Posts Tagged ‘FIA’
Briatore lifetime ban overturned
According to Scottish Daily Express, Flavio Briatore said justice had been done but may not return to F1 life after a French court overturned his life ban from motorsport.
Briatore and the three judges agreed that former FIA president Max Mosley had indulged his long-running personal battle to have undue influence in having the flamboyant Italian [...]
New points system for 2010
The FIA today hosted the first meeting of the F1 Commission in its new structure since the signing of the 2009 Concorde Agreement. Chaired by Commission President Bernie Ecclestone and with FIA President Jean Todt in attendance, the F1 Commission is made up of key championship stakeholders from F1 teams, promoters, suppliers and sponsors.
The F1 [...]
Sauber to race in 2010
The FIA has written to inform BMW Sauber AG that their application for an entry in the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship has been successful.
Subject to their signing the Concorde Agreement, BMW Sauber will be awarded the 13th entry in the Championship, taking the place of the departing Toyota team.
The FIA has worked closely [...]
Toyota And Bridgestone
The announcements this week by Toyota and Bridgestone of their withdrawal from Formula One are of concern to the FIA.
Bridgestone has given almost 18 months’ notice of its intentions, thereby allowing the necessary arrangements to be made for the future supply of tyres to the championship.
Toyota’s decision, however, comes just weeks after its F1 team [...]
FIA elects Jean Todt as new President
Jean Todt has been elected President of the FIA for a four-year term by the FIA General Assembly at its annual meeting in Paris.
The FIA membership voted as follows:
For Jean Todt: 135
For Ari Vatanen: 49
Abstentions/invalid votes: 12
Voting in the General Assembly was made by secret ballot. The votes were counted in private by the FIA [...]
FIA calls Renault F1 for extraordinary meeting
Representatives of ING Renault F1 have been requested to appear before an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Monday, 21 September 2009.
The team representatives have been called to answer charges, including a breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code, that the team conspired with its driver, Nelson [...]
