As talks continued this week to try to edge Formula 1 closer to a rules revolution package between now and 2017, it is as though everyone is now convinced that something major is broken.
Such is the clamour for change, with wider cars, bigger tyres and 1000bhp engines all being targeted, that you could be forgiven for thinking that the current generation of machinery is an utter failure.
Yet there is a danger of F1 getting a bit ahead of itself here in deciding that it is the cars that are at fault. What if it is not actually what is happening on track that is the root of the problem?