You have reached a degraded version of ESPN.com because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.For a complete ESPN.com experience, please upgrade or use aNate SaundersLaurence Edmondson302dA layman's guide to the issues killing Formula One. And how to fix each of them,Jump to: Inequality Petty politics Penalties galore 'Driving like grandmas' Underwhelming engines Why don't they just drive the same car? Even the most committed Formula One fan would struggle to believe motor racing's pinnacle series is in a healthy state at the moment. The French Grand Prix wasn't the first dull race in the series' history and it won't be the last, but it seemed to perfectly encapsulate many of the problems which are hurting the series so badly.However, the problems are nothing new and many were inherited by Liberty Media when it took over F1 at the start of 2017.

The new owners have been working on a new set of regulations for 2021 to tackle these issues.Below we list the problems and look at the chances of them being addressed.An uneven playing fieldInequality in performanceRight now, F1 is split into two categories in everything but name. At the front, competing for the Formula One world championship are Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull. Behind that by some margin in terms of lap time is the remaining seven teams, who are often competing for what is frequently called 'best of the rest' - fourth place in the championship, seventh position at most races.There isn't even a contest any more. One of the top three teams can qualify out of position and breeze back to the top six with ease - a job made even easier with DRS, but more on that lower down. Some have referred to that cluster of teams as F1.5 and a championship table of that series regularly appears on Reddit - spoiler alert, it's been much more entertaining to follow that than the actual F1 championship recently.In previous eras, little teams like Hesketh, Stewart or Jordan could steal a shock pole position, podium or victory on a day it got everything right. In the each of the past two seasons, there was just one instance where a team in the midfield has claimed a podium finish - given that there's 21 opportunities for them to do so, that's a baffling statistic.Leveling out the playing field and shrinking the gap between first and tenth position in the constructors' championship is one of the main aims of the 2021 rules, which are still being worked on. It is perhaps the most pressing of all the issues facing F1 racing chief Ross Brawn and his team.Inequality in budgetAnother rule being worked on for 2021 is a budget cap, something unprecedented in F1 history.

The figure of this has been a sticking point between the biggest and smallest teams and the question of exactly how it would be policed remains open. A figure of $175 million has been agreed in principle but exclusions, including marketing costs and driver salaries, are expected to see the 'real' budgets of the top teams go way higher.The figure of $175 million is a lot of money, but it's actually far more than several of the teams spend in a year. According to RaceFans.net, in 2018 Mercedes' budget for the year was $400 million, with a staff of over 1,200 employees spread across two U.K. Ferrari's was $410 million, bolstered by the $73 million the Italian team received as part of its historical payment (in other words, it gets a lump sum just to turn up).By contrast, Force India (now Racing Point) had a budget of just $120 million. Williams, currently rooted to the bottom of the pecking order, spent $150 million. As the table to the right shows, the budgets correlate with the imbalanced pecking order. Renault is one team stuck between a rock and a hard place, as there is no point in investing lots of money with a budget cap incoming, but it can't hope to compete on the level of the top three before 2021 without more investment.The big teams are concerned about how much they would have to downsize to accommodate a budget cap, but how it would be policed is also a legitimate question - there are concerns some teams could find inventive ways to circumnavigate the limit through extensive R&D departments for road car divisions.

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However, punishments if caught breaking the financial regulations are expected to be draconian.The other side to the team budget equation is income - a large part of which comes from Formula One's revenues. Under the current split - rushed through under previous ownership in order to get the top teams onboard ahead of a planned stock market flotation that never was - Ferrari gets by far the sweetest deal with total bonuses of $114 million, according to RaceFans.net. Mercedes and Red Bull also get big bonuses in the region of $70-80 million based on their recent championship success, while McLaren and Williams also get extra bonuses as two of the sport's most successful teams.Under the plans for 2021, the prize money system will be more meritocratic, with the championship positions having a bigger impact on where the money goes. But Ferrari is still expected to be recognised with bonuses for its position in the sport - an argument that is understandable when you see how much red occupies the grandstands at each race. F1 is also hopeful it can increase the size of the teams' overall share in revenue by bringing more races to the calendar.

In theory, that would give the small teams less of a hole to plug with sponsorship when it comes to trying to reach the $175 budget cap.Dominance by one teamDominance isn't a new thing in Formula One - the history of the series is littered with it, right back to the 1950s, when Juan Manuel Fangio won in a dominant Mercedes (sound familiar?) and what some still consider to be the greatest racing car ever built. The majority of F1 champions have won in the best car available that season.Fast-forward to 2019 and Mercedes could feasibly win all 21 races this year - given the F1/F1.5 split mentioned above, that means the prospect of Red Bull and Ferrari fighting for the remaining scraps on each occasion.