OK, I have my bullet and blast resistance pants on so here goes.
I think the F1 engines should be based on production engines. A race what you sell like American endurance racing. Believe it or not, NASCAR has been able to make their endurance racing very equal by using intake restrictors to equalize production based engines of all types, from American V8’s, non turbo, turbo, to European and Japanese engines. All engines are submitted to the ruling body and dyno run for approval and all competitors are monitored for unapproved power improvements throughout the year. You establish an unrealistic speed down the straights or lap times and you get a smaller restrictor.
Todays new production engines can be modified to make amazing HP and durability and I think it would make for a really entertaining series with brand support for everybody. Merced, Honda, Ferrari, Nissan, Ford, GM, everybody has an engine that could be made to compete. Say, shoot for 800hp limits and let everybody have at it.
OK, I got my vest and helmet on now. Have at it.
i think the only problems with that aside from mounting points and size is they really aren't designed to be a stressed member of a chassis if the mfg's would commit to the investment it prolly could be win on sunday sell on monday
but as long as FIA are committed to this green crap with all the ERS and batteries and such it's impossible
i absolutely hate this ruination of the sport on the alter of globull warming
but it would liven things up that's for sure