Daily Debate
Daily Debate: Should A Team Have Previous Experience Before Joining Formula One?
With the unfortunate demise of USF1 yesterday evening comes the question of the FIA’s selection process. Windsor and Anderson’s squad have been in preparation for well over a year now, five years if the quotes are to be believed. Yet the squad has failed as far as the 2010 world championship is concerned. This leaves [...]
Daily Debate: Should Alcohol Advertising Be Banned?
Ever since 2000, Tobacco advertising in Formula One started to decrease due to the blanket ban in Europe and other parts of the world. Williams were the first team to move away from receiving funds from cigarette companies and were quickly followed by others, notably McLaren. This marked a significant change in the sport, as [...]
Daily Debate: Should The FIA Impose Minimum/Maximum Age Limits On Drivers?
With the return of Michael Schumacher comes the talk of the multiple world champion’s age, the German having just turned 41 this year. This news comes on the back of a flurry of young drivers seeing themselves promoted to the sport, most notably Jaime Alguersuari for Scuderia Toro Rosso last season. At the time of [...]
Daily Debate: Should StefanGP Be Given USF1’s 2010 Entry?
It would seem that Stefan Grand Prix have a car that is ready to be tested, reports claiming that the S-01 was fired up recently at the team’s base. Team owner Zoran Stefnovic is certainly fired up and desperate to get his squad onto the Bahrain grid next month, and currently it would seem as [...]
Daily Debate: Should Testing Be Restricted?
For a few years now, testing in Formula One has seen a mileage restriction enforced, designed to limit the amount of running the teams and drivers can do away from the actual grands prix. Since then, a full in-season testing ban has also been implemented to curb running even further. Although all these changes were [...]
Daily Debate: Should The FIA Publish The Fuel Weights?
Last year, the FIA decided to publish the weights of each car following the final qualifying session on Saturday. The reason for the change was to make the show more interesting to fans, as it meant that some of us were able to work out how much fuel each car was carrying during qualifying and [...]
Daily Debate: Is It Acceptable For Teams To Miss Races?
Up until very recently, missing a grand prix was considered to be one of Formula One’s greatest sins and frowned upon by the sport’s commercial rights holder, Bernie Ecclestone. The repercussions of such tardiness were often met with huge fines, and as teams that missed races in the past were usually doing so due to [...]
Daily Debate: Are Licenses For Team Bosses A Good Idea?
In the wake of the Renault race-fixing scandal from 2008 that came to light a year later in 2009, new FIA president Jean Todt wants team bosses to hold licenses, much like the drivers who compete in motorsport events. On paper, it seems like a good idea, especially as Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds (the [...]
