Is there a way to structure formula1 so that all drivers drove at least one race in the lesser teams car....?

May be...

If you want to kill all that is formula 1 try that. F1 is the spectacle it is because great drivers drive great cars. If you made a standard engine the manufacturer teams would abandon the sport and that would cause a huge vacuum.

Although I have wished a billion times that the his holiness "Schumacher" would drive a piece of crap car just to prove that F1 is a lot about the car! I understand he was a great driver but he also had a great car.

As far as Massa is concerned I understand I won't win best answer with this but I don't see it. Massa was always 2nd fiddle by a mile to Schumacher and he doesn't seem to be a clear number one at the team. The only driver I can saw definitively that has the same equipment as Massa is Kimi, And Massa and Kimi are relatively equal. So to assume Massa is the superior driver is absurd in my opinion.

Hamilton's story is dramaticly different! He nearly always beaten Kovalinen or even Alanso when he was there. He has shown to be a clear number 1 when compared to the other driver with the same equipment.

I just feel trying to compare one driver to another is nearly impossible if they are not teammates. There is a noticable difference in the level of each team. I don't think anyone can assume if the Williams and Ferrari drivers switched teams that suddenly Williams would be a front runner and Ferrari would be a mid pack team.

Good ideas are always welcome, but frankly, I think most of us are a bit tired of new rules.

i think it would be a greater examination of each drivers skill to see how he performed in both top and bottom quality cars.

i think its very boring seeing a race where you know 14 out of 18 drivers dont have a hope...not because of a lack of skill..but simply because theyr driving a comparatively crummy car.

also what about staggering the start, so each car sets off three seconds after the previous one [-with the difference re-balanced at the first compulsory pit stop or stop-go style stationary stop-]...with the slowest qualifier going first and the fastest qualifier setting off last! - so that instead of the fastest cars immediately zooming off into the distance and the field stringing out....the slower cars --though starting earlier-- are immediately being challenged and overtaken by the faster cars behind them ---thereby making the faster cars have to work through the field before they get to lead the race.

what other ideas do you have to get all the cars "active and inolved" instead of three quarters of the cars being merely ornaments in the race?

Easiest way, (but it'll never happen) one standard engine, the rest of the rules stay the same.

Answer To Additional Details:
For some reason, only first place is decided by the number of wins, so yes the rest of the places are chosen by the current points system.19070s