Formula one is a tax payer funded scam anyway.
A big area around the race track drowning in engine noise... for MILES and MILES.
Hugely expensive tickets even for the most shittiest of seats... I mean standing positions.
All the scam artist vendors selling 1 hotdog, in a white goo-bread roll and a coke for like $20, that usually comes from the supermarket for $2.
Crowds and toilets...
Formula one should be scrapped - it\'s batch of vampires going from one land to the next sucking the places dry.
Rule changes? It\'s nothing being done that is not already available - and much of it by the ordinary people.

Seems to me that in many respects the real world has overtaken Formula 1. Can\'t quite see any of the benefits F1 is providing to everyday drivers, that haven\'t already been generated by the energy crisis.

and most of the new hybrid cars, just FASTER not more fuel efficient, most disgusting, the manufacturers and the buying public need to realize it is about conservation, not faster, so many stupid people on this planet, a Mickie BenZ AMG in the headlines for days 0 to 62 mph in less than 4 seconds, oh please, that is so last century, so sad for humanity, we will kill ourselves

Even if they invent nothing new, the money they invest in making things light and reliable is appreciated.
Expensive tickets, monopoly pricing from the vendors, and lines for the toilets is expected and if the hosting city does not think they are getting their money\'s worth, they don\'t have to renew the contract.

@Mr Stiffy, @johnniesazzler, @Bill Bennett I don\'t know who you are or what your are doing in your lifes but hope to be really good to what you are doing and very healthy and i am sure you are since most of your everyday life that i believe it is getting better, are due to innovations that either implemeting and sent to the limit or inveted in F1. Highest examples are all the new materials that make our life better and reducing C02 footprints came from F1 so that to fly for your holidays, to break safer while driving your car, making your helmet stronger when riding your bike, and so many other examples...not to mention inventions that lead direct to medical inventions that save lifes...
For something to be able to say it is bad or good, you have to look not only the direct impact it has in life, but the indirect also...

You do not need a starter to start an engine if you are already at speed. Just pop the clutch. The problem, of course, is that the vehicle will be decelerating using this procedure where it should be accelerating. But a starter is not necessary.

I wish the MotoGP organisers were as imaginative when changing the regs as the F1 people are!

johnpsom just name anything and I will bet it was the aerospace industry that introduced it and the F1 industry made use of it. You need to expand your interests beyond F1.

Hi, what a superb opportunity for F1 .....
Thousands of motoring fans have taken to using Hydrogen Supplementation in their cars so; why not F1 ?
Read why F1 should do so, here ... http://preview.tinyurl.com/5skps4g
Less fuel would be used, better running would probably be experienced - and emissions free exhausts would become the \'standard\'.
The FiA is seeking lower noise emissions - so why not go the whole way and achieve virtually emissions free exhausts too ?
Worldwide - millions of road miles a day for years have never produced a broken or damaged engine - to my knowledge.
The world\'s motoring communities are - daily - delivering cleaner driving - AND GREATLY REDUCED CARBON FOOTPRINTS FROM EVERY HYDROGEN SUPPLEMENTED VEHICLE ON THE PLANET - with greater fuel economy; and whilst cleaning up their engines and making them last longer.
C\'mon FiA ... even if you don\'t make it a rule change this year ... tell the teams they are at liberty to use Hydrogen Supplementation. That would be a great message to the fan base - and a REAL CHALLENGE to Big Oil, Big Motor and Big Government.
Let\'s hear it from the fans .......................!!!!!!!

@Mr Stiffy: with exception of the \'taxpayer\' comment, how does this differ from football, basketball, hockey, baseball, Nascar, Tour d\' France, rugby, futbol, Indy/Champ car, etc, etc, etc, etc...it is still Billionaires employing Millionaires to put on a show to alleviate us from the pennies we actually work for!!!
If you despise it so, do as I do: DON\'T GO! Stay home, pay your pound of flesh to your preferred video supplier, and watch it on tv in the air-conditioned, multi-camera view comfort of your very own hovel...and buy your hotdogs and soda-water at your favorite outlet store.
As to the \'taxpayer\' funding, I\'m sure big bad Bernie (that\'s Ecclestone, not Madoff) would LOVE to scam those stupid Americans out of free money to put on his show, but instead he does it to the tracks and teams...they just pass it on to you and smile!