Changes to the F1 Regulations for 2015

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Changes to the F1 Regulations for 2015 have been agreed by the WMSC.

The last date at which the sporting and technical regulations can be changed without unanimous agreement has been changed from 30 June to 1 March each year, starting from 2015.

Changes to 2015 Sporting Regulations

Power units

- The number of engines permitted by each driver in a season will be four. However, if there are more than 20 races in a season, the number will increase to five.
- The penalty for a complete change of Power Unit will be starting from the back of the grid, not the pit lane.


Aerodynamic testing

- The number of wind tunnel runs will be reduced from 80 hours per week to 65 hours per week.
- Wind-on hours are to be reduced from 30 hours per week to 25 hours.
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) usage is to be reduced from 30 Teraflops to 25 Teraflops.
- Two periods of tunnel occupancy will be allowed in one day (rather than only one).
- Teams will only be able to nominate one wind tunnel in one year.


Testing

- There will be three pre-season tests of four days each in Europe in 2015 (currently teams are able to test outside Europe). This will be reduced to two tests of four days in 2016.
- There will be two in-season tests of two days each in Europe (instead of the current four). Two of these four days must be reserved for young drivers.


Car specification at an Event

The current restrictions to the parc fermé will now apply from the start of P3 instead of the start of qualifying.


Wheels and tyres

The ban on tyre blankets will be rescinded for 2015. This will be re-discussed if and when the wheel and tyre diameter increases in the future.


Personnel Curfew

The Friday night curfew will be extended from six to seven hours in 2015 and will increase to eight hours in 2016.


Safety Car restarts

Safety Car restarts will now be a standing start from the grid. Standing starts will not be carried out if the Safety Car is used within two laps of the start (or restart) of a race or if there are less than five laps of the race remaining.


Changes to 2015 Technical Regulations

A number of changes have been made, including:

- A number of new regulations for the noses to ensure improved safety and to provide more aesthetically pleasing structures.
- A number of new regulations concerning skid blocks to ensure that they are made from a lighter material (titanium) and are better contained.
- New regulations to ensure that the brake discs rotate at the same speed as the wheels.
- A two-stage wheel fastener retaining system is now compulsory.


http://www.fia.com/news/world-motor-sport-council-2014-munich
 
Safety Car restarts will now be a standing start from the grid. Standing starts will not be carried out if the Safety Car is used within two laps of the start (or restart) of a race or if there are less than five laps of the race remaining.
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Grim :(
 
Silly rule with the standing starts.

Everyone with really cold tyres and brakes all piling in to the first corner with 10 laps to go trying to make places up. Thats really safe....
 
The standing starts rule is just dull - fair enough it there is an incident that will eat into many valuable racing laps, but we have a system in place for this already!
 
The only thing about the standing starts, would be if they're allowed to park them up straight away and get the teams out, so we dont have laps and laps of following the SC, also how does the grid line up, would it be if they have backmarkers or would these be placed at the back? need more information on it.
 
steve45 said:
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Are they using systems where this isnt the case?
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I also wondered that. I can only assume they are, or clarification was requested by someone if such a system or device would be permissible if they felt the need to introduce a regulation specifically stating as such.
 
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“If it goes to a standing start, the chance of not having a great start is pretty high, so you could go from first to fourth. It’s just a bit too much of a disadvantage for someone who earned the lead in the first place.

- Daniel Ricciardo

Nail. Head. Hammer.

Exactly this! ^ This rule is just absurd beyond belief.... it is making the sport far too artificial and will put people off.
 
What are they going to do about keeping the cars cool and the tyres upto temperature during the wait whilst they clear up debris etc. Where do the backmarkers go on the grid?

I know the drivers aren't happy about this rule. I wouldn't be.
 
smr said:
“If it goes to a standing start, the chance of not having a great start is pretty high, so you could go from first to fourth. It’s just a bit too much of a disadvantage for someone who earned the lead in the first place.

- Daniel Ricciardo

Nail. Head. Hammer.

Exactly this! ^ This rule is just absurd beyond belief.... it is making the sport far too artificial and will put people off.
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yes but... more overtaking :(

Imagine having a 40 second lead, having a safety car which already hurts you but losing the advantage you have in starting race pace when you choose, but then dropping say 3-4 places on a restart despite having previously been 40 seconds ahead. It's nuts, completely and utterly nuts.
 
Wow. How retarded. Absolutely nothing in that list is anything other than ******* stupid or idiotic or completely unnesasary.

I've stuck with F1 because I could see the reasining behind their decisions, but this is just, retarded. Maybe a break away formula is the way forward? The FIA have killed the FIA GT and WTCC Championships. The new WRC rules make the event nothing more than a lottery and now F1 appears to be just all in it for the show rather than the sport.

Stick sprinklers on and be done with it.

Seriously, global motorsport needs a governing body that isn't entirely made up of monkies and idiots with zero understanding of how motor sports should be run.

The FIA are a farse. Pure ans simple.
 
DannagE said:
What are they going to do about keeping the cars cool and the tyres upto temperature during the wait whilst they clear up debris etc. Where do the backmarkers go on the grid?

I know the drivers aren't happy about this rule. I wouldn't be.
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They will trundle around like they do now. Thats the utterly stupid thing about it.

SC comes out, we watch them trudle arou d for laps behind it, then we wait for 5 laps as the lapped cars unlap themselves, and then the SC pulls into the pits and.... they all line up on the grid and start, and then presumably crash into each other again.

Totally stupid.
 
I can see the advantage for Parc Fermé conditions after Q3 for the Mechanics. Apparently the end of Q3 to the start of qualifying is the most high pressure time of the whole weekend and the mechanics hate it. Extending PF means they won't have such a busy time.
 
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