Chase Carey: "F1 fans must accept some changes"

If we're allowed to make a wish, I would like to see the drivers championship become one where the best driver wins, not the guy who happens to be in the best car.

Have the FIA sign the top 20 drivers in the world (no more pay-drivers). 20 cars on the grid, each driver drives each car once. Best driver wins (and best car wins the constructors).

FREGUZ, you hit it right on the nose! Why doesn't anyone see these simple facts that will make the racing more exciting.

7 x YES. This is what all the motor racing fans want but Liberty don’t seem to take notice. Get it right with these changes and fan base will increase immensely then they can tinker with ‘the show’ or perhaps won’t need to. This is what will engage the public. “I wish sometimes an underdog would win”. Pirelli hot laps, grid kids, social media won’t help the underdogs. Equal returns from the pot for each team - no point having 6 cars on the grid- plus a small bonus to winner and more to the teams than Liberty’s coffers. They don’t have an income if most of the teams pack up. Car park racing is boring, get rid of those circuits.

-I could agree about removing DRS, IF we replace aero grip with mechanical grip. And only then. As it stands however, DRS was great in 2017.
-Hell no to natural track limits. I get that it sounds cooler, and I get the "you're out, you're done" concept, but it doesnt work for F1. The cars are too expensive and too fragile for that to be realistic.
-Replace better full wet tyres with better tyres overall. We need Pirelli to produce better tyres, and we need Liberty to revert from the current regulations to tyres that can actually be raced on.
-Most tracks actually have decent drainage, but the tracks that doesnt (Monza comes to mind) certainly need to fix that.

I've added a few points of my own:
-More allocations. I get the whole eco-friendly thing. But 3 units for an entire year wont cut it if we want fun racing.
-If we are to have 3 or fewer allocations, give drivers involved in racing incidents a free allocation if their PU is beyond repair. If a driver is hit by another, e.g Alonso during Singapore last year, they could very well end up not only retiring from one race, but has to take grid penalties the next. That, in my opinion, isnt okay, and needs to be adressed. Drivers responsible for incidents shouldnt have the same luxury.
-A controversial point: some kind of Balance of Performance might be sound. We cant have a supplier this dominant as Mercedes is. I understand it harms the leader, but I think it could be done in a way that helps those falling back without actually harming them.

There is not such thing as mechanical grip in F1 ;)

Ok. There is but it is basically friction coefficient that is nearly entirely decided by tyre compound and tyre temperature effect to the compound.

Friction coefficient is multiplied by normal force applied to the contact surface. That means force directly towards down affects how much friction is available. The force down is dominated by aerodynamic downforce. Minor extra component is suspension generated forced towards ground depending on how bumpy surface is. The suspension effect has greater share on slow speeds than high speeds.

Now the issue with current aero dynamic regulations is that teams generate very turbulent/draggy downforce that makes it very hard to follow cars close.

Improved aero regulations would ban any aero elements that generate rotating vortexes around car. To mitigate downforce lose from lost vortexes we could keep downforce levels near same with car body works changes that vortex controlled air flow areas with smooth surface controlled air flows. Current vortex controlled air flows are at least include air flow around open wheels and air flow around sides of floor.

Changing the payments so that smaller teams get more cash compared to earlier and Ferrari doesnt get as overpaid isnt a good change?

Sell it back to Bernie, he was imperfect but at least he had the heart into it.

Imperfect as in completely incompetent these last years... Lest you like the thought of him milking more historic venues dry?

Still better than seeing it as a cow to milk dry. Looking at you, Bernie.