewards seem to have an issue with consistency in the application of rules and penalties as a result. The sport is over regulated with penalties as it is.