Originally Posted by Rodney McKay:
“Get rid of DRS, restrict the engines by 500 or 750rpm and allow the drivers access to those extra revs for say 45 seconds in a race. Stops all this DRS nonsense. Driver simply pushes a button to get the RPM when he wants it.”
Hmmm....
I suppose the main benefit of DRS is that it's "free" speed and, in this eco-friendly age, that's a noble idea.
Ideally, I'm not a fan of
any kind of artificially restricted doodad.
I'd rather that KERS, for example, was unrestricted.
Let teams decide, for themselves, how big a KERS battery they want to fit and when the extra weight creates a penalty greater than the benefit of a longer KERS boost.
I hope that the return of turbo's will, to some extent, create the situation you describe.
With turbo's it'll be up to teams to decide whether to run at lower boost and carry less fuel or run high boost for longer which causes them to carry a heavier fuel load.
I think the main thing that F1 needs is, somehow, to create the possibility that you'll have cars on widely varied strategies all on track together.
In the case of turbo's, for example, we might, hopefully, find that some teams realise their cars are much kinder to specific tyres at specific boost levels and, as a result, you'll get one car scampering off into the distance on the option tyres but then being forced to go slower on the prime tyre while another car, which is kinder to the prime tyre, can catch up by using more boost during their stint on the primes.