Personally I would love to watch a formula that said:-
1. here are the crash tests you have to pass.
2. here are the tracks you will race on.
3. your budget is 40-50-60-whatever million.
4. you can only patent stuff that goes into production cars (in some form) within say 3 years (to guarantee trickldown).
5. now piss off until next year and come back with something mindblowing.
6. before you get any ideas at the back, yes, you D.Dastardly, it is still a non-contact formula.
May well have it’s flaws but surely the easiest way to legislate something is to keep it simple, if you can do anything, then it cannot break the rules.
let’s have some cars that have 6 wheels and a bloody great fan again, super stringent crash tests to keep it safe(ish) possibly related to top straight line speed (slower cars can be lighter=better cornering)
BUGGER IT, IT’S GETTING COMPLICATED AGAIN!
Right, rule 7. is that there are only 7 rules.
Done, anyone in?