All Posts Tagged With: "Rules"
Alain Prost Joins Stewarding Team For 2010
Former world champion and team owner Alain Prost has been announced as joining the steward’s team for the 2010 season, starting this weekend in Bahrain at the season’s opening race. The FIA have been trying for the past couple of years to become more transparent and fair in their stewarding decisions, and after it became [...]
McLaren Pass Scrutineering Checks: Rear Wing Deemed Legal
McLaren have passed scrutineering checks at the Sakhir International Circuit ahead of this weekend’s opening round of the 2010 Formula One World Championship. The team had invited FIA technical delegate Charlie Whiting to their Woking factory late last week to inspect the contentious part, but due to scheduling difficulties, Whiting decided to delay the inspection [...]
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 [...]
FIA Confirm Rule Changes For 2010
Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, have published the final version of the 2010 rules and regulations ahead of the season opener in Bahrain in mid-March. The rule changes have been mentioned in previous drafts and the organisation have clarified a couple others. With this publication being final, the only changes that may now take [...]
New Concorde Agreement Signed
The FIA have announced the long awaited Concorde Agreement – which will run until the end of 2012 – has now been signed by the teams and current FIA president Max Mosley. The agreement concludes a long battle between FOTA and the FIA that at times, threatened to rip the sport apart. While the deal [...]
Ferrari Ask FIA For Permission To Allow Schumacher To Test F60
In the build up to the Hungarian Grand Prix last weekend, much of the talk in the paddock and on the Internet was the debut of the sport’s youngest ever competitor. But it wasn’t so much that Jaime Alguersuari is very young, it was more to do with the fact that prior to the Friday [...]
Breakaway Averted: Max Mosley Will Not Stand Again
Following a series of meetings held ahead of today’s World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris, it has been announced that a compromise has been reached between the FOTA teams and the FIA. The deal will see FOTA’s proposals of cutting costs implemented, which appears to have the blessing of the new entrants as well. [...]
FIA Respond To FOTA Breakaway Plans
Following on from last night’s announcement that the eight FOTA teams are to breakaway from Formula One and set up a rival series, the FIA have now responded. In typical fashion for the governing body, they have placed the blame for the negotiations failing firmly on FOTA’s shoulders, and stated that they cannot allow Formula [...]
