They could do with focusing on shrinking the cars. Saw something with a ~2004 car was a 2024 car and the older is downright dwarfed. While there's definitely aero to mitigate and allow cars to follow each other, would also help if there was more room than 1.5 car widths in a corner.
I've seen a graphic comparing F1 car sizes over the years. What really shocked me though was finding out a current F1 car is bigger than a WEC Hypercar. I wasn't expecting that.
WEC Hypercar/LMP1 cars are *tiny*, you kinda forget how small they actually are until you see one overtaking a gt3 car... especially considering they're still technically 2-seaters F1 cars in comparison are way larger than you'd think.
Allowing Andretti would allow GM could provide them with Engines. Seems FIA is reluctant to go back to 2004 size due to the size of the safety cell. A lot of the weight reduction limits don't feel like they go far enough tbh. They should cut the min weight right down and open the engine rules to allow anything with 4-10 cylinders. Let the teams decide if the extra weight pursing max power from the engine is worth it vs going with a smaller engine or battery.
So more like WEC... where iirc it's essentially - You can have x many BHPs, how you get them is largely up to you.
Renault/lotus/Renault/alpine/enstone team just stumble from one calamity to another, and if they're not even going to do the engines, might as well cut their losses and sell up to someone desperate to get on the grid.
Alpine as a car brand being about as real as Rich Energy certainly doesn't help their cause either... Got to agree with the general sentiment of "just pack up and sell the grird slot to Andretti".
I mean Alpine make *a* car... and you can [or could] actually buy it... so it's more real than Rich is/was in that regard....
Alpine make two cars now, keep up at the back A290 - 100% electric sporty city car - Alpine (alpine-cars.co.uk)
The Alpine A110 is a very good car, if I could afford one as a second car, I would buy one. Alpine made their name in rallying, with the original A110.
They might not be a storied F1 team, but they're certainly a performance brand with just as much place on the grid as someone like Audi.
Power and speed does not equal fun, if they manage to get some feel and interactivity in there it'd be a start, every EV I've driven is dull despite ballistic missile speeds, I'd rather drive my slow ass Abarth or MX5, though my mx5 is >240bhp/ton, slow ass is a bit of an unfair moniker
I know RB want a "safe" driver, but it's asking a bit much of Verstappen to win them the constructor's alone this season... Plus Perez crashes a lot more than I'd expect a safe bet to.
The Yoovidhya family is (allegedly) keen that the F1 team be less of a money pit than it was through the 2010s. Obviously the cost cap helps but Checo's legendary merch sales and the Telmex money can't be hurting either. Besides he's perfect for Red Bull, they run a one car team, he doesn't complain about it.
What other mediocre driver that also brings in money is willing to put up with the way they treat their number 2 like for example instructing him to get an avoidable penalty just to benefit Max?
