Right, well the FIA have released the cost cap and other rule changes for 2010.
Will get onto the budget stuff in a minute, but the biggest change other than that is
From 2010 refuelling during the race will be banned (though pits for tyre changes still needed/allowed) and there's also a ban on tyre blankets and any other tyre warming device (all other devices than blankets already banned)
13 teams are to be allowed into the 2010 Grand Prix and have a choice of operating under a £40m per year budget cap, or an unlimited budget.
Teams opting for an unlimited budget have restrictions enforced on them (mainly engine rev limiters and testing)
If you operate under the £40m budget you are allowed
- Movable wings front and rear
- An engine which is not subject to a rev limit
- Unlimited out-of-season track testing
- No restriction on scale or speed of wind tunnel testing
The £40m budget does not apply to:
- Marketing and hospitality
- Remuneration for test or race drivers, including any young driver programmes
- Fines or penalties imposed by the FIA
- Engine costs (for 2010 only)
- Any expenditure which the team can demonstrate has no influence on its performance in the Championship
- Dividends (including any tax thereon) paid from profits relating to participation in the Championship
Be interesting to see what teams opt for what limit (can see Force India going for the £40m budget) and how they find loopholes in the rules.
New teams to F1 will also be offered $10m per year, plus free transport of 2 chassis and upto 10,000kg freight as well as 20 economy class air travel tickets for all events held outside Europe.
Full details on these rule changes and other amendments to the rules will be available shortly
Full list of teams and drivers to be announced 12 June 2009
Will get onto the budget stuff in a minute, but the biggest change other than that is
From 2010 refuelling during the race will be banned (though pits for tyre changes still needed/allowed) and there's also a ban on tyre blankets and any other tyre warming device (all other devices than blankets already banned)
13 teams are to be allowed into the 2010 Grand Prix and have a choice of operating under a £40m per year budget cap, or an unlimited budget.
Teams opting for an unlimited budget have restrictions enforced on them (mainly engine rev limiters and testing)
If you operate under the £40m budget you are allowed
- Movable wings front and rear
- An engine which is not subject to a rev limit
- Unlimited out-of-season track testing
- No restriction on scale or speed of wind tunnel testing
The £40m budget does not apply to:
- Marketing and hospitality
- Remuneration for test or race drivers, including any young driver programmes
- Fines or penalties imposed by the FIA
- Engine costs (for 2010 only)
- Any expenditure which the team can demonstrate has no influence on its performance in the Championship
- Dividends (including any tax thereon) paid from profits relating to participation in the Championship
Be interesting to see what teams opt for what limit (can see Force India going for the £40m budget) and how they find loopholes in the rules.
New teams to F1 will also be offered $10m per year, plus free transport of 2 chassis and upto 10,000kg freight as well as 20 economy class air travel tickets for all events held outside Europe.
Full details on these rule changes and other amendments to the rules will be available shortly
Full list of teams and drivers to be announced 12 June 2009
