Under the current setup adding two teams would be great for F1. I don’t even care if they’re competitive or not but it will provide more opportunities for new pilots. Every year we get a new F2 champion that can’t run in the category again, for example, and they end up on the sidelines simply ‘cause there is no room in F1

@BehindTheDriveOfficial

9 ай бұрын

This is true, more opportunities for those drivers would be great but they need to be credible teams! Thanks for watching 👌

@daarom3472

9 ай бұрын

they really need to get rid of the rule preventing champs from competing in F2 again... and maybe make F2 a bit more competitive and introduce a promotion/demotion rule.

@gandalf_thegrey

9 ай бұрын

Half of those champions deserve the sidelines, NGL

@AntisnakeYT

9 ай бұрын

when the 20best drivers are competing for multiple years there tends to be a buildup for drivers and lesser competetive years etc that just cant make it into f1 bbecause of the slots.

No team of the 10 today should be referred to as backmarkers in the same way that these 3 were. Those teams were usually about a lap of the next teams. That would be like an Alpine regularly lapping a Haas, AT, Alfa Romeo or Williams, but in reality even Verstappen is lapping only few cars this year.

@BehindTheDriveOfficial

9 ай бұрын

Indeed, these cars were so far behind it's difficult to imagine it today!

I think the F1 grid should have at least 26 cars on it. Used to be over 30.

@daarom3472

9 ай бұрын

back in the day there were like 6-10 proper cars and a bunch of amateurs pretending to run an F1 team, often getting lapped multiple times by the leaders, that is if they even finished the race.

If I remember at the time of the three joining Bernie used to pay the top ten teams a year behind but would sometimes grant an advanced payment, He stated that he only pays ten teams so if they expect a pay packet they have to get in to the top 20 places.

The fact they changed the financial regulations really mess them up. They entered with much much less funding then even under the current budget cap

@BehindTheDriveOfficial

9 ай бұрын

Exactly, they joined on promises that the sport couldn't keep. It was a real shame!

I think if there were enough teams, f1 could take a BTCC approach to the constructors championship. Have the “manufacturers” class and a “customer” class, or at least something similar so that new and small teams have incentive and better inter competition with lower budget teams.

It should also be factored in that f1 teams value are at its highest currently, they don't want new teams to reduce their prize money share. Weird that Haas did not have to pay 200m back then doesn't it

@BehindTheDriveOfficial

9 ай бұрын

Their values are higher than they have ever been, they could keep rising!

@gandalf_thegrey

9 ай бұрын

No it's not weird since this rule didn't exist back then. Weird how things change over time huh

yes now👍

I miss Lotus and would take them back in any form at this point.

@BehindTheDriveOfficial

9 ай бұрын

They'd be a great name to have back on the grid!

@bogdanrus9402

9 ай бұрын

I miss the awesome 2012-2013 Lotus. After that all competent people left and the team went to shit. I wouldnt want them back in 2014 form. That twin dildo nose still haunts my dreams.

"This will never happen again" Yeah, brand new teams joining F1, we'll never see it

@BehindTheDriveOfficial

9 ай бұрын

Not quite the point I was making but thanks for watching!

@Wizzkidwas

9 ай бұрын

@@BehindTheDriveOfficial Haha, I meant it mostly in jest however there is a sting of truth to it looking how the Andretti situation is going

@stake-harley

9 ай бұрын

yeah, it's...a little too elitist.

This season already great why add new team looks,

@stake-harley

9 ай бұрын

worst season of the 2020's sounds more accurate

Let Lamborghini buy Alpha Tauri

@BehindTheDriveOfficial

9 ай бұрын

Would be a good name to see on the grid!

@Arsenic71

9 ай бұрын

Lamborghini (i.e. Volkswagen) are already investing in Sauber under the Audi name.

@GarfieldRex

9 ай бұрын

@@Arsenic71 indeed, we almost got Porsche, also under VW, so... Is for the brand xd not the owner . My wishlist.

@AKK5I

9 ай бұрын

Lambo are running in Le Mans though

I think once Renault Sells Alpine, Haas sells Haas and Red Bull sells AT. We'll have a phenomenal set of teams in the grid.

@MotoRCix

9 ай бұрын

Still 10 teams. We want more teams. 12-14 would be good

@BehindTheDriveOfficial

9 ай бұрын

All depends on who takes over these teams!

@y_fam_goeglyd

9 ай бұрын

@@BehindTheDriveOfficial exactly. My immediate thought was "sold to whom?"

@tundaslug07

9 ай бұрын

​@@y_fam_goeglydTata motors lol, bring back jaguar

@gandalf_thegrey

9 ай бұрын

​@@MotoRCixYeah, what would be great is to reduce point winning positions back to 8 or even to 6.

Alpha Tauri is not a real f1 team.

@y_fam_goeglyd

9 ай бұрын

In what way? They took over Minardi (on the condition that they keep the team at its long-term base, which they still have), invested a crap ton into it, employed some top people, and won a race _before_ Red Bull, and have had another win and some podiums. They may be seen as the RB "junior" team (not the first "related" team to a bigger, more established one by a long shot), but they finance themselves. They bring on young drivers (some other drivers on today's grid, or relatively recently retired, started at that team when it was Minardi, or started in one of the three teams in this story; Webber & Alonso - Minardi. Danny Ric - HRT. There are loads more but I can't be arsed to look it up.) Bringing on young drivers has pretty much always been the job of the "slow teams". Recently you can add Williams and George Russell to that list, and now Alfa Romeo and Zhou & even Charles Leclerc. They're Ferrari's "Alpha Tauri" for now, as are Haas! So again, in what way is AT different? They're absolutely a "real F1 team"!

@tiagoferreira5368

9 ай бұрын

Plus, Haas and Williams take more parts from other teams than AT does from RB.