FIA allows team orders

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Full WMSC statement
10 December 2010


The FIA published the following statement this afternoon after the meeting of World Motor Sport Council in Monaco, which confirmed the introduced of greener engines from 2013 and also rescinded the ban on team orders with immediate effect.

The full statement, in relation to the Formula One World Championship, read:

Formula One

The WMSC approved the introduction of a new specification engine from 2013, underlining the FIA’s commitment to improving sustainability and addressing the needs of the automotive industry.

Following dialogue with the engine manufacturers and experts in this field, the power units will be four cylinders, 1.6 litre with high pressure gasoline injection up to 500 bar with a maximum of 12,000 rpm.

The engines will deliver a 35 percent reduction in fuel consumption and will feature extensive energy management and energy recovery systems, while maintaining current levels of performance. In 2013, five engines will be permitted per driver, but each year after that the limit will be four.


Sporting and Technical Regulations

A number of changes were made to the Sporting and Technical Regulations for 2011, including:

- The article forbidding team orders (39.1) is deleted. Teams will be reminded that any actions liable to bring the sport into disrepute are dealt with under Article 151c of the International Sporting Code and any other relevant provisions

- Amendments to the list of penalties Stewards are permitted to apply
- Revisions to driving and driver conduct
- A limit on the width of the fast lane in the pits
- The introduction of a regulation permitting the Race Director to close the pit lane during a race for safety reasons
- The re-introduction of intermediate tyres for 2011
- Penalties to be applied to any driver who fails to use both specification of dry weather tyre during the race
- An amendment requiring gearboxes to be used for five consecutive races, instead of four
- Clarification on when cars can overtake the safety car
- A refinement to the principles of the regulations already agreed concerning moveable rear wings
- A better definition of the reference plane, and reinforcement of bodywork deflection tests, especially at the front of the reference plane
- The allowance for anti-intrusion panels to protect drivers’ legs


Amendments to the 2012 Technical Regulations were made in the following areas:

- Team communications will be made available to broadcasters
- The inclusion of fuel compounds produced from biomass
- A limitation on suspension uprights

Now THAT came as a shock.

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good, very good

if only engines can sound as they did in early 00's

Why in the world would they allow team orders again after the outrage about the use team orders this season?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/11/2010 08:57AM by mclarenaustralia.

mclarenaustralia Wrote:
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> Why in the world would they allow team orders
> again after the outrage about the use team orders
> this season?

Because it is impossible to police until a proper system is thought up.

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Because there will always be team orders and it is impossible to govern. Ferrari never directly said move over, granted it was obvious what they meant, but they never actually told Massa to let Alonso past. I am sure that there have been other instances this season too that have gone largely unnoticed. The current system is far too messy and all it does is lead to the teams thinking up clever ways to make things look less obvious. At the end of the day f1 is a team sport and has done fine for decades with team orders. However I do think they now need to make the clear definition of "bringing the sport in to disrepute" and what are acceptable team orders.

If you read the text, then they still maintain that teams that bring the sport into disrepute will suffer consequences. So blatant team orders, like one issued in Austria, that make the fans and press go nuts, will probably be punished, while discreet team orders, or team orders late in the season, that are championship deciding, probably won't be punished.

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

They do need to define that though. Was Germany for example team orders or bringing the sport in to disrepute? They need to clear that up before the season starts so there cannot be any arguments during the season.

Maybe, maybe not.

This sentence...

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"Teams will be reminded that any actions liable to bring the sport into disrepute are dealt with under Article 151c of the International Sporting Code and any other relevant provisions"

... has a heavy smell of medium level corridor discussions between the teams and FIA representatives. I think several discussions have taken place, and a lot of issues have been examined over the last years. They have given up on making a clear definition, so it seems that the meaning of the rules are based on a gentlemen's agreement of the following sort:

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My speculative reading of the rules
"Okay we know the rules are stupid and we cannot police them, but at the same time the public will not allow unrestricted use of team orders. At your request we will set them free once more, just don't abuse this and fukc it up for everybody, okay?"

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/11/2010 06:36PM by Morbid.