Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Will Mercedes have the 'Rocket Engine' in 2022?" video.

Personally, I think the way Mercedes dealt with its engines should be penalized MUCH harder. F1 should even out the playing field better, penalizing gratuitous engine changes progressively. The penalties for a second gratuitous engine should be double those for the first. Not half, as is now the case. This enabled Mercedes to just throw money at new engines to effectively buy victories. On the other hand, teams should be able to compensate unforced write-offs of engines due e.g. to crashes without penalities, or with a penalty compensated for the age of the engine. A write-off of an engine in its first race, should incur just 1/6th of the penalty for a write-off of a 7-race old engine. I think Verstappen was penalized far too hard for having a fresh engine taken out at Silverstone, but Hamilton was penalized far too little for deliberately breaking the principle that teams should limit replacements on their cars.
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There are sooo many trade offs in managing an engine like this, like the rev limit, the temperature limits, how rich the mixture is. It might be as simple as maintaining maximum power for a few seconds longer that significantly reduces engine life-span. The longer max power is maintained, the hotter the engine gets, the more it wears out. Similarly, the higher the temperature of combustion, the higher the thermal efficiency of the engine, but the lower the life-span. So running a (slightly) leaner mixture may increase maximum power but wear the engine out much quicker, because lean mixtures burn hotter than normal.
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@kirstenalexander7339 "penalties either need to be reduced or engine amounts increased" Do not agree with that. The amount of engines was limited so teams with lower budgets could better compete, and to make the sport less wasteful. The penalty for designing an engine so that it wears out in just two races should be prohibitively high, ESPECIALLY if you do that more than once during the season. Budget caps favour teams that build their own engines (like Mercedes), as building it yourself is (usually) cheaper than buying one if you already have the facilities and expertise in-house.
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5 for the fourth, 10 for the fifth, 20 for the sixth. And no penalty for replacing an engine lost in a crash. The crash itself is sufficient penalty.
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-- But not apply that penalty when a fresh engine was lost due to a crash. Like happened to Verstappen at Silverstone, for which he was punished extraordinarily hard but which was the fault of Hamilton 🤯🤯🤯. The rules should differentiate between lost engine replacements and gratuitous ones. With perhaps a third category for engine loss due to bad engine design. Some engines just are unreliable (looking at you, Renault), no need to punish these as hard as gratuitous engine replacements.
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@fergalhopkins1230 The penalty should depend on the reason for the change. If you have a fresh engine taken out by a crash that was not caused by you, you should not get a penalty at all for replacing it. And some engines just have faults that cause things to break. OTH, gratuitous engine changes just so you can overload them to get more power should be penalized much harder. Running engines so they last only 2 races due to wear should be prohibited.
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