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Having been on the design end and the racing end of such open wheel, single seaters, the topic of what would make the best Formula 1 ruleset came up quite often. A friend of mine came up with, what I think, are the best rules:
1. Here are your tires. You car must use four of them. Not two, not six.
2. Here is your fuel (makes box shape with hands). You get this type and this much for the entire race. No more, no less.
3. Here are two boxes: in one, the wheelbase and trackwidth of the car must be contained. In the other larger box, all the bodywork/aero of the car must be contained.
And that is it. those three rules. Turbine power? do it. active suspension? who cares. active aero? yes please.
The fuel restriction limits the cars to a fundamental achievable average horsepower (average.. but no peak).
The volume limits the aero devices from getting too silly and the sizes of the cars to be similar.
The tires maintain that there will be a set performance limit of all the vehicles. No matter what crazy cars the manufacture comes up with, the tires will always limit the available grip and thus speed of the vehicles.
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