If I understand you right I agree, Current tyres have a too high peak and a too low endurance.
So the high grip makes things like quali easier, and in races they often nowhere near the limit as they are "managing" the tyres.
With lack of refuelling it increases incentives for doing one stop races, which increases tyre management even more.
So less grippy tyres, make them more endurable, refuelling, no pitwall to driver aid's.
I would also allow DRS to be used anywhere to increase variability and driver skill in its use, but perhaps time limit its maximum time of use per race at least initially. Remove blue flags, stop banning tech innovations unless they too dangerous, and stop with the large rule changes every X years, as a period of stability tends to close the gap from best team to second best, what happens at the back doesnt matter.
Other things to consider, replace FP with authorised on track testing, so no FP1, FP2, FP3, first time on the track is Q1. After race is done, we then have two testing sessions at the circuit that replace FP1,2,3. Imagine a race weekend where we dont already know lap times from FP, and teams havent tuned in their setup, would be awesome in my opinion.
All this creates less predictability, more chaos in driving the car, increase impact of driver skill, and we then start to see again what you witnessed in the past.
Edited by chrcol, 03 August 2023 - 01:37.