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Oct 31, 2008

F1 announced new rules in 2007: a single tire put more emphasis on safety factor

The new F1 season, there are more than three months before the official opening of the recently revised the FIA has been the practice next year some of the rules, including tire suppliers, the use of the engine rules, there's a big change.

A single tire supplier

From 2007 to the beginning of the season in 2010, Bridgestone will be the only F1 race tire supplier. In each Grand Prix weekend, Bridgestone will provide each driver corresponding to the 14 sets of tires, 4 sets of practice for Friday's game, while the remaining 10 were for the weekend qualifying and the race.

Testing restrictions agreement

Under the agreement, by 2008, all teams with a total length of the test shall not be more than 30,000 km. The aim is to make the team more science budget. However, because of Renault voted against the agreement, they test the standard was set at the 50,000 km.

Restrictions on engine speed

07 from the beginning of the season, the performance of the new V8 engine to replace the traditional V10 engine into the F1 teams is the sole legal engine. At the same time, new rules also limit the engine speed of each car's engine has been limited to 10,009 per minute to below a thousand.

The use of engine rule

Each of the two stations using the same engine regulations will continue. However, the specific time of the season compared to 06 a certain change. The teams were asked to only in Saturday's qualifying session and Sunday's race is provided for the use of the engine in Friday's practice session is not requested. It is also to a certain extent, also extended the life of the engine.

Changes in the rules of match practice

In order to promote the team into the game faster-paced and more timely detection of car, Friday free practice time of two hours in the past will be extended to the current three hours. Each team can be allowed a maximum of two car into practice, each team can be sent to participate in a test driver.

Law enforcement-scale change

Competition Organizing Committee will be strictly out of the car safety record and can be punished under the specific circumstances of non-drivers. If a driver seriously affect the other people's race, organizers of the race in addition to time and to punish violators accomplishments, but also to further other appropriate punishment.

Safety rules change

Safety rules will be further refined, in particular: The car must be more stringent anti-crash tests; car global position system will use a more sophisticated approach to avoid accidents on the track with drivers such as harm And so on.

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