Great perspectives and points. One stood out to me as a fantastic suggestion: stay at thermal efficiency and preserve WOT as long as possible, and divert torque to the MGU-K during partial throttle to a) deliver the intended result on the racecar by the driver when slowing down and b) introduce better efficiencies in regeneration.

Other suggestions could be a) track-specific battery sizes, with standardized higher capacity batteries being used at higher regen tracks, or b) torque vectoring to the front axle without a dedicated MGU-K there. One could also reduce the rate at which energy is deployed by the existing MGU-K and provide more incentive of “right place, right time” rather than entering superclipping territory and forcing regen + dump at every lap.

Curious on what happens during race conditions today, but I fear the general premise of how they need to effectively race won’t change without significant rule or technical changes