2010 Season Rule Changes

[ESPImperium]

Engines: Still the 8 units per driver per season, but issues such as Kubica and Vettel had where 2 engines expire at a race weekend, the driver will take a 10 place drop at that weekend, as well as the next one.

Garage Space: Each team will have equal space. Simmilar to what Force India had last year.

Qualifying: With the field being bolstered in size from 20 to 26 cars for next year, the FIA has revealed that eight cars (as opposed to six) will now be eliminated in the first two phases of the qualifying hour; as such, Q1 will now determine grid slots 19 to 26 with positions 11 to 18 being occupied by taking results from Q2. Q3 will remain a top ten shootout, with cars no longer carrying fuel into the start of the race - all competitors' cars will be refuelled after qualifying

In-season aerodynamic testing: Now reduced from eight to six days, with a new option introduced which allows teams to swap any of those six days for four hours of full-scale windtunnel testing within a period of 24 hours.

And the fact of the new point listing: http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pr ... ssion.aspx

[Richard]

Garage Space: Each team will have equal space. Similar to what Force India had last year.

I thought the top 3 are getting 3 garages, the rest get 2?

Apologies if I've missed something, and I'm also at work so not got the time to check the FIA site...

[astracrazy]

with the new teams, some tracks may not have the space to do that.

[ESPImperium]

They all get the same, whitch is track variable. New tracks, each team will get 3 older tracks they will get 2, and for Monaco they will get one "pit block" each.

Space will be much more tighter for all.

It was to be the top 3 get 3 and the rest 2, but i think its another cost cutting measure, but in a more stealthy form.

[ISLAMATRON]

Engines: Still the 8 units per driver per season, but issues such as Kubica and Vettel had where 2 engines expire at a race weekend, the driver will take a 10 place drop at that weekend, as well as the next one.

Not exactly, yes Vettle & Kubica had 2 engines expire but those engines were not the 7th & 8th of their engines... they still had engines of their original 8 allocation that they could switch to so they would not have recieved a penalty the next week under this new rule or under the 2009 regs... What this new rule is in regards to is more like the Webber Japan situation whereas he crashed in practise and changed to a 9th & 10th for qual and then the race so he in essence got 2 fresh engines but was only penalised once(which was moot anyway since he was already set to start from the pit lane)... had this new rule been in effect Webber would have taken a 10 spot qrid penalty in Brazil as well(where he actually won)