Welcome all to a new series by yours truly, first came the Safety First series, and now I will teach you all on the ethics of Formula One. When we reach the end of this series, you should all have a thorough understanding of Formula One. Let’s begin with the first instalment, Aerodynamics.
Modern Formula One cars have as much in common with a jet fighter as they do with ordinary road cars. Nope, that isn’t a joke.
Aerodynamics have become vital to achieving meaningful success in the sport and teams spend hundreds of millions of pounds on research, development and analysis of aerodynamics each year.
The designer of the aerodynamic package has two concerns …Â Details
The FIA, headed by Max Mosley, want to introduce an optional 40 million pound ($60.7 million) budget cap next year to encourage new teams to enter.
The plan would allow capped teams to operate with far greater technical freedom than those continuing with unlimited budgets.
Ferrari’s president Luca di Montezemolo, head of the Formula One Teams’ Association (FOTA), has warned it would create a two-tier championship that could be “fundamentally unfair and perhaps even biased… Details
Formula One team Toro Rosso has fired French driver Sebastien Bourdais.
Bourdais, a four-time Champ Car series champion in the United States, had been unimpressive in the 2009 season, his second in F1.
Toro Rosso said a replacement driver would be named …Â Details
Max Mosley has resisted pressure to stand again as FIA president and will back Frenchman Jean Todt to succeed him after 16 years in charge of world motorsport.
The 69-year-old Mosley announced last month that he wouldn’t seek a fifth term after brokering a deal with the Formula One Teams Association to avert a rival series. However, he then said in a subsequent newspaper interview that he might reconsider that decision.
Mosley said on Wednesday he received “almost 100 messages from FIA member clubs urging me to think again†but that he felt it was time to move on.
“Extremely grateful though I am for all the letters, e-mails and messages I have received, I have decided to reconfirm my decision. I will not be a candidate in October,†Mosley wrote in a letter to the FIA membership… Details