Speaking at the Nurburgring yesterday, and riding on the back of a revival of interest in F1 as a result of last weekend's Monaco GP, several technical directors, and one team owner, were asked how they would 'spice up' F1 for the public.

"I think the whole technical side could be interesting for people," said Ross Brawn. "I think the fuel quantities should be known to all the people watching the race so they know exactly where it is.

"If I asked you how much fuel we had in the car in Monaco after the safety car I would be amazed if any of you knew, and that is wrong, because you should know what could develop in the race.

"We had 17 laps of fuel in the car at Monaco," he revealed, "and that gave us quite a good opportunity to have a go at winning the race. But no-one actually seemed to know that. And there is a whole technical side of Formula One that is not presented to the interests of the public and I think the whole race strategy side could be a lot more interesting if we knew what fuel the cars had in qualifying, what fuel they had in the race, how much fuel went into the cars at pit stops.

"There are enough bright guys commentating to be able to relay what is going on," the Englishman continued. "In Barcelona we had Rubens on two stops and Michael on three and it was very close as to whether Rubens was going to win the race or not. That didn't really get picked up on and I think that is a great shame. I think the whole format of racing is a much more difficult thing because there is so much mixed opinion but from my side I think all the technical information should be available to the public and I think the radio should be available to the public as well.

"Well, I think the thing that could probably help in the short term would be harder compound tyres," said Sam Michael. "Not going to a single tyre supplier but a restriction on the number of sets you could use. At the moment we have ten sets for the race weekend and if you dropped that to three or four sets it would force the tyre companies to go to harder compounds. That would also solve other problems, not just for the fans but the speed and lap times problems, it would also reduce testing costs because you have to develop compounds that are going harder and hopefully improve the show.

"I agree with the other thing on strategy as well," he admitted. "I think I have mentioned that before. Inside a race, even if you are racing for seventh or eighth place, there is still quite a lot going on in terms of strategy on the radio that everyone else just missed out. It can be quite exciting from the pit wall, not because you are not winning but because you are trying to compete to beat one person, and that gets missed, it gets missed even off the pit wall really and anyone who can sell that will go a long way.

"There are a lot of ideas," said Peter Sauber. "One thing is the qualifying. I think now the qualifying is not as good as the old, with fuel, without fuel, and the same is for the race. And maybe the idea with the harder tyres is a good one, maybe also the idea with wider tyres, harder and wider tyres would mean the braking area would be longer and maybe it would be easier to overtake.

"It is very difficult to improve the show," added the Swiss team owner.

Returning to the idea of the public being allowed access to F1 teams' radio conversations, Ross Brawn added: "To me it would be a great thing to add to Formula One to have the technical information available, the technical insight, the radio discussions that go on in the race.

"You would need a bleep-meter occasionally!" he continued, with a grin. "But I think it would be fascinating.

"You look at a sport like cricket," he continued, "which is a relatively tedious sport, apart for those real die-hard enthusiasts, and they have made it really entertaining in the last few years with some of the technology they have introduced. I think we are really backward on that side and I think we need to get the commercial side sorted and then get all the teams co-operating to put on a much better show, that aside from the basic format of the racing.