2003 F1 Changes
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2003 F1 Changes
http://www.dailyf1.com/en/news/news.php?id=2619
"Mosley announced that the way in which competitors will qualify for Grand Prix in 2003 and beyond with each competitor taking to the track alone for a single qualifying lap, a new points system that covers the top eight finishers, team orders will no longer be acceptable if they interfere with the race result, Spa Francorchamps removed from the 2002 Calendar, an option for additional Friday testing if teams agree to less than ten days of in-season testing and that each tyre manufacturer can supply each team with up to two compounds.
Proposals such as driver swapping, shared components and ballast were unsurprisingly not approved. It remains to be seen what affect the approved changes will have in terms of livening up what many believes has become an increasingly stagnant series."
Thankfully those ridiculous ideas of driver swapping and ballast weights were not approved.
"Mosley announced that the way in which competitors will qualify for Grand Prix in 2003 and beyond with each competitor taking to the track alone for a single qualifying lap, a new points system that covers the top eight finishers, team orders will no longer be acceptable if they interfere with the race result, Spa Francorchamps removed from the 2002 Calendar, an option for additional Friday testing if teams agree to less than ten days of in-season testing and that each tyre manufacturer can supply each team with up to two compounds.
Proposals such as driver swapping, shared components and ballast were unsurprisingly not approved. It remains to be seen what affect the approved changes will have in terms of livening up what many believes has become an increasingly stagnant series."
Thankfully those ridiculous ideas of driver swapping and ballast weights were not approved.
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yes - but what about the following??
Mosley says:
"What we have to do is make a fine line between on the one side not doing enough and on the other doing too much," he said. "There were some radical proposals discussed in the last few weeks but on balance it seems that what we are doing is likely to produce a significant change and it would have been a mistake to do too much in one go."
The biggest of these changes involves the end of team orders, which world champions Ferrari have used to a great extent this season and which caused controversy at the Austrian Grand Prix. There, Ferrari forced Brazilian Rubens Barrichello to hand his victory to German teammate Michael Schumacher resulting in a one million dollar FIA fine for Ferrari. Mosley is confident that the team chiefs will accept the FIA's ban on team orders.
"We shall watch them very carefully and if there is suspicion then we will take them in front of the stewards," warned Mosley.
David Richards, team principal for British American Racing, however, insisted that there would be no need for policing because he and the other 10 team owners are committed to the cause.
"The strong message has come out that there will be no team orders from now on," confirmed Richards."So we won't be seeing any of the things that have gone on this year."
Mosley says:
"What we have to do is make a fine line between on the one side not doing enough and on the other doing too much," he said. "There were some radical proposals discussed in the last few weeks but on balance it seems that what we are doing is likely to produce a significant change and it would have been a mistake to do too much in one go."
The biggest of these changes involves the end of team orders, which world champions Ferrari have used to a great extent this season and which caused controversy at the Austrian Grand Prix. There, Ferrari forced Brazilian Rubens Barrichello to hand his victory to German teammate Michael Schumacher resulting in a one million dollar FIA fine for Ferrari. Mosley is confident that the team chiefs will accept the FIA's ban on team orders.
"We shall watch them very carefully and if there is suspicion then we will take them in front of the stewards," warned Mosley.
David Richards, team principal for British American Racing, however, insisted that there would be no need for policing because he and the other 10 team owners are committed to the cause.
"The strong message has come out that there will be no team orders from now on," confirmed Richards."So we won't be seeing any of the things that have gone on this year."
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