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Hello! I have a new video for you!


This ones a little bit longer and a little bit more abstract in its concept, but I wanted to unpick something more fundamental about some of the problems with the growing divide between the big teams and the small teams and how F1 is currently set up in a way that makes it really hard for everyone to compete fairly.

I hope it all makes sense and is interesting enough!

(It does have an advert right in the middle of it. It's a weird place for an advert I know, sorry)

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Positive Feedback Loops - the problem that's breaking F1 from the inside

The first 500 people will get 2 months of Skillshare for FREE: https://skl.sh/chainbearF1 I love F1 but it does have a serious problem at the moment. The gaps between the strongest and the weakest teams is widening, getting worse every year. At the heart of this problem: positive feedback loops. What are feedback loops? Watch and find out. ------------------ Please do support these videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chainbearf1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/chainbearf1 Writing / Illustration / Animation / Editing / Narration: Stuart Taylor http://www.chainbear.me sharecode: chainbearsharef1

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Anonymous

I understand this might get me kicked out of the F1 clubhouse. But I've just finished watching the first BTCC round of the year and it's quite clear if racing could be that close in F1 we would all did of excitement. It would be wonderful to even things out a bit and as you quite rightly say the whole thing is artificial anyway.

chainbearf1

Everyone is welcome in the F1 clubhouse! I think there is definitely a problem in F1 of being too resistant to make certain changes cause "that's the way it's always been". You have to be careful of course, but there's nothing wrong with changing it up while preserving the essence of f1

Anonymous

I actually really like the reverse grid idea. It’s simple to implement, simple to understand, and accomplishes two goals simultaneously; adding a negative feedback loop, and increasing the potential for on-track overtakes. I’ve never considered a literal success ballast, where actual weight is added to the cars, but one thing I like about that idea, is that there’s no inherent limit on it. With reverse grids, you can only put a car as far back as there are cars in the race, but with ballast, you can just keep adding more. The weight you need to add to your car can be directly proportional to the number of points you have in the championship. Giving non-winning teams more testing time is good, but I think it would have to extend beyond the small official testing windows to be effective. Perhaps only the bottom 4 teams get to take part in FP1, the bottom 8 teams get to take part in FP2, and only for FP3 do all teams get to participate.