I started watching MotoGP this year and find it very interesting that some teams are declared "Open" which allows them to use more fuel and more engines per season. This is done to allow smaller teams to compete and if I understand it correctly, once they achieve certain results, they are no longer allowed to declare themselves as "Open". I think this could be very effective in Formula 1 and Alonso agrees with me: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114518