Tuesday’s meeting of the FIA World Motorsport Council in Paris was aimed mostly at changes to Formula One, but the council also confirmed that the World Rally Championship will look much different beginning next season.
In 2010, cars eligible to score points in the manufacturers’ championship will include the present and future World Rally Cars, and Super 2000-class cars.
“To reflect a need to further reduce and control costs, the proposed technical regulations for the future World Rally Car have been amended,” the FIA said…. Details
This week in motorsports: Formula 1 decides that the World Driver’s Championship will now be awarded based on total number of wins, Audi’s R15 burns up the track during testing at Sebring, and former race team head and CEO Jean Todt officially leaves Ferrari…. Details
With Formula D nearing its season-ending round, we reminisce on a year filled with plenty of heart-wrenching crashes, controversies, surprises, and upsets within each drift series. Teams getting new drivers, drivers getting new cars, and cars getting new parts, are all typical of what happens in the off-season, isn’t it? Or is it in the off-season that we hear plenty of rumors and gossip about … Details
Formula DRIFT will be implementing a Top 32 tandem competition format for the 2009 season. The Top 32 tandem format will replace the Top 16 format previously used in an effort to appeal to the fans. The new competition format will be used starting at Round 1: Streets of Long Beach on April 10-11.
The Top 32 tandem competition format will pit the Top …Â Details