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  • 2019 F1 Calendar Confirmed and Other Rules Changes from the FIA World Motorsport Council

    2019 F1 Calendar Confirmed and Other Rules Changes from the FIA World Motorsport Council

    The third FIA World Motorsport Council of 2018 was held today in Paris where a number of decisions regarding sporting and technical regulations were taken.

    The 2019 F1 Calendar was approved. Not much will change from this year except there will not be any triple header next year. The United Stated Grand Prix is subject to approval but should be confirmed for 2019.

    In addition to the calendar being confirmed, technical and sporting regulations were confirmed for the 2019 season.

    Sporting Regulations confirmed for 2019:

    • Changes to the Safety Car regulations to ensure there is a consistent point at which drivers may overtake when the Safety Car returns to the pits. This will now be the same in all three types of restart
    • The teams will now be responsible for initial scrutineering of their cars. Before the cars go on track for the first time, teams must declare conformity with all safety related matters
    • The official end-of-race signal will now be a chequered light panel, although the chequered flag will still be shown
    • The team personnel curfew will increase from eight to nine hours

    Technical Regulations confirmed for 2019:

    • Changes to the mirror regulations and also associated rear wing changes (height) for rear view visibility and safety (Articles 3.6 and 14.3)
    • The on-board camera regulations will be modified to improve the TV spectacle (Article 21)
    • Rear endplate lights are to be added for safety (Article 14.5)
    • Minor modifications to the halo fairing (Article 15.2.6) are to be made for safety reasons during a potential driver extraction

    2019 F1 Calendar:

    2019 Calendar

  • FIA Releases 2018 F1 Calendar

    FIA Releases 2018 F1 Calendar

    The FIA, at the World Motorsport Council meeting at it’s Geneva Headquarters, announced a 21-race calendar for the 2018 Formula One season.

    The season will run from 25 March 2018 at the Australian Grand Prix till 25 November 2018 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Azerbaijan Grand Prix gets pushed up to 29 April while the Russian Grand Prix will take place later in the year.

    The French Grand Prix makes a come back in 2018 after a decade of not featuring on the F1 calendar. The French Grand Prix will take place in Le Castellet at the Paul Ricard circuit. The French GP is scheduled for 24 June 2018 after the Canadian Grand Prix.

    The Hockenheimring makes a come back for 2018 and will take place on 22 July 2018, after the British Grand Prix.

    The Singapore and Chinese Grands Prix are still to be confirmed.

    It’s a rather tight calendar with the European season seeing many back-to-back races.

    2018 F1 Calendar

  • 21-Race Provisional F1 Calendar for 2016 Released By FIA

    21-Race Provisional F1 Calendar for 2016 Released By FIA

    At the World Motorport Council(WMSC) meeting on Friday 10 July 2015 the FIA ratified a few rule changes to the F1 season and released a provisional 21 race calendar for 2016.

    The season will get underway on 3 April 2016 in Australia back-to-back with China on 10 April 2016 and will conclude in Abu Dhabi on 27 November 2016. With the later start and conclusion the order has been tweaked slightly with the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi being moved up to 1 May 2016 and the Malaysian Grand Prix moved down the calendar to 25 September 2016 for the second round of fly-away races. The Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku is scheduled for 17 July 2016.

    There are a number of back-to-back races at the start of the season and towards the middle of the season. This is in-line with the FIA’s goal to reduce the interval between races and to fit more races in a season.

    Below is the provisional 21-race calendar for 2016:

     

    1 3 April Australia
    2 10 April China
    3 24 April Bahrain
    4 1 May Sochi
    5 15 May Spain
    6 29 May Monaco
    7 12 June Canada
    8 26 June UK
    9 3 July Austria
    10 17 July Baku
    11 31 July Germany
    12 7 August Hungary
    13 28 August Belgium
    14 4 September Italy
    15 18 September Singapore
    16 25 September Malaysia
    17 9 October Japan
    18 23 October USA
    19 30 October Mexico
    20 13 November Brazil
    21 27 November Abu Dhabi
  • Rule Changes Ratified by World Motorsport Council

    Rule Changes Ratified by World Motorsport Council

    The FIA World Motorsport Council(WMSC) met on Firday 10 July 2015 in Mexico City, Mexio and ratified some of the adjustments to the F1 regulations put forward by the F1 Strategy Group and approved by the F1 Commission.

    Power unit penalties are now much more simpler. Drivers will no more incur any time penalties during the race if a driver is unable to drop further down the grid. This means that as soon as a driver incurring a penalty gets dropped down the grid and reaches last place, that is the position the driver will start in. No further penalties will be applied.

    Good news for McLaren and Honda. The WMSC has approved the change to allow new power unit manufacturers one extra power unit per driver. This will be applied retrospectively to Honda.

    The above changes will come into effect immediately.

    Changes to the Super Licence regulations have also been made. Drivers who obtain a Super Licence but do not have the opportunity to race in F1 will now be able to hold onto the Super Licence for three years. Changes to the points scoring system for a Super Licence have been made. There is now a larger list of racing series included in the Super Licence points system. The winner of the Formula E Championship will now be granted a Super Licence even though the Formula E Championship does not form part of the points system.