Run one race a year for the unwashed masses. Tickets are cheap and by lottery. Infield camping. No generators. No luxury booths. No RVs. Tents only. No re-entry. First year at Watkins Glen.

Get rid of all the energy recovery/engine size/fuel efficiency rules.

I want to see what kind of technology engineers come up with when the rules simply say "you get X kg of fuel per race, figure out the most efficient way to use it."

Better yet, specify X units of energy and the teams decide the source: hydrogen, battery, hydrocarbon, etc.

If you cause a yellow or red flag in qualifying your fastest time is taken away instantly. You are ruining the laps of others and you can not benefit from it imho

Reverse-DRS. Every driver who is more than 1 second behind another driver gets DRS to catch up but then they have to work hard for the overtake.

It's probably nonsense but I'd love to try it out in a handful of races.

Replace the sprints (and Monaco) with some kind of drivers exhibition.

Have them all race in the same car, a car that can be rented at that track. B that way fans can go to the track on track days rent they same car and see how they stack up.

This is a win in so many ways.

We get to see who the best drivers really are. It gets rid of stupid sprints. The track gets off season attention and money. Fan interaction, and so on.

I’m going straight in there with the controversial ‘I’d change the 2021 result’.

At least, I would change the decisions made by Masi at the end of the race. Not just straight up take the title off Max.

But I know that’s not really the spirit of your question. So to follow that, I’d just get rid of sprint races.

Get rid of track limits. I never want to hear those words again. Put a tire barrier in the corner you don’t want people to cut. automatically sanction people who cut the corner and do it immediately. Add an extra bit of asfalt that drivers have to drive on as soon as the have cut a corner, so they loose 5 seconds per lap when they do that. Be creative.

Reintroduce another tyre supplier on top of Pirelli forcing competition rather than the artificial throttling of tyre life we get now in order to make racing closer. I am sick of Pirelli being told what to do with tyres to introduce competition. Lets have the cars being able to max out the tyres for longer. Make it mandatory that the grid is evenly split between brands and not by PU.

It was bad during Michaels time with Bridgestone as Bridgestone only made tyres for Michael and Michael tested endlessly to provide data to improve the tyres (and rest of the car). Testing is limited now, although we will probably need a few testing days just for tyres over and above the current schedule.

Make the cars lighter and smaller.

Bring back proper defending going into corners - no more of this stupid one defensive move and then just let the other driver sail past. Make them work for it.

Oh and single lap hotlap for qualifying with the order drawn by lottery. Stop them complaining about traffic.

No changing tires during a red flag.

I was tempted to say no working on the car AT ALL during a red but I'll settle for just the tires.

Edit: for clarification, a red flag for an accident. Obviously a red for weather is a different situation.

Might not be a popular change but I would like to see less races. Feels like there are way too many and some of the newer street courses aren't that great. One of the reasons I follow IMSA more than F1 is that there were only 11 races last year. For me that made each race weekend something to look forward to.

The running of a sport like a business. I don't want authoritarian regimes sportswashing their crimes by paying for a big race. I don't want rights-holders playing with formats and locations in order to promote their brand for a new target audience. I don't want to have to pay through the nose to watch my favourite sport because a rich corp bought up the broadcasting rights.

I despise the very concept of sponsors and advertising, but I can at least acknowledge that it pays the bills for my best boys to race their colourful cars. All the rest can fuck right off!

More tyre manufacturers, less street circuits, reduction in car size just to name a few

Make them do the first lap on foot.

Sprinklers!

Set to turn on at a random lap number for a random amount of time.

There's lots of little things about current F1 to improve, but sprint races are the most egregious offender. Get rid of sprint races entirely. They were bad when they set the grid for Sunday, they are even worse now that Saturday is essentially its own, separate event.

I think the success of features based on calculated track position - like DRS and the Virtual Safety Car - proves that the time has come for Mario Kart style power-up cubes. Project them onto AR displays in the drivers’ helmets, and show them on the TV feeds.

• Mushroom allows the driver to cut corners and speed over track limits.
• Squid ink appears in the field of view of all other drivers’ visors.
• Verstappen gets blue-shelled and all his power cuts out until he’s stationary!
• etc.

Call me crazy, but I think in 10 years time you’ll be looking back on this post as prescient.

Remove DRS. We don't need more overtakes, we need more battles. DRS overtakes are boring.

Square tires.

I just want it to be competitive between teams. I'm sick of a single driver or team winning every single race all year. It happened with Lewis and now max, and since I don't care about drivers racing for 10th, it ruins the racing for me.

Get rid of tyre blankets for qualifying. Would mean drivers would have to warm up the tyres themselves before a push lap, which should lead to faster out laps.

Make the Sprint Race start in reverse driver standing order. Would fix the awkward Friday qualifying. New schedule would be Friday practice 1&2, Saturday qualifying and sprint race. Friday race.

Would also make the Sprint race actually interesting because everyone has a reason to care and fight

V8s.

Get rid of the Sunday race in Monaco, build the entire weekend around some sort of super qualifying

Remove sprints and most city circuits

Make them switch directions every year.

Like to clockwise around Monaco one year, but counter clockwise on the same track the next.