Ferrari - Fernando Alonso & Sebastien Vettel
McLaren - Kimi Raikkonen & Rubens Barrichello
BMW Sauber - Jenson button & Felipe Massa
Renault - Mark Webber & Lewis Hamilton
New rules :
Team orders are banned (if telemetry shows you lift the throttle to let your team mate through you are both penalised. Each team has two drivers, so each team has two "chances" to win points. Each driver goes for their own points regardless of their team mates' championship standings.
If all four wheels leave the track at bends/corners/chicanes etc (i.e. LH at Monza) to gain track position you lose the place and get awarded a penalty.
Qualifying is simplified - you all get a set amount of time on the track during the two days qualifying, using whatever fuel load you like, and whichever tyres you like. You get a maximum of say 30 minutes on the track, totalling no more than 5 race timed laps, and that's it. Best time determines grid position as ever.
Or, just to make it even easier - each driver gets to race round the track five times - the mean average of those five laps will determine your place on the grid. Sounds fair to me.
You can change your engine anytime you like during the season without penalty, so if you need to use everything you've got to try to beat the other drivers, you don't have to worry about how well the engine will perform in the next race. It is supposeed to be racing, after all !
You can use Bridgestone or Michelin.
O.K. I'm ready to be cussed and maligned by y'all.
Go ahead, vent your spleens, go for it.
I'd just like it to be much more exciting to watch, as it used to be, but without all the ridiculously restricting regulations recently brought in. It'd be nice to return to good competitive spririt between the teams, rather than the bitchiness that seems to have been casting a shadow over everything in the last couple of seasons.