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 A headline from A---sport today. I am slightly mystified as to FIA can dribble on about cost-cutting when surely any change to the formula increases development costs; like KERS, aero changes and now engine development, which may ironically have been necessitated by KERS.... Or CURSE, perhaps?

I was left pretty disillusioned about losing turbos, compulsory V10s, grooved tyres, the Schumacher/Ferrari era, etc but this season, ridiculous penalties aside (Hamilton, Bourdais), the racing has been pretty good.

If the FIA were to decide to leave the engines and chassis alone, and go with slicks, lower downforce and also deliver Consistent Stewards Decisions (patent pending), they might just create cheaper, better racing. With happier fans to boot...probably....Discuss..

Personally I think F1 should scrap the KERS development, how do they expect private teams to develop them as fast as the works teams?

 Opening up the engines is a good idea if it creates a open playing field. Those two idiots on ITV believe that the current Renault is 20-30 BHP down on a Ferrari or Mclaren. If that's true, opening up the freeze would help other teams close the gap.

There are several "universal" components already available in F1.  These are manufactured by a third party company and when used on a car must remain in exactly the same form as they were originally produced.

When introducing something like KERS, should Bernie not have farmed out the development of the system to a third party and let the teams buy in a package for at least the first year.  This would keep everyone on a level playing field to begin with and give the smaller teams time to develop a safe and usable system when the "universal" package was discontinued after, say, two years.

I realise this is a simplified view and the KERS system is more than just a bolt on package, having to be designed and integrated in to a chassis and engine package.  If it could be simplified initially, this would at least give all teams the time to get their head round all the implications involved.