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F1 to unveil new points system, tire rules
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February 3, 2010, Wednesday
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FORMULA One is set to formalize new regulations for the expanded 13-team championship to include a points system that would reward the top 10 drivers while handing race winners 25 points.
Second-place drivers would earn 18 points, followed by 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point, the sport's governing body FIA said. Since 1993, it went 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1.
The Formula One Commission, which groups the teams and major stakeholders, agreed the amendments to the sporting and technical regulations at a meeting on Monday.
The measures will be submitted to the World Motor Sport Council for final approval within 48 hours, although that can usually be taken for granted.
Jenson Button would still have captured the 2009 championship, but by a greater margin over Sebastian Vettel with the new system.
"It's a good decision to change this points system," Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost said. "The reason for it is we are pushing for more overtaking maneuvers. We just hope this will be the case."
FIA is also proposing to have the top-10 race qualifiers start on their qualifying tires, while the rest of the field could use new tires. F1 will also reduce the number of dry weather tires available to teams to "encourage teams to run during the Friday practice sessions."
"The number of dry weather tires sets allocated per team has been reduced from 14 to 11," the FIA said.
"In addition, to encourage teams to run during the Friday practice sessions, one set has to be returned before the start of the second practice session, and two sets before the start of the third practice session."
"We're not 100 percent sure on this yet," Tost said of having to race on the tires used in qualifying, although he did believe this would make races more interesting.
Measures to exclude the contentious double diffuser - a rear wing design that creates more downforce - from 2011 were also agreed.
Teams protested against Brawn GP, Toyota and Williams last year over their interpretation of the diffuser rule after the design helped eventual constructors' champion Brawn pull away from the pack. However, the double diffuser was later cleared for use.
Teams unveiling their 2010 cars have been coy about their rear diffusers, sparking fears that a fresh row could erupt when the season starts on March 14 in Bahrain.
"This is the first car in which we have had a clean sheet of paper to really exploit the interpretation that was developed last year for a design of floors," McLaren engineering director Paddy Lowe said at his team's car launch last week.
"You will see we have produced a fairly extreme incarnation of that but we won't be alone in that. We believe you will see some pretty extreme solutions on our competitors' cars as well."
2010 Teams and Drivers
McLaren Jenson Button Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes GP M Schumacher Nico Rosberg
Red Bull Sebastian Vettel Mark Webber
Ferrari Felipe Massa Fernando Alonso
BMW Sauber Pedro de la Rosa Kamui Kobayashi
Williams Rubens Barrichello Nico Hulkenberg
Renault Robert Kubica Vitaly Petrov
Force India Adrian Sutil Vitantonio Liuzzi
Toro Rosso Sebastien Buemi Jaime Alguersuari
Lotus Jarno Trulli Heikki Kovalainen
Campos Bruno Senna Undecided US F1 Jose Maria Lopez Undecided
Virgin Timo Glock Lucas di Grassi
Second-place drivers would earn 18 points, followed by 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point, the sport's governing body FIA said. Since 1993, it went 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1.
The Formula One Commission, which groups the teams and major stakeholders, agreed the amendments to the sporting and technical regulations at a meeting on Monday.
The measures will be submitted to the World Motor Sport Council for final approval within 48 hours, although that can usually be taken for granted.
Jenson Button would still have captured the 2009 championship, but by a greater margin over Sebastian Vettel with the new system.
"It's a good decision to change this points system," Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost said. "The reason for it is we are pushing for more overtaking maneuvers. We just hope this will be the case."
FIA is also proposing to have the top-10 race qualifiers start on their qualifying tires, while the rest of the field could use new tires. F1 will also reduce the number of dry weather tires available to teams to "encourage teams to run during the Friday practice sessions."
"The number of dry weather tires sets allocated per team has been reduced from 14 to 11," the FIA said.
"In addition, to encourage teams to run during the Friday practice sessions, one set has to be returned before the start of the second practice session, and two sets before the start of the third practice session."
"We're not 100 percent sure on this yet," Tost said of having to race on the tires used in qualifying, although he did believe this would make races more interesting.
Measures to exclude the contentious double diffuser - a rear wing design that creates more downforce - from 2011 were also agreed.
Teams protested against Brawn GP, Toyota and Williams last year over their interpretation of the diffuser rule after the design helped eventual constructors' champion Brawn pull away from the pack. However, the double diffuser was later cleared for use.
Teams unveiling their 2010 cars have been coy about their rear diffusers, sparking fears that a fresh row could erupt when the season starts on March 14 in Bahrain.
"This is the first car in which we have had a clean sheet of paper to really exploit the interpretation that was developed last year for a design of floors," McLaren engineering director Paddy Lowe said at his team's car launch last week.
"You will see we have produced a fairly extreme incarnation of that but we won't be alone in that. We believe you will see some pretty extreme solutions on our competitors' cars as well."
2010 Teams and Drivers
McLaren Jenson Button Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes GP M Schumacher Nico Rosberg
Red Bull Sebastian Vettel Mark Webber
Ferrari Felipe Massa Fernando Alonso
BMW Sauber Pedro de la Rosa Kamui Kobayashi
Williams Rubens Barrichello Nico Hulkenberg
Renault Robert Kubica Vitaly Petrov
Force India Adrian Sutil Vitantonio Liuzzi
Toro Rosso Sebastien Buemi Jaime Alguersuari
Lotus Jarno Trulli Heikki Kovalainen
Campos Bruno Senna Undecided US F1 Jose Maria Lopez Undecided
Virgin Timo Glock Lucas di Grassi
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