Reader Rights: Weight advantages for F1 customer cars?

Can Formula 1 employ some new tactics to help ‘customer’ or non-works teams to get higher up on the grid?

Here’s a basic suggestion that wouldn’t necessarily ruin the integrity of the sport

In part these measures would allow customer teams to get higher qualification places, higher race pace than current & potential advantages on straights and twisty circuits.

It would also reduce the works teams grip on the sport without necessarily ruining their race as they still have all the higher aero and chassis development budget advantages.

Conversely it would ensure that if say Ferrari supplied Red Bull with an engine they wouldn’t give them a B-Spec engine down some 40+ horsepower for fear of the weight reduction advantage that would entail.

Of course it would have to be fairly calculated that if a B-Spec engine was down 20 horsepower than, for example, a 15-20 kilo weight reduction would equalise the deficit given that each cars aero balance is unique. But then again F1 doesn’t seem to mind expensive regulation change does it?

It’s either this or open aerodynamics regulations that could be very expensive by nature as wind tunnel time is pricey indeed.

[highlight ]Opinion by reader Matt Bolzon[/highlight]