Formula 1 Rule Changes Use Common Sense to Improve the Sport

Late last Friday, common sense finally prevailed in Formula One. It is just a small step, with the FIA World Motor Sport Council approving some of the F1 Strategy Group's latest recommendations, but even a small step in the right direction is a good sign for the sport after a turbulent year of bankruptcies, double points and threatened boycotts. Last week, we cautioned not to get too excited yet about the Strategy Group's proposal to improve F1, but the first changes are positive, consisting mostly of simplifying some of the sport's complex regulations. First, there are immediate modifications to the overly complicated system of penalties for exceeding the limit on various power unit components. In Austria last month, the two McLaren driver...

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