The way the rules for Formula 1 should work are as follows:
Rule 1 :
Your car must fit in a box 10 foot by 6 foot
Rule 2 :
Whatever your Vmax during the season, the race director from your team will be put into the car at half that and crashed into a solid object, if he dies you lose all your points
NO other rules at all.
Thats the way for it to be a proving ground for both new technologies to make the car faster and new technologies for safety.