The FIA are keen to avoid a team having a superior power unit in 2026, when the new engine regulations are introduced. Effectively, the governing body don’t want a repeat of what happened when the engines were last significantly changed in 2014, when the turbo-hybrid era was introduced. Mercedes entered the turbo-hybrid era with an
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Despite having previously been rejected by Formula 1 teams, the FIA are set to introduce a driver cooling device, following what was in many ways a disastrous Qatar Grand Prix. F1’s return to the Lusail International Circuit was a brutal affair, with the immense heat having had a greater effect due to each set of
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Ahead of this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, the FIA have introduced a new Technical Directive (TD), to clamp down on teams exploiting the flexi-wing regulations. Flexi-wings have become a norm this season and have been captured by TV directors during onboard footage, showing which teams have worked their way around the rulebook. The governing body
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The FIA’s single seater director Nikolas Tombazis has ruled out Formula 1 scrapping DRS “in the short term”, due to the Greek engineer believing it to be too big a “risk for the sport”. DRS was introduced to the pinnacle of motorsport in 2011 and makes overtaking easier, due to a car’s top-speed being increased
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Ex-Formula 1 driver Martin Brundle has joined the vast majority of the Formula 1 paddock currently in shock, after FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem relinquished the role of handling the “day-to-day” running of the pinnacle of motorsport. Brundle simply tweeted “wow” after the news broke, with the pressure potentially starting to get to the FIA president, following
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The major changes in regulations that came at the start of 2022 provided teams with the challenge of designing the fastest car possible under the new constraints. While some teams such as Red Bull and Ferrari quickly got to grips with F1’s new era, other struggled and encountered unexpected problems with their designs. Mercedes were
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The FIA have introduced a number of new rules and regulations in recent years in an attempt to bring the field closer together and increase the competitiveness of Formula 1. The cost cap was introduced in 2021 to limit teams to spending a maximum of $145m over the course of a season, while the 2022
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FIA single-seater technical director Nikolas Tombazis has confirmed that wheel arches are being considered going forward when heavy rain appears, in order for the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix to never be repeated. For a sport deemed to be the pinnacle of motorsport, the championship has looked embarrassing in recent years when met with a wet race.
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Following a season of more black-and-orange flags than usual, the FIA’s technical director Nikolas Tombazis has admitted that the governing body ‘got it wrong’ during 2022. Throughout the 2022 season, drivers were being shown the ‘meatball flag’ as soon as an endplate became wobbly, with the governing body having become relentlessly strict in regard to vehicle
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2011 saw one of the biggest changes in Formula 1 in the history of the sport, as the Drag Reduction System was introduced to help aid overtaking and make races more entertaining. DRS allows the rear wing of the F1 cars to open at certain parts of circuits, when within a second of the car
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