SH|T what is this CRAP?!
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NEW RULES INCLUDE ENGINE FREEZE
Last Updated: Friday, 24, March, 2006, 13:07
A three-year freeze on engine design, a move to a single tyre supplier and the replacement of 10-place grid penalties were among the new rules approved by the FIA World Motor Sport Council on Wednesday.
The WMSC met in Paris to ratify a new set of sporting regulations that will take effect from 2008.
Many of the reforms have been on the table for some time; the principle of a single tyre supplier, for example, was agreed at the previous WMSC meeting in December, which set out the basis for the 2008 technical regulations.
But the engine freeze is a radical – and controversial – change.
It was one of the issues about which the Grand Prix Manufacturers Association expressed concern in the letter it sent to FIA president Max Mosley on Tuesday night.
The GPMAÂ’s 11th-hour attempt to delay ratification of some of the proposed changes pending further discussion fell on deaf ears.
The new engine rules will require teams to submit their designs for homologation by 1 June.
The specification will then be frozen and only FIA-approved modifications will be permitted.
The measure is a central plank of Mosley’s cost-cutting programme but – although proposed by GPMA member Renault – it is not popular with most of the manufacturer teams.
They fear it will undermine F1Â’s status as the pinnacle of technology and also that the three-year cycle will cause instability in their staffing arrangements.
Other changes approved by the WMSC include a mandatory testing limit of 30,000km (18,600 miles) per team per year, a ban on spare cars and a requirement for gearboxes to last four races.
The move back to a single tyre supplier will be accompanied by a return to slicks and a ban on tyre-warming blankets.
And instead of the current 10-place grid relegations, changing an engine before the end of its two-year cycle will attract a 15kg weight penalty.
The requirement for new teams to lodge a $48 million deposit with the FIA has also been dropped, while the WMSC held open the possibility of a 20-race calendar in future. -
i hate this, watching helplessly as Mad Max n FIA slowly tear the sport I so loved apart, and drag its sad shadow of a carcess down the path I don't want it to go down.
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It's all politics, Heng - Max is trying to create a crisis (a la Bernie vs Balestre in the 80's) so that he can shake things up and take power away from the GPMA.
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Hmm, with the $48m deposit waived, will we be seeing the return of Alan Prost's outfit in the future?
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talking about politics, check out the correspondence between GPMA and Max.Originally posted by Gedanken:It's all politics, Heng - Max is trying to create a crisis (a la Bernie vs Balestre in the 80's) so that he can shake things up and take power away from the GPMA.
GPMA letter for FIA
http://www.fia.com/resources/documents/1494088667__22_03_2006_Manufacturers_letter.pdf
FIA's reply to GPMA (same day)
http://www.fia.com/resources/documents/1770716053__22_03_2006_Letter_MM_Manfs.pdf
A copy of the 2008 regulation
http://www.fia.com/resources/documents/893968003__22_03_2006_F1_Sporting_Regs_2008.pdf -
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Slicks are nice.
But weight penalties, gearbox penalties, engine design freezes, spare car bans and tyre blanket bans are BS.
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blankets too
confirm out laps wud need two laps than 1 -
I personally think the new rules will make F1 more interesting.Originally posted by Kuali Baba:Slicks are nice.
But weight penalties, gearbox penalties, engine design freezes, spare car bans and tyre blanket bans are BS.
a) More new teams will join the F1
b) Private teams will be able to challenge those big budget teams, like honda and mclaren
c) Teams will have to rely more on drivers to win the race instead the car
d) More consistency on the engine and gearbox will provide better continuality between seasons.