After months of fighting with the FIA over the proposed £40 million budget cap and the two different sets of technical regulations, it appears as though a solution has been found. All members of the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) have filed their applications for the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship. Continue reading
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McLaren Given A Stay Of Execution
McLaren was spared from a potentially fatal decision from the FIA World Motorsport Council when they were given a suspended sentence. If the punishment wasn’t suspended, McLaren would have been banned from the next three races. Continue reading
Formula 1: FIA Rules Diffusers Legal
The FIA International Court of Appeal has ruled that the diffusers run by Brawn GP, Williams, and Toyota are legal. The reasons for the decision haven’t been handed down as of writing but this means that the three teams will be able to race this weekend in China. Continue reading
Formula 1: How Does a Diffuser Work?
Tomorrow, the whole Formula One season will be turned on its head. Either six cars from Brawn GP, Williams, and Toyota will have their controversial diffusers found illegal which will cause them to be disqualified from the first two rounds of the world championship or they will be deemed legal forcing the other seven teams to play catch-up.
So before we get to Tuesday’s game changing meeting of the international court of appeal, I thought I would be a good idea to look at how a diffuser works on an F1 car and why the solutions the three teams under protest have developed are so far ahead of the competition. Continue reading
F1 Malaysia: TSN’s Coverage Improves…
… But that improvement didn’t come through anything that they did. TSN lucked into the fact that yesterday’s Malaysian Grand Prix turned out as it did, otherwise it would have been as big a train wreck as last week’s. Continue reading
F1 In Canada: TSN Sucks and Return to Montreal
So the 2009 F1 season kicked off with a bang. Rubens Barrichello managed to cause a four car pile-up in the first turn after chunking the start. Meanwhile, some guy named Jenson Button won the race followed by Barrichello (who got back to second after some other guys crashed) and Lewis Hamilton (thanks to a stewards’ decision that went his way for once).
Over here in Canada, things weren’t quite so rosy. Continue reading
The Lowdown 