One of the worst ideas in history was letting teams actually have a say in the rule making process. That's essentially asking a fox to design security for the hen house. Teams certainly should be solicited for input, but to let them actively have a vote is hilarious to no end, and a major reason for why the technical regulations are nearly incomprehensible to anyone reading. Reading them is a real treat.
Even better, the man they ask to enforce the technical regulations was Bernie's old spannerman at Brabham; Charlie Whiting. Whiting will do whatever he is told to do, and has little interest in any reasonable reading of the rules. It's how you wind up with the double diffusers being ruled legal in 2009...though that was done because they knew Brawn could win the title, and it looked good that a privateer team that just happened to get gifted Honda's chassis and Merc engines win. Then Merc/Norbert Haug got conned into buying Brawn for 2010, and suddenly they couldn't compete. In fact, I am 100% certain the 2014 engine regulations were designed solely with Mercedes in mind as no one else had the hybrid systems know-how that Daimler does. Total ....... farce if there ever was one. Even better was when in their infinite wisdom they decided, "Let's introduce brand new power units and cap them to 5 per team for the season while we have in-season testing banned, and to top it off, we will freeze development of the engines all while forcing everyone down the same design bottleneck."
F1 is primarily why I watch other race series because while every series has its ........, none have it to the degree F1 does.
