FIA changed the rules for qualification, "Formula 1 drivers"

Simultaneously, the two suddenly bankrupt outsider “Formula 1 drivers” – Marussia and Caterham – will not be able to take part in the next race. On the eve of the US Grand Prix FIA commissioners were forced to revise the rules of qualifying races, based on the availability of only 18 cars on the grid.

FIA changed the rules for qualification, “Formula 1 drivers”

“Formula 1 drivers” was ill-prepared for hard times. Racing Rules “F-1″ clearly stipulates format heats when there 26, 24, 22 and 20 cars in the back of the field, but does not regulate the situation when the championship there are only 18 – that is how much the car will appear at the start of the US Grand Prix (likely that in the other races, too). Paragraph 33.1 of the rules of sport only states that the final part of qualifying in any case should break top ten riders. And if before the first and second qualifying segments dropped out of six cars, starting with America, will be retiring at four. This decision was made ​​by the stewards of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) before the weekend in Austin, reports Auto Motor und Sport.

Formally outsiders from Marussia and Caterham its absence on the grid directly violate the regulations, “Formula 1 drivers”. However, the Stewards did not penalize the team Marussia and Caterham for refusing to participate in the US Grand Prix, taking into account the “special nature of the infringement, as well as their difficult financial situation.”

As we know, the racing teams Marussia and Caterham no money for further performances in “Formula 1″ in both “stable” operating outside management. Different in this case, only the context of bankruptcy. If the Russian “Marussia” accumulated a pile of debts to creditors and banal lack of funds for operating activities, the Caterham to a similar situation led the legal nature of the conflict. Sold in the person of Tony Fernandes and the buyer in the face of a group of investors could not decide which one of them, after all, belongs to this “stable”, and who should pay its debts. As a result of the Caterham “Formula 1 drivers” refused both sides of the process.

FIA changed the rules for qualification, "Formula 1 drivers"