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  • Friday Practice To Be Revamped

    Friday Practice To Be Revamped

    The current format of the Formula 1 weekend is set to be overhauled for the 2015 season.

    The proposed changes will mainly affect Friday running. An agreement has been reached amongst the team to scrap the two 90 minute practice sessions in favour of a single 90 minute session to be run later on a Friday afternoon. The biggest motivating factor behind the proposed change in believed to be a cost-cutting measure.

    Several other changes have also been approved by the team among which is call to ban in-season testing, and stricter rules for fitting last minute upgrades to cars.

    Despite the fact that the teams have signed off on the Friday practice session revamp the proposal still has to be given the green light by the Formula 1 Commission and the FIA World Motorsport Council. The proposal will be considered later this month.

     

  • F1 Rules: Teams to pay driver fines

    The FIA has announced that no driver will be fined for speeding in the pitlane.

    Instead, teams will now have to flash the cash if one of their drivers exceeds the pitlane speed limit. The Grand Prix Driver’s Association (GPDA) raised concerns that drivers were being punished for breaking the pitlane speed limit despite an agreemen1280px-Alonso_at_at_pit-lane_2011_British_GPt that had been made with the FIA.

    Formula 1’s sporting regulations state that a driver will be fined $200 (approx. R1800.00) for evering kilometre per hour they are over the speed limit. As a result the FIA conceded that they would no longer impose monetary fines on drivers and reduced the scale of the fines to $100 (approx. R900.00) for every kilometre per hour over the limit. A maximum limit of $1000 (approx. R9005.00) has also been imposed.

    The new order has been in place since the Bahrain grand prix.