[Motorsport Prospects]

Originally Posted by andrewc

Not just for a driver...

F3 has always been a stepping stone for mechanics and other team personnel and designers too, so limiting the freedom means they also suffer. F3 allowed freedoms for suspension, aerodynamics, engine development, and allowed mechanics and data analysts to learn their craft in a competitive environment.

Its only in comparative recent years that its been an absolute Dallara monopoly, previously there was Reynard and Ralt who all who had stints in the carbon fibre era as the must-have chassis, with honourable mentions to Mygale, Lola and Martini for trying to crack the Dallara stranglehold.

It would be nice to see a true multi-chassis single seater championship, but sadly all the series between national Formula Ford championships and F1 are now single chassis formulae without opportunity to be clever - F2/GP2, F3/GP3, regional F3 series and F4 series.

I deal with these teams day in and day out and while the range of engineering is in a lot of ways limited compared to the past there is still plenty of opportunity for mechanics and engineers to develop their craft and move up in the sport. It is as much about relationships and potential as it is about outright formal knowledge.