F1 has been boring for many years, and all because there is no longer any proper overtaking. Yes, cars pass each other, but that's because the blue flag mandates that the driver in front must yield or be penalized.
But it did not used to be so. Several decades ago the blue flag was advisory. That's right, it used to be that it was for the driver to decide whether to yield. If they didn't, the driver behind had to demonstrate their overtaking skills.
Overtaking is an essential part of racing. Remove that element and you get a boring procession of who can drive the fastest. Trying to spice things up with DRS, KERS, and other gimmicks, turns what ought to be an exciting sport into a joke.
Revert the blue flag to advisory to save F1.

Hopefully Ross Brawn will shake things up.
I would get rid of hybrid technology, leave that to Formula E and bring back the sound of screaming V8, V10 or V12 engines. Racing shouldn't be about fuel economy, we have that issue in our real lives and we don't need reminding of it in our entertainment at the weekend.
Formula One should be all about flat out racing and no worries about fuel or tyres.
Remove as much aero interference as possible, make it all about the gladiatorial battle between the sportsmen who we follow. Someone said at the moment that F1 is 80% the car and 20% the driver. That should be the other way round.
Make who drives the car be based on merit not on who brings the most money to the team. F1 should be whoever is the best driver not who has the rich daddy or massive sponsorship. Work out a way of funding the sport so that smaller teams can survive without needing rich kids who bring little to the sport or the spectacle.
Make the courses able to fund running a GP rather than making it so expensive to host a GP that classic circuits can't afford it.
Get rid of Hermann Tilke, he has created so many boring circuits that although very technical and challenging for drivers do not allow any overtaking. Make them wide, fast and twisty so that cars can go fast and overtaking is possible and watching cars on them is a real spectacle.
Ensure that in every country around the world where F1 is watched there is at least one free to air broadcaster who has full rights to show all the Grand Prix. This one thing has lost F1 so many fans, Sky should NOT be allowed to dominate the viewing of F1.
Change qualifying so that in the first 2 qualifying sessions the drivers are allotted 5 laps out on the circuit with no other drivers on circuit at the same time. This will take longer, but will allow each driver to have the circuit to themselves and have 5 laps to get the best out of the car. The fastest lap is taken as their qualifying time.
As per the current system the slowest cars are eliminated at the end of each of the first two sessions so at the third session you have the top ten shoot out and that is done exactly as it is now. This will ensure that each driver in the first two sessions is able to have a fair crack at getting to the grid position their skill and their car warrants without all the issues of being blocked by other drivers.
This should assist in reducing pile ups at the start, as the rear and midfield should be pretty much in the order of skill/performance. Also this should give a better spectacle of speed as each gladiator has the circuit to his or her self and also the sponsers get 5 laps of their advertising on the car being shown!
Do away with grid penalties for changing parts, if you need a new gearbox or engine, fit one, it should not be about saving money. This is F1, it's expensive and the bleeding edge of technology. As long as all teams are given sufficient funding to allow this it will be better for the sport. Leave being green and efficient to Formula E, this is the pinnacle and should not be hampered by the real world issues of global warming. The 15 or so cars on an F1 grid is not going to change much even if they are all gas guzzling inefficient monsters. Perhaps F1 should be looking to blaze a trail burning hydrogen as fuel and do away with this electric nonsense. We would get all the noise and the only exhaust gas would be water vapour.
Graham Sivill

F1 nowadays is like having two washing machines side by side, then switching them both on at the same time and seeing which one finishes its cycle first. Terrible.

I agree with everything said to date. In fact I would go much further. F1 would be more exciting if they took the engines out and replaced them with pedals. Lewis Hamilton said something similar when he longed for the return of kart racing style.

I think racing is boring on wide, stiff tires. That's why kids "drift" so slowly but spectacularly now, using dirt-track techniques combined with excess power on pavement. It is probably time to ditch the open-wheel rule. It is very obsolete, somewhat dangerous, and a wasted development path. I'd really like to see a wing pushing sideways, too, instead of wearing out the tires needlessly. The wake problem might be mitigated by reducing power, but like narrow tires, drafting produced better racing. To have exciting racing based on economy, don't have half the field run out of fuel, just penalize them on time for using the reserves, which have visual indicators. For more passing, allow larger main tanks for later starting times. Teams can decide when to start each race after practice results.

Agree with all previous comments. Since the winners of the race are mostly the designers and engineers in the team the TV people should concentrate on those people. But guess what, that would be even more boring. So let's have no restrictions on the cars - fastest one round wins - and yes, there will be greater risk of physical harm. But I understand the drivers are not only extremely well paid, but are also volunteers....

I think F1 should be about cars first; not drivers. Allow cars to use any kind of engine/tech like gas, diesel, hybrid, rotary, gas turbine. Allow cars to change wheel configurations like 4 wheels at front or 4 + 4 small wheels etc.

I was thinking it might be time to get rid of drivers? Just run it with devil-may-care robots who have no need of self-preservation. That's how you'll see what the cars are really capable of.

Its too late for F1. They are the pinnacle of motor sport using a motor that is quickly being replaced, oh and they have no plans to change as well. It will be a nice coast into the sunset, but the heyday of F1 is over and not just because of a lack of passing. Everything from imbalanced teams (there are 3 drivers in a field of 20+ who could win the championship), stupid online policies, smug assumption that they are the best racing league and even having boring race after boring race got highlight pulled from sports update shows. This is the classic hare and tortoise tale, the only question is who is the tortoise (I think it will be drones/ e sports)?

I am a total F1 fanatic and totally agree with Scott. I do think that one of the opportunities is to unlock the tool boxes and let the teams have increased ability to change the cars. I also think that more driver controlled aero and suspension would help the differentiate the cars and enhance the driver's role. Maybe a 2 tier strategy would be necessary to protect the small teams.