What You Think About 3rd Car on Grid

[Nand0Nand0]

I don't agree with 3rd cars, but I do think that customer cars could be a viable alternative. It should help reduce costs and open the door to more track testing. There would need to be rules to help keep competition and diversity. Part of the additional testing could be designated as car testing days where the maker and all customers share data etc. So for example, if Sauber Marussia and Haas were Ferrari clients, then some testing days would be run as join/shared data days. Teams would still have their private testing days.

[eugene22n]

I'm for anything that gets the garbage teams off the grid. Teams that have zero hope to ever fight for wins aren't F1 worthy.

[stefa]

I'm for anything that gets the garbage teams off the grid. Teams that have zero hope to ever fight for wins aren't F1 worthy.

So, by your thinking F1 should have following teams:

Ferrari
McLaren
Mercedes
Red Bull
Williams
?!?!?!?

That would be very interesting... (Heavy sarcasm mode)

[Rishu]

So, by your thinking F1 should have following teams:

Ferrari
McLaren
Mercedes
Red Bull
Williams
?!?!?!?

That would be very interesting...

That will be painful for me to hear one or two of them being called back markers

[aroutis]

So, by your thinking F1 should have following teams:

Ferrari
McLaren
Mercedes
Red Bull
Williams
?!?!?!?

That would be very interesting... (Heavy sarcasm mode)

Sauber
Haas
Toro Rosso
The latter 3 with 2 cars of course.

Plus I think that 3 cars deal could be a good thing, for the sport. I think that the teams that join this sport should be there if they can afford the long run and it's idiotic that the big teams should adopt to the constraints of the small teams.
Perhaps what I am saying here sounds cruel , but in reality it's pragmatic, when for example Ferrari has invested (heavily) in its own private track, it's ridiculous for anyone to ask them not to use it, because for instance others don't have one; tough luck I say. Same for other big teams, should they have an advantage over others, they should be free to use it.

That, is called competition, that drives this sport forward, and this sport is a sport that by definition is a sport for the few and not a sport for everyone.

[ALO]

one car