DRS has proved to be quite the boon to the 2011 season so far.

It’s helped a fair share of overtaking moves and made the opening races far less processional that we are used to.

Of course it has it’s naysayers, the uber fans call it artificial (whereas downforce, winglets, double diffusers and circuits can all be found frolicking in forest with the rest of nature) and the channel flickers call it too complicated (why can’t he use the wing thing wherever he likes? Oh, Alonso can?)

On the Chinese GP podcast we rather stumbled on a way to make the activation zones less needlessly complicated jargony (or NCJ as the FIA called it in KL with the KERS and the DRS in F1).

Currently the two lines are called the

DRS detection line

And the

DRS activation line

Such unwieldy cumbersome lines that by the time a commentator has got his mouth around the seven syllable utterance then the driver has gone through the activation zone, overtaken another car and then out braked themselves into the corner.

So we have deemed it right to take it upon ourselves to rename the lines to the much more simple

IF

and

WHEN

Easy, the “IF” line. If a car is less than a second behind a rival when going over the IF line then it’s allowed to deploy the DRS on the WHEN line.

If and When. Let’s all start using it…now