The motorsport 'gimmicks' that F1 should try

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Alex Kalinauckas

Apr 13, 2020, 3:05 PM

OPINION: Formula 1's rules reset has been delayed on cost grounds stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Here's a list of experiments taken from ideas used in other categories that just might be worth considering implementing in grand prix racing

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The aim of Formula 1's delayed rules reset remains improving its sporting product - the racing.

For too long events have suffered from a lack of overtaking, the same teams winning, little in the way of surprise. But, whisper it though, much of 2019, after the nadir of the French Grand Prix, was pretty good.

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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.