FIA reveals radical cost-cutting measures

[Piotr Misiorek]

A total ban on in-season testing, major revisions to engine regulations and dramatic cuts in aerodynamic development have formed the cornerstone of a radical rules overhaul that will cut costs in Formula One.

Following a meeting of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Monaco on Friday, the FIA has announced a host of measures that will be put in place over the next few years that will cut budgets by at least one third from next season.

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The full list of cost-cutting measures

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Sounds like good news. If the enforce this rule and drop the ridiculous stockengine rule it might turn out for the better!

 

[Keith Peppiatt]

Looking good. looking at the refueling gone maybe we will see a return to light fuel quali sessions again... lets see these cars go fast and on the edge!!!

 

[Dave Stephenson]

sounds like open cockpit touring car racing if you ask.

 

[Ken Hunter]

Some of these changes can work, but by taking away the induvidual teams competitiveness, i feel is going backward.

 

[Lewis Owen]

Time will tell with these measures, I just really hope the "medals" proposal doesn't go through.
Drivers should be rewarded for consistent driving through the season.
Highly unlikely someone will win the championship without winning a few races.

 

[HeyJoe]

It´s seems that FIA wants to creat another bullshit with the ridiculous stockengine!

 

[Daniel Pettit]

I disagree. The 'goldern years' of F1 that so many hark back to was a time when 90% of the field ran a Ford Cosworth DFV engine. It worked then because all you needed to so was buy a customer chassis, plug in an engine and there you were you had a competitive car. Whats so wrong with harking back to that rather than catering for factory teams which have a long history of being like locusts to a series, using it whilst they want to then ditching it leaving it ruined in their wake.