funny how the time fly's... some days i remember thirty years ago better than this morning
Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:45 PM PDT by Chode
This will be a general purpose thread for F1 news and pings that really don't require a thread of their own.
funny how the time fly's... some days i remember thirty years ago better than this morning
Boy that is the truth. I cannot remember things someone just tells me BUT can remember things in the way-back machine brain.
New Super License points system from 2016
Formula One racing’s governing body, the FIA, has revealed details of a new Super Licence points system, making it harder for drivers to become eligible for F1 competition.
From 2016, drivers must have accumulated 40 points over a three-year period, with points allocation based on which other motorsport series they have participated in and the level of results they achieved.
Drivers will have also have to be at least 18-years old, have spent at least two years in junior single-seater categories, hold a valid road driver’s licence and pass a test on the Formula One sporting regulations. The existing requirement of completing 300 kilometres in a recent F1 car also remains.
The junior categories eligible for points, in order of weighting, are: a future FIA F2 championship (60 points for winner), GP2 (50), FIA F3 European championship (40), FIA WEC (LMP1 only) (40), IndyCar (40), GP3 (30), Formula Renault 3.5 (30), Japanese Super Formula (20), national FIA-certified F4 championships (10), national F3 championships (10) and Formula Renault (EuroCup, ALPS or NEC) (5).
If such a system had been in place ahead of 2015, new Toro Rosso signing Max Verstappen would be ineligible to race in F1 this year, having accrued just 20 points by finishing third in the 2014 FIA F3 European championship - the 17-year-old’s only season of car racing to date.
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2015/1/16755.html
considering the grid is down to 9 teams and could soon drop to 8 as Lotus is having trouble paying bills, it won’t be to tough to find drivers to meet the requirements...
i heard that
He traded up for the sports model, then he ordered a car.
http://www.autoblog.com/2015/01/08/laferrari-owner-cornelia-hagmann-husband-died-video/
and a redhead to boot... hope she doesn't kill herself in it
F1 1978 Monza Ligier Matra V12 Jacques Laffite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h2LOzRrQ4M
Single seater driven around Nurburgring Nordschleife in the snow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2g6sTSbxBU
I got to hear the Matra in person at the 1978 Belgian GP. It was pretty amazing, but I was stunned just to be there...
it definitely had a song all it's own and was the worst assault on my ears up to that point in time from a racing engine...
Honda wins Formula 1 engine battle with FIAMcLaren's new engine partner Honda has won its fight to be allowed to develop its engine during 2015.
Formula 1's governing body the FIA has backtracked on an earlier ruling that allowed Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari to upgrade their engines but not Honda.
The move comes after Honda expressed its unhappiness about what it considered to be an unfair situation.
Honda will now be allowed to develop its brand new engine within limits explicitly laid out by the FIA.
Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari are allowed to change up to 48% of the engines they used in 2014 by the end of the 2015 season.
This is defined by a number of 'tokens', which are assigned to parts of the engine on the basis of their influence on performance.
Out of a total of 66 tokens, Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari can modify 32 through 2015.
Previously Honda had been barred from changing any of its engine after it was approved for competition on 28 February.
Friday's ruling will allow Honda to change a given amount of its engine calculated by the average of the number of tokens unused by the other manufacturers by the time of the first race in Australia on 16 March.
In the example given by FIA race director Charlie Whiting, and seen by BBC Sport, he writes: "If the three 2014 manufacturers have eight, seven and five unused tokens respectively at the start of the season, then the new manufacturer will be allowed to use six during the season (the average rounded down to the nearest whole number)".
Honda, which is the first new engine manufacturer to enter F1 for well over a decade, had been concerned that it was not being treated fairly.
Its senior management flew over from Japan to meet the FIA on Monday to express its concerns at the situation.
This followed the decision by the FIA to allow Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari to use their 32 development tokens over the course of the 2015 season, rather than by the originally intended approval date of 28 February.
That came after Ferrari, who had the worst engine in 2014, pointed out to the FIA that the rules did not clearly define when the modified engines for 2015 should be submitted for approval.
Whiting admitted in his note to the teams on Friday evening that that ruling left "unaddressed uncertainty" within the rules on the permitted engine development.
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Its rivals could develop their engines in 2015 following the FIA's initial U-turn but it could not |
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It was being forced to supply only four engines to its drivers in 2015, the same as the other manufacturers, even though its rivals were allowed to supply five in their first season with their new engines in 2014 |
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In 2016, it was being allowed to use only 25 units of development, the same restrictions on it as the other manufacturers, meaning it missed out on the 32 its rivals could use in 2015. |
The FIA's decision also takes into account the opinions of Honda's rivals that it had an advantage inherent in entering a year late in that it knew a target to aim for, because it was aware of the performance of the rival engines in 2014.
By contrast, Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari were shooting in the dark before 2014, when the new turbo hybrid engine formula, with accompanying fuel restriction, was introduced.
None of the three existing manufacturers are expected to start the season with an engine that uses all 32 development tokens.
Mercedes are in the best position, but both Renault and to an even greater extent Ferrari will leave substantial leeway to make major changes to their engine architecture during the season as they are both behind where they wanted to be in terms of development.
It is unclear exactly how much Honda will be able to develop its engine, but the latest FIA ruling and the positions of its rivals mean it is likely to have a significant amount of development available.
There was a time when engine rules and chassis rules yeilded great cars and competition. Tinkering to please political winds ruined things.
Getting rid of electoninc aids that permited mediocre drivers to compete above their level was one of the few things the fools the run F1 did right
IMHO, of course. I grew up reading of Gurney, Clark, Stewart, Hill, Surtees, and all those old geezers that had to do it manually.
Rant off.
So at the end of the Season can the “unused tokens” be used on any Train or Subway System Worldwide?
I mean, after all they shouldn’t be wasted...
On a serious note I’m thinking that FIA is Skeert of Honda because the last time they were in F1 they kicked the living $&!t out of everybody IIRC.
100%
strange thing that, as an engine supplier yes, but as a team they only scored three wins... go figure
Yeah, Honda has juuuuust a little experience...(with screaming high-rev engines that don't blow up)
Good one!
Back in the day, the Beetle engine was Porsche, the Rabbit engine was Audi.
a little...
cause Audi had more experience with diesel???
Well, I understand that the Rabbit/Golf engine was so strong because its main and rod bearing struture was so overbuilt (due to the gas engine being based on a diesel block)
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