All Posts Tagged With: "WMSC"
No More Super Licenses For Briatore-Managed Drivers
As a result of the WMSC investigation in the race-fixing scandal that has recently gripped Formula One, the Renault team have received a two year suspended disqualification. The lenient punishment comes after the WMSC agreed that the Renault team acted swiftly and with authority as soon as they became aware of the issue. Essentially, the [...]
Renault Receive A Two Year Suspended Disqualification
The Renault Formula One team has received a two year suspended disqualification following the revelation that Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds asked Nelson Piquet Jr to deliberately crash his car during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix in order to better his team mate’s chances of victory. The sentence comes after the World Motor Sport Council [...]
FIA Adjust 2010 Decisions: Technical Regulations
The final post in the now BlogF1 tradition of posting about the FIA the threes, is centred around the technical regulations. This one was saved for last because it is the one that actually makes me the the most pleased. Ladies and gentlemen, refuelling during the race has been officially banned for the 2010 season [...]
FIA Adjust 2010 Decisions: Financial Help For New Teams
Take a deep breath everybody; Bernie Ecclestone is about to open his wallet! Of course I jest as Ecclestone has often helped out teams who face financial difficulty (although often and ultimately to his advantage), but the FIA have announced that FOM will offer help to new teams entering Formula One next year. This further [...]
FIA Adjust 2010 Decisions: Budget Caps
Back in March the FIA WMSC met to discuss future possibilities for the 2010 and 2011 Formula One seasons. Aside from the change in the points structure that was initially planned for 2009 but then put back until 2010 was the introduction of the optional budget cap. The cap was designed to allow smaller teams [...]
McLaren Receive Suspended Three Race Ban From WMSC
Today was a day that could have seen the McLaren team receive any number of punishments as a result of their actions in Australia at the beginning of the season. The team was called to appear before the FIA WMSC in Paris to defend several charges laid against them that they have brought the sport [...]
McLaren Summoned To Extraordinary WMSC Meeting
Following the saga of the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix, McLaren have been summoned by the FIA World Motor Sport Council to answer charges that they have brought the sport into disrepute. The charges come after it was realised that Lewis Hamilton and David Ryan failed to disclose all the information available to them at [...]
Do The FIA Really Not Know Their Own Rule Book?
With a change in the technical regulations for the 2009 Formula One championship, it was mooted back in 2008 that the system used to decide on the world champion could also see a shakeup. Bernie Ecclestone made it known he wasn’t entirely happy with the current points-accrued way and suggested his own idea. Since then [...]
