Thread: F1 changes for 2011

The FIA has announced some of the changes for the 2011 series yesterday.

Main points are:

• Perilli as sole tyre supplier for three years.
• 107% qualifying rule returns
• Ban on F-ducts
• Movable body parts allowed

If you ask me its starting to get a little to complicated.... read the section on the movable rear wing!

With immediate effect we get clarification on some rules that have caused agnst this year with three seperate races.

• If a sample of fuel is required after a practice session the car concerned must have first been driven back to the pits under its own power. (i.e. Hamilton in Canada)
  
• No car may overtake until it has passed the first safety car line for the first time when the safety car is returning to the pits. However, if the safety car is still deployed at the beginning of the last lap, or is deployed during the last lap, it will enter the pit lane at the end of the lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking. (i.e. Schumacher in Monaco)
  
• Any car being driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically, or which is deemed potentially dangerous to other drivers, will be reported to the stewards. This will apply whether any such car is being driven on the track, the pit entry or the pit lane. (Button in Malaysia)

Formula 1

The FIA?s World Motor Sport Council has agreed a number of significant changes to the Formula One regulations. Among them are a new single tyre supplier, aerodynamic revisions designed to boost overtaking, a ban on F-ducts, and the return of a 107% qualifying rule.

Pirelli will take over as the sport?s sole tyre supplier from 2011, following Bridgestone?s decision to withdraw at the end of this season. The Italian company will provide all teams with rubber for the next three years, in compliance with existing F1 sporting and technical regulations.

Under new moveable bodywork regulations for next season, drivers will be able to adjust the rear wing from the cockpit as soon as they are two laps into the race. However, the system?s availability will be electronically controlled and it will only be activated when a driver is less than one second behind another at pre-determined points on the track. The system will then be deactivated once the driver brakes. It will be available at all times throughout practice and qualifying.

In a move that could frighten one or two of the new teams, next year any driver not setting a qualifying time within 107% of the fastest Q1 lap will not be permitted to race. Stewards, however, will have the power to grant exceptions in extenuating circumstances, such as where a driver has recorded a suitable time in a previous practice session.

And following the spectacle of Lewis Hamilton pushing his fuel-light McLaren back to the pits at the end of Montreal qualifying, new rules state that cars required to give a post-session fuel sample must arrive back in pit lane under their own power.

Originally Posted by ResLo

If you ask me its starting to get a little to complicated.... read the section on the movable rear wing!

Which team are you racing for this year?

I fear for the controls that will be required for the game!

Ah k. Gotcha.

All other regulations aside, I'm super-stoked to hear that all cars will be running KERS. Paired with the new tyres that are likely to mean better grip and run faster, but degrade quicker, we should be in for some of the best racing we've seen in 2011.

No-one knows what Perilli will bring to the table.

They have not supplied F1 in a very long time (ever?) and so will have no data on the tracks for F1 cars. Getting the right tyre compound will be hit and miss for the first season, so regardless of KERS there will be races where the tyres are too hard or too soft.

No-one knows what Perilli will bring to the table.

They have not supplied F1 in a very long time (ever?) and so will have no data on the tracks for F1 cars. Getting the right tyre compound will be hit and miss for the first season, so regardless of KERS there will be races where the tyres are too hard or too soft.

Interviews indicate they'll be aiming to replicate the current Bridgestone tyres, down to the exact specification, not reinvent the wheel. No pun intended.

From what data? That information is Bridgestones, I can't see them just handing it over.

When Bridgestone came into F1 they started from scratch hence the very different characteristics that existed with the co-supplier Goodyear at the time.