In our wildest F1 fantasies the thought of teams running three cars sounds very delicious indeed. However, lets face it guys, three race cars per team wouldn't work in reality. First of all there's the issue of costs. To run a third a car for racing the teams would have to spend money on the construction of the car, the set number of engines for the car, extra tyres for race weekends and hiring mechanics and race engineers for that car and driver. In simple terms it'd be just too expensive.
Secondly there's practicality. There wouldn't be enough room in a single garage for the teams to work on three cars at once. This would hinder the newer and smaller teams with low budgets. And because of the issue of space in the pit-lane the three-car team idea would bring up I could see a number of races being dropped simply because they don't have enough room to accommodate thirteen-three car teams.
And finally, race starts. Damon (KimisApprentice) would be damn right about massive pile-ups if we had 39 cars. That's if we stuck with standing starts. For a 39 driver grid there'd be no other option than to switch to rolling starts from the traditional standing starts. Not only would it reduce the chances of a first corner carbon fibre shower but, the drivers at the front end of the grid wouldn't have to wait eons for the stragglers at the back to get their arses on the starting line.
In short I just don't see this happening at all.
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