I think the success of features based on calculated track position - like DRS and the Virtual Safety Car - proves that the time has come for Mario Kart style power-up cubes. Project them onto AR displays in the drivers’ helmets, and show them on the TV feeds.

• Mushroom allows the driver to cut corners and speed over track limits.
• Squid ink appears in the field of view of all other drivers’ visors.
• Verstappen gets blue-shelled and all his power cuts out until he’s stationary!
• etc.

Call me crazy, but I think in 10 years time you’ll be looking back on this post as prescient.

Make them switch directions every year.

Like to clockwise around Monaco one year, but counter clockwise on the same track the next.

Replace the sprints (and Monaco) with some kind of drivers exhibition.

Have them all race in the same car, a car that can be rented at that track. B that way fans can go to the track on track days rent they same car and see how they stack up.

This is a win in so many ways.

We get to see who the best drivers really are. It gets rid of stupid sprints. The track gets off season attention and money. Fan interaction, and so on.

Make the cars lighter and smaller.

I just want it to be competitive between teams. I’m sick of a single driver or team winning every single race all year. It happened with Lewis and now max, and since I don’t care about drivers racing for 10th, it ruins the racing for me.

Reverse-DRS. Every driver who is more than 1 second behind another driver gets DRS to catch up but then they have to work hard for the overtake.

It’s probably nonsense but I’d love to try it out in a handful of races.

The running of a sport like a business. I don’t want authoritarian regimes sportswashing their crimes by paying for a big race. I don’t want rights-holders playing with formats and locations in order to promote their brand for a new target audience. I don’t want to have to pay through the nose to watch my favourite sport because a rich corp bought up the broadcasting rights.

I despise the very concept of sponsors and advertising, but I can at least acknowledge that it pays the bills for my best boys to race their colourful cars. All the rest can fuck right off!

Make them do the first lap on foot.

Run one race a year for the unwashed masses. Tickets are cheap and by lottery. Infield camping. No generators. No luxury booths. No RVs. Tents only. No re-entry. First year at Watkins Glen.

Might not be a popular change but I would like to see less races. Feels like there are way too many and some of the newer street courses aren’t that great. One of the reasons I follow IMSA more than F1 is that there were only 11 races last year. For me that made each race weekend something to look forward to.

No changing tires during a red flag.

I was tempted to say no working on the car AT ALL during a red but I’ll settle for just the tires.

Edit: for clarification, a red flag for an accident. Obviously a red for weather is a different situation.

Sprinklers!

Set to turn on at a random lap number for a random amount of time.