My idea isn't to force to always have a Team Boss, but to have the option to imerse yourself in a online team. It would be a advanced options for people to use or not to use. Depending how involved they want to be with it.
I come from Flight Sims and there are literally thousands of them that are solely virtual but have there own ranking systems, chain of command, and so on. This idea would be another possibility for realism to the world of racing.
Part of the fun for me in LFS is online but another part is setting up computer vs computer races to watch. Would be fun to be able to be a Team Boss for AI cars to practice.
More and more Online Racing teams will form and this would be a Team element to it. Would have people that are better drivers then bosses, or better bosses then drivers. Things done in the pits would have a roll in league championships, a Team Boss decisions would have effects for things on the track.
Online teams would become better, because they could have a rotation within the teams. This week I am team boss, learn the ins and outs of it. While some one else drives.
Imagine being a team boss and making a bad decision in a online championship that cost your team and driver a win? Or imagine being a driver having a boss that knows how to read other teams and know his stuff setting things to help you win.
This same kind of system could work for a rally type race. The team boss would be the co-driver. And instead of pit stops they would have a map, and there controls would be for the types of terrain and types of turns that the driver needs to know about ahead of time. Of course we would need long rally type tracks for this.