Werner333
10-10-2002, 18:03
Dit is het volledige 9 punten plan van de FIA om de F1 te hervormen.
Bron: http://www.autosport.com/
The FIA's nine-point plan
F1 could be about to change forever...
This is the document that the Formula 1 team owners were sent, outlining how motorsport governing body, the FIA, plans to shake up grand prix racing like it has never done before. As you will see, some of the ideas are so radical it is hard to believe they will ever become reality. Others, however, appear to make some sense.
The nine points and split into two categories: improving the spectacle and cost reduction in Formula 1. The explanations given are part of the FIA document, and are not AUTOSPORT's.
IMPROVING THE SPECTACLE
Quite often, one team achieves dominance. When this happens public interest in Formula One declines. The following proposals are intended to increase public interest in each event, even in periods when one team is dominant.
1 Drivers and teams
Drivers competing in the FIA Formula One World Championship will no longer be contracted to a team. Drivers wishing to compete will submit an application to the FIA (ie to the Formula One Commission) which will select the drivers each year for the Championship on the basis of one for each car entered.
Assuming ten teams and thus 20 drivers, each driver will drive for a different team at each of the first ten races. The teams and races for each driver will be decided by lot. The driver leading the Championship after ten races will then choose the seven teams for which he wishes to drive in the seven remaining races. The driver lying second will have second choice and so on. Having chosen his seven teams, the race at which he will drive for any given team will be decided by lot.
At each Event a driver will wear the uniform of the team for which he is driving. While existing driver contracts last they will be honoured financially by the teams which made them. Drivers with a firm contract for 2003 will automatically be included in the 2003 Championship.
Each team will have a test driver, who will not participate in the Championship except to replace a scheduled driver in case of force majeure. However, the test driver will be well placed to have a future application to participate in the Championship accepted.
Subject to the necessary changes to the Concorde Agreement, drivers without a team contract (or whose contract has expired) will be paid out of a central fund - for example a fixed retainer plus an amount for each point scored in the current and previous season plus an amount for each World Championship and so on.
Explanation
From a sporting point of view, both the drivers' championship and the constructors' championship are flawed because a mediocre driver can win in an outstanding car and vice-versa. However, Formula One (indeed motor sport generally) has always been like this.
The proposed new system would eliminate this unfairness. It would also add a new element to each race and would fascinate the public, giving the press and commentators an endless source of stories and speculation. What will Schumacher do in the Jordan or Webber in the Williams or Montoya in the Minardi, Villeneuve in the Ferrari, etc, etc?
It is beginning to be fashionable to criticise Formula One. Arguably, a change as radical as this is what Formula One now needs in order to re-establish its image and recapture the interest of the public.
Further reasons for adopting this system are:
all teams would be able to offer the same outstanding driver line-up, at least for the first ten races. This would help the smaller teams attract sponsors; by separating the drivers from the teams, public interest in the participating manufacturers would increase; we would no longer have drivers in the Championship who bring more money than talent; he team-order problem would be eliminated.
2 Qualifying
In place of one session of one hour on Saturday, two 30-minute qualifying sessions (with a five-minute break) on both Friday and Saturday. A maximum of 8 laps in any one 30-minute session. Times from the first Friday session to be aggregated with those of the second Friday session. These aggregated Friday times to be aggregated with the times from the first Saturday session and all those times then aggregated with those of the second Saturday session.
Any driver failing to record a time in a session would be credited for that session with his worst recorded time from the session immediately before or after the session he has missed, whichever is the slowest.
Explanation
This will ensure everyone runs on Friday, even with the restriction on engine supply. It will also give the press more to write about for the Saturday papers. Interest in qualifying will grow steadily as one session follows another and times are aggregated during the weekend.
3 Tyres
Each tyre company to be permitted to continue to supply a maximum of two types of dry tyre to each competing team, but with freedom to supply different types of tyres to different teams.
Explanation
This will reduce the disadvantage suffered by a team which has to share a tyre company by comparison with a team which does not.
TECHNICAL REGULATIONS
4 Handicap
Introduce a handicap formula by adding 1 kg per point to the weight of the car.
Explanation
If the drivers and teams proposal outlined under 3(i) above is not accepted, a weight penalty would add interest and make the Championship much more competitive by ensuring that any outstanding car/driver combinations were progressively slowed relative to less successful cars.
COST REDUCTION
Each cost reduction measure must satisfy four conditions: no reduction in the technical challenge of Formula One; no reduction in the spectacle of Formula One; no medium or long term increase in cost as a result of a short term decrease.
no reduction in safety
Measures such as engine speed limitation (reduction of technical challenge) or one set of tyres per race (loss of pit-stop spectacle) cannot be considered. Similarly, the lesson of aluminium beryllium must not be forgotten - banning this very stiff but expensive alloy eliminated an expensive material but the wording of the new regulation resulted in even greater sums being spent on special alloys to get as close as possible to the lower stiffness limit.
The two areas where the greatest savings can be made while respecting the above three conditions are (i) reducing private testing so as to eliminate the need for a test team and (ii) increasing the life of components used in the race cars.
Bron: http://www.autosport.com/
The FIA's nine-point plan
F1 could be about to change forever...
This is the document that the Formula 1 team owners were sent, outlining how motorsport governing body, the FIA, plans to shake up grand prix racing like it has never done before. As you will see, some of the ideas are so radical it is hard to believe they will ever become reality. Others, however, appear to make some sense.
The nine points and split into two categories: improving the spectacle and cost reduction in Formula 1. The explanations given are part of the FIA document, and are not AUTOSPORT's.
IMPROVING THE SPECTACLE
Quite often, one team achieves dominance. When this happens public interest in Formula One declines. The following proposals are intended to increase public interest in each event, even in periods when one team is dominant.
1 Drivers and teams
Drivers competing in the FIA Formula One World Championship will no longer be contracted to a team. Drivers wishing to compete will submit an application to the FIA (ie to the Formula One Commission) which will select the drivers each year for the Championship on the basis of one for each car entered.
Assuming ten teams and thus 20 drivers, each driver will drive for a different team at each of the first ten races. The teams and races for each driver will be decided by lot. The driver leading the Championship after ten races will then choose the seven teams for which he wishes to drive in the seven remaining races. The driver lying second will have second choice and so on. Having chosen his seven teams, the race at which he will drive for any given team will be decided by lot.
At each Event a driver will wear the uniform of the team for which he is driving. While existing driver contracts last they will be honoured financially by the teams which made them. Drivers with a firm contract for 2003 will automatically be included in the 2003 Championship.
Each team will have a test driver, who will not participate in the Championship except to replace a scheduled driver in case of force majeure. However, the test driver will be well placed to have a future application to participate in the Championship accepted.
Subject to the necessary changes to the Concorde Agreement, drivers without a team contract (or whose contract has expired) will be paid out of a central fund - for example a fixed retainer plus an amount for each point scored in the current and previous season plus an amount for each World Championship and so on.
Explanation
From a sporting point of view, both the drivers' championship and the constructors' championship are flawed because a mediocre driver can win in an outstanding car and vice-versa. However, Formula One (indeed motor sport generally) has always been like this.
The proposed new system would eliminate this unfairness. It would also add a new element to each race and would fascinate the public, giving the press and commentators an endless source of stories and speculation. What will Schumacher do in the Jordan or Webber in the Williams or Montoya in the Minardi, Villeneuve in the Ferrari, etc, etc?
It is beginning to be fashionable to criticise Formula One. Arguably, a change as radical as this is what Formula One now needs in order to re-establish its image and recapture the interest of the public.
Further reasons for adopting this system are:
all teams would be able to offer the same outstanding driver line-up, at least for the first ten races. This would help the smaller teams attract sponsors; by separating the drivers from the teams, public interest in the participating manufacturers would increase; we would no longer have drivers in the Championship who bring more money than talent; he team-order problem would be eliminated.
2 Qualifying
In place of one session of one hour on Saturday, two 30-minute qualifying sessions (with a five-minute break) on both Friday and Saturday. A maximum of 8 laps in any one 30-minute session. Times from the first Friday session to be aggregated with those of the second Friday session. These aggregated Friday times to be aggregated with the times from the first Saturday session and all those times then aggregated with those of the second Saturday session.
Any driver failing to record a time in a session would be credited for that session with his worst recorded time from the session immediately before or after the session he has missed, whichever is the slowest.
Explanation
This will ensure everyone runs on Friday, even with the restriction on engine supply. It will also give the press more to write about for the Saturday papers. Interest in qualifying will grow steadily as one session follows another and times are aggregated during the weekend.
3 Tyres
Each tyre company to be permitted to continue to supply a maximum of two types of dry tyre to each competing team, but with freedom to supply different types of tyres to different teams.
Explanation
This will reduce the disadvantage suffered by a team which has to share a tyre company by comparison with a team which does not.
TECHNICAL REGULATIONS
4 Handicap
Introduce a handicap formula by adding 1 kg per point to the weight of the car.
Explanation
If the drivers and teams proposal outlined under 3(i) above is not accepted, a weight penalty would add interest and make the Championship much more competitive by ensuring that any outstanding car/driver combinations were progressively slowed relative to less successful cars.
COST REDUCTION
Each cost reduction measure must satisfy four conditions: no reduction in the technical challenge of Formula One; no reduction in the spectacle of Formula One; no medium or long term increase in cost as a result of a short term decrease.
no reduction in safety
Measures such as engine speed limitation (reduction of technical challenge) or one set of tyres per race (loss of pit-stop spectacle) cannot be considered. Similarly, the lesson of aluminium beryllium must not be forgotten - banning this very stiff but expensive alloy eliminated an expensive material but the wording of the new regulation resulted in even greater sums being spent on special alloys to get as close as possible to the lower stiffness limit.
The two areas where the greatest savings can be made while respecting the above three conditions are (i) reducing private testing so as to eliminate the need for a test team and (ii) increasing the life of components used in the race cars.