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as opposed to the 12 slots officially available as per the current agreementโ€ฆ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Imagine if F1 did something similar to soccer (but with a few changes): There's a list of candidates that fulfil the requisites, and they're are given a score depending on how good their proposal is.

If a team finishes 2 years in a row in the last position (or 3 non-consecutive times in the last 5 years), it's demoted to candidate again and exits the sport, and the candidate with the better candidacy enters the sport, where they have 2 years to try to improve and get out of the last position.

So far, Williams and Haas have been swapping the last position, and one of them could've been thrown out already. I particularly disliked Gene Haas "I don't care if I finish last, it works for me" attitude, it's just mediocrity, and not good for the sport, specially if there's a good candidate waiting.

Could something like this work?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I get increasing the anti dilution fund. The teams which stood by F1 during the rough times deserve that. What I don't understand is limiting to 10 teams. Sporting factors should supercede monetary factors. I see a court case being filed and big mess if this is agreed upon

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

And to think I still think that the ideal is 30 or 31 cars competing for 26 grid slots

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Gentrified sport.

I wonder if anyone in charge even cares about competitive racing, or if it's just empty PR designed to increase value.

Even the figure heads shill for FOM / FIA / Liberty instead of providing real insight and criticism. It's just getting to be too much.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

This has really killed my interest in F1. Why watch when everything is set in stone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the important news, not the Hamilton rumor. They want to ban Andretti forever.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tin foil hat time, crazy timing with the Hamilton rumor.

It's just not Andretti. It's everyone who wants to get into the grid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Youโ€™re not wrong. Of course they donโ€™t want any new entries. It doesnโ€™t matter if itโ€™s Andretti, Toyota, Porsche or anyone else. The pie doesnโ€™t get bigger, it gets distributed to everyone equally, which means theyโ€™re getting less money for every new team added.

None of these teams are going to vote against their own interests. Thereโ€™s no incentive to allowing new teams (to them), everything about it is a negative for the teams already in place.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

also important to remember theyโ€™ve maxed out the number of GPs in a season, so the low hanging fruit to increase revenue is gone. thatโ€™s why weโ€™re now seeing crap like this and sprints. they are desperate to keep the money they have and squeeze out every last cent.

soon classic tracks like spa will be gone in favor of more profitable ones. theyโ€™ll find ways to cram more and more sponsorships in the broadcasts. targeted ads on streaming platforms. who knows, maybe even full blown ad breaks during races.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

F1/FiA dying to get in on enshittification.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah FOM just increased the F1TV subscription price by 50% in my country. Enshittification has already started. They really think they can charge the same price as other sports that have multiple matches per week.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

And to get nuked from orbit by EU competition law. But the FIA aren't the enemy here. They said that Andretti met all of the technical requirements to join the grid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

They didn't want FOMO