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The new 2010 F1 rules: A quick guide
The changes to the F1 rules are not as sweeping as they were last season. But there are several significant alterations such as the ban on refuelling during races and winners getting 25 points instead of ten.
And there are some other small-but-significant changes for 2010 to keep an eye on too, all of which are [...]
A change for the better: double diffusers likely to be banned in 2011
Autosport reveals the F1 teams are planning a change in the technical rules to ban double diffusers – but not until after the 2010 F1 season.
The thinking is this will help keep cornering speeds down and hopefully reduce the turbulence coming from the back of F1 cars, allowing them to follow each other more closely.
However [...]
Think the new F1 points system is weird? We’ve seen much stranger than that…
The new F1 points system, which will give 25 points for a win next year, has provoked much debate and criticism.
Points in F1 have produced strange situations in the past. At one race seven drivers shared a single point. Other drivers have found themselves unable to score points in a race due to a quir [...]
14 reasons to love the refuelling ban
The F1 Sporting Working Group has been asked to come up with new ideas to “improve the show” in F1 in 2010.
But the best decision to improve the show was taken this time last year. After 16 years, refuelling during the race is finally being banned. This will make F1 more exciting, easier to follow, [...]
Race winners could get 25 points in 2010
The FIA will vote tomorrow on a new points system for F1 proposed by the re-formed F1 Commission. The change looks radical on the surface with a winner getting 25 points instead of ten.
But on closer inspection the new points system will probably make little difference at all and only act to encourage drivers to [...]
Goodbye to… refuelling
It’s the last race of the season so we’ll be saying our farewells this weekend – some of the fondly, others not so much.
One goodbye likely to divide reaction among fans is the long-awaited banning of refuelling.
When we witness our final refuelling pit stop this weekend will we have lost something special from F1? Or, [...]
Rights and wrongs of the testing ban
F1 Fanantic guest writer and Vee8 author Duncan Stephen looks at the problems the testing ban has caused this year.
This year has seen several major changes in F1, but among the biggest has been the ban on in-season testing. As is usually the case with sweeping rule changes, it has brought more than its fair [...]
F1 teams to abandon KERS in 2010
All bar one of F1’s 13 teams have agreed not to use KERS in 2010.
This comes after the 2010 F1 rules published by the FIA yesterday indicated they may continue to use the energy recovery technology next year.
F1 2010 rules: A return to proper qualifying and real Grand Prix racing
Surely the best news in the 2010 F1 rules is the confirmed return of low-fuel qualifying and a ban on in-race refuelling:
29.1 b) Refuelling during a race is forbidden.
2010 F1 Sporting Reguations
The needless and uninteresting complication of fuel strategy and and tedious race-fuel qualifying are being swept away. This is a return to proper Grand [...]
F1 2010 rules: KERS to stay
F1 cars will continue to use KERS in 2010.
Despite widespread expectations that Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems would be dropped after just one year, the new F1 regulations published today includes provision for the devices.
The F1 teams’ association had agreed not to use KERS next year – but I’m glad it’s staying.
